Alabama, Old Style

POLITICAL NOTES

Alabama, Old Style

One day last week in the northern (Senate) wing of the Capitol, J. Thomas Heflin, a gentleman from Alabama, arose to address his venerable colleagues, saying: "Some time ago I said in the Senate that 'G. O. P.' had been interpreted to mean 'going out of power,' and that a gentleman in my

State had written me a letter saying that it stood for 'Great Oil Party.' I now have a letter from a gentleman in Delaware suggesting to me that he had seen what I said regarding G. O. P. heretofore, and he said the most appropriate name he could find for it now is the 'Grafters' Oil Party.' Grafters' Oil Party--G. O. P.; and Doheny is the mouthpiece of the Grafters' Oil Party. Doheny is here in the Capital. The battle cry of the Republican Party has become 'If you want dough, go to Doheny.' They say Fall is the man who put dough in Doheny; that he is the man who put sin in Sinclair; and is the man who put a dent in Denby. . . .

"Fall is the man who has the finger prints of slime and corruption all over him, placed there by Doheny."

Senator Heflin received an anonymous letter from Manhattan, threatening his life if he did not quit his oil-lambasting of the Republican Party. He referred the letter to the Post Office Department.