The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1911-08-20
Ticket with the Ohio Gov
ernor for President, and
Underwood for Vice Presi-
dent Is Discussed.
BOTH MEN FAVORED
BY CONSERVATIVES
Would Receive Support of
Members of Party Who
Are Ril frly Opposed to
WIZ Innings Bryan.
BY JONATHAN WINFIELD.

BY JONATHAN WINFIELD.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.-For Pres
ident, Judson Harmon. of Ohio. For
Vice President, Oscar w. Underwood,
of Alabama.
This is the ticket that some Demo
Gratis of the House are talking of now,
since Representative Underwoods
scathing rebuke Of William Jennings
Bryan recently. cheered to the echo
by the House Democracy.
There are some Underwood supper
ters so enthusiastic that they have
started an Underwood boom for Pres
ident, but the Alaba milan, now chair
man of the Ways and Means Commit
tee of the House. 1nodestly waves as
ide all references to himself. In the
first place it would be embarrassing
for RepresentativeSUnd to op-
pose Speaker Champ Clark at this
time. In the second place, he is now
mainly concerned with the duties en-
cumbent upon him as the chief tariff
maker of the House.
Conservative Ticket.
The Harmon Underwood propogan-
da Is assuming shape. and there are
many Democrats who believe that the
lticket would be invincible. Both Har-
mon and Underwood belong to what
may be termed the conservative wing
,of the party. They would receive the
vote OF men who would never support
pa ticket which included William Jen.
nings Bryan, and nerhays Governor
|Evesodr6w Wilson of New Jersey Tne
latter is termed progressive, but
there are some Democrats who think
that the New Jersey governor is toe
progressive, and that he would fail oi
the support of the conservative wing
of the party.
The Underwood rebuke' of William
Jennings Bryan is thought to have
gone long way toward eliminating
that three-times candidate from the
field of possibilities for the campaign
of 1912. The manner in which the for
mer idol of the Democracy was de
throned in the House during the I'm
derwood speech is regarded as one Of
the most significant political events
of recent years.
The House membership has always
been divided as to Bryan. The Nebras
ka leader has had his staunch supper
ters, like Representative James OF
Kentucky, and Representative Kitch
in, of North Carolina On the Other
, hand he has bitter POLITICAL opponents
in the House, notably Representative
Frank Clark, of Florida, who has in
sisted all along, of recent years, tha
it was time for the Democracy to teal
itself loose from the influence ant
domination of the oft-defeated leader
Defeated in Caucus.
A good portion of the House, mem
bership stood by Bryan when he de
manded that the Ways and Mean.
committee should put raw wool on the
free list in it's revision, of schedule K
The Bryan and anti-Bryan went into
1.-THE Democratic caucus and the lattel
won out. Representative Underwood
land his faction had their way. and
; twenty per cent ad valorem duty wa!
| levied on raw wool under the terms O
the House bill.
Bryan accepted this defeat graceful
ly. although he came out in an edi
torial in his paner declaring that thu
Democratic party had been delivered
unto the enemy. and that it wa,
marching to defeat under the flag O
protection. The split in the party a
that time was characterized as the mi
tial step taken by the Democrats tt
eliminate Bryan as political factor
although his enemies were forced t,
admit that he still had a strong fol
lowing in the country. and that hi
personality at the next national con
tvention might be dominating one
| Then came Bryan's rebuke of Tn
derwood, which seemed to be the las
straw SO far as the attitude of tn
House was concerned Because tn,
Ways and Means Committee, unde
the leadership of Representative Tn
derwood, had not first undertaken
revision of the iron and steel sched
ules, Bryan charged in an authorize.
interests in the steel industry in hi
home town, Birmingham. had prompt
ed the delay in revision Severa
weeks ago, during a debate on the fre.
list bill. which put steel wire on tn
free list, Representative Underwoo,
had told the House that a part of hi
fortune was invested in the iron indus
try. At that time the steel trust, a
work on plant in Birmingham
thheatened to shut down work unles
Underwood backed down in his stan,
that wire should be put on the fre
list Mr.. Underwood stood firm an
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