HEFLIN SEEKS NEW DEMOCRACY IN PARTY FIGHT
HEFLIN SEEKS NEW DEMOCRACY IN PARTY FIGHT Disbarred from Primary But Will Seek to Re-turn to Senate (Special to The Progressive) BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—A unique situation .prevails in Alabama...
...Heflin was barred as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for re-election because he bolted the national Democratic ticket in 1928...
...In an effort to accomplish this Heflin has called a mass meeting to be held here to "reorganize democracy...
...Under the law which was enacted at the recent session of the South Carolina legislature, chain stores are subject to a tax of $5 for each store up to $30, and $150 for the thirtieth store and each one in excess of that number...
...The nominee will have to depend entirely upon party regularity for his election with Sen...
...Heflin carrying a vigorous and flambuoyant campaign into every county of the state...
...Chain Store Tax In South Carolina Is Under Attack Chain Store Co...
...Friends of Heflin predict that 10,000 persons will attend the mass meeting here, and they say that 40.000 are already pledged to support his movement for a new Democratic party in Alabama...
...The Alabama senator will first seek to keep a majority of the Alabama voters away from the Democratic primary to be held on Aug...
...The present law violates both the federal and state constitutions, the company contends...
...in spite of being disbarred from his own party primary, Heflin has set out, to oe reelected to the senate...
...Heflin indicts "that factions of the Democratic party controlled by Alfred E. Smith, John J. Raskob and Tammanny," and he charges that it "seeks to destroy the 18th amendment and thp laws enacted for its enforcement in defiance of the Houston platform and seeks to convert the Democratic party into a liquor party and to that end recognizes the social and political equality of the white and Negro races and condones their intermarriage...
...HEFLIN SEEKS NEW DEMOCRACY IN PARTY FIGHT Disbarred from Primary But Will Seek to Re-turn to Senate (Special to The Progressive) BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—A unique situation .prevails in Alabama politic,,, with Sen...
...27, 1929, In a case In which the Southern Grocery Stores, Inc., wns also a party...
...A 1929 statute imposing a tax on chain stores was held Invalid by the Court of Common Pleas, Richland county...
...In the Democratic primary, John H. Bankhead, a corporation attorney who is identified with the Alabama Power Co., and Frederick I. Thompson, a publisher who is attacking the power trust, will contest for the nomination...
...Asks for Court Order to Prevent State from Enforcing Law COLUMBIA, S. C. — The validity of the South Carolina chain store tax law Is involved in an injunction proceeding in:t:tuted by Southern Grocery Stores, Inc...
...in the Federal District, court, for the eastern district of South Carolina...
...Thomas J. Heflin battling to return to his seat in the senate from outside the lines of the Democratic party...
...South Carolina, on Feb...
Vol. 1 • July 1930 • No. 32
