The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-19

sional candidate thinks it funny to jest
 of dynamite.--Greensboro Beacon
 Congressman Hefiin. in his speech re, gently at Tuskegee used language ana made several remarks that has rlent- fully called down the Southern papers
 on his head.-~Eutaw Whig and oo- l server.
 Law and order received a solar plexus blow in Alabama when Congressmai | Hehin advocated bomb throwing aS run. thrower, but what would 1t he to the fellow who was at the explosloh.-Lu-
 verne Critic.
 I Tom Hefiin has been tho subject of
 numerous newspaper articles recently: 1 Tom ought to be a little more suaroe9 in his utterances, but he IS not, ana
 the gentlemen of the opposition ought him. He is sure to go off, right or
 wrong.--Guntersville Democrat.
 MT. Hefiin is not helping the Demo
 csatic cause in ssat9s tne ts l Alabama District There Is no an archistic sentiment in Alabama to give
 sanction to MT. Hefin's humorous
 saa North afs'ih' viii think S there is.~AnnistOn
 Star.
 | Roosevelt is not the only exponent of
 strenuoasness in mmsr'Gah in that class by J. Thomas Hefiin: With such men | representing the majority vote or tne
 white people we can hardly nope to
 snd snsaDasa olsan poPfses@Hartford i1 Tmes | Herald
 The Montgomery Advertiser very | wisely condemns the course that is be- l ira h<-C
 lin in his anarchistic utterances In ms | speech at Tuskegee last week. J. | Tom, as The Advertiser truthfully gays,
 Is not hurt with wisdom. It was a mis- | take when he was nominated tor Sec | retary of State and worse when he succeeded the lamented Congressman | Thompson.-Gadsden Times-News. | It Is to be regretted that Mr IIehin did not express regret for what he said about Mr. Roosevelt, Booker Washing | ton and bomb. Nobody n the United | States thinks MT. leflin said 1t seri' ously and he should have expressed his
 regret that he said t at all. To say it was merely joke. is not the way to
 correct such an error. He should hav0 I said he was sorry he said it in .t mo- | ment of excitement -Birmingha nm Ledger.
 Those Democratic papers that have l commented on the cratic Mir. Hedln | nave 0ODS go TOT tno 8OOO OI and for the good of that gentleman. No man in public life is above the criti-
 cism of his friends. and often timely | criticism saves a man from himself.
 Intemperanee of speech t9nS,a often prove, a,, right. and he will certainly carry his district. but Hefiin aping Tillman Is en- tirely uncalled for. and will have no Washington. when he goes to ta're his | seat in Congress.-Mobile Item. Whatever may have been his meaning
 1t was damaging to his people. and will liant and versatile in speech. It is | often best, however. for the candidate | to leave funny things unsaid. He
 as sias against his ioyslty % or pa l triotism. or that of his section. His op- ponents will construe that the incen- | diary jest Is but the reflex of settled and have his audience applaud and | laugh" but no jest should border on | incendiarism. - Talladega Mountain Home.
 The Montgomery Advertiser handed | out very just rebuke to Hon. Thomas 1 Hefiin last week. Tom lost his head
 over at Tuskegee and said things he | should have left unsaid. He was pro-
 a man first get him mad. The Adver-
 tiser maybe does not love Tom any too well, but 1t was very just In its re- | H1arks about the Tuskegee speech of
 the Fifth District Congressman.-Ath-
 ems Courier.
 The unfortunate utterances of Mir. | Heflin, Democratic nominee for re-elec- 1 tion to Congress, is bringing on his
 marks are considered to savor too
 strongly of anarchy and give assent to all the charges of murder of negroes
 and bulldozing that have been brought | against the South. While the South
 ern people don't approve of methods
 that Roosevelt use In endeavoring to
 establish an equality between the 1 whites and negroes yet they prefer to
 than by the methods advanced by MT.
 Hefiin.-Pickens County Herald.
 To say that Hon. J. Thomas Heflin
 made bad break in his speech at Tus- l kegee last week is putting 1t as mildly
 as possible. It was the blunder of a | big over-grown boy whose thinking
 dome has not kept pace with his bodily
 development. The people of Alabama | condemn the act of President Roosevelt
 in dining with Booker Washington, but
 at the same time they do not endorse
 the incorporate language used by Hon.
 J. Thomas Hefiin.--Jasper Eagle. l
 der the authority of the National Dem
 ocratic Committee and had made that
 fool break he would have been "yank- ed" off the stump in less time than
 1t takes to tell it. We expect a cer-
 tain Mississippi Democrat would have | disciplined him very severely. His
 speech was in marked contrast with
 the speeches and public policies of his | lamented successor, the Hon. Charles
 W. Thompson.-Athens Democrat. | The recent utterance of Congressman | Hedin in a speech at Tuskegee. that has
 created such notoriety and comment, : was the most unfortunate break ever made by a Democratic Congressman. It | will greatly lessen MT. Heflin's useful | ness in our national councils where | wisdom and discretion are above all | else absolutely essential to Democratic
 success. Even if said in jocular way, | the expression was an awful one to | make, and no matter what the spirit l in which it was said, the people of
 unwarranted. Let all anarchist talk
 and deeds be done in the North. as | heretofore and let the Sunny South | continue to sustain its reputation for
 the supremacy of law, virtue and in-
 elligence.-Blocton Messenger.
 It is really amusing to see The Mont
 gomery Journal defending Congress-
 man Heflin. who so unwisely made use
 of injudicious language in a recent
 speech at Tuskegee that is calculated
 in this State. Hefiin simply went off
 half-cocked and talked very indiscreet- 1 ly for one who has been so highly honored by his party. The next Con