Show pa r- r PS r F ra I i Loyalty in ii Alabama 1 S TIR the protest of or President nt Wilson the Alabama Democratic primaries have George i f the representative from the ninth district l is not to 10 be complimented on on the action for rOl f d S there is an open question concerning the loyally loyalty of Rep Rep- Huddleston 1 l Commenting on his record the York Su Sun says tays S'S S 'S In Ill the Sixty-fourth Sixty Congress Huddleston voted S 5 against the Kahn amendment to the Hay army bill 5 which sought to bring the array army up to the thc recommendations n- n made by the general staff against an nn increase in inU S U lITe naval na appropriation and ana for forth the Cooper amendment to American an ships their was wm designed to prohibit legal al right to earr carry arms or ammunition in their cargoes S In In the present Congress Huddleston voted against ilg the th j 2 Kahn Iahn amendment to the conscription act an a amendment which bich provided for raising by draft the array army necessary to to give ic effect to the declaration of war warY warY'S S S With this record in the thc foreground the loyal lo nl citizenship citizen citizen- ship hip of Alabama must have Im some misgivings in s concerning I the of or n The rhe situation which luis lias arisen in Alabama makes makes' an issue of loy loyalty loyally but hut it it also reveals a n. serious weakness in the message which e lent Wilson Vilson issued suea in opposition t to the thc candidacy lIe He saul said S SI w- w I do 10 not feel at liberty to make any discrimination liol between h candidates equally loyal but hut I 1 tl think I am Justified Justi fled fied in toying song that Mr fr rr IJ ton tons ton's 5 record proves prO I him i As in every wa way an tm opp opponent nt of the a administration ministration J J. J u X Nu loul donl man many of Ol the voters regarded c this note as 4 political Apolitical interference unbecoming t the he chief executive tire Pl President Wilson could have lu served ser the nation better if hG hn had made it plain lInin that he lie was Ug que questioning Hu Huddle Huddle- fon's s-fon's ons on's loyalty to the nation and not his loyalty to the administration Notwithstanding ot the fact that the two nrc closely related there is a difference bet between I them X A congressman con may not I ot give gc g c himself completely to tu t tho Oo administration and still remain He lie h how how- wI w- w I cannot openly oppose those things which mean our ourI I success or or rail failure in war without i inviting the enmity o of or t tho entire c hrc nation nahon regardless of or his Ins party affiliations 3 nJ he e message to Alabama would have hn been clearer dearer and would have o accomplished greater results if President I Wilson made his plea pica in behalf of or tic the country instead in in- stead stend of the party pirty of which ho lie it is tho the recognized die 1 lator |