The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-02

and 1t is upon this ground that men are | turning by millions against an assault | upon the constitutional rights of the
 states-an assault which, if successful, would be as fatal to the rights of states
 as the assault of secession and nullifi- | cation would have been to the constitu- l tional rights of the federal government | if they had prevailed.
 1 Captain White, allowing his ambi- 1 tion to win a seat in the Senate to
 bias his judgment, has for several years
 wandered far in the fogs of political | error, seeking false political gods. | TOW invite him to retrace his steps. and to regain the road blazed out by | the great founders of the democratic ! party, the only road which leads to in- l dividual liberty. political freedom and the preservation of the government, as framed by the founders of our institu- l tions.
 | In politics. my friend, Captain White, | is lightning change artist. In 1906. 1 chairman of committee on platform 1 which nominated B. E. Conner he 1 drafted and read the platform which l was adopted and which decided in favor of local option. In the speech which l he delivered on that occasion he said it would be war to the knife-and hilt to hilt with those who questioned that plat form, or repudiated the nominee. In l 1916, when he was candidate for dele 1 gate to the national convention which nominated Woodrow Wilson, he was op- | posed to the eighteenth and nineteenth 1 amendments. Now he has completely l abandoned his support of states rights and favors stripping the states of their 1 reserved rights, and is today advocating l policies which if adopted, would make | the states but geographical units in a. great central despotism. He opposes any l change in any prohibition laws on the | nj NnJc 1 ley laws he regards as sacred, and seems
 to consider it proclamation to even sug- gest an amendment of, or repeal of l these two laws. Yet these two laws l tra1nple under foot every constitutional l guarantee of individual liberty and they have been and will continue to be,
 sources of unbridled corruption, tyranny ard oppression, false swearers, private vengeance and blood money. Bribery and corruption are the false and rotten
 foundations upon which the whole sup | erstructure on which these infamous laws are builded''
 CAPT. WHITE SPEAKS
 Following the close of Mir ONeal's speech Captain White answered the va | rious attacks on his policies as outlined and held his hearers at close attention frequently being given loud and en- | thusastic applause.
 He said in part:
 MT. White-Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen: It is very great pleasure to be again, as has been said
 on the platform and discuss the inn
 portant questions of the day. I chal- ienged Governor O'Neal to debate with me, and l think it is so much better to have an open discussion and debate
 these matters than to have the candi- dates going around over the country continually slambing each other 1 con- graduate you upon the fact that at
 last We have gotten a clean-cut issue l on this question between liquor and prohibition. 1 am ready to stand on prohibition, am ready to rise for it and l am ready to die by it or be de-
 feated by it. I want to thank my good friend, MT. Cooper, for the very good
 instruction he has given me.
 Captain White asked Mir O'Neal
 when did he get to be the local op- tionist that he now is. and then fol- lowed with his remarks on the Vol stead act.
 ASKS SOME QUESTIONS
 Captain White asked the ex-governor 1T he contended for moment that the nineteenth amendment would not be
 adopted. and Governor O'NeaI replied
 that he hoped to God 1t wouldn't be. and Captain White replied tht it was a vain hope he had. They said that the
 eighteenth amendment would not be adopted" he said Well, We have got in the habit here lately of adoptinx 1 amendments without consulting my tnw.
 tinguished friend, Governor O'Neal He has stood great deal; he has been i fairly brave; but he can't stand it much | longer The eighteenth amendment is
 a reality-life. l am sorry that his am bition cannot be gratified, but if he is
 ever admitted to the United States Sem
 ate, he will have to hold up his right hand to God and swear that he will sup port the eighteenth amendment, which | IS a part of the constitution of the
 United States; and as bitter as that pin 1 may be to my good friend to swallow,
 he will have to swallow it either with l smile or frown.
 | My good friend ought to run for the l legislature of Alabama; he started out l by fighting the Volstead act, but why 1 doesn't he start at the roots: start and strike at the roots of the thing because ! the legislature of Alabama passed a I law prohibiting liquor to be made in any forn?'
 ] Mir White asked the former governor what amount of alcohol he expected to | put in his light wines and beer when he got to the Senate, and the former gov erhor replied that he would put enough l in 1t not to make it intoxicating. Then oendtOT Wnlto aSkeu nlm why dld he want it at all if it was not intoxicating; why didn't he get grape juice or chero- cola. like Williams Jennings Bryan did RECORD OF PROHIBITION My good friend says that if all the people in the United States were arrested and put in jail for violating the Weakley
 and Vostead laws that it would cost more ! money to build the jails to put them in 1 than it did to carry on the world war, he said. What Is the result of stopping the sale of liquor in Alabama? The stream of insane has ceased going to the asy | lum. the stream of human beings that ! used to pour into the penitentiary and the unfortunate men that die on the gallows has been stopped. Prohibition has dried l the tears from the good women of our
 country and it has stopped the aching hearts of many wives. During Governor O'Neals administration a large jail was | built in Birmingham at a cost of $10O.0o0 to take care of the prisoners that were being put in there on account of the sa- looms; the other jails were full, both the city jails, and all of that has ceased. and now that great $100000 building has been turned into school to better the education of our children.
 In order that the people of the state may have an opportunity to hear the va rious issues discussed Captain White. th!s afternoon challenged the former gover- nor to a series of debates. one each day. beginning at Huntsville Monday, and to continue until the day before the primary