The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-13
VICTORY ESEEN ::BY DRY LEADERS
 NPRIMARY VOTE
sUnderwoOd's Success Re- isgarded As Triumph For
 Law Enforcement
ESTATE CAPITAL BUREAU,

MONTGOMERY, Ala, March 12.- Neither Col. Alfred NJ Tunstall, chair
 man of the Under wood campaign for Ala bama, or Dr. w. B. Crumpton, presi- dent of the Alabama Anti-Saloon league, fegafd Senator Underwood's victory at the polls Tuesday as defeat for pro- slfibitionists of Alabama. Colonel lTunstall has stated emphatically that he does not entertain any such idea, while Dr.. Crumpton declared tonight that the indorseme1t given Underwood . by voters of Alabama is the greatest victory the prohibitionists have won tfnceafthe adoption of the prohibition affHendment to the constitution. It is well, .konwn that there exists in the { United States to this day certain irrec- unreliable vets whose imagination. is &fiu haunted with visions of q return &o what they call the good old days aAsis quite apparent that any attempt s of Representatives of these interests to parade the Underwood victory in Ala Ram ,as a triumph over the prohibition 7sfs of the eSstate will find no counte- nance.or support either from Senator R Lnderwood's campaign manager, or from. the president of the Alabama Anti-Saloon league who indorsed Un- ,derWoOds candidacy and is given much lpf the credit for his success.
 N Obliterates Differences-Colonel Al fired A Tunstall was seen atthe Under wood headquarters tonight and asked the question:
 N Do you regard the victory of Sena- tor Underwood as victory over the .prohibitioiiists of Alabama =
 T do not" was the reply, instant land emphatic. The election, if it .means anything. means the obliteration :bf former factional differences, and a lclear lineup on the part of all citi- ikens of the state law enforcement Colonel Tunstall continued, and turning sjnto an adjoining room where sat a Humber of Underwood supporters look ling at election returns, he asked them the question which had been just put ko him:
 n Did the victory of Underwood con satitute a defeat for prohibition in Ala sbama?"
 st The reply from all present. men who ihad represented various factions in the ipast, was unanimous in the assertion that no such interpretation could pos ikibly be placed upon Tuesdays cleo stion results.
 A Dr.SW. B. Crumpton, when the same .huestien was propounded to him, gave ifubstantially the same reply as that ibf Underwoods manager, in somewhat different form
 i. T regard the indorsement given Sena- tor Underwood Tuesday as the greatest Victory won by the prohibitionists of Alabama since the adoption of the con- stitutional amendment" he said.
 Dr. Crumpton told how, after the adoption of the constitutional amend ment, the leaders in the fight to keep nAneFiea dry had realized the necessity Of placing emphasis upon law enforce ment. He quoted from Senator Un- kierwood's positive and specific decla- <ations before the Alabama legislature and elsewhere, in favor of law enforce ment.
 I Enforcement is a bigger word to- day than prohibition" Dr Crumpton ssaid..4, "When Senator Underwood pledged himself to rigid law enforce Rnent, he practically surrendered all Opposition to prohibition. When he Took the stand for law enforcement his friends, who in the past had op- posed prohibition, did not desert him, but remained with him, and thus took Hheir stand with him on his platform pf law enforcement, which is the $reat need of the country today"