The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-09
UNDERWOOD HAS B|G ADVANTAGE OVER CANDIDATES R. H. Leinad Gives Some New Facts Regarding Wilson and Harmon CHALLENGES ANYONE TO DISPROVE THEM Wilson Has Disrupted Party in His State and Harmon Could Not
 Make Headway Against
 Taft

To the Editor of The Age-Herald: Enclosed please find article favor- ing the Hon. oscar Underwood for the presidency.
 The facts are all capable of proof, and no one can successfully deny them. I am a Virginian, but favor MT. Un- derwodo, a great man that as yet l
 have never met. Yours,
 R. H. LEINAD. Birmingham, November 8, 1911.
 To the Editor of The Age-Herald: I want to say that I cannot recall two men who have ever been chair man of the ways and means committee of Congress that were so much alike as Major Mckinley, afterward elected
 President, and the Hon. oscar Under wood.
 Both delightful and companionable in public and private Iife-both known
 as painstaking legislators and as pro found students of taxation. Neither was in the limelight of pub 1 lie attention until as chairmen of the
 most important committee of Congress, | they succeeded in welding the factions | in their party together. When placed in the most arduous and trying posi- | ton in Congress both were found to be far above the ordinary. We believe | the parallel will continue, as we have l no doubt that MT. Underwood will be
 nominated by his party for the pres
 idency and triumphantly elected. The younger generation of public men have so long been accustomed to look to the north for national lead CTS that they seem slow to grasp the great changes that time, environment and opportunity have wrought-for getting that today we are all Amer jeans and that the bloody shirt was only waived at rebel brigadiers." They seem to forget that Gen. F'itzhugh Lee and Gen. Joseph Wheeler aided great ly in stamping out the last vestige of sectionalism. They seem to forget that in the north there is a real desire to extend the fraterpal hand to the southland, and that spirit of fairness pervades the breast of the great and good, and the call for southern man | has come from the north, by virtue of | the desire to show the south that they of the colder cline can be as generous
 as we.
 Were Leading Candidates l Until recently pr. Wilson of New Jersey and Judge Harmon of Ohio both governors of their states-were | looked upon as the leading candidates | for the democratic nomination for the presidency. Their promoters, their press bureaus were constantly telling the people stories that read like fairy
 tales of their availability and of the
 great things they had done. Of Governor Harmon it was said: three terms; that a man that could
 wrest Ohio from the republican leaders
 must be a great man." They forgot to tell us that a factional fight had weakened the cohesiveness of the re-
 publican party in Ohio, just as it does everywhere, and that each faction was bent on downing the other. They also forgot to tell us that Governor liar
 mons great personal popularity failed when Judge Taft was the candidate of the republican party for the presidency. They fail to give us the figures Of the vote cast in the several state cleo tions and to compare them with the vote in national elections. There is not an intelligent politician that is un- biased or unprejudiced that would haz- ard a prediction that Governor Har- mon could defeat President Taft ill Ohio if both were presidential candi- dates.
 Point To His Work | The friends of Governor Wilson point with pride to the fact that New Jersey went democratic when Doctor Wilson was the candidate for governor of New Jersey. Governor Harmon's friends based | their claims for availability of their man
 on his being elected three times gov eruor of Ohio, and as the doctors friends could not present such a record, they pointed with pride" to his having been 1 Iresident of the University of Prince | ton, N. J., to the fact that he was a profound scholar and writer of text books, and that he had smashed the | ring in New Jersey. The friends of | Governor Wilson forget to- tell us that other states where the doctors light did rot shine, went democratic also. Every | thing that is or was, that seems good i! o, great, is claimed to be the work of l these modern Goliaths. The man behind | the guns," the conscientious tax ridden | voter is ignored by the worthies and their | friends.
 | The promoters of Governor Wilson's | boom tell us that "he compelled the. | legislature of New Jersey to do his bid. | dins." Inferentally, the state that nas | produced Stockton and Freelynhysens | was entirely devoid of good democrats until the learned governor came forward and taught them, saying, Blessed is he that voteth for me, etc.
 What Are the Facts? | Now let us ascertain the facts. We are al, anxious to have nominated the | best and strongest man, the most avail able man and if Harmon or Wilson is stronger, more available than any one | else, we should lay aside all personal i feelings and do all that we can do for
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