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...know nothing of Mr. Bilbo, the subject of your editorial, neither do I know anything of Mr. Blease, or Senator Long, but I have had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Heflin, and found him to be, personally, a most pleasing gentleman, certainly a great deal more than I can say for the Editor of TIME from having met him through the columns of the magazine...
Sirs: . . . Senator Bilbo, is well educated, has a brilliant mind, a strong physical body, a lively imagination, and a nervous energy, and for more than 20 years has spent practically his entire time and energy in constructing, energising, and consumating remedial and beneficial legislation in an effort to amelerate the unfortunate condition of the sick, the blind, the insane, the feebleminded, and the Veterans of the Civil, and World...
Then it was, when thousands of intellectually able men and women of every shades of political thought refused to commit themselves, Bilbo, the coorageous champion of right, truth, honesty and morality, fought the battle of his life to keep Mississippi dry, and I challenge the world to disprove the fact, that it was due more to his efforts than to any other factor, that the victory was won, and Mississippi was kept dry. & Saved from this debauchery...
Many a literate Mississippian has leaped to the defense of The victorious Man Bilbo. TIME regrets that it is unable to give satisfaction to the defenders because none of them has caused TIME to doubt the accuracy of its Bilbo facts. That The Man is liked in Mississippi, TIME never doubted.-ED. Sirs...
...doubt you are receiving many letters from indignant Mississippians concerning your account of Bilbo in the issue of Oct. 1. I am not indignant; I am simply humiliated by the circumstances that make it possible for you to print such an article. I feel that you have been kinder to Bilbo than you usually are to the South and no one should become angry at mere facts. If the supporters of Bilbo are incensed at what you printed, they should have surveyed it before supporting him, for it is common knowledge in this State. Forgetfulness of Bilbo's past...