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...Felicitated, through the mouths of Majority Leader Tilson and Minority Leader Garrett, Congressman Charles M. Stedman of North Carolina on his 86th birthday...
...unusual remark for Representative Garrett of Tennessee, the Democratic floor leader. But who was the "gentleman from Connecticut?" As everyone knows, there are no Democratic Congressmen from Connecticut. The gentleman referred to was Representative John Quillin Tilson, duly elected leader of Republican forces on the floor of the House. Next to him sat Speaker Nicholas Longworth, who had just added his emphatic voice to the revolt against President Coolidge. Not since 1917, when Champ Clark fought the draft, had a Speaker of the House taken part in debate from the floor...
...despatches. It was a good news story, duly featured. Then a week later, he heard rumors that there was more to be found in Aiken than what came in the despatches. His dynamic brain developed action. He called for one of his ablest, muckraking reporters, Oliver H. P. Garrett, said: "Garrett, go to South Carolina. . . ." The World must still crusade. Reporter Garrett went; and for the last fortnight the World's columns have bristled with his stories...
...York World, which believes that Negroes in the South are strung up every day or two, despatches one of its staff men, Oliver H. P. Garrett, who is evidently quite a 'nigger lover'. . . . It is plain anybody can see he is trying to make maudlin sentiment for the colored folks who were killed by irate citizens when the South Carolina Court failed to do its duty...
...York World has a number of Negro newspaper reporters on its staff; 'but. the managing editor of the World evidently decided he had best not send any of these to South Carolina to look into the Lowman mess. The presumption is that the reporter Oliver H. P. Garrett at least has a white skin...