The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-16
HEFLIN DRAWS ATLANTA..C CHEERS
 FORUNDERWOOD
Cites Alabamian's Record. Refrains From Me-
 Ad0O Attack V

ATLANTA, Ga, March 15.4--An elo- quent plea for the support of Oscar w. Underwood, of Alabama, in the Georgia presidential primary next Wednesday, was made in the House of representa- tives chamber of the Georgia state cap ital tonight by Mir. Underwood's col league, Senator Thomas J..' Heflin. Seantor Heflin was greeted by a large audience and was enthusiastically, ap- plauded. |, He declined to make any attack on any opponent of Senator Underwood, when some one in the audience called upon him to do so. ~..
 q do not have, to assail the character or actions of any other candidate in presenting the cause of Oscar w. Un- derwood to the voters of the democratic party" Senator Heflin declared. He expressed a personal liking for William c. McAd0o, the only other entrant in the state lpresidential preferential pri- mary.
 Senator Heflin devoted his speech to a vigoronsi attack rn the republican party and review of the accomplish ments of Senator Underwood as dem ocratic leader in the national Congress. He declared the south has proved its ability to produce statesmen1 and Iia- donal leaders, having furnished the country with the three greatest presi- dents in history, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Woodrow Wilson. The reference to Mfr. Wilson was warm ly aPplauded. ',
 ''G. 0. P. no longer for the Grand Old Party Senator Heflin de clared. Tt stands for the Grand Oil Party that is going out of power. All other parties that have sprung. up against the democrats are. already dead, with the exception of the republican party, and we are going to bury it this fall with Teapot Dome tied around it's neck"
 Turning to the record of Senator. Un. derwood, Senator Heflin declared that Mir. Underwood wrote the most scienti- fife tariff bill in all history, putting Injuries under heavy tariff, and neces- sities on the free list; led the, fight for the federal reserve banking system 'that, stopped 21 Wall Street miEIion- aires from fleecing the farmers, through forced panics:' supported Governor Welbern of the Atlanta Federal Reserve bank in opposing the progressive inter- est rate injected into the reserve sys- tenn by the republican defeated efforts of the republican party to sell the merchant marines to private interests at loss of hundred of million of dol lars, and directed the passage of the farm loan bill giving farmers from 30 to 40 years to pay mortgages on their land. .t~7ss
 When the so-called antijyhching bill was passed by the House and sent over to the Senate, it was Oscar Un- derwood, who told the republican lead CTS that if they tried to force that bill through, there wouldn't be any legisla- tion passed at that session." Senator Heflin told the audience. VI e.
 Congressman William B. Oliver of the sixth Alabama district, followed Senator Heflin with brief address in support Bf Underwood. Thes question mark is the symbolsof the public today, he saidA 2sks@ A sER asa5f
 On the eve of the primary 2 both Unl derwood and McAdoo heaaquaffers here issued statefnents iclaifhiHg their candidates would sweep Georgia in next Wednesdays primary election; gci