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...Heard some four hours of Senator Heflin's prolific bile on his stale subject of Roman Catholic conspiracy to control U. S. politics. Said Mr. Heflin: "A Catholic bullet brought Roosevelt down. If I am murdered, many "Catholic priests will pay the penalty. But I have suggested a course to carry on ... I am anxious to see how much notice the press will give...
...fortnight ago, in the course of his continued-in-our-next speech against Catholics, James Thomas Heflin of Alabama said in the U. S. Senate: "Monsignor Belford is a villainous and scurrilous little Catholic puppy up here in the State of New York, who edits or writes for a little sheet called The Mentor, and who suggests that a thug be hired to waylay and attack me. I could pinch his brains out between my thumb and forefinger...
...Heflin: I have just read the Congressional Record of Jan. 28. I am glad my shaft struck home! It pierced your thick hide. It made you squeal...
...denied advocating thugging of Senator Heflin. Said he: "I facetiously remarked that apparently the only thing to do with a fellow like that is to have a couple of men take him out some where and roll him in the mud. He must be made to look ridiculous. The Senator, however, hasn't sense enough to realize that the suggestion was a facetious...
Pleased, Senator Heflin later quoted himself on the Senate floor...