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Show WESTERN SOLONS TO BACK CHAMBERLAIN ' (Chicaffo Tribune Special Service.) ! WASHINGTON. D. C, July 20. Sena-1 Sena-1 tor George P. Chamberlain of Oregon will have the backing of a group of western Democratic senators as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the presidency. presi-dency. This has been announced here by Senator King of Utah, and, while the Chamberlain candidacy is not for- ! mally launched, -it ia expected it will be. I Senator Chamberlain, as chairman of j the senate military affairs committee, i openly and persistently antagonized many of the administration policies in the war. ! He was an open critic of both the presi- i dent and Secretary Baker, and was one ! of the men in congress who declared against existing army court martial methods. . Senator Chamberlain's friends say he has pursued too independent and courageous coura-geous a course to be forgiven by the administration ad-ministration and his candidacy is expected ex-pected to encounter the White House hostility from the beginning. |