The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-03

district of Alabama did not record the
 will of the democratic party. As l un-
 derstand there were trades made which
 brought about the result of nominat-
 ing this man out of accord with his
 party Some wonder why you can con-
 sistently vote for a republican. nou-
 fled the convention which nomina ted
 me, and in my first address to the
 voters of this district after I was nom
 mated, I plainly set out that I world not make this fight on partisan plat form. I nave said repeatedly and I re- fterate that no one will be able to known. from my acts whether I am a 1 democrat or a republican until the war is over. I consider the war issue para mount to all other issues. It is the all absorbing issue of the hour. If you do not so consider it. feel sorry for you, i because you will so consider it before we have gone much further in this
 l awful business in which we are en-
 gaged. There is another reason why 1 democrats may feel justified in voting 1 for a republican at this time. There were quite>a number of republicans, as 1 I found out to my amazeemnt, who | went into the democratic primary to ] help Huddleston, and they voted for i him, thereby helping to defeat the will | of the democratic party. A great num- | per or SOclaHSJS ulu eln6 same tnlnE, and those socialists are standing for
 him to a man. and will continue to do [ so. I have no hopes, I do not expect, ! I do not want single disloyalist vote. 1 I direct my address to the serious
 and thoughtful minded people of the 1 district at the conclusion of my cam l paign, as I addressed you in the be- l ginning, for 1t is to you to whom tho balance of the nation is looking for l cooperation in the closing of the war and for the reconstruction that is to | follow by removing from his seat in | Congress 8 man whom l do not chars 1 as being pro-German, but whom do 1 charge with casting pro-German votes. 1 do not charge that he has been in- l fluenced or controlled by German l money. and that he is one of the con- | gressmen referred to by his colleague 1 Congressman Heflin as one of the IA l who did take German money, but I do I charge that if he had taken German I money he could not have acted any more in accord with Germany's desires 1 and Germany's purposes as represen- l tative in Congress during the period | we have been at war with Germany 1 than he has acted, nor has any man 1 who did take German money acted
 | more in accord with them than the man accredited to the Ninth congress sional district of Alabama did act I 1 uO not charge that Ne IS U GSrnanlZeQ | socialist, but I do charge that if he had been Germanized he could not 1 have heartened the pro-German ele- | ment in this district any more by a | brief utterance than did his speech be l fore the last meeting of the bar asso- l citation which he addressed. I do not l charge that German influence caused ! MT. Huddleston to dodge the man power bill, but I do charge that his absence at such time, in view of his former record on the war, would in- dicate that he had not reformed since the primary, and that he has so little moral sense of duty and so little re- 1 gard for the interest of the nation as l to warrant the conclusion that he is d patriotic pervert, when his acts, votes l and speeches are consideded in con- 1 nection with each other. l charge that | his own utterances. unguardedly made, l to a Birmin gham News reporter on his return to Birmingham to enter his | campaign several weeks ago condemn
 him as unworthy of the support of any thoughtful man in the Birm1ng ham district. He said in substance, "He Is Nnot needed in his seat" This is utterly i true, for he Is not needed because he 1 knows his character on the war is 50 ! well established he can do no harm; he can do no good The great harm to come from his election is the reflection upon the people of this district who | would be put in the attitude by his election of indorsing man of his views and affiliations. I charge tha;
 not within the history of the politics
 of Alabama no man occupying as high
 a political position has done as much
 to stir up class hatred for no other
 reason than that he hopes to gain
 political aggrandizement, than ha: