The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-11-02
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from baaing tnrown out OF the
Z house of Representatives. by a bare
g Sc esghf votes, Thomas a.
IantonS Democrata Of Texas was
siubHcsy rerrimandet late today by
Speaker iIlett ia accordance with
"a resolution Of censure against
which no man cast a single vote.
.zen moment later, as he walk
ed ON of the chamber with all eyes
upun hirn. he topp1ed over IN a
heap. Seme Of his colleagues who
had voted to expez him, picked him
ana placed him on a lounge. But
sne aid not stay there long. Rous-
1ng himself he stumbled out, the
I tears strealning down his cheeks
as he Iked away. he was
heard oexpress the hope that he
aighx never see the house again.
heFe was no doubt of the fact,
Ian members expressed it, that the
exan was utterly crushed and
worn BY his experience of the day,
experience that seldom comes
d1siag the life OF a man in con-
ETess For an hour and ten min
fes Nth hostile eyes upon him,
Ae fought 10 defend himself from
{ tie charge that he had trans
ssed the law by putting into the
eugressionM Record q document
xlescribed as .unspeakably vile.
Befor he got up to speak in his
oNra behalf, it was the view of Re-
ssab1 leans and Democrats alike that
.Saeticn upon the resolution to ex-
rel him would depend upon his
$dwm attitude. He sat with folded
ands as Representatiye Mondell
of Wyoming, the Republican lead
pleaded earnestly to have him
out And then. pale and
s1e stepped briskIy to the
frCnt, as the leader sat down.
His voice was hoarse and 3rok-
en He touched rapidly upon the
charges, and then his old time Ignt-
IRE returned. Right at the be-
I nning he said he knew the house
prepared TO excel him.
Refusing at first TO yield for
qnesfions, he permitted Represen-
tatfve Longworth lRepublican1 OF
fshio 10 ask him something and
Republicans asserted tonight that
He reply had turned the tide
sainst him. The Ohio member
wanted TO know IL the report was
fs1se that Mr. Blanton had de-
ared an intention to mail 250,000
c6nies of the undeaivered speech
with its Offending AFFIDAVIT, after
the house had ordered it stricken
1ron1 the record
Is1fy a lack of money, he said,
nxerented lis mailing to every vot-
man IL the Knitted States. m
Stantly hasf a dozen representatives
Oh their feet, trying to break
RepresentatNe BIanton had
FssfSerated that the publication had
! Bea sent out IN a just cause, !"
xthat no law had been violaed. Dra-
ssat;;caIIy he pleaded with the
siDnse, for the sake suf his wife and
sifldren TO put back into the rec
ara his own unde1ivered speech in
S Whlch he declared there was not
one word calculated to give Of
Tense But Republicans objected.
SIS the fire ef questions started, Mr..
B1anfon abruptly closed his speech,
with 20 minutes still due him, and
ssast cut ofthe house
- The vote to oust him, 203 to 123,
Summers OF Texas, an old
political rival votsag present" " up
SET he calculations of some Demo
eratS and Republicans who earlier
the day had predicted that the
RsnuhEcan leader was waging a
1cang light They agreed that the
5eader, like a. man stalking all on
Tie turn Of a card, was determin-
Led that 3 Representative Blanton
should go.
substitute resolution, by Rep
:szesen ntatIYes Garrett OF Tennessee,
)snsocTatis Ieader censur1ng the
3 exaH tor printing language 50 IN
7ece1 obscene, vulgar and vile"
as 10 render the record unmailable,
and directing the speaker to rep
finaand and censure him" at the
& hsr OF the house, was thrown out
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