The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-13
Issues Are Clearly Drawn Between President and Congressman, State the
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 asked me if had asked for police protection" said Frank Willis Barnett, as he stood up on the seat of an au- tomobile to speak. But told them had not as I felt sure there would be enough of my friends present to stuff pulled off by the bunch of Hud- dleston rooters' who, parrot like. shouted themselves hoarse crying
 Hurrah for George.'
 T am here this afternoon, first to show by loyalty to President Wilson, and second, to do my dead level best to beat George Huddleston, for do not believe man can be loyal to the for mer and support the latter, for when our great commander has spoken, we, as good soldiers, must fall in line behind him, and he did not hesitate to send the word that our present con- gressman was a hindere- rather than 8 helper.
 ISSUE CLEARLY DRAWN
 Now. friends, the issue has been clearly drawn between two men in high places. One is the President of the United States, and the world s greatest democrat, elected by the peo- pie to guide the nations destiny; the other is the representative in Congress from this district, who was sent there to speak for it. and to stand by the government and the party.
 Do not let any one lead you into by-paths and make you think that tEe election tomorrow is to settle the ques- tion as to whether they have been un- fair to George Huddleston or not. It is not to determine the fitness of F. w. Barrett to conduct The AgelHe aid; of Frank Glass to edit the News; or of Jim Smith to run the Ledger. The sole issue for you to settle is whether you will follow Woodrow Will son in this great war or will you fall in behind the present congressman and make him your representative for an- other term.
 BOW-LEGGED MEN
 'The dividing line is so plain that I do not see how any man can mistake the cleavage unless they have been hoodwinked, but this campaign has brought out the fact that the county is filled with bow-legged men, who are trying to plant their right foot on the Wilson platform and their left one on Georges. It is hard to see how any man of sense and standing will attempt the impossible feat, and yet by curi- ous inconsistency. quite a few have placed themselves, to say the least, in an uncomfortable position. before. the loyal citizens of the community who believe that when Wilson speaks in times of war he ought to be fol- lowed e
 Tt is inconceivable to me after read. ing the speeches of George Huddleston against four of the vital admfhistra- tion bills: conscription, espionage, ex- plosives and the Notation of Liberty Bonds, how any one can still believe that he is in accord with the govern mental policies; but when on the top of it, President Wilson, man who is fair and square, and who would not willingly do any man a wrong, comes out and. says. knowing full wen tie of the use of words and the effect of his utterances that T think l am Justified in saying that Mr. Hud- dleston's record proves him in every way an opponent of the adininistra. tion, he does not leave any loophole whatever for argument9
 DUG HIS OWN PIT
 Yet George Huddleston is .pained that the President should have cIassed him. as 'unfriendly when he dug his own pit by putting obstacles in the way of the Presidents war policies. can see how he is embarrassed, but do not see how he can complain that the President has misjudged him or gone out of his way to say an unkind word on the eve on the election It may be -mortifying to have such an indict- r1ent from so just and cleai-headed "a leader. but the great chief did not go out of the record to make out his case against his opposition to the admin istration.
 Jefferson county is facing the most important election it has ever faced for we are in the midst of a great war and we must send to Washington a foo Der cent American. who will stand wholel neartedly behind President Wilson, and not man who is suffering under the 1elusicn that his gray matter is superior 70 that of Woodrow Wilson and must iiffer with him on measures which are I vital to the winning of the war I had rather have a rubber stamp congress- man., the kind George says he is not. han to have the Huddlestonian variety who is obsessed with the vagary that ne is wiser than his party
 WITHOUT SOCIALISM
 America is fighting, not merely to pre- serve its own freedom, but to make de- nocracy safe for the world, and, there fore, in this fight we need as our rep 'esentative man who is democrat without any suspicion of socialism or any others mixture of dangerous and untried sms. This is no time to try out experi- nents in America, coming by the way of iermany Or Russia. We ought to set our lace as flint against socialism, syndi- salisnn. sabotage and bolshevikism.
 MT. Burruss in his introduction Of ne was kind enough to say that I'had