"Very Poor Sportsmanship"

Bitterly, passionately Alabama's Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin harangued his colleagues last week on this theme: that the election last November at which he was defeated by John Hollis Bankhead was conducted with dishonesty.

Forthwith the Alabama House of Representatives passed a joint resolution declaring that: "The said J. Thomas Heflin has during the greater part of his tenure of office . . . made Alabama the laughing stock of the Union by his bigotry, lack of religious tolerance and the lack of many of the courtesies expected between one gentleman and another." The resolution expressed "condemnation of the very poor sportsmanship exhibited in being unwilling to admit like a man that he was defeated in a fair election."

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