The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-26
STATE CAPITAL BUREAU o THE AGE-HERALD
Montgomery. Ala, Sepf. 2!

Without mentioning a name, with out making charge but leaving in- ferences and planting innuendo, Representative J Lee Lcng of Butler attacked Frederick I. Thompson, publisher of The Birmingham Age Herald, Mobile Register, Mobile News-Item and Montgomery Journal in a speech on question of per sonal privilege in the house of rep resentatives Tuesday afternoon.
 MT; Long appeared quite peeved. He even was excited. He talked and talked and talked and he had an of- ficial court reported there whom he had charged in advance with the duty of taking down word for word every Utterance. Later the typewriter copies were made availble to those who cared to receive them.
 Mir. Long charged by innuendo and by the use of T heard" among other things that Mir. Thompson is at tempting to destroy Senator oscar w. Underwood because the senator did not support the Ship Subsidy bill that MT. Thompson Is interested in certain congresses and warehouses which "are mortg aged for five times real value" and that he and asso- ciates would like to unload on this state.
 From the tenor of the steno- graphic copy of the sheets which MT. Long was kind enough to place in the hands Of the representative of The Age Herald, it appeared that his excitement was caused by The Age- Herald,s recent discussions of state affairs, such as the part of the ad- mnistration in recent matters and such as the record of the legtsla- ture.
 
 complimenting himself and the other members of the legislature and pre- dieting that this legislature will live long and be happy ever after. Refers to DuddIns.
 MT. Long began by. charging that a man named Budding who has at tackled Alabama convict system is really named T. J. Strough and that that he is an organizer for the United Mine Workers of America and as serted that that is the kind and character of people who are criticiz- ing the course of the present legisla ture and administration. He asked whether it could be true that a man who controlled four newspapers could be of such low order of intelligence as to think he could force the leg islature of the state to do his bidding by citicism. He charged that this pub fisher was attempting to destroy senator Underwood because the sen ator opposed a ship subsidy bill. in which he was interested, and that this was unbecoming because he said the senator was resposible for the pub fishers appointment on the United States shipping board. He predicted the present owners or The Age Herald would never live in harmony because of their difference in tenn perament. He said that he did not know the other owner except through what he writes in his newspapers and has instigated and that these writ ings show that his mind does not run along the channels of a true Amer ican citizen. He claimed that these newspapers publish only the news they want to print which left the reader with half truths.
 Will Go Down In History.
 After prasing the legislature he referred to former Governor KllDy as the most unpopular governor with the common people the state had ever had and that the present governor was the most popular with the common people. He again charged coerce legislature and chief executive and expressed the opinion that the deeds of the present legislature wiLl make it go down in history as one of the best that ever sat in the halls at Montsomery. He closed by say ing that he believed the present gov ernor if he continued the course he had laid down to the present time "would go down in the hearts and minds of the people long after these newspapers are forgotten