The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-22
Candidate Opens Campaign by Demanding District
 Have 100 Per Cent
 American in Congress
QUOTES THE RECORD TO SHOW INCUMBENT
 AS AID TO THE KAISER
Heavy Rain Fails to Dampen Enthusiasm of Crowd As sembled at Capitol Park
 Last Night

"They say George Huddles- ton cannot be beaten. They said Germany could not be beaten. General Pershing, our general in France, says Germany can be beaten; that Germany must be beaten; that Germany will be beaten, and I say to you that George Huddleston can be beat en; that George Huddleston must be beaten, and that George Huddleston will be beaten. ''
 With these prophetic words Erie Pettus closed the opening speech of his campaign for Congress in the Ninth district at Capitol park last night, and the 500 or more men and women present shouted their hearty approval
 During the late afternoon and early evening a steady rain fell that threar- ened a postponement of the meeting MT Pettus had advertised. and to make matters worse the electric current that lights up the pavilion was cut off un- til a quarter of an hour after the time for the speaking to begin.
 INSISTED ON SPEECH
 Despite the unfavorable weather and lighting conditions the crowd that had gathered to hear MT. Pettus insisted that he deliver his speech and all re- mained to the end to respond with true American fervor to the closing appeal to the voters of Jefferson coun- ty to send a man to Congress tha. will be representative of the people of the greatest district in the south.
 Introduced by F. D. McArthur, who tcld of the service of MT. Pettus in county, of his services in the cousti- stutional convention in 1901, and as so- l:citor of his circut, MT. Pettus at once launched into a discussion of what he declared to be the one issue in this campaign--loyalty to America and the defeat of George Huddleston for Con gross. His audience, by it's liberal ap pIause, showed that 1t was in sim pathy with him and joined in his de- mana that man 100 per cent Ameri- can be elected to represent this dis trict ir Congress.
 QUOTES FROM RECORD
 MT. Pettus was in good voice and presented forcibly the reasons why, in his opinion, MT. Huddleston should not be returned to Congress. He read from the Congressional Record extracts Of speeches made by MT. Huddleston in Congress, of his plea that he hal sup ported all of the war measures but three, which, in MT Huddlestons es- timation, were unimportant. These three bills were the conscription bill, the explosives bill and the espionage bill. which MT. Pettus declared were the most important and the most es- sential of all of the hundred passel l by Congress for the winning of the war.
 To Mfr. Huddleston's plea that all the daily papers of Birmingham were against him and that he could reach his constituents only by speeches, Mir Fettus answered that the papers were losal to the President and loyal to America and that it was up to Mr. Huddleston to prove that he was loyal; that the burden was upon him to show why the people of Jefferson county should return him. to Congress, and the audience echoed the speakers words with hearty cheers and applause.
 VOTE WITH SOCIALIST
 He charged that MT. Huddleston. in his first vote in Congress, voted against his party and with the re- publicans, and that when it was neees- sary to empower the President to call the militia into service along the Mex ican border every man in the House of tatives-democrats, republic ans and all other parties-except two voted for the measure. Those two were