The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-04-26

The sentiment for Underwood
through the north and especially in
New York, amounts practically to a
call" said W. L. Percy, secretary OF
the Dobbs & Wey company, who got
back home yesterday after a three
weeks trip through Cincinnati, Colum.
bus Buffalo, New York city and other
points.
'The Republicans don't want any.
body, to tell the truth. Roosevelt is toe
much of demagogue, Taft has been
unwise, La Toilette is so much of q
progressive that he is practically a
Socialist, and Cummins is not in the
running. OF the Democratic candidates
Underwood is the only man who meets
their demands for constructive
statesman, one who knows the practi.
cal side Of government.
North Strong For Underwood.
mine out of every ten Republicans
think Underwood would make a good
president, and of those nine the ma
Jority are ready to vote for him. OF
course there are not few who always
vote the straight Republican ticket. l
was talking to one Of these, who had
expressed his dissatisfaction with all
mis- party's candidates, and l asked him
about Underwood.
We'll, / would be inclined to for
get that 1t was election day If you
nominate Underwood answered this
straight ticket Republican.
THE north has paid more attention
to the last session of congress than
has the south. They know what I'm
derwOOd is doing, and they have learn
ed about the man. For this reason
there is a demand for him that was
a revelation to me, and l am from the
south"
Such is the gist Of recountal by
Mr.. Percy of his trip, containing the
most remarkable view of the presiden.
tial situation in the north that has yet
been presented here. His trip was q
revelation to the man from the south, q
man who left Atlanta not counted
among the Underwood supporters, but
who returned enrolled under that ban.
ner because Underwood is the man OF
the hour, the man of destiny at the
psychological moment in the history OF
the Democratic party"
Talked With All Glasses.
Mr. Percy's statements are not drawn
merely from a scratching of the polit-
ical surface in the cities and states
through which he passed. He talked
with laboring men and, by the way, 1t
was from them that he heard the first
favorable mention Of Underwood; he
talked with business men who control
thousands of dollars, and 1t might be
added that he took lunch with an &C.
tive candidate for the presidency, not
Mr.. Underwood, which, however, did
not blind him to the fitness Of the
southern man.
Underwood Much Talked About
when left Atlanta 1 knew little OF
Oscar Underwood. 1 thought when he
was mentioned that he was all right as
a congressman, but beyond that never
went.
THE first thing that set me thinking
of him and his chances for the presi
dency was a conversation which but.
ted into at Buffalo. l had just return
ed from Niagara Falls and was wait
ing for my train. A group Of laboring
men, mostly railroad men, were dis
cussing politics, and l entered into the
conversation without their knowing
who or what l was. One of them was
rank Rooseveltian but he was inter
rupted by one of his friends, man
dressed in overalls.
1--WE been watching that fellow
Underwood. l like what he says, and
like what he does, and I'm going tc
vote for him.
Then Talked Politics.
THAT set me to thinking, and from
then on l talked politics every time
got the chance. And then l COM
mcnced to notice funny thing about
the Republicans, and that is that they