Williams news., 1918-10-18
HAyDENS RECORD WI1A- STANDS ENEMY ATTACKS

They tell us now CIlO WOIQ "camoufage" is not good French. By the time the Re publican State Central Commit tee is through with it's anony- nous newspaper advertise ments and National Security League attacks upon Congress man Carl Hayden, it undoubt- edly will be willing to admit that it is not even good politics.
 Few campaigns in the history of Arizona have developed a more dastardly attempt upon the name and fame of man than that lunched in an anony- mous advertisement attacking the voting record on war meas ures of Congressman Hayden, which recently appeared in cer- tain Arizona papers and in the form of posters.
 The advertisement referred to attacks the record of Con- gressman Hayden upon five out of six votes cast by him upon the following measures: The Kahn amendment; the Branda- gee amendment; section 56, providing for a volunteer army wholly under Federal control (against which by the way the First Arizona Regiment pro- tested) ; the motion to recom- init the naval appropriation bill, and the Kahn amendment to the conscription act. The only vote of the six cast by Con- gressman Hayden of which the advertisement approves is his vote for a declaration of war against Germany.
 The anonymous author of the advertisement refrains from referring to the fact that MT. Hayden voted against the in+ famous McLemore resolution which sought to restrain Amer ican citizens from their natural, legal, and constitutional right to travel upon the high seas ; nor does he refer to the further fact that Mir. Hayden voted against the equally infamous Cooper embargo amendment, which sought to prohibit Amer ican ships from exercising their legal right to carry arms or ammunition in their cargoes. Both of these measures are list ed by the Security League among the eight measurei deemed by it as an acid test ot loyalty, and it approves MT. Hayden's votes upon them. Why were they carefully eli minated from the advertise ment.
 The Kahn amendment, the Brandagee amendment, section 56, and the motion to recommi- the naval bill were all measures that were before congress over year before the United States entered the war. They were disposed of by congress over a year before war was declared, and they can no more be re- garded as test of MT Hayden's willingness to support the pre- sent war than Adams off-ox could be held responsible for the fall of man. None of them were administration measures advocated by President Wilson, and MT. Hayden in each in- stance voted with his party-and incidently with a large ma jority of congress in defeating them.
 The one measure that came before congress subsequent to our declaration of war upon which the vote of. MT. Hayden Is criticized by the advertise
 nent and by the Security Lea que, was the Kahn amendment to the conscription act. This amendment provided for strik. ing out the provision in the ori, glnal bill as drawn by the wal department which authorized the President to call for volun. teers. There were 59 Demo crats and 48 Republicans who voted against this amendment and President Wilson has since said that no member of con, gress who voted against ii could be blamed for doing so
 because it had always been the policy of the Government tc first call for volunteers. and an1 man might honestly hesitate about adopting so radical : change. After tho adon+;o,, oI