The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-27
.AMER|CAN|SM AND LOYALTY STRESSED IN PETTUS SPEECH Scores Man Who Has to Get Testimonials to
 His Loyalty DUTY OF CITIZENS
 TO MEET THE ISSUE Big Crowd at Capitol Park Hears Candidates Stirring Appeal for
 100 Per Cent American
 at Washington

Championing loyalty and Americana ism Trle Pettus. in his second campaign ism, Erie Pettus, in his second campaign the voters of Jefferson county to send to Washington ms their representative in Congress a man about whose loyalty there can be no question, q man who will get back of President Wilson in his war policies and help him win the war for democracy and the freedom of the world. sn o
 More than 1000 men and women had gathered in the amphitheatre to hear MT. Pettus deliver his speech and they sat attentively through the hour and a quarter that it took him to tell his message, the message of devotion to country, and loyalty to the flag. which he said he would carry into every will lage and hamlet in the county before the campaign ends.
 And if you send me to Washing
 ton, he said, I'll be your repre-
 sentative. pli be 100 per cent for
 Woodrow Wilson, and I promise
 you that I'll never have to come
 back and defend my loyalty nor
 bring letters from chairmen of
 committees to defend it.
 He said no man who has been elected to represent the people in Congress should put himself in position that made it necessary for him to defend his loyalty; denied that the Birming- ham daily newspapers had created an atmosphere of disloyalty about MT. Huddleston as the latter had charged. but said that whatever suspicious of disloyalty may exhist were caused by his speeches in Congress and before the Birmingham Bar association last winter.
 RECENT BIRMINGHAM SPEECH
 'Huddleston spoke at smoker of the Birmingham Bar association last Novem- Der. after the country was at war, and the conscription act was law" said MT. Pettus. T did nU hear him but I have letter here from James A. Mitch ell. member of the bar,f who was present and heard him. Senator Un- derwood spoke at the same smoker. Senator Underwood approved all the policies and all of the acts of Presi-
 dent Wilson in the winning of the war and Huldleston, speaking after Senator Underwood, said he differed with Sen ator Underwood on almost every mat ter that he had discussed. Huddeston's s sreech was not taken down in short hand, but MT. Mitchell has a pretty good
 memory and he writes in his letter that Huddleston said that he had to be eau tiohs for if he spoke too plainly he
 would get into the hands of Reese Murray.
 "R. J. Mcclure, another member of the bar. who heard Huddleston's speecn,
 has also written me letter. He writes that Huddleston said he was against conscription because it was against the fundamenta. principles of our constitu- tion; that he felt hesitancy in speak ing freely because he might be misun- | derstood and not appreciated. and ne might come under the cognizance of Reese Murray that were vital to the win | like saying. l This speech. MT Pettus said, was l made after the conscription act was a | law and while the country was at war. | Mir, Pettus quoted Mir Huddleston as 1 saying that he had voted for all the | administration war measures except
 the conscription act, the explosives act l and the espionage act, and said that 1 it would have been better had he voted | against all the others and for these l three acts that were vital to the win l ming of the war.
 ATTITUDE TOWARD BONDS | Referring to MT. Huddleston's speech
 in which he said he opposed saddling l a heavy tax on posterity, MT. Pettus I said, We are fighting this war for ] posterity.
 | "Huddleston has served notice on yoi l that he would vote against any further
 Liberty Boni issues. Secretary McAdoo l has announced that another Liberty Loan will be made next fall. and yet l Huddleston has already notified you that | he will vote against it. Are you going
 to vote in August to return him to Con. 1 gress after he has put you on notice 1 that he will not vote to raise the money needed to carry on the, war?
 I "Huddieston has pitched his campaign | on the lowest plane,' continued Ms. l Pettus. He is trying to array class 1 against class, to prejudice labor against capital at q time when all Americans l should be united in the defense of our 1 flag. Are you going to send back ,to I Congress this man who arrays clasi against class and who would divide as 1 in our war efforts?'
 Asserting that all socialists extrems
 pacifists anC pro-Germans in the dis