The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-19

Il lder.--Brewton Pine Belt News.
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 T. Tom Hefin Is in very poor busi- ness beating up his Republican op-
 He goes to Washington as . bully and will be of no service to Alabama as a Representative. His conduct Is mex
 cusable. and we are ashamed of him unfitness for any public position 1t is 1 only necessary to reproduce the follow | ing extract from his speech at Tuske- gee. We are as much op-
 ing together as any man. but bombs l should not be used to stop 1t. !. Tom
 H. should step down and out. Such
 language Is incendiaryism In its worst
 form. and does our country 8 great in- | justice.-Moulton Advertiser.
 J. Thomas Hefiin may win few
 votes in the Fifth Alabama Congress
 sional District, but who can count the
 loss of Democratic voters beyong the
 confines of Dixie?
 | In a card to the daily press. Mir. Hefiin says he was speaking only in | fun" when he mentioned the bomb
 bursting. Many funny men have held
 seats in Congress. among them s. S.
 caused Democrats and Republicans to
 laugh by reason of their endowment of
 mother wit" and love of mankind. MT Hef1in has talent. which if trained in
 the right paths. will command attention
 in the halls of Congress-but please
 don't hurt us any more with such fun.-- l Camden Banner.
 And now it's Hon. John Tom Hehin
 who is doing Jaw Jaw Lentz and Jim | Ham Lewis stunts in the political
 arena. He has an overlapping self
 estimation of his political ability and
 intellectual reach; he also possesses | habit that has passed the confirmation
 stage of saying the wrongest things at
 the wrongest times. To such an ex-
 tremity has he reached the equable old
 Montgomery Advertiser suggested that
 he be checked, which caused him to ask
 if that paper did not oppose the can didacy of other individuals, a question
 that exposed The Advertisers sound
 judgment and the Hon. John Toms
 lack of appreciation of the fitness of
 things. Such representatives in Con- gress energetically misrepresents the
 State and its institutions. Taking ac-
 count of every consideration, The Ad-
 John Tom.--Sheffield Reaper.
 l Every man and every newspaper In
 the South repudiates the woefully wick
 ed words of Congressman Heflin utter
 ed at Tuskegee and approves of the
 rebuke given by ex-Governor Oates. l which we publish below. The Govern
 or's suggestion is too mild. however. to fit the case and reminds us of the story
 of the young lady who was teaching for the first time a class of children in Sunday school. Seeking to impress
 upon them the gravity of doing wrong,
 she said: "If you are wicked in this life when you come to die you will go | to hell and that would be-ridiculous."
 The Governors punishment does not
 fit the crime. MT. Heflin should with draw from the race and let another
 Democrat take his place. Failing to do that, the executive committee should call a mass meeting of the citizens of
 his district and nominate another man l for the position and elect him. This | will be the only action that will satisfy the people of the North and West--that
 the people of the South repudiate the know him know that 1t was said as a
 joke. but any man who could perpetrate l a joke of this kind has no call to go to I the Congress. We need to send our ablest men; MT. Hefiin does not repre-
 sent the best element of his district and
 W hope they will so decide by taking
 the proper steps to show it.--Baldwin
 Standard.
 Now these anarchistic statements l were dreadful for Democrat and an Alabamian to make and every true | Democrat in the State bewails the fact l that he made them. One of our most prominent Democratic dailies had a re- | reporter at Tuskegee who took down the speech in full and 1t was published ! in the paper with a great deal of 1 editorial comment and it has been taken up by several other papers all bewaii- ing the fact that such rash remarks | were made.
 Now comes the information from Re- publican headquarters in Birmingham l that the Republicans are going to make | political capital out of his utterances
 and that it may be used in unseating
 MT. Hefiin when that gentleman pre- | sents his certificate of election in the next Congress. MT. Hefiin has made a | statement in which he ayers that the l remarks were made in a spirit of fun
 and laughed at by the audience, but
 Copies of all the papers of Alabama 1 containing comments on Mir. Hehtn's speech are being sent to Washington,
 as stated by a leading Republican, ito l be used to show the opinions of some l clans, advocating anarchism, etc. l Now, MT. Hefiin's opinion Is the opinion | of only one man or one Congressman | and his opinions do not represent the | opinions of the entire Southern Demo-
 cratic party or any other party to use | the rash remarks of one man as repre- | senting the views of all the Democratic l Congressmen. But for this we have | our own OemOCTdtiC papers IO OlAInS, | for they started the ball to rolling.- Scottssboro Progressive Age.
 | The Register discusses the i'll timed
 anarchistic humor of a man who has certificate of election as Congressional representative from Alabama, with the | high order of intelligence which always | stamps the utterances of that journal. | We do not hesitate as a Republican paper to say that the utterances of MT. l Hehin do not represent the senti- ment of the Democracy of Alabama. l Such expression may be funny to the | weak minded, but to the sober, sensi- ble Southern man. who well knows be- yond the Mason and Dixon line, where l the people are ready to believe we are | in favor of wrong and violence, such
 expression is eagerly seized. Coming | as this was from a high authority | sure evidence of the temper of this peo-
 pie. MT. Hefiin has injured the reputa- l tion of this State as much as the | Huntsville mob. One was an act of l lawlessness, the other an expression in- l dicating a lawlesS spirit. The eXpres-
 sion of the Congressman and the action l of the lawless are on a par, and we | presume the lawless would applaud the 1 expression. Neither the one nor the l other represents the kind feeling, law
 abiding spirit of the Democrats of the | State. In other words MT. Heflin has | made bad, bold mistake. one that will
 be wide spread and indefensible in the North. We predict that prior to Novem- Der four-ffths of the Republican | orators North will quote that expres-