davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1912-04-19
BAGGING AND BAL1NG MATERIALS

Old Congress- list Session An Act to place on N. .. m
agricultural implements cotton baggng
renee WIRE meats cereals -four bread timber lumber sewing machines said
Be enacted by the Senate and House Representatives of the United
states OF America Congress assembled day following
me passage OF this Act the following articles shall exempt duty when
Flows tooth and disk headers harves reaper Agricultural dr
and Planters horserakes cuators
farm wagons and farm and all agricultural implements any
baggng tor cotton CLOTH and all similar
suitable tor and bng
ute e butts hemp flax Russian New Norwegian
LOW, aioe m waste cotton e other materials
u or oaps or other material suitable sackng agricultural
punched or wholly partly manufactured
coated with paint other
g LOT Dalng cotton other commodity baing
straw, and other agricultural products - - =
GRAIN buff split rough sole leather
and shoes made wholly chief from cattle hides
cate SKINS OF whatever weight of cattle of the bovine
unfinished composed wholly leather; and leather cut into
hoe other
Barbed fence wire rods wide rope wire woven
including wire 49, ~ ' s
Beef veal lamb pork kinds fresh saed picked
bacon HAMS shoulders lard substitutes;
sausage and '
Bucwheat -four semona rye -four BRAN
middmg and other ofals Of grain
TIMBER hewn sided squared in
ing whary shingles aths fencing sawed panks and
other lumber rough or dressed boards plank m
Der hgnurv ancewood ebony box gnad
Sewing machines. and all parts thereof
Passed f h o or bag; :ai barrels a other packages
Attest: SOUTH T.nMA
CL~k
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1912-04-19
A FALSE POSITION

Rumors generally believed to have
emanated from the camps of men who
either are or have been considered a.
Democratic presidential possibilities, that
Mr.. Underwood, of Alabama, could moi
command the support of the North be-
cause Of the fact that he is a South
erner, are not only poppycock, pure and
simple, but they place the men of the
North in a false position in the eyes
of the people of the South and tend to
revive sectional feeling which has been
buried for many years. The effects of
such rumors are nil in the North be-
cause the people of the North know they
have not one iota of truth, but people
in the South are apt to take them more
seriously, and there is where they may
prove harmful, not only because Of their
tendency to cause dissatisfaction on the
part of Southern Democrats, but be-
cause of the effect they may have in
giving rise to sectional prejudice through
false representations of conditions which
do not exist. No Northerner would
hesitate to support Mr.. Underwood be-
cause be comes from the South.-The
argus, Albany, New York, November
q, 1911.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1912-04-19
Underwood Presi.
dOntiaI. Timber

Mr.. Underwood would make an ideal
President. He is broad-gauged, level
headed citizen; he doesn't slip his cere-
bral cogs and go off at tangent as a
rabid exponent of revolutionary dopmas
in an effort to popularize himself; he is
uniformly courteous to all men; he be-
lieves in reducing the high cost of liv-
ing in this country, not talking about it;
he does not believe in destroying the
industries of the United States while at
the same time he is a thorough believer
in the principles of tariff for revenue
only.
=
There is no flub-dub about Mr.. I'm
derwood. He doesn't believe in shams.
He is a big, brawny, brainy statesman,
without his lightning rod out to attract
the Democratic nomination for the pres
idency, and largely on that very account
he is liable to be the very man that will
get in the way of the bolt that may
elevate him to the White House,. w.
Flenner, in the Times Democrat, Mus
kegee, Okla, October %, 1911.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1912-04-19
UNDERWOOD THE IAN

We have been humbuesed and scared
off long enough by the boey of North
ern prejudice against a Southern candi-
date. Underwood stands for just those
things which recent Northern MAORI
ties have declared they want-a revi-
sion of the tariff downward and the
destruction of special privilege. His
qualities Of leadership have been tested
and approved. In his personality he
is solid, clean and sane, with the cour-
age of fighter and the clairvoyance of
a true reformer, and If the South pre-
sents him as her candidate and the party
ratihes her choice this fine, strong char
scter 81 a new day in our annals will
catch both the sentiment and the sober
Judgment of the North. sweep away the
last remaining debris of the dead old
war and its dead issues and carry
enough States in that section to give us
the Presidencv.-Live Oak. Fla, Deuo-
vdf. reprinted in the Montgomery A.
veyttfey, January IL, 1912.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1912-04-19
- New Loader
From the South

The Presidents veto, of course, de-
stroyed the Free List Bill, as we'll as
all the other features of the Democratic
platform. The special session, however,
was not without far-reaching results.
Its chief accomplishments were a reor-
gained Congress and resurrected
Democratic majority under a new lead
ership. 1t also emphasized the new
part which the Southern States are now
playing in national affairs. With a
Southerner as Chief Justice, Southerner
as majority leader in Congress, and
Southerners as prominent candidates for
the Democratic presidential nomination
Clark, Underwood and Wilson-the
nation is certainly more united than at
any time since the Civil War. No man
reJoices more over this changed situa-
ton than Underwood. He is even more
interested in the solidarity of the forty
eight States than in the union of the
Democratic party."-Burton 7. Hen
drick in McCIaye,s Magazine, February,
1912.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1912-04-19
AI0b0ma'a 80
Candidate

Mr.. Underwood's service to the coun-
try during nine terms in the National
House of Representatives has been most
distinguished, and has made his name a
household word in the homes of the
people. For more. than 20 years he has
been in the very front of his party's
battle line, leader from his youth, and
ever faithful to his party's principles
and candidates. No Democrat can find
flaw in his political record; no charge
OF desertion in any campaign; no accu-
sation OF serving special interests can
lie against him.
His congressional colleagues respect
him for his sincerity, his high sense of
honor, his sagacity and his acknowl-
edged ability, and this in itself is an
infallible proof of his merit, for none
know so we'll the capabilities of
statesman as those who have served
many years with him and noted his
conduct in days of peace and those of
political storm.-Cincinnati ENQUIRER,
October 23 1911
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1912-04-19
FORAKER ON UNDERWOOD

Mr.. John Temple Graves will be IN
town soon to make Us a speech. He
was in Birmingham the other night and
The Age-Herold printed an interview
with the former Georgian, in which that
gentleman discussed Mr.. Underwood as
a presidential candidate. Mr.. Graves
said: mr.. Foraker used to be very Bit
terly opposed to the South, but softened
a great deal after his elevation to the
Senate. l asked Mr.. Foraker If in case
Mr.. Underwood is nominated for Pres
ident, will it make any difference to you
that he is Southern man1"
Absolutely none,' said Mr.. Foraker:
'Of course, l cannot vote for him, as !
am Republican, but if any Republican
should get up and denounce him because
he is from the South, l would take the
stump in Underwood's defense"
That reads well, coming as it does
from a man whose antagonistic attitude
towards the South in other days gave:
him the appellation of Fire Alarm
Foraker.-Monfgomeyy (Alabama) Ad-
5'erfisey, reprinted in the Birmingham
Ala, Age-Heyold, January, 1912.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1912-04-19
Underwood
for President

The argument that he lives too far
South to be available is without weight.
The country has reached that state of
union-has been so closely drawn to-
gether by railroad and telegraph-that
Alabama is brought to the door of New
York. Massachusetts, and Texas are near
neighbors and even the two Portlands,
OF Name and Oregon, stand within easy
hailing distance Of each other. So far
as any feeling of sectionalism is con-
cerned, or any prejudice against the Sc
lection of a Southern man for the presi-
dency, Underwood is, like Lincoln, a
native of Kentucky, and therefore as
much Northern as Southern, was born
during the Civil War, and grew to man
hood after the old bitterness between
North and South had died out. He is
a big. brainy, courageous man.-Balti-
more Sun, July 26, 1911.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1912-04-19
Southern
Leaders

Naturally the men who have led the
Democrats in the House of Representa-
tives SO successfully under trying con-
ditions are freely mentioned at the pres
ent time as possible candidates for the
presidential nomination by the Demo-
cratic Convention. These leaders are
Champ Clark, Speaker of the House,
and Oscar w. Underwood, a new and
coming man.
Both are Southerners, by the way, but
in my mind there is no reason in these
days Of broadening views and lessening
why Southerner should not
be nominated and elected to the presi-
dental chair of the United States. In
fact, there are many reasons why it
should be so."-London cable of William
Randolph Hearst in the New York
Amsrican, Monday, September Is, 1911.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1912-04-19
UNDERWOOD A UNFYIN0
FORCE.

The Republicans cannot agree with
his tariff views; the country, we are
sure. will never put him into the presi-
dency. but assurcdly he must be con-
ceded to be the ablest, the strongest, the
most influential Democrat in Congress
to-day. and he has shown a marvellous
capacity for leadership. His party asso-
GATES stand solidly behind him, and that
could not have been said of any other
man in recent years who led the Demo-
Gratis in the House of Representatives.
4
The shrewd Republican politicians
who predicted that the Democrats in
the House would be split into a dozen
bitterly fighting factions in less than a
month, are now amazed at Underwood's
success as a harmonizer and a uni
flying force. He has succeeded where
everybody else failed; it seems likely
that with the prestige of success he will
grow larger and more powerful as time
passes. We detest his political princi-
Piles, but it would be folly to deny his
strength and capacity-The Post Err
Press. Rochester. N. Y, June q. 1911.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1912-04-19
Takes Up
Underwood

The years since the Civil War have
rolled too fast and far to permit it to
be conceivable any longer that the cir
cumstances of Southern birth should
constitute in Northern judgment a dis
qualification in any degree whatever.
Both as to nomination and as to cleo
ton the Southerner will be rated in 1912
on his individual merits. As far as this
particular Southerner, Mr.. Oscar w.
Underwood, is concerned, it is agreeable
to note the absence of geography in
the regard in which he is held in all
parts of the Union.-New York Sun,
1911.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1912-04-19

Of the manner in which the North views
the situation. We use Underwood only
as an illustration, though his magnificent
record as House leader during the spe-
cial session would, as our correspondent
declares, have assured his nomination
with . sweep"-had he lived At the
North! To the North, it makes no diff
ference where Underwood, or any other
one of the galaxy being discussed, was
born. The representative Northemer
does not bride at mention of Bull Run
or Gettysburg. 1t remains for the South
to develop political stage fright over
these diminishing chapters in our his
tory. The last smouldering embers of
sectional acrimony were stamped out by
the Spanish-American war The last
barriers between North and South were
crumbled before the achievements of
Joe Wheeler, of Fitzhugh Lee, and of
many OF the younger generation on both
sides.
The most convincing evidence Of this,
fact is the manner in which the nation'l
received the announcement of the broad
and patriotic action of President Taft
in elevating Justice White, a Confed-
crate veteran, to the Chief Justiceship of
the United States Supreme Court A
protesting snarl rose here and there
from the irreconcilables. And the voices
most bitter in denunciation of that
jaundice came from-the Northern
press! 1t is only essential for the occa-
sional freak frebrand to rise and at
tempt to wave the bloody shirt" to be
buried with ridicule, not only by his
confreres, but as we'll by the news
papers of all sections of our common
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1912-04-19
TIME: TO ABANDON
UNWORTHY SECTIONAL
AMUSEMENT

The most humiliating paradox i,
American politics to-day is the shrink
ing attitude of some of our own peopl,
toward the presidential possibilities o.
Southern men.
The civil war, the memories of which
furnished the nursery for this indefensi.
Bile sectional abasement, is 50 years al
our back. Ninety per cent of the Amer
lean voters who elect a president re-
member this war and its dividing rancof
only as history. With outstretched
hands. having given every proof of view
ing Mason and Dixon's line as no more
a political barrier than the Mississippi
or the Rockies, the dominant generation
at the North invites the South, its pub
lie men, by right of citizenship and BY
right of demonstrated ability, into full
fellowship in the nations counsels.
South Wanting In Boldness
What has been the answer of the
South-at least, the answer that may be
interpreted by the silence or the diff
dence of hundreds of thousands of rep
resentative Southerners?
Obsessed by the ghosts of half a CEN
fury ago, guilty Of an embarrassment
and self-consciousness that is nothing
short Of arrant sectional cowardice,
there is feeling among many South
erners that the wraiths of the sixties
still stand between the South and the
White House-the South and that par
.ieipation in the nations voice, the ma
lions destiny, to which the nation is
eager to admit us.
The consequences of this abnegation of
common manhood could not be more
'orcefully portrayed than in the words
II the Constitutions Washington CORE
'pondent, in dispatch discussing the
presidential status resulting from the |
Harvey Wilson Watterson episode. IF |
le," writes our correspondent, canvass
ng the possibilities of Oscar Under
wood, the brilliant Albanian, along
With other Southerners, pays the penal
y of being a Southern man, it will be
he South and not the North to ex-
ct it."
South's Political Stage Fright
That is also an accurate delineation
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1912-04-19
Let Us Claim Our Birthright

For 50 years we have eaten in the
political kitchen. Consistently, we have
waxed cheerful when denied even the
dubious privilege of the second table.
And to-day, when the clock of destiny
strikes, when the door of opportunity is
wide ajar, when the North actually lives
up to that prophetic utterance in the
Senate of Ben Hill, eve are back in the
house of our fathers, and we are here to
stay, thank God pa few of us are still
blushing and stammering, still wearing
political sackcloth and ashes, still up to
the old easy mark" game of doing all
the drudgery, with none of the cakes
and ale Let's end this disgraceful
farce We furnish, have long furnished,
the electoral votes, the powder and shot,
the munitions, of the Democratic party
Let's assert those equal rights and privi-
leges as American citizens, as the re-
mander of the nation fraternally bids
US to do. Let's cease the qualification
OF informing the nation, by our actions,
that we cannot bring forth man capa-
BILE for the presidency. For the sec
tional cowardice, here and there mani
tested, is equivalent to that shameful
and ungrounded admission.-The Con-
ssitation, Atlanta, Ga, January Fl, 1912.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1912-04-19

/ course. as a people, to be so interpreted
1t is not in human nature to accord
respect, where self-respect is absent
How, then, can we expect the remainder
of the nation to continue to respect US,
when we grovel in the dust of BY
gone era, and let 60 by default the
rights inherent in American manhood
For virtually half a century the South
has furnished the hewers Of wood and
drawers of water for the Democratic
party. 1t has, faithfully with each re-
current four years, furnished the Democ-
racy's army and its line officers cheer
fully yielding command to other sections
With smile, it has steadily forsworn
the political loaves and fishes, content,
for the sake of the party, that they go
to doubtful States-time and again to
States most of us knew at the time were
steel-riveted Republican.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1912-04-19
Not . Question Of Expediency or
Discretion

In the face of these cumulative facts,
there are some in the South who still
question if, ION account of past Of
fenses," it is discreet" or "expedient"
for Southern man to offer himself for
presidential honors! We insult our
selves, we debase our manhood, we sur
render the rights the North is so willing
to concede US, when we permit our
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1912-04-19
DRAWN BY CHAIRMAN UNDERWOOD OF the
WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE
"A Bill Of Direct Benefit to the Farmer, Whose
Hopes We're Dissipated by a Repub-
|ican President
|. UNDERWOOD THE FRIEND OF ALL CLASSES
MR. UNDERWOOD, FROM THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS Am
MEANS SUBMITTED THE FOLLOWING REPORT EXTRACTS,
ITO accompany H, r. 44131
ITO accompany H. R. 4413.]

The Committee Ways
4 to place on the free list agricultural implements ggne oo
ties leather boots and Shoes saddery and harness. wire
-four bread timber lumber sewing machines articles ba
ment and recommend that the bill do - o1' amend
1t platform If
promises Of tariff reform made that time Republican Party w
aroy recognition OF the righteousness OF the Democratic position on this n.
the could execution q!es
pan work which deeply obligated the habv @ IN
interests as is the Republican Party 'N' p'ts's
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1912-04-19
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.

BY this a..
on the tree list order possible
against Our farmers the prices these
on an equal footing with their world nsm
cry have grown to great proportions and largely organized great n,
and eomonons he organizations selling their
world meeting and overcoming all competition no projections
of
their products foreign countries lower home and
SO recently as M agricultural associations
gast this prae The imports Of these agriculture implements arc @
S The exports Of these implements have matter of s
$Sl84 1890 $03 This foreign business l Ca IRON
AIDED by the removal OF duties from lumber provided this bill ~
BAGGING BALING
II Is OF the greatest importance producers
kn
or otherwise packing these commodities
out shelter
OF manufacturing interests The BILL ali
articles on the free list including baggng cotton ties lutte and m
ous nen
coverings and bags sacks made herefrom
IRON or hop or band steel for bag
products All these coverings and coyer
are essentials the transportation of agricultural
The products receive the benefit in these MARKERS
~. u reasons Is unfair and
for agricultural produce annoyed and nnd
combinations. ~ F'o"'' - s~aeis uusu
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1912-04-19
Dangers of Direct Democracy.

ihy knew from the history Of the that those
1 purpose; that the Liberties OF the had
Extremes and excuses which marked the administration
nature product Of selected men especially trained for the work
he TX OF honesty the Of the citizenship
desires and puce and lacked knowledge the
eultant effect of their e = ~ -
No honest his individual conroyert the Golden Rail,
at au men should DO unto others they would be
assembled
and deal justice those in the
OF
ndevored establish
liberties individual
he win Of the majority in the
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1912-04-19
Continued from First Column

| Continued from First Column)
response may not be rapid but probably permanent
legislation . - e '' A'No"'aeeu Vi oae
cannot committee of the
initiate legislation within the limitations of
ceses and abuses protect the rights the minority wishes of the
tney may
leave wake of destruction collateral touches?
Untustworhiness of Petitions
voters would first have be obtained himself how
often ne has signed petitions please presented
the determine will Be exercised BY
a
People Suffer More From Failure of Law From
Lack of Proper Legislation
should stop to cicise government would people
more from the failure to enforce the laws the books
found the fairly enforced would remedy the evils
than to insist that neghbor shall violating
ready have - - " ~
there are evils in in
organic FORM It due the failure of honestly
and Justly perform the duties imposed
responsibility the unthfm
true to the trust imposed them
The People the Representatives
that the the far better
measures and far likely select
When that the select public
the will Of the people his Office and faithful
reflect
sjudg the honesty and the intelligence of the American
was ripe in the hearts of For has wthstood the Of
greed and intolerance through
disaster has protected the lives merry and of people
for the of represent
Be
Tor change of the fundamental principles of
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1912-04-19
Unwise Changes Now Proposed.

proposed by part represniv
Revolutionary
would establish
would placed directly all people, Independent
would become subseren the will OF the majority through political
pu.ion.
Independence brought their judgments
framing Constitution the United SINGER
= BY sincerity Of Dur
9ose and the honesty OF opinion of other
Jefersons Wise Views.
Speaking of "he rights of Thomas Jefferson
Modern
en the people acting not but by representatives chosen
Of the Independence knowing popular
billed and ultimately had reverted uncontrolled dpois
had
government established revert to the direct action of
he people the principle of Ahnan democracy adapted
Representative Only Passion
guard against
which had brought the direct popular
continent insist that principle of
judge real public sentiment that other times the instrument of the
representative whom the recurring peod
Ny legislator leads believe that the of
United States will ultimately respond enlightened and
sentiment of the people
changing public repeatedly experienced
changes in the exercise of the taxing
We the legislative branch of the direct
laws provide publicity campaign quarantine iee
arid and build Tsman Canal Can be rufy said that
of the American favor of result Of their
(Contnued Next cdumn)
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1912-04-19
REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT, AS CON-
CEIvED BY TRAINERS OF CONSTITUTION.
ONLY SAFE BULWARK OF CIVIL LIBERTY
Danger Of Departing from Path Established
by the Fathers
SPEECH DELIVERED BY Mr. UNDERWOOD BEFORE CATHOLIC
CLUB OF NEW YORK CITY DECEMBER 49, 1911

The main protection life liberty and
dU The safeguarding Of
" = 'O -
e law essential good
-"
Less than century and half the Federal written;
The world had experimental with almost govern
xno created the form Of the new Of
- sc offered N their lives and their fortunes the struggle eounry
resssdms the essential principles Of honesty
edea e. more perfect Union establish Justice Tranquility
Blessings OF Liberty to themselves and their Poserity" ~ ~ M
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1912-04-19
Worlds First Written Constitution.

They proclaimed to the world its Constitution created rov
eminent law absolute contradinc
of Federal
es based the principle of democracy where
people the direct lawmaking
Judicial of the country 80 " ~ A"~'e