The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-20

the path of the German hordes at Chateau Thierry and made it possible for Foch to begin that wonderful coun- ter movement that crushed the Huns and secured for the entire world free- dom of thought and liberty of action)--
 During the war politics were adjourned; ;
 have you better claim upon our
 saHrage than your political alignment
 at that time? We want to know what
 you did to help us win the war.
 "Candidate-Wen, I bought Liberty Loan Bonds and subscribed to the Red Cross fund.
 Second Soldier-That is good. but
 whom did you vote to represent the Ninth congressional district of Ala
 bama? Did you support full-b1ooded
 American who stood by the President
 of tho American people, their com mander in chief under the constitution
 and, together with other American pa
 triots regardless of creed or political
 ties, comply with his request for rais- ing, and supplying an army and en- iarging navy so as to enable the Americans to become an effective army in the prosecution of the war?
 "Candidate-I voted for George Hud- dleston, who said he was patriot and showed it by volunteering to fight the Spaniards in the Cuban war and by buying Liberty Loan Bonds.
 II iSA tlOAulGI-ItIu not IRlS GGOT2e Huddleston represent this district in the Sixty-ffth Congress and did he not vote against the enlarged navy bill the draft bill, the espionage bill the explosive bill, the bill to increase the soldiers pay from s15 to $50 per month? Could we have won the war if a ma jority of Congress had voted as he did on these bills?
 "Candidate-An you say is true. The XIyni 6o1r Congress as a whole had not supported the commander in chief, but I did not like the way the Birmingham papers fought George and I thought we ought to re-elect George just to show those papers that they can't run things in J Jefferson county.
 Second Soldier-Then you voted for George to punish the newspapers and not because of any distinguished sery- ice he had rendered his country?
 Candidate--But, after George re- ceived the nomination in the democratic I was honor bound to support him. Third Soldier-Then you regard po- litical party ties superior to the duty you owe to your country?
 Candidate-His opponent was a re- publican and l could not desert my party and vote for a republican
 First Soldier-Did not this republic an publicly declare that he would sup port our American President in all his war measures and that he would not cast a partisan vote during kthe con of the war? And is not MT Thompson character as an honorable and truthful man above reproach? You can hardly claim that Woodrow Wilson is not a good democrat; yet, during the , war he looked for the best man to help win the war and asked for his active help in government affairs, without first aseertaining his previous party af- Citations
 AM Three Soldiers-If you had been with us on the battle lines in France. 1 you would realize what it meant to | the American soldier, and the safety | of the world, to have the whole hearted support of our people back of us from the start to the finish. If every dem ocratic congressman had opposed the President and voted as George voted, l 1t is not likely we should be now hay | ing this conversation, Our eyes would | be turned towards Berlin, not Wash 1 lngton.'