The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-08
|HEFLIN SLATED. TO TAKE STUMP
 AGAINST WALLACE.
Deflation Of 1920 To Be Discussed By Demo-
 cratic Expert
(Washington Bureau.

WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 7.- When Clem l.. Shaver, chairman of the democratic national committee, charged that Secretary of Agriculture Henry c. Wallace, had "stultified" himself by declaring democrats responsible for the federal reserve boards deflation policy of 1920, he cut out a job for Senator J. Thomas Heflin of Alabama, it is indicated here.
 At headquarters, it is said that Senator Heflin will be consulted re- garding this outstanding issue of the campaign and that in its illumination he will be asked to assume the principal part on the stump. The former comp troller of the currency, John Shelton Williams of Virginia, who furnished Senator Heflin technical information on which he based his many senatorial addresses, will be called to Washing ton in the near future, it is said.
 Agree On Distress"
 The democratic chairman and Secre- tary Wallace, while ignoring the con tention of Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, that the deflation of 1920 was an economic necessity, agree that that policy wrought almost unparal- lelled distress among the coantry's s farmers. The republican secretary charges that for that policy, democrats were responsible. Shaver counters with a charge that republicans were respon- sible. The democratic charge is based on the fact that a republican senator, Medill Mccormick, of Illinois, in 1919, put through republican Congress a resolution demanding of the federal re- serve board a statement of its policy to counteract the imitation which then prevailed; that the republican conven- tion of 1920, adopted a platform plank demanding deflation, and that the nom inee of that convention Senator War ren c. Harding, in his acceptance speech, praised that plank and conven ated to be guided by it.
 That the above are facts is admit ted by republicans, Secretary Wallace augurated in 1920 while Woodrow Will ton, democrat, then Secretary of tho Treasury, and w. P. G. Harding, demo crat, formerly of Birmingham, theI governor of the federal reserve board Blames w. P. G. Harding
 | Senator Heflin, addressing the Senate in 1923, charged that the deflation WulCll ucSlLOyCu lHC ldlmCiS WuS kiS orously applied by Governor Harding who, he added, had abandoned the Democratic party, and sought to cur ry favor with the republican Congress and the forthcoming president. He re cited the fact that during the period of greatest distress, President Wilson was desperately ill, and implied tha that was the reason the application o the policy, despite it's fatal cost to thu farmers, was "ruthlessly continued"
 Senator Heflin by his speeches mad, it impossible for President Harding tt reappoint Governor Harding, it wal generally said, with hope of having him confirmed. At any rate, Cover nor Harding was not reappointed, ant Senator Heflin was left in control O the situation. The policy which tn, Alabamian so vigorously and continu ously denounced, has become a live DO l litical issue of the camaaign, if on bases his judgment on the curren i clashes of Chairman Shaver and Secre tary Wallace. To meet the situation Senator Heflin will be asked to talk, the stump as quickly as possible. H. is regarded as the best posted demo crat in the country to discuss deflatiOn