The courier-index., 1920-06-11
CaralO0y Raps Kirby
 For Race Attitude

ed States senatorial nomination il the August Democratic primar!
 against Senator W. F. Kirby, Sat urday afternoon addressed a large
 audience here, replying for the frs
 time in detail to Senator Kirby
 charges of misrepresentation of hi war record by MT. Caraway.
 The speech, which was enthusiast
 ically received by an audience al
 most equally composed of town ano country folk, strongly reiterated the charges originally made against Sen ator Kirby's war record, and went further into details relative to MT
 Kirby's alleged disloyalty to the president at the outbreak of tho trouble with Germany. MT. Cara way frequently read from the Con gressional record in support of his Charges, showing what Senator Kirby had said or how he had voted on war measures proposed by Presi- dent Wilson.
 Senator Kirby's votes against the armed neutrality bill, against the seIective draft act, against the war control of the president and other official acts which brought denun- citation from the president against "a little group of wilful men rep resenting no opinion but their own, '' were denounced by MT. Caraway. who expressed surprise that MT. kir- by should deny his antagonism to l the president.
 MT. Caraway charged Senator Kirby with publishing commenda- l tion of his own war record as an advertisement in the centennial edi- ton of the Arkansas Gazette and then having it published in the Con- gressional Record as the sentiment of the Gazette, and franked out over the state as piece of campaign lit erature paid for by the United States government.
 Taking up the letter Senator Kir- by received from Secretary Baker on May 9, 1920, commenting his support of the War Department and declaring that Senator Kirby was always sympathetic with him (Sec- retary Baker) and always supported him." Mir. Caraway declared that he was glad to say "this could not be truthfully said of me or of any southern representative in Congress except Senator Kirby"
 "In some things" MT. Caraway said, q neither sympathize with nor support the secretary at all, nor did the other southern congressman. neither sympathized with him nor supported him when, at the begin ming of the war, he sought by all the prestige of his high office to have Congress grant authority to compel white boys, your sons, to serve with negroes"
 ''The secretary did not have my sympathy nor support, nor that of any other representative from the south excepting Kirby. when he had courtmartialed here at Camp Pike and dishonorably discharged from the army, Capt. Roane, a man of high character, gentleman of Mis- sissippi, of splendid family, simply because he would not compel his company of white boys, neighbors and friends of his, to serve with lot of negroes in the same com pany. I resented that action, and resent it now; so did every con gressman and senator from the south, except Senator Kirby"
 MT. Caraway declared that Sec retary Baker had not had his, sympa- thy or support, or that of any other southerner except MT. Kirby, when he drove General Ansell of North Carolina, out of the army simply because he protested against the cruelties and outrages imposed by officers on enlisted men through the court-martial system"
 'Neither did the secretary of war have my sympathy nor support when he broke his pledged word to the mothers of this land to bring home from France the bodies of those | half hundred thousand boys who I laid down their lives to make this safe world in which the secretary and the senator might live. l am sure however, that he had the sym pathy and support of the senator in this or he would not have said so."
 May I ask who authorized Secre- tary Baker to inform the people of Arkansas, southern people, whose | institutions he does not understand and whose sympathies he never shar- ed, what attitude they should take toward Senator Kirby.
 'I know that when Secretary Ba- ker wrote this letter 'whitewashing Senator Kirby, he did not know how Senator Kirby had voted on any, or but few at least, of the important war measures.
 He did not know that Kirby voted against the selective draft act.
 ''He did not know that Kirby had stood by sympathetically when Sen ator La Toilette tried to prevent by his substitute, the raising of an army in this country.
 He did not known that Kirby had supported the Owen substitute for the Weeks resolution, which sought to take the conduct of the war out of the hand of the president.
 He did not know that Kirby had voted to dismiss charges against Senator LaFollette.
 He did not know that Kirby had helped to destroy the league of na- tions.