Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-07-24

WASM ARMY
Davenport Replies To
Statement Made
By Hardin
TO H HERALD:


Sundays Herald reporting debate
betweeh Judge II. l.. Yates and Sio
Hardin at Rio Hondo. quotes Hardin
as saying, in reply TO Judge rates
suggestion that Hardin showed no
such oburning desire to serve his
country in l9lT-191s as he now pro-
fesses, IL served in the same army
that Judge Yates did, and that john
Gamers son who is my age did.
Judge Yates adds that Hardin tnen
admitted that he himself had no war
record other than classification IN
classes two and four for the aralt'
These statements amount 10 a charge
that John Gamers son, OF military
age, as was Hardin, likewise had no
war record.
John N. Garner has only one SON.
Tully G. Garner, and Tully Z. Gar
ner's service record is before me as
l write. Two weeks prior 70 OUT
entry into the Great War, IN april
1918, Tully G. Garner, then twenty
years Of age, and who had had some
military training, wrote TO the presl-
dent Of the United States, enclosing
his credentials, and offering ms ser
vices wherever they might prove most
uSc1ui TO MS country - th -
Mr.. j.. p. Tumulty, President VIII
sons private secretary, replled;
April 9Th, 1917
Ny dear Mr.. Garner:
The president directs me TO ae-
knowledge the receipt OF your let
ter of even date, with enclosures
and TO thank you for your patriotlc
offer of your services. Your letter
is being brought 70 the tentio q
the secretary Of war.
Sincerely yours,
j. r. Tumulty,
Secretary to the President.
Mr.. T. q. Garner,
Washington, ID. G.
A few days later, that IS, within q
week or SO after war was declared
Tully c. Garner was ordered by the
adjutant general Of the army to re-
port for examination for a commls-
sion as provisional second lieutenant
in the regular army. This m
ton he passed in due course, but as
a minor could not then be commls-
stoned as an officer in the regular
army, and had 10 wait until his
~wenty-first birthday, September
m - 1917, for his commission.
Ter this commission he served
$3.50, bout the period Of hostilities,
vnact until September lst, 1919, when
Under the provisions Of the law rel
alive to provisional second lieuten-
ants in the regular army, he stood his
second examination required under
that law, and was duly commissioned
by the president OF the United States
as lieutenant Of infantry in the Unit
ed States army. to rank as such from
the cath day Of September, 1917, the
date of his provisional commission.
Nineteen DAYS later. and at the end
OF two years of service, he resigned
from the regular army, and his res
ignation was accepted by a special
order from the war department, dated
September 10Th, 1919. He is now q
rising young banker Of Uvalde, n
Of the finest, ~cleanest and most hon
orable young men in the fifteenth
congressional district, and a past post
commander Of the Uvalde post Of the
American Legion.
This utterly needless misrepre-
sentation Of the honorable recora Of
a private citizen who served his coun-
try to the best Of his ability in time
Of need, in the days before Sid
Hardin's desire TO serve his country
began 70 burn, is characteristic Of the
characteristic of the character Of
campaign that is being waged by Sid
Hardin and his paid cohorts. Moth
ing more needs to be said han con
slider the source"
Harbert Davenport.
Brownsville, Tex.
July %, 1928.