The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1918-06-22
"Suppressing DemOcracY"

"Suppressing Democracy"
"Mr. Kilby was a member. of the
state senate for four years, vet he
never, either by bill, resolution OF
public expression, sought to reach
the menace (?) which, as a candi-
GATE for governor, his ambition has
magnifed into a deliberate, premedi-
tated aggression, designed to wipe
out the liberties Of the people Of Ala
bama.
"Mr. Kilby wildly walls for democ-
racy, yet he, Mr.. Lawrence and their
cohorts suppressed democracy in Ala
bama, in the legislature of 1915, BY
the passage of the statewide prohibi-
ton bill over the governors veto, de-
clining to adopt the amendment pro
posed by the governor to submit the
bill to the people for their ratifca-
ton or rejection, and despite the fact
that the people of this state have re-
pudiated prohibition by their votes
in every election where the matter
was at issue in any manner, shape
or form.
"The proposition put out by Mr..
Kilby and Mr.. Lawrence Is no issue
in Alabama politics.
ISSUES Are Made Plain"
"The people are demanding q main
tenance Of their states rights; the de-
feat of the Sheppard prohibition
amendment to the Federal Constitu-
ton; the restoration Of the time-hon-
ored and democratic principles of
home-rule and local self-government;
the salvation Of Alabama from polit-
ical madness; and the moral and ma
terial advancement that accompanies
a rational and wholesome govern
ment of the peoples affairs.
"Mr. Kilby must contest with me
these issues; these, and none other,
are the vital questions that must be
decided at the polls by the people of
Alabama.
"The people are determined that Mr..
Lawrence shall not appoint and
'hand-pick' their legislature again.
They are on the alert to elect demo-
Gratis of courage, character, ability,
experience and above all, men who
will not be servile to the tyrannous
will Of the self-appointed dictators
that, during the last legislature, set
themselves up in the Exchange Hotel
in Montgomery, and hurled defiance
at the chief executive of the state,
commissioned by the whole people,
and nullifed through the legislature
his platform, approved by the voters
Of the state.
"Let the decency, the courage, the
of Alabama rise up in its
majesty and power and deal bigotry,
intolerance and fanaticism in Ala
bama g death blowl
"There is only one menace, one au-
tocracy, in Alabama, and that is the
:oterte of ambitious demagogues
and incompetent fanatics and dicta-I
tors, dominated by Mr.. Brooks Law
renee.
- Respectfully,
I (S1gned) JOHN Fl. WALLACE, JR.
Montgomery, Ala, Sept. /, 1917.
Then Charge, Freemen! Charged!
Since the United States has
aligned itself with it's kind. the
1emocracies of the earth, in the
present death-struggle with au-
tocracy, and as the papacy of
Rome is far and away the
BIGGEST despotism ever known
among the children Of men, be-
ing the very father-mother of
the Hapsburg-H -Hohenzollern au-
tocracy, this being a mere altar
boy Of the old he-autocracy of
papalism, the men and women
of Alabama and of the entire
nation will read and study with
avidity the stand herein shown
to have been taken by each of
these two major candidates on
he subject because of which
many of our boys are destined to |
invest their very precious lives. |
Fathers and mothers of Alabama |
md Of the United States, your
boys, our boys, are crimsoning
he plains of Picardy today be-
.ause the internal, damnable,
md diabolical Roman papacy
sought, through the instrument
;ality Of the Hapsburg-H Hohen-
.ollern despotism, to force the
roman Catholic religion upon
title Serbia, with its 100000 |
inhabitants, only 10000 Of whom
ire Of the Roman Catholic faith, [
he HUGE remainder being of /
he Greek Orthodox faith. This
s the hell-born church" that is
eaching out to seize this gov
rnment by means of which to
ontinue its Vaccinations and
throughout the earth.
t shall not bel Charge, Free
nenl Charge! Slam this hell
sh thing at the polls on Au-