The daily Alaska citizen., 1918-10-31

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opposed him and who have not been subjected to the White House bom bardment that fell upon Vardaman HardwiCk and McLemore, makes the following comment:
 The list of Democratic leaders who not only have not led in the fight for the administration de mands but who actually have op posed those demands is a formidable one and includes the following whC have at one time or another, or al all times, opposed the administration
 Champ Clark, Democratic speak CT of the house of representatives was the vigorous opponent of the draft law. He left the speakers chair and made a bitter speech de nouncing COnsCription and asserting that a conscript soldier was on the same basis as a convict
 Claude kitchin, Democratic leader in the house, chairman of the ways and means committee, who voted against the declaration of war against the Kahn conscription amend ment for the Mckenzie amendment and who has been quarreIing almost continuously with Secretary McAdoo about the war tax program, It might be added that MT Kitchin also voted for the amendment not 10 draft be. low twenty-One, without which an army could not be raised
 Chairman Webb. of the important judiciary committee of the house, who did not vote on the war resolu, ton, who voted for the Mckenzie amendment and who also voted to make the minimum draft age twen- ty-One.
 Sherwood, representative from Ohio, chairman of the invalid pen sions committee, who voted against war, against conscriptiOn and for the Mckenzie amendment
 Frank Clark, of Florida, chair man of the pork barrel public build ings and grounds committee, who voted against COnsCription, for the Mckenzie amendment and who tried to put an Odium on the draft men by offering an amendment to the draft bill allowing a period of time for young men to volunteer before being drafted.
 Dent, chairman of the house mili- taly committee, who has consistent ly opposed almost every proposal of the war department and who is persona non grata 10 the military au- thorities because of his work on mili- tary bills,
 Representative Fields, of Ken lucky; Gordon, of Ohio; Shallenberg- CT, of Nebraska, and Nichols, of South Carolina, who have teamed with Chairman Dent in opposing the demands of the war department and
  for the Mckenzie amendment
 Ben Johnson, of Kentucky, chair man of the important committee on the District of Columbia, who op- posed the Kahn draft amendment and was for the Dent motion to recommit the man-power bill, equivalent to the Mckenzie amendment
 "Finis Garrett, of Tennessee, mem Der of the rules committee and a sort of Democratic whip of the house, who opposed the Kahn amendment and who voted for the Den motion to recommit the man-power Dill
 Moon, of Tennessee, chairman of the poStottice committee, who did not vote on the Kahn amendment and who voted for the Dent motion to re commit the man-power bill
 "Peu, of North Carolina, chairman of the rules committee, second most important in the house, who voted against the Kahn amendment and for the Dent motion to recommit.
 Representatives Rainey, of Hi. nois, and Hull, of Tennessee, promi- nent members of the ways and means committee, who voted for the Dent motion. MT Hull also voted against conscription
 Small, of North Carolina, chair man of the rivers and harbors com mittee, who voted for the Dent mo- tion.
 "Heflin, of Alabama, the appoint ed spokesman of the administration Co hear him tell iD, voted for the Dent motion.
 There are many other Democrats in the house who have been out of line with the administration, but only the names of the leaders are given in this resume. There are hardly a half dozen chairmen of important committees in the whole house who have supported the administration consistently. This record of course, disproves the campaign theory of the I),lm0nr1TC that if iS n