The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-09-09
REPUBLICAN PARTY SCORED.
HEFLIN CRITICISES THEM FOR
TRYING TO MAKE PARTY
ISSUE OF 8.HOUR
LAW.
Alabama Congressman Charges Re-
bulicans With Niisrepresenting The
Administration in Presidential Cam
pafgn-Calls Chief Executive The
Lincoln of Goth Century.
Raleigh News and Observer.

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tive Hefiin. of Alabama, criticised the
Republicans of the house for making
a party issue Of the eight-hour work
day bill for railroad employees: "I
have been unable to find out why
gentlemen on the Republican side
voted against that measure" de-
clared Mr.. Heflin. '-rhe only reason
can suggest is that from the Bible,
The OK knoweth his owner and the
ass his masters crib The gentle
man from Pennsylyania (Mr. Moore)
and those like him are mad because
the great Democratic president invit-
ed the trainmen to the White House,
these men with SCOT on their faces.
and Crime on their hands. these SOL
diers Of the rail of this country, COM
ing up and sitting down and confer
| ring with this great Democratic presi-
dent. You are SO accustomed to star
chamber proceedings and to doing
what the bosses tell you that it struck
You blind when you saw that great
army Of trainmen actually go up into
the White House. shake hands with
the president and sit down and talk
| with him.
| The gentleman from Pennsylvania
Is sad in his soul because the presi-
dent uss& four pens in signing that
measure and gave those pens to the
heads Of the brotherhoods of tho
trainmen. Why should he not have
given the pens to them? He has em. !.
ployed more pens in moreAg >yposes
in three years and, half - ~
presidents for Ave terms ain 1rzs
gether.
| As the gsntlemar from Per |8esll
wanna spoke OF That wondered what
Mr.. Roosevelt had done with. the cen
that he used when he addressed, .aIy
4 dear Hartman and asked him 10
come over and read ais message TO
congress and to see il there was any
thing in it to which the interests OBJ
jected.
II wondesed what Mr.. Roosevelt
did with the pen he used when he
wrote Judge Elbert III. Gary. the head
Of the Steel Trust, when he INVITED
him over to discuss with him the TAX
ing over of the Tennessee Coal and
Iron Company to further boost up his
great monopoly.
|
Il wondered what Mr.. Taft did
With the pen that he used when he
signed Ballinger's commission as
secretary of the interior, the man who
was secretly squandering the public
domain, Of the west to the moneyed
interests of that section.
| II do not know what he did with
the pen that he used when he signed
the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill, includ
ing schedule X, unless he gave one to
the head Of the wooden trust and the
other to captains of industry at
Lawrence, Mass, where they were
grinding out the lives of little chill
dren
! There are other various things
that Messrs. Roosevelt and Taft used
TO bad purposes for the people.
"This man Wilson is a man of the
people. The people come to him.
The bankers came for a banking law.
the farmers for a land loan bill and
the manufacturers from every center
of the country urged him to prevent
tfat strike and he acted for the peo-
! Gle. The leaders of your party did
all In their power to strike that
measure dead. Your leaders in the
senate did all they could to defeat it.
When the mothers in the cities. the
lives of whose children depended up
on fresh milk supplied from the
farms of the country implored the
president to prevent the strike and
save their little ones you and those
like you voted against that meas
ure. Your party under the present
management, leadership and SUBJ
serVlency mas damned and destroyed
Its usefulness to the American people
You have reached the point where
you seek power at the cost Of princi-
pie. You are time servers against
the people, and God save the country
from your control again."
Mr.. Hefin charged the Republicans
with misrepresenting the administra-
ton in the presidential campaign.
You are slandering and traducing
The president" said he. "You are
using money corruptiy. You intend
to buy the election in some places and
to obtain 1t under false pretenses in
otshers. You appeal to sectional pre-
Judice. No sincere patriot, no gen.
uine American citizen, will do any
thing now to try to disturb the in