The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-06
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Budget System Will Throw Light on Invisible Govern ment at Montgomery,
 States Candidate

At an enthusiastic meeting held in the ballroom of the Tutwiler hotel last night the travelling men of Birmingham per- with w. R. Mabry heading their com mittee. Dinner was served at S:3o o clock, after which short speeches were made by the Rev. Joseph M. Broadly, pastor of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church; Mr Morgan of Montgomery, Thornton Estes, MT. Kimball and Stokely Cordell.
 pr. Broadly said a great principle was at stake in the prohibition amendment fight; that it took twice as much money schools of the country, four times as much as it costs to maintain the churches and as much as it costs to run the United States government, and that 75000 farmers were required to supply the produce that goes into liquors.
 COMPLIMENTS TRAVELLERS
 MT. Kilby, candidate for governor, paid a high compliment to the travelling men, after which he stated some of the issues npon which he bases his campaign, among them ratification of the federal prohibition amendment, a business ad- ministration of the states affairs, the state matters. He declared that he would veto the first bill passed by the legislature which exceeded the estimated revenues for the year.
 He said he regretted that the campaign was pitched at a time when it might in- terfere with the war programme, that the biggest thing before the people is the IL r,v,tv ~f h l. .l want anything in his campaign to inter fere with the war work.
 He said he had been in 60 of the counties of the state, had seen the fine crops growing in the fields. the great development at Sheffield and the big ship building plants at oMbile, but i've will never reap the full benefits of these di- versified agricultural and industrial de- velopments so long as the state govern ment Is mismanaged as it has been the last few years.'
 : He said his service in the state senate gave him an insight into the affairs of the state and he then began looking around for some way to improve them. He found the budget system. and said he would introduce this system and throw the light of publicity on all matters of state.
 BUDGET SYSTEM
 ''The budget system properly executed" he said, would prevent the state going further in debt and stop graft. It would throw the full light of publicity on the affairs of state and stop the invisible government at Montgomery for at least four years, and I hope for all time
 He said there had never been proper audit of the states affairs at the proper time; never at the end of one admins tration or the beginning of a new one. He said he would have an audit made at the close of the present administra- ton that would show the true conditions, not for political purposes, but business audit, made by auditors acceptable to the present governor.
 He would limit the budget to sum somewhat below the estimated revenues, so that a fund might be provided for and to pay something on old debts.
 'The purpose of those who oppose the is to bring the saloon pacK into Alabama he said. Wet or dry IS the question. The fight in lsOs was siih- liar to this one. Then those opposing the amendment said they dld not want to bring the saloons back into the s'a.e. just as they are saying now, ana yet one of the first things they dlu was lo peal the prohibition law.
 RESULT OF PROHIBITION
 He referred to the courts that skip cer- tain terms because there is no business for them to transact; of closed Jails' or less crime and shorter terms or gram jurines, all, he said, the result or pro hibition during the last four years
 E. B. Ford of Calhoun county, presi- dent of the Farmers union. said the liouor people had fooled the farmers