Washington, Apr. 22.
Senator J: Thomas Heflin of Alabama, opening his campaign for renomination, made a speech on the floor of the Senate in which he alleged that the Alabama State Committee of the Democratic Party is under control of J. J. Ruskob, Tammany Hall, and Alfred Smith, former governor of New York, who, as leaders of the party, attempting to bring about He retirement.
The Democratic lenders were antiprohibitionists, Senator Heflin said, and some members of the State Committee were intoxicated when they barred his candidacy for re-election to the United States Senate from party support.
"Raskob, Tammany and Al Smith are prompting this attack upon me," Heflin shouted.
"Raskob, Tammany and Al Smith chief of the navy bureau of aeronautics, also came out with a statement in which he declared the prohibition laws "impracticable."
thinking American, Admiral Moffett declared, could fail to compare unfavourably the situation of this country with that of a majority of the nations of Europe so far a5 temperance was concerned. Europe, he said, the people enjoyed "personal liberty and an absence of graft." In America liberty curtailed and graft rampant—United Press.
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