The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-05-14
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Isence-a product OF nuxated iron. Gap
piause) Thai was sent, the entire
speech, down to Alabama, to The Age
| Herald, little Alabama politics BY way
OF Illinois Uaughter) God of our faith
ers. what are we coming to in Alabama
Laughter) That PAPER said that thA re-
publican membership, supplemented By a
few democrats, instructed the CLERK of
the House to send it down and have it
printed, prepaid. I find upon investiza-
ton that no democrat had anything to do
with 1t. No loyal democrat had any
thing to do with it and no loyal republic
can had anything to do with it. Then
! asked the clerk of the House, did the
| republican membership and few demo-
Gratis ask you to send it?' He said. NO;
/ never heard Of such thing" So you
see none of these things over happened
| The gentleman from Illinois, Mr.. Mason
said in his speech that cruel democrats
bought that speech that I am eriticising
! by the thousands. l find upon inves-
| tigation that no democrat had a single
copy of it printed, and no repubiican-ao
member but himself-had copies printed,
| so the record clerk informs me. Now,
| then, somebody has been careless with
the facts of this situation or is just
straying off after little dose of nuxated
\ iron. (Laughter.) The gentleman talks
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negro man in Washington a few years
ago Now, MIR. Chairman, | am going to
tell gentlemen here briefly what hap
pened in regard to that matter. I in
! PRODUCED a jim-crow car bill in this
House. We discussed it one afternoon.
Next morning I received so or 40 anony-
nous letters from negroes. threatening
| my life. I talked with several friends
about 1t and they said. IF you have
pistol, YOU carry it, for they will as
sault you; they cut a white boy from
Maryland down at Peace monument the
other night. and you had better be on
the lookout" When this negro, drunk
and cursing, insuted a white woman on
| q street car in my presence, working
| girl in the postoffee department, 1 re-
sented it, and in the difficulty had to
shoot him, and one shot struck a white
man in the leg / cared for the White
man. / had two trained nurses with him
for weeks and, in all. five physicians and
surgeons aided by my brother. DR.. wyatt.
Heflin. Of Birmingham; and they saved
| his life. It cost me $1,000 to defend that
\ white girl from the insults and insolence
of the drunken negro, but do not regret
| my act on that occasion or a dollar OF
the money that 1t cost me- (ApplauseD
| That Is not all. The gentleman says that
a republican handed him The Age-Herald
editorial read by him here before. Doubt
less | will tell you about this woman
| defended by us on the street car. n re-
publican told her that if she testified
| for me that she would lose her job in
| the postoffice department. When the
case was about ready to be tried, they
speeded her off to the philippine islands
without consulting me. I did not know
| that she had gone. She wrote me lett
ter from a foreign port and said that she
| had been sent over there to work in the
postoffee department in the Philippine
| islands and would not be here to TESTIFY.
| She wrote me a very touching letter ana
| said, If I wanted her that she would
l have her depositions taken and sent over
| here. and she said 81 will never forget
your kindness and protection of me.
These are the efforts of some republicans
OF the ecntleman's type to keep Justice
| from being done me in the case | have
mentioned. The grand jury by which
was indicted had more than half dozen
negroes upon It, The case was pushed by
certain republican politicians in Wash
ington at that time, who tried to make
me suffer-"
In my speech replying to Mascn's at
tack upon me, I charged in his pres
once that he could not act the repup-
lioans in his own delegation from the
state of Illinois to indorse the state
ments that l had criticized and con-
demned and yet The Age-Herald, in
stead of publishing this from my
speeoh, used its space In publishing
personal attack upon me by its new
made friend, Mason, of Illinois. At the
conclusion of my speech. criticizlng the
speech of Representative Mason nearly
every democrat in the House congrat-
ulated me Majority Leader kitchin
CONGRATULATED me and so did Speaker
Clark, and so did rerubl icans, and the
correspondent of The Age-Hcrald
knew that the democrats. including the
| floor leader and the speaker of the
| House. had congratulated me; and yet
no notice of this appeared in The Age
Heralds story, following my reply to
Mason.
Since The Age Herald has seen fit
to criticize my attacks on pro-Ger-
manism, | know that the people of Ala
bama will pardon me for quoting the
Volunteer testimony of a few Ameri-
can patriots who indorse the work that
I have been doing here. From the
Portland, Ore, Telegram. public senti-
ment Is entirely ready to approve Mr..
Helms suggested housecleaning."
From Baltimore. Md, American ANY
man who supported the German prop
uganda in any wise Is unworthy to
have a seat in Congress. Continuing
to do so, he aims knife at the back
of every man who has stepped forward
to fight for his country" From Chi
cago, ILL.,, Tribune: but their indigna-
tiou may be taken with certain res
ervations 1t Is very we'll for them In
accuse Mr. Hefln with loose talk, but
some OF these very men have hitherto
given vent to the widest kind of
charges. But they cannot establish
their Innocence of unpatriotic con
duct For this reason. it is difficult
to feel any sympathy for them" From
Baltimore. Md, Sum "Mr Heflin Is the
only man in either branch OF Congress
who has had the courage to say what
the country in general has been think
ing Is he to be rebuked because he
has had the manhood to indict the men
who have been hindering and harass
ing their country. who have been prac-
tically aiding and abetting the insid-
ious efforts of German spies and con-
tion and create reactionary antiwar
said: EVERY Kaiser booster In the
ffouse took occasion to join In the
abuse Of IIeflin, the 100 per cent Amer
lean from Alabama. The Gazette of
York, Pa, said: Congressman Helm
has consistently been a loyal Ameri-
can" From the Birmingham News:
Through all that melee of strange
tongues, Tom Heflin of Alaban/ was
at the forefront of the fighting In de-
Tense of clean, outspoken, thoroughgo
ing Americanism' Statement of Pres
ident Wilson: From the outset MIR.
Hefln has earned the friendship and
esteem of the President by reason of
his intense Americanism and unfalter-
ing support OF every American meas