The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-28
From the Montgomery Advertiser TNHE Advertiser cannot believe tn
 the large and expensive press D

VIE Advertiser cannot believe that
 the large and expensive press bu-
 reaus maintained in Washington, and Newark, to further the interests of the candidacy of Governor Woodrow Viii son for democratic presidential nomna- tion, are doing effective service when they present Oscar Underwood of Ala bama; Thomas R. Marshall, of Indiana, and Champ Clark of Missouri, as stalk ing horses put up by "the interests" to defeat Governor Wilson and as tools of machine politicians used for nefarious work in politics.
 Oscar Underwood is the acknowledged leader of the democratic party in Con- gress. He is more than that; he is a democrat who has united his party, who has challenged the admiring attention of the country and who has won the loyalty and support of his associates. Stalking horses" are not made of such material. The Advertiser says here and now that it regards Mir. Underwood as a serious and hopeful candidate for. the nomination, and we believe firmly that he has chance to win that nomination Champ Clark is big enough to be speaker of the House of Representatives and he is big enough to be president. His friends are well within their rights in putting him before the convention and urging the conven- tion to nominate him. Governor Marshall is the leader of the militant democracy of Indiana, a democracy which under his
 leadership overturned the republican par ty and made Indiana safely a democratic state.
 A paragraph of the press matter sent out by the Wilson boomers from Newark, N. J., says:
 within week definite determination has been reached to push the candidacy of Oscar Underwood of Alabama, leader of the democrats in the House. This is auxiliary to the chief features of the big business interests plan in the usual states where they can be successfully groomed. These features are
 ''In Missouri the candidacy of Speaker Champ Clark will be encouraged; in vir sina there is a movement under the ma chine democrats to elect a delegation to vote in the national convention for Sena- tor Thomas Martin, head of the organi- zation in that state.
 "The Kern and Marshall booms in In diana are part of the general plan Of favorite son out bringing, the purpose being to divide the field between as many anti-Wilson candidates as possible. an1 l thus prevent the naming of the New Jer- sey governor on the first ballot.' Why should not the democrats of Ala ha arfl, 1arx a a, candidate? Has he not the character, the ability and the public confidence neces- sary to a candidate for the presidency? Is he without some special privilege which the governor of New Jersey enjoys. ana 1 which permits the New Jersey man to
 become candidate, but forbids that right
 to the leader of the House democrats? Assuredly Alabama has as much right to
 put out candidate as New Jersey or Ohio.
 The last effusion of the Wilson press | bureau is directed particularly to break down the Alabamian. It is thought the l friends of Governor Wilson fear that
 Oscar Underwood's candidacy is the real candidacy which they will have to fear when the convention meets. The Wash
 ington correspondent of the New York
 Herald. three days ago in special. writ ten after comforting with New York lead-
 CTS, said that in all probability Under-
 wood would be first choice of the New | York delegation, with Harmon as second
 choice and the New Jersey governor not | in the running in that state Perhaps q realization of the growing strength of the l Alabainian as a candidate for the nomi- l nation aroused the Wilson press bureau to new activity against him. "The re- | juvenation of the Underwood boom,' as
 this last circular letter calls it, brought l out long discussion of the Underwood candidacy and its alleged closeness to the | business interests of New Yorfl; 1t being implied that the said business interests were against Governor Wilson because he was the only honest man and true friend of the people in the race.
 We had politics of this sort when Roose-