Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-04-12
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| CONGRESSMAN HEF LIN BkEAhS ANOlh-
Err RECORD CONGRESSMAN J. T. HEF
| LIN, OF THE FOURTH ALABAMA Dis
| TRICT. HAS SET A NEW RECORD FOR
RAPIDITY OF SPEECH.
During the consideration Of the prohibition
| amendment Monday the house Was under the
| two-mnute rule. which means that each men,
| Ter allowed only two minutes to express
himself the resolution.
! Monday night Congressman Helm sent TO
the Aye-Herald BY telegraph sonle ZOO words
| Of his speech with the introduction. Helm
| holds house in rapt attention while he spoke
on the prohibition amendment. in part. as
| follows
Then the speech began to come by wire.
| Shee, after sheet Of il rolled into the Age
| Heraid's office. The telegraph editor thought
| another deIuge had broken loose. or course
he is used 10 handling some 10000 words OF
| matter BY telegraph every night. but he usual
| ly has control of the dixie and knows when
the floods of messages coming. But Mr..
| Helms speech simply overwhelming
/ When the first thousand words had reached
| his desk he thought surely Mr.. Helm had
| been speaking at least a minute and hall,
bu, AS the food continued he thought the two
| minutes would soon be up. When hnally the
| end came he sighed in despair and was heard
to mutter. Two minutes! What if he had
| spoken An hour.
| [Laughtcrl
| oh. the mOdcsty Of this man.
| Laughter The alleged patriotism
DI "a IIlttIl NHO SuSI"''H N'' p''i''
every morning when you get up-"l
have suspicion OF II people" and new
cr had the courage 10 name them.
| Yes: he sent the telegram collect.
land wrote his own headlines. "Hcfin
holds house rau" | have seen the
house rap him several times. Laugh
ter and applauSc.l He sends tele-
gram collect" But to continu" the
editorial:
Blu, Mr. Hcfin not only set II record for
| rapidiiy. he after making another re-
| cord. so he sen, this flood Of oratory collect.
Mr.. Hc1in's long record in congress makes his
Alabama friends feel safe in the assurance
| that the congressman knows the AHe-heraia
| maintains "A Washington bureau through which
all it's ,elegraphc dispatches are filled. But
this bureau was too slow for Mr.. Hefn. He
| was ou, for rapidity records and wished TO
| show some real speed, so to save time ne niea
| his dispatchrs without even the knowledge OF
| The Ave.HeraId bureau He wanted this
| burning speech TO reach the waiting and
brea,hIcss people Of Alabama while IL was s'il
| hot. He no doubt. felt that extras would
| begin to fly from the Age -Herald's presses as
| fast a. the dispatc ches were received.
| The Agc-Herald regrets that 1t was unable
| Ia make room in it's columns for this wonder
| full iwo-mnute speech. and II regrets iurther
| that il was unable TO accept his flood OF mes
sayes collect. and they were politely but tirm-
| ly returned 10 their source.
(laughtcrl
Now you understand why hc is
Iangry with me. He could not get his
Telegram published after he wrote the
headlines in any paper and has to
pay his own telegraph bill. lie Is
mad because | print my speeches ana
pay for them.
/ am getting sick and tired OF being
lhulldOzrd every time | express an
honest opinion in the house. have
/ ..,,..l nn and and find thai
you are all pretty fair men: | believe
YOU are honest, but every time TINS
man from Alabama gets up in the
morning in Washington and gets his
trousers on he thinks that this coun-
try is about half dressed. Laughter
and applause.l
He goes fitting down Pennsylvania
| Avenue, usually in long frock, with
Il white vest. with perfectly maniculed
| eyebrows, and wonders that Pennsyl-
| vania Avenue does not tip to one side
| because he is all on that side. Laugh
| ter Then when he comes into the
house and walks down the aisle and
casts his eye upon the ladies' galleries,
a hero, an Adonis. and then comes
down here and bellows how patriotic
he is and how traitorouS you are, even
| without Il megaphonc he shakes the
walls of Berlin laughter], and that
gentleman feels that God and he have
| Il monopoly on all the good things and
have the world by the short hair. So
| far as am concerned, am tired OF 1t.
He said there are no secret treaties.
He did not know. There are the
(tgsaties;. they have been puh1'aolie,l
weeks. He says he went to the state
department and they told him they
had not received any. OF course the
state department has not received
secret" treaties. but they have been
published all over the country, ana
one Of the kindest things the New
York Post ever did for our president
was to publish those treaties, letting
the people know what they had agreed
on i'm advance, but Helm does not
know it. You can not blame him.
There are ~ miles of bookshelves over
here In the Library, and they could
not hold what he does not know about
these questions. lLaughter.1 He
knows enough To get up here and IN
suit every man who has feeling.
"Hcilin holds house in rupt attention;
makes moving speech" He moves
them out as a rule, and those on the
front seats without umbrellas usually
move back little to avoid the per-
spiration and the saliva; but when he
bellows. oh, how bad you are and how
good he is, and he strikes that attitude
so that the ladies in all OF the CALLER
les can see him. l give him and his
friends notice now that have had all
| am going to take of 1t. lApplause.I
Why, when my friend Burnett ask
ed him why he did not enlist, his
knees knocked together. He has the
most patriotic mouth and the most
cowardly pair of legs ever put on a
human being. lLaughter.1 Then every
once and while he says, God OF my
fathers" Why. the kaiser, that old
devil. is in the same business. He isl
like Helm, he even puts God in as
the Junior member of the firm.
IIaughter.l Helm holds the house
i'm wrapt attention written by Helm,
refused to be published, and he had
To pay the telegraph tolls. think that
ought to be enough for him for week
and q half or two weeks; but all
want TO say to you, gentlemen-and
there are some things that l would
much prefer To say II he were here |
is that when he is asked to show what
his patriotism amounts to, as he told
our friend Burnett, Il am willing to
sacrifice my sisters son, but / can not
goa great big. striking, fine.
healthy looking man. and God Almigh-
" never made man half as brave
as he looks. Laughter /
Mr.. Chairman, / have restrained
myself. and am glad Of it. am glad
was not allowed to speak yesterday, |
because | might have gotten angry, !
and l have one rule Of life. and that Is
never to get up mad in the morning.
II is what keeps me we'll and a little
stout: but want to serve notice upon |
him and those who are trying to drive |
politics that If they can name one spot
or place where l have ever tried to
bring my party in on this floor, shall
resign from here. love my party,
but would kiss 1t goodbye In one |
minute to save one man on the West |
ern line today, where our boys are.
Laughter]
Let him go with my boy, this brave
man. with the large lungs, with the
courage of 4 cock robin. Let him
shoulder a gun and go with my boy.
Ny boy has written me. and he says:
Ii any man attacks your Americanism. Dad.
and come back from Berlin with only one
arm so help me God I shall take him on