The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1919-01-16

Two Colonies Alleged Victims
Of The System"
CONGRESS- HRS TROUBLE
Ga!Iivsn. of Ma-S2 -',,isetts, Makes Hot
Attack on Secretary B-<cn, General
March and General Pershing.

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 16'rolonel Mil
lard ID. Brown and Colonel George y.
Kemp are declared by returning ma
tional guard officers To have been
victims of the regular army system
which worked in France to deprive
national guard officers of positions of
command.
= Reports reaching This city pufport-
ing to describe WHAT happened t" these
TWO officers to cause their transfer
from command of their regiments,
would seem 10 indicate the existence
Of Il regular army cabal directed
against s.lardSmen.
colonel browns comment, When
asked about the reports, was:
"Nh>n the truth comes out. as 1t
inevitably will, as To the treatment
accorded Colonel Kemp and myself,
together with other national guard
officers in France, the people "i
America will be painfully surprised
believe, 10 say the least.
Colonel Brown took the 1O!nh In
fantry to France and commanded 1t
through its early action in the 'lE-
sons-Rheims pocket. He was reliev-
ed about the time the regiment was
Oh the Ourcq river. He returned to
this country and resigned from the
army. after serving for 4 short time
as adiutant to the commander of a
port of debarkation in France. The
1Oefh was composed of the former
first infantry. of Philadelphia, and the
thirteenth, of Ser m and vicinity.
Colonel Kemp took the 10th in
fantry to France and commanded it
but a little longer than Colonel Brown
led the 1OGth. He was transferred
to an interior training camp and at
last reports was commanding a camp
at a French port The 10th was COM
posed of the former third infantry,
of Philadelphia, and the tenth. of the
southwestern part of the state.
The tale of what happened to these
two colonelS as related by returned
officers. came to light in connection
with the angry discussion in the house
at Washington. when Representative
Gallivan, of Massa chuSetts, charged
that regular army clique worked to
sidetrack national guard officers, and
other congressman. including Thomas
s. Butler. Of West Chester, Pa. sup
ported him. Gallivan's hot attack
upon Secretary Baker. General March,
chief Of staff. and General Pershing
was the more impressive because he
is a Democrat who supported the adj
ministrationa warmly heretofore.
Congressman Gallivan, in his speech
in the house said that among the many
national guard officers who had gal
lantly and brilliantly led their troops
in hattie, many of them almost until
the end OF hostilities, and then been
transferred or sent home. was a
brfgadier general from Pennsylvania.
Colonel Brown was deeply inter-
ested in Congressman Gallivan's
charge about the treatment of Major
General Clarence Edwards, who COM
manded the twenty-sixth Yankee)
division Of New England national
guard. The congressman said that
Major Duncan Q. Major, regular army
chief of staff to General Edwards. had
told the general: eff you don't get
these national guardsmen, We'll get
you," and that General Edwards had
been ordered home rather than "do
the dirty work of the Leavenworth
clique"
During Mr.. Gallivan's speech, Con-
gresham Butler interrupted to say he
knew Of a Pennsylvania captain who
had been similarly treated by the
army authorities. A considerable
number of officers Of that rank and
others higher and lower have been de-
tached from the Pennsylvania division
and sent home without public explana-
ton, many of them having been men,
toned repeatedly in dispatches for
signal gallantry in action.
Mr.. Gallivan referred scathingly to
Secretary Bakers tailored pets" to
''the brave and handsome chief Of
staff to certain army officers whom
he named, including Major Duncan
Major, as "whippersnappers," and said
most of the men he referred to did
not know the difference between rs
shell and a "dud." When reference
was made to General Pershing, Mr..
Gallivan spoke of General Pershing
and his highly-tailored staff which,
from the inception of the war, slept
comfortably in Chaumont and Tours"