Bisbee daily review., 1920-02-13
SAYS SEX-SERVICE MEN WANT WOOD
 FOR PRESIDENT
Soldiers Did Not Think of Politics at Brest and Will
 Hang Together

will stand behind candidates who served in the army or navy during
 the great war. declared John Nick, Redmond of Lowell. who has written to Albert M. Sames of Douglas. chair
 man of the Republican state central
 commntee, indorsing the candidacy of General Leonard Wood for the nomi- nation as president on the RepubIi- can ticket. Redmond served over- seas with the engineering force and takes issue, by inference, with w. w.
 Windham, who, several days ago. de-
 clared in a letter to Mir. Sames,' that
 the enlisted personnel of the late
 army would never support an offer
 for the highest position in the land.
 Here is Redmond's letter:
 Hon. Albert M. Sames,
 Douglas, Arizona.
 My Dear Mr. Sames:
 The subject of the nomination of General Leonard Wood for president
 by the Republican national conven- ton, gives me an opportunity to ex- press to you the sentiment, as I found II, among members of the American ExDeditionary Forces in France.
 You being selected as a delegate rom the state of Arizona to the Re- publican national convention, I feel that an injustice is being done when you are informed that 100 per cent of the soldiers stationed at Brest. trence, were opposed to a military man being elected president of the United States.
 l was also one of the lucky ones to be ordered to Brest to permanent duty after the armistice While not stationed in the city of Brest if was my good fortune to draw a billet at Camp Pontanezen which place we are all familiar with If one is to draw conclusions from what the few soldiers who were on permanent duty at Brest thought, it is not giving the others a fair shake Often have I walked along the high walled harbo,. front at BreSt and if a vote were to have been taken of the soldiers who were found along this front, l must confess that not many votes would be counted in favor of anything that smacked of military flavor. There was the one general question on all lips, Why were not some of us sent home?' And Judge, if you think it didn't hurt to look out into the har- Dor and see many battleships and transports riding at anchor and the only excuse we could get was that there are no transports available There was one ship in that harbor which caused the men to do more thinking than the administration knew about. Day after day. week aft CT week, we had this ship continually before us. This transport, the George Washington. was held at cost of about $16,000 per day for period which he'd she been in the transport service and been used to ship troops home, she would have made some 14,000 men happy by land ing them in the United States. These things together with the mud. rain and restrictions left mans mind in excellent condition to think about voting for military man for presi- dent
 Such a change has taken place since we returned to Gods Country" There are three words that cover the | whole operation, "Deloused, Demob- | ilized, Delighted" There you are and We are once more in civies. I am very sure that 90 per cent of our great army did not give politics one thought for the first sixty days after | being out of the service. We were | too busy stretching our legs under l mothers table.
 When the soldier did begin to think | of politics. it was with one thought one aim. To stand solid behind any | ex-service candidates and to see | that they won the fight. Records of | elections that have been held since We returned home prove that not only | the service men are standing togeth- l CT but majority of those who were | not in the service are backing eX- service candidates and I say that | be it the highest office in the land | down to the precinct offices that the soldiers will stick together I can not but feel that the Republican party will win thousands of eX-service Democratic votes by nominating Gen eral Wood. It is a sure bet that all | eX-service- votes will be [ recorded on his side and with the stick-together spirit that now pre- vails and is growing stronger every day there is no doubt in my mind but what the Republican victory will show that the returned soldiers still stick to his Buddy" even though it be to elect him to the highest office in the land.
 In closing Judge, may I say that l had the pleasure of delousing some million men and as it takes. much longer time to perform this relief to men" than it does to. check a sol