The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-05-29
WOODS cAMoUFLAGE.

WOODS, cAMouFLAeE.
A partial abstract of the vote of the
present incumbent from the Tenth
congressional district has been in cir
culation among the people of this dis
trict for the past three months. Mr..
Woods has been repeatedly written
to for an explanation OF his vote on
these war M easures and has replied
that he was too busy in congress to
give the matter attention.
On May Is, 1918, at date too late
for discussion! and reply, he sends to
the voters OF, the district campaign
document puTporting to give a par
tial explana tbon which is misrepre-
sentation of his actual record and a
pure attempt at camouflage.
On March Z, 1916, the McLamore
resolution to issue warning to our Cit
liens to remain off all ships at high
seas was brought before the house on
motion to table the resolution, which
according to all the rules Of parlia-
mentary law is method of killing a
bill Woods knew if this bill was
tabled it was forever lost. He was
last on the roll call and the bill was
tabled by vote of .276 OLAF, and no
better method could be found to kill
this bill forever than by voting with
the majority. Woods did not so vote
and must have favored the resolution
but after hearing from the patriotic
citizenship of this district he is now
looking for an excuse that the voters
will swallow. -
With reference to the Kahn amend
ment, providing for increase of stand
ing army under date of March %, 1916,
Woods voted for a military bill pro-
viding for an increase of the army. Of
20, 900 men, but voted against the Kahn
amendment providing for the increase
of the army to 100000. The Kahn
amendment was lost by vote of 2l3
to 191 and Woods helped kill it. We
needed those soldiers badly one year
later.
| On the voluntary army bill Woods
voted against section Sc in the bill
which provided for the volunteer army,
and helped kill the provision for such
army by a vote of 100 to Psi, and vot-
ed for the bill with the provisions out.
! Revenue bill of Feb. l, 1917, was for
tax on incomes and excess profits and
was for war purposes and became a
Hawaii to 1876. We needed the mon
ey to support the war.
Congressman Woods. reviewing this
anonymous and illegal circular, passes
over the item of April S, 1917, and
gives no reason for not seeing the
perils of kaiserism as they existed
and voting against the declaration of
war-the one vote of them all that the
citizenship Of this district want en-
Iplained. ~ ..
Congressman Woods gave some his
tory of the spy act that he voted
|against under date of May 4, 1917, as
shown by the congressional record of
the 65th congress at page 1882. Bill
carried, yeas 259 and nays 107-
Woods voting nay-and You will note
in his pamphlet that lie does not claim
he favored the bill in any form. The
action on this bill of June 7th was an
agreement to a conference report
thereon. In Woods explanation he
does not claim to have supported the
bill.
WARMING. There will be other
political propaganda spread about the
district at a late hour in an attempt
to put the voters off their guard.
l This will be for the purpose of deceiv-
Iu6 IlC SOlOIS VII TIC ACTUAL IcCOIu.
There are two bills now pending
before congress to subject the salary
of public officials to the income tax.
This was made necessary by the lax
provision of the law.
| Woods favored the McLamore reso-
luton. Woods opposed the Kahn
amendment. Woods voted against the
war. Woods voted against the spy
act Woods opposed necessary war
revenue measures. Every measure,
date, vote and page on said anonymous
circular is proven by the Congression
al Record. If Obstructionists in con-
gress are to be removed, Woods should
go.
Denison has sent forth to the bust
ness and educational world, many
young men and women who have
shown their marked abilities through
many years of student life, and who
will make good. Not so many years
ago, there came in from the country
district, a modest little girl, who start
ed in at the north brick in the seventh
grade. Learning seemed to come easy
to her, but to this was added great
industry. In time she graduated from
our high school, having taken, in adj
dition to the regular studies, the state
teachers course, so that she was en-
titled to state teachers certificate
as well as her diploma of graduation.
She taught a year, and then began
work at Ames. She gave particular
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