The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-18
HAMMERS SOUND
 ON PLANKS GRAY
 WITH SP|DERWEBS
Candidates Raise Storm Tossed Banner That Has Waved In State Politics
 for Last Decade

Prohibition supposed to be a dead issue in Alabama. and the nation, has been projected into the campaign for United States senator for the short term.
 Former Governor Emmett ONeal drove in the entering wedge when he de- ciared. in his statement published in She Age-Herald yesterday, that he favored change of the laws to permit the manufacture and sale of light wines and beer
 Capt. Frank S. White. in a statement given. out last night. takes issue with flatfooted on the federal amendment, the Volstead enforcement act and all the state laws on the subject. He puts him self in opposition to any change or modi- ication of any of the laws, constitutional or statutory, that would weaken those now existing, or open the way for the manufacture and sale of wines and beers of any percentage of alcohol.
 The issue is drawn, at least so far as the former governor and the former United States senator are concerned. It to SACfii -NUI DSlNcch thotii-
 WANTS HIS
 There are three other candidates for the office Ray Rushton of Montgom- cry, in a statement published in conuec- tion with the anpcuncement of his candi- dacy, came out in favor of the enforce ment of the federal amendment and the l other federal and state laws on the sub ject
 T r,ho,oas Jaf;n and Iohp W Aher- crombie, the other two candidates, have not been heard from-on this subject in l this race.
 Captain Whites dictated statement, in which he takes issue with former Gov ernor ONeal, follows;
 Governor Neal, one of my opponents in this race, has made the effective, con- tinued enforcement of national and state prohibition a distinct issue in this cam paign. As candidate, accept the , challenge and propose to face and fight the issue to the end. leaving it to the democrats of Alabama to decide that question on May IT.
 i "I am not only for prohibition, state and national. but I favor the full and complete enforcement of laws on that subject. shall oppose the repeal or the material modification of the act of Con gress known as the Volstead act, as we'll as the prohibition laws of our own state. I propose to meet the liquor forces on the border and fight for every inch of ground ithat- we have acquired, either by state | or national enactment
 1 "Governor ONeal favors the manufac- ture and sale of wines and beer. He l does not inform us as to the extent ol alcohol he will permit in either He should give us at least the maximum 'lxsk,' to use a slang expression. whicf hfs heer and wine would furnish I shal oppose the manufacture or use of either If permitted, they would be used as ar opening wedge for the introduction O other intoxicants; they will become th' most effective means of obstructing ant
 preventing the enforcement of prohioi
 tion laws just as the half-pint in the hil
 pocket which he suggests would enapt
 every bootlegger and blind tiger in th'
 country to do business and override pubic sentiment To permit them to be use'
 would be a step in the wrong direction
 it would be a reversal of our poslllon or the lauor question; it would be a prac tical surrender of all that we have gained lby state enactment and the adoption the eighteenth federal amendment.
 This Trojan horse with it's rider mus
 be met at the gate and barred entrance
 by the state and nation. If. as Governo Il O'NeaI contends. Congress can determn
 what is and what is not in
 toxicating liquors, then 1t is of grea
 moment for the people to elect in thi
 race senator who will not favor m enactment of laws by Congress that VII
 authorize the sale of intoxicating hauor
 which will override our state prohlpitio'
 laws and set them at 'naught. l am no the man to ai6 in reopening this pandor;
 "FRANK S. WHITE"