The sun., 1918-10-22
TANNER Is AGAINST
KITCHIN AND DENT
Republican Candidate for Con-
press In 18th Asks Pell
How He Stands.
URGES RIVAL TO SPEAK
Points Out New York City Has
Vital Interest in 0usting
Two Chairmen.

IT am against Kitchin and Dent: are
your" In substance this is the embar-
raising question put yesterday to Her
bert c. Peli. the Democratic capdidate
for Congress in the Seventeenth district.
by Frederick c. Tanner. his Republican
opponent
Mr.. Tanner said he would pledge him
self to vote against any organization OF
tho House OF Representatives that would
continue Representative Kitchin as
chairman Of the Ways and Means Com
mittee and Representative Dent as
chairman of the Committee on Military
Affairs. He asked Mr.. Pell IL he would
make a like pledge.
sends Letter to Pell.
The query was made in the form OF
personal letter TO the Democratic candi-
date. In part It said:
New York city has vital interest In
the organization Of the House OF Rep
resentatives. Our district has furnished
its full qouta OF men, and pays probably
more taxes and has purchased more
| bonds than any other three districts IN
the United States combined. Two COM
mittees of the House are particularly
| important to New York: The Committee
| on Ways and Means, which frames tho
measures for taxation. and the Commit
| tee on Military Affairs, which provides
| for the soldiers
THE Democratic party has permitted
Mr.. Claude Kitchin of North Carolina
| and Mr.. S. Hubert Dent. Jr., OF Alabama
| to remain chairmen Of these committees
since We entered the war. In spite or
their long record OF unpatriotic and OBJ
| structive acts.
mfr. Kitchin voted against the decla-
ration of state OF war, against the
selective draft and repeatedly against
measures 10 increase the army and
navy. In addition he has shown
himself unable to cope with business
and financial questions on large scale.
| Mr.. Dent, although his committee
was charged with the prime duty OF
raising an army. voted against the Sc
lective draft law, the only means Of
raising an army effectively and with
justice. He even voted repeatedly
against Increasing the army and navy
under the old system.
New York City Against Kitchin.
New York city Is willing to bear its
full share Of taxation, but 1t objects tc
a chairman who raises the issue Of sec.
tionalism. and who displays more vigor
in Furnishing some people and some
parts OF our own country through the
power OF taxation than he does In
carrying on the war New York city
demands for the chairman Of the Com.
mittee on Military Affairs n man who
supports war measures and who can be
relied on to oppose an inconclusive peace
which would mako our sacrifice a vair
thing
81 am opposed 10 the continuance. as
chairmen OF the Committee on Ways and
Means, and on Military Affairs. respect.
lively. o. Mr.. Kitchin and Mr.. Dent
pledge myself at the earliest possible
moment to vote against any candidate
for Speaker. or any organization OF the
House, that will make possible their re.
tention as chalrmen OF those commit.
tees or TO put men like them OF any
party in these vital places.
will you make a like pledge?
The answer TO this question Is the
acid test as TO whether a candidate will
really throw all political consideration.
aside IN driving this war to the qulckes,