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...therefore, under the Senate rules, be expunged from the Record. Senator Heflin, his coat tails flapping, objected vigorously, demanded an investigation of the facts, and, furthermore, warned Senator Copeland that he might be lynched if he ever went South on a Presidential campaign. In his best mimic manner the Alabaman visualized the scene...
Mayor Hague has been under investigation by a Republican legislature at Trenton. The charges against him have been municipal graft and corruption. The potent Jersey Journal has raked him with editorial criticism. Chief exhorter against him has been one James Burkitt, a rangy Alabaman and self-styled "Jeffersonian Democrat." Not a candidate himself, "Jeff" Burkitt sought to "sell good government" to Jersey City. His loud, vote-swaying cry was against the exorbitant taxation which has driven many a manufacturer out of Jersey City during the Hague...
When Indiana's Watson, the Republican leader, tried to tell Senator Heflin that the Senate could not properly pass his resolution, the Alabaman, with bellowing surprise, asked if Watson wasn't the "finest old he-horse of the Klan." Senator Watson puffed and protested. Senator Borah rebuked Senator Heflin for bigotry, only to have the Democratic leader, Robinson of Arkansas, who has more than once rebuked Senator Heflin similarly, retort: "The Senator [Borah] can now speak of religious liberty, but you never heard him make such an eloquent appeal during the campaign. Then he was as dumb as an oyster...
...young, slender and Spanish; Eva Turner, English and ebullient; Alice Mock, a Californian with European experience, to make her debut as Micaela in the opening Carmen; and Antoinetta Consoli of Lawrence, Mass.. who will sing Frasquita; Marion Claire, 24-year-old Chicagoan; Hilda Burke, Baltimorean; Patricia O'Connell, Alabaman and daughter of a New York Times staff writer. Contraltos: Ada Paggi, Italian, and Coe Glade, 22-year-old Chicagoan. both onetime members of the San Carlo Company; Maria Olszewska. Tenors: Giuseppe Cavadore, Italian; and Ulysses Lappas, Greek and admired by Mary Garden, back again after several seasons' absence. Baritone...
...Hefflin's latest and most vigorour lunge at the Catholic windmill will probably no more add to the gayety of the nation, than it will disrupt the minority party. For the Democrats, with the exception of some Senators, mostly southern, who remained away from the caucus yesterday, repudiated the Alabaman by unanimous support of his opponent Robinson. And if the fathers of this country are turning in their graves because a senator in Congress questioned the right of a man to be president because of religious belief, they may reflect that Hefflin is no typical senator, even if such heated...