The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-02
HELM URGES 9TH
TO SEND DEMOCRAT
Three Speeches Delivered by
Albanian in Interest of
Rainey for Congress

! Gadsden, September 1.-(Special) 1.-The
campaign for the election of Capt L. b.
Rainey of Etowah county to the Seventh
congressional district seat, made vacant
by the death of Congressman Burnett,
was given much impetus by two speeches
made in the district Saturday by Repre-
sentative J. Thomas Heflin of the Fifth
district. MIR. Heflin spoke to a large
audience at Gadsden Saturday morning
Vile in the afternoon.
At both appointments Representative
Helm was accompanied by the demo-
cratic nominee, Mr.. Rainey Two APP
pointments for Monday were made for
the Fifth district congressman, oneonta
and Cullman. Mr.. Rainey spoke Monday
at Labor Day rally in Gadsden. After
his Cullman speech Monday Afternoon
| Representative Heflin went to Birming-
ham for a short visit before returning
to Washington.
Mr.. Heflin, who is very popular with
the democrats of this district, made a
strong appeal for the Seventh district
| 10 Keep her democratic record clean by
electing a democrat to succeed the late
Representative Burnett. He declared
that the campaign here was being
watched with unusual interest in Wash
ington and elsewhere in the country be-
cause the republicans, elated over the re-
cent election of a republican congress-
man from Kentucky district, are boast
ing they are going to break into the
solid south by sending a congressman to
Washington from Alabama. Such an
event would be a source of emba rrass-
ment to the entire Alabama delegation
as well as to the democratic administra-
ton, Mr.. Heflin said, because the re-
publicans would herald it far and wide
as reputation of the administration,
of the conduct of the war, of the SPLEEN
did legislative achievements of recent
democratic Congresses and particularly
of the league of nations.
Mr.. Heflin's plea for Rainey's cleo
ton as evidence that the people of the
south are behind the President in his
effort to bring an era of lasting peace
was eloquent and brought enthusiastic
, demonstration of approval from his audi
tors Mr.. Heflin convincingly answered
the arguments of opponents of the league
of nations, particularly Senator Reed of
Missouri. that it might mean negro domi-
nation, and Senator Sherman of Illinois,
that it would mean domination by the
Catholics. He showed that every church
and every organization that has spoken
Ou Tic SUBJECT has oNeTW dp-
proved the league plan, and that out
side of those republicans who are OPP
posing ratification for purely partisan
purposes, the principal protests that have
have been made against the league were
in letters from Catholic priests to SEN
ators New and Knox, republicans But
the briefest and best answer to all the
arguments advanced against ratification,
to the effect that it might embroil Amer
further If
plan does not prove efficacious for Amer
lea, she may withdraw within two years
The plan, he contended, is at least worth
trying for if it doesn't do what it is
hoped it will do. and what President
Wilson and the other great statesmen of
the world believe it will do America may
withdraw.
AS for the statements that soldiers are
opposed to the league because they are
afraid it will make it necessary for them
to have to fight on foreign soil again,
the best answer is that America had to
send men to France because there was
no league, and will probably have to do
so again if the league isn't ratified, while
establishment of the league is at least
a definite effort towards ending war.
When it was learned that Mr.. Hefln
was here, telephone requests for him to
speak in other counties began coming
in from all over the district, but on ac-
count of the necessity for his early return
to Washington, he had to decline all in
vitations for later than Monday, but
he has promised to return during the
closing days of the campaign and make
as many speeches in the district as he
has time for
His appeal to the farmers to send
democrat to Congress to aid him and
the other members of the district in their
fights for legislation in the interest of the
cotton growers as against the manpula-
lions of the mill men and fnanciers of
the east, has stirred the cotton growers.
and democrats believe it will do much to-
ward getting them out to vote, which is
apparently the thing necessary to insure
the defeat of the republican, Charles b.
Kennamer.