The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-19
Anti-Amendment Senatorial Candidates Running in All Except Five
 Districts
NEW LIFE EXPECTED
 IN THE CAMPAIGN IN
 THE NEXT FEW DAYS
Anti-Amendment Headquar. ters Confident of Having Majority in State
 Senate
By HUGH w. ROBERTS


 Denied by the action of the state dem- | ocratic executive committee, the right of | expression respecting their attitude to- ward the proposed prohibition amerd.
 ment to the constitution, the people hav- | ing taken the bull by the horns," have
 made it possible to make known thele opinion.
 l It has been brought to pass that in a l great majority of the counties of She
 state, and the districts of the state, can | didates for the house and senate of the
 Alabama legislature have announced l themselves. The campaign committee | pledged to exert it's best efforts to bring about the defeat of the amendment, is confident that as a result of the forega- | ing, majority in both houses-certainly
 one of then-wil stand against what 1 they regard as an encroachment against the inalienable right of a state to gov l ern itself.
 The campa ign is destined to attract wide attention. With the arrival of Sem ator Oscar w. Underwood, who is pre- pared to take the stump against the I amendment, the people are expected to
 turn from a listless gubernatorial cam. paign to one in which great excitement | is promised.
 | MEN AGAINST AMENDMENT In every district of Alabama, save five ! candidates for the senate are pledged 1 to vote against the ratification of the prohibition amendment. Among thess | candidates are some of the best known
 and most prominent citizens of the state | It is certain thar considerable number
 of these candidates will be elected. The committee in charge of the fight, headed | by E. D. Smith, is confident that az | least 20 of it's candidates for the senate will be chosen.
 l In the five districts in which no anti 1 amendist candidate has qualified, the chances are that, were candidates quail l fled, the aE1eadists would win. There Is ! just one exception. This is the district composed of Tuscaloosa county. In thai l district, ants-amendists, because of their l friendship for w. w. Brandon, candidate | for governor, refrained from putting for ward a candidate for fear that bittet | campaign wCuld in some manner, more
 or less remote, involve the gubernatoria, l candidate. MT. Brandon, who is op- | posed to the amendment, and who on
  | the antiamendment vote of the state. ! did not exert effort, it is charged, to l bring about the defeat of the amendment l in his own territory. As to whether O.
 not he was party to the inattention oi l his friends espousing the cause of ths I anti-am-endists is unknown.
 In one of the four remaining dis tricts where no anti-amendist candi- date has qualified the question of rati- fication will be submitted to the peo- pie That district is composed of Tal ladega county. If the people vote for the ratification of the amendment, Ma rion Sims will so vote in the senate of the state. If the contrary obtains MT. Sims will yield his personal con viction and vote against ratification. SITUATION IN DALLAS In only enc district have the amend 1 ists no candidate for the senate That district is that composed of Dallas county. Iii that district, it was off cially determined yesterday, the amendment will De submitted to the senate in Dallas is J. B. Ellis. He is an anti-federalist. If, however, the people of his district by direct vote , should instruct him to vote for the amendment. he would of course do so. In the other senatorial districts the anti-amendiStS will make vigorous | fights for indorsement, Among their candidates are some of the best known men of the state. In the list is Charles l s. Mcdowell of Barbour. former presi- dent of the state bar association; Will | liam Siglin of Cherokee, member of ! the legislature; H. F. Gibson of Au tauga- J. E. Ellis of Dallas, n J. For l shee of Covington. James c. Barnes of Dale. R. L, Huddleston of Elmore. R. 1 B. Evns of Hale, Judge John B. Tally of Jackson. Jchn T. Glover of Jeffer- | son. E. A. Rogers of Lalderdale. Judge William E. Skeggs oe Morgan, John M 1 Thomas of Lee. Joseph Norwood of Lcwndes, w F Garth of Madison, John Graft of Mobile. J. E. Barnette of Mon roe, William A. Gunter of Montgomery, IJ. M Moore of Perry. w. W. Ha "a lson of Pike, J. O. Garner of Sumter, and
 w. w. Jones of Wilcox
 l The candidacy of these men indicates | that not only is the state aroused to I the necessity of maintaining the in- | tesrity of the state as sovereign unit | among the several units of the United States, but that many of those offer | ing to serve will receive the indorse
 ment of the people.
 NO PART IN GOVERNORSHIP l The committee conducting the fight against the amendment is not making | campaign "aIl down the line. It has received no instructions to oppose or espouse the candidacy of any individ-
 nal who would be governor. This is 1 due to the fact that no candidate for governor. opposed to the amendment, | is entirely acceptable to a majority of the people opposed to the amendment.