The sun., 1919-01-15
ATTACK ON MARCH
ANDPERSHING MADE
Gallivan Says Edwards Was
Shclved for Refusing to
Gust Guardsmen.
WIDE INQUIRY PROBABLE
political Suicide for Any
Party That Runs Pershing"-
House Applauds Onslaught.
Special DESPATCH TO TIE SUS

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.-In bitter and
sensational attack upon the War De-
partment and the FIRST attack on Gems
March and Pershing yet heard In Con-
Eres Representative James A. Gallivan
ItMass.). Democrat, to-day charged that
National Guard organizations and Ma
tional Guard commanders had been the
victims OF deliberate hostility and IL:
treatment at the hands OF Regular Army
officers.
He asserted that he could state on
authority that Major-Gen. Clarence Ed
wards. who was relieved OF the command
pf the Twenty-sixth or New England
Division last September, was returned to
ihs country because he would not par
1icipate in the systematic removal OF
National Guard commanders who had
proved their worth on the field Of battle.
Political Suicide to Run PershinE.
They got Clarence Edwards. but
he would not do their dirty work." said
Galllvan. He declared In effect that
political suicide faces the party that seeks
TO run Gen. Pershing for high elective
Office.
81 want TO say to the practical politi-
clans in Congress that / would not wish
my political enemy any more harm than
that he should select for high public
preferment one or two of the so-called
great Generals who are abroad and who
lave never seen n combat" he said. II
mention no names. have talked with
the boys, and there is not one OF them
who has either affection or respect for
the two or three that have in mind"
This statement followed Immediately
after an allusion to Gen Pershng and
his numerous and highly tailored stan
who from the inception have slept COM
fortably in Chaumont and Tours. The
warning was greeted with both laugh
Ter and applause.
Gallivan's demand for thorough in
Nestigation here and abroad by joint
select committee of Congress met n
sympathetic reception from crowded
floor In the face of what members OF
Congress know about the functioning OF
the War Department here and what
they have been told of heavy casualties
high mortality from disease. treatment
of sick and wounded and lack of ade
Quate arms and munitions in the Amer
,can armies abroad there is a strong
and insistent demand for a thorough
investigation into the conduct OF the
war
This demand is not so much for an
Immediate probe. There is strong dis
position to await the organization Of
the new Congress.
Among the New England members
the desire for such an investigation is
almost unanimous. even though all
members from this section do not accept
Pt their face value all the charges that
have been made as to the discrimination
against the Twenty-sixth Division.
Assaults Chief OF stan.
dsllivan's bald statement as to the
eauses behind Cen Edwards removal
raused the House to sit up with a gasp.
He was told to his face by a whipper
snapper chief Of staff Of the Twenty
sxth Division named Duncan L. Major,
w you don't get these National Guards
men we will get you." Gallvan told the
House.
when a certain distinguished mem
Der OF the other branch said the War
Department had failed to function. he
told the truth. and his direct attack on
The Department awoke the country and
the Department so that II began to func-
lion in part" said Gallivan.
''Thirty-seven thousand men left New
England in September. 1917. In Feb
tuary. 1918. they went into the trenches
ind on November / r. 1918, a shattered
remnant emerged from the trenches.
Five hundred and sixty boys OF my own
regiment. the 1l0th Infantry. formerly
the Ninth Massa chusetts. and of the
Firth Massachusetts, sleep their last
long sleep under the blood soaked fields
b France: $500 OF these boys returned
wounded. an arm off. leg off. an eye
put or gassed. And on November the
t'olonel of that regiment who had stood
with his boys from September. 1911
putl November l. 1918. shoulder to
shoulder with them in the trenches and
n the combat, Is relieved OF his regi-
hnent to make way for a dandy pet OF
fhe Leavenworth clique.
After declaring that II was a common
practice to relieve National Guard Off
rers he continued "They were all right
for months when the shells were shrek.
snx and the II. Els exploding Now
Mr.. Chairman. II there be any man who
doubts what I have said I am goine
20 ask at a later date that this entire
shing he Investigated by this body.
This announcement WAS greeted with
applause from both sides.
Fighting Captain Removed.
~ similar incident involves a soldier
~ my Congressional district" inter
rupted Representative Butler (Pennsyl
vaniap. Republican. The day before
HE armistice was signed they removed
been In continuous battle for fou
months as a Captain in an artiller!
regiment"
"One OF the finest men in Texas wal
removed under similar conditions. TIVE
splendid Colonies In Missouri were re
moved and Brigadier-G General from
Pennsylvania was removed under SINH
lar circumstances" Gallivan continued.
And then II you ask the Secretary o
War for an explanation you are told tina
he has nothing to do with II. that Ger
Pershing is in complete authority. ]
you ask the second time he gets peeved
hie does not like to be cross-examined.
And his Chief of staff Why I rea,
the other day with amused interest wha
Eongressmsn Madden said about tn
Chief OF Stan and his upstart aid. An
since then I have had a similar ex
periencr.
II asked when the division to whic
. have referred. which has been 4
France since September %. 1917, an
which Is now stranded in France. woul
be permitted to come back to the Unite
States Remember this division ha
been longer in France than any othe
with the single exception OF those troop
that went over with Pershins at III
Beginning OF our entrance into the cor
Dict.
The war strength OF a regiment
$3.50 men, and through this regimen
the 10th, $500 men passed betwee
February and November. 1918. And
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