The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-02
BIG CROWD HEARS
 EXPOSE OF HUDDLE-
 STON'S PAST RECORD
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not be rising up in opposition to George Huddleston if there was not some req son for it. 1t is your duty to inquire what that cause is In this great crisis you cannot separate patriotism-military campaign-from politics The man who says you can is either corrupt or a fool Politics is bound up in the miltancy of the country and district"
 He said al the outbreak of the war the country was honeycombed with Ger tman spies; that there are spies in this district now, and that everyone Of them is for Huddleston: that they are quiet now only because the government has put them down and they are afraid He reviewed the battle for liberty, from the adoption of the Magma Charter in 12l5 down through the decapitation of Charles I and on to IT'S when the
 American Declaration of Independence was promulgated, establishing for all 1 time the principles of democracy and the rights of the people to govern them selves, and declared that the free people esta blished on the shores of America had ! sent GOO coo men to fight for the free dom of the world and that it is the duty of every American citizen to stand by | those boys.
 "No man can say George Huddleston | is strong for Wilson. He is not in sympathy with Woodrow Wilson, the greatest President we ever had and you can call that what you will" de- , clared MT. Burruss in closing MIR. FAREWELL SPEAKS | The Rev. Middleton $. Barnwell said l he would be supporting George Hud- dleston now if he believed him true ! to his people. Our hearts are in the 1 war" he said. Our sons and our prop 1 erty are in the war. and we want a i man in Congress who will represent I us" he declared.
 He said the workingmen of Jeffer- son county had done a great deal for Huddleston. but he had done nothing for them. He read from speeches made in Congress by Huddleston. his con- scrption speech and said that if the ! people would read that speech they would know Huddleston.
 He voted for war but not to send men to fight" said MT Barnwell He would send 235,000 men over there, and that would have been sending 235,00 men to their deaths If We had sent 800 900 over not many of them would have come back, but we will send 5. coo, 900 and not many Germans will go back home. I don't want class against class. but want to see every
 man, women and child in America uni- ted behind the army, and then the Stars and Stripes will come back vic torious"
 WHITE GIBSON SPEAKS White F. Gibson. announced as the big gun, was the last speaker. In his introductory he said: T am for two men for Congress who don't speak Ger
 man as well as George speaks it am
 for two men for Congress who do not
 spend their summers in Prague, Aus tria"
 He charged that Huddleston voted in Congress on the conscription bills as
 the Kaiser would have had his son vote.
 He told of trying to dissuade Huddles-
 ton from making a peace talk in sEos- ton the day before President Wilson's
 war message: of iIuddleston's vote
 against the spy and explosives bills, saving that in voting against them he
 voted as the Kaiser would have had
 his son vote that he voted against
 sending troops to the Mexican border
 when that country wasa hotbed of Ger man spies and intrigue, and that ths against it, that in opposing the Third
 Liberty Loan he had done as the Kaiser
 would have had his son do.
 "If you believe George is loyal, vote.
 work and fight for him, and if you get
 killed fighting for that kind of loyalty it may be a good thing" he said He said that in government raids thousands of pieces of l W. w. litera-
 ture were captured and exhibited two
 pamphIets, bound in red paper backs,
 and said that the government has the