The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-08
"INCITES AS
 SASSINATION"
"A coNeREssMAr's TRADE.
"Henin's Innammatory Speech De-
 nOuneed by Men of All Parties.v

The above is the heading used by The New York Tribune on it's first page over the story of Mir. Hefiin's unfortunate utterances at Tuskegee. Below Is the story in full. from The Tribune bureau. Washington!
 Washington, Oct 5.-The extraordi. nary sentiments expressed by Repre- sentative J. Thomas Hefiin of Alabama at Tuskegee have, aroused severe criti- cism on all sides in Washington, en- tirely irrespective of party affiliations Washington has thrice witnessed the painful events incident to an assassi- nation of President, and that a mem Der of Congress should be guilty of such extravagant and reckless remarks has caused amazement and concern.
 There they sat, Roosevelt and Book CT, and if some Czolgosz or one of his kind had thrown a bomb under the table no great harm would have been done the country.
 If Booker Washington takes a hand ask him to step out. I will ask him to hands of, and you know we have a way of influencing down here"
 Itese are literal quotations from kegee yesterday, as reported in spe- cial dispatch to The Washington Post MT. Hefiin Is furtheE reported to have gained notoriety recently by attacking Judge Jones. former Governor of Ala bama, who has so successfully stamped out the peonage system in that State. Judge Jones was appointed to the bench by President Roosevelt on the indorsemnt of~ex-President Cleveland and others, and has proved himself g. credit to the judiciary. having fear lessly attacked system which name and which threatened to reinstate that institution in the South. It Is cordially admitted by Southerners themselves that the appointment of his services have been of the utmost value to Alabama and the nation. It Is declared that his high standing in his community enabled him to work surmountable obstacles to jurist who had been allied with the Republican Party in the South.
 1t is generally remarked that, aside from their inherent menace to the in- stitutions of the nation, Heflin's re- marks of yesterday are typical of the class of men attracted by such infiam- matory denunciation as that made pub by the fulminations of those anti-im- perialists who misrSXesent the Presi- dent as an absoiutia Utmost tyrant, violating the Constitution and pervert- ing the power of his office to override the law for his own ends.
 The incendiary speech of the Ala bama Congressman Is regarded as diff fering only in deg rec from the allega-
 
 the law in his pension order violated the Constitution in his administration of the Philippines and abrogated inter- national obligations in his recognition of the Republic of Panama. These ex- travagant personal denunciations and unwarranted reflections on a candidate for President are more than likely to lead men of limited mental calibre to express such sentiments as those ut tered yesterday at Tuskegee, and they carry with them the menace of a repe- tition of those great tragedies which thrice marred the history of the nation, those who have studied the causes of the events referred to declare.
 Men of higher intelligence and great CT political sagacity. capable of fine distinction in their choice of words. it is remarked, content themselves with presenting in, subtle form criticisms of the President, not less dangerous in- trinsicaily. and which afford a basis the Alabama Congressman, and then men incapable of insidious suggestions and unskilled in the art of insinuation voice the sentiments for which Mir. Schurz, MT. Parker and .Hoke Smith are really responsible. with a frank brutality which shocks the entire pub | lie.
 For these reasons the thinking DOT tion of the public is. it is believed. more likely to blame the men whose | the Heflin outburst than the misguided | author of that Illumination, and the | impression prevails in Washington that the Alabama Congressmans extrava- the efforts of that new faction in the | Democratic national councils which has sought to inject slanderous per sonalities into a campaign which, from the character of the. candidates for President, should be peculiarly free from them.