The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-30

questions. General Harrison also re- ferred to the fact that he served as presi- dent of the Alabama Senate while the father of Emmet o'Neal was governor of Alabama a position which was later occupied by the son.
 Tt can never be charged that either of the ONeals were 'tumble-bug politi- clans wto pushed one way while look ing another" he said. and expressed con- tempt for those modern statesmen wHo adroitly conceal their real purpose while 1 seeking the suffrage of the people.
 Former Governor O'Neal was greeted with prolonged applause when he ap- peared before the audience to speak. He was touched by the reception, he said. then told of the distinguished services which the general rendered to the south and to the democratic party during the Civil war and the dark days of recon struction that followed that conflict.
 He stated that one of his former op- ponents for the Senate had that day an- rcunced his retirement from the race, re- ferring to pr. Abercrombie "On May H." he said the democrats of Alabama. by their ballots, will retire the rest of them"
 The speaker told of his former vieit to Opelika, when a candidate for governor in 1910, and said that he is making the same fight for the people now that he vas making then. and against fanati- cism and the rule of Brooks Lawrence in Alabama. Now as then. he is opposing the systematic efforts of the Anti-Saloon League to destroy the rights of the states and the individual liberties of their citi- zens.
 Referring to recent political develop ments in other states, MT. O'Neal said ttat results of recent elections in Ne braska, where Hitchcock led the ticket for delegate on Tight wine and beer platform, and elsewhere in the country. show that Wilson is not dead and that Bryan is not In power in the democratic party; that there is q revolution In pub- lie sentiment sweeping this country as the result of the extravagance in govern n,ent and the destruction of human vigahts. He said that this is not a swing back to the vets as has been stated, but revolt against abuses of power practiced by a Congress that has become subservient to a prohibition mi nority.
 In advocating a modification of the VolStead act so as to permit the sale of notwithstanding wines and beers, he said that he Is the only candidate favoring a sane middle ground between the saloon with it's abuses and a sane and reason able interpretation of the eighteenth amendment: that the same people who will elect him as senator will also elect q legislature that will modify the 'harsh, cruel and tyrannicaP' features of the Weakley prohibition law, so that the people of this state can have liquor for medicinal purposes, under proper re- strictions, as the Volstead law provides.
 MT. O'Neal made reply to the attacks made upon him by one of his opponents, Congressman Heflin, whom he charged with attempting to break into the Senate on Cole Blease platform. as an advo- cate of lynching, and reminded his hear CTS that Blease had been retired by the voters of South Carolina to private life He ridfculed the idea that MT. Hef1in is responsible for Accent cotton. Does he also claim credit for 30-cent sugar. he asked.