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cd Congress- LIST Session. H. R. 443 An Act to place on u
agricultural implements bagging cotton ties leather boot
fence wire cereals, -four bread timber lumber sewing A
and other articles.
Be it enacted by the Senate House of Representatives
States of America in Congress assembled That after
the passage of this Act the following articles shall be exempt @
imported into the United States
Pows tooth and disk harrowS headers harvesers reapcrs
and planters horSerakes cuvaors hreshng machines
gins farm wagons and farm and all other agricultural m
kind and description whether spechcal mentioned herein nj
in whole in parts including repair parts
Baggng for cotton gunny CLOTH and all similar fabrics ma
suitable for covering and bag composed in whole OIL
ute ute butts hemp, flax seq Russian seq, New Zealand tow
tow aloe mill waste aes other materials hbe
burps other material suitable for bagging samg
products
Hoop band iron hoop STEEL cut to lengths punt
punched or wholly partly manufactured into hoops ties
coated with paint any other PREPARATION with whou bucks
ings Tor bang cotton other commodity and wire td
straw, and other agricultural products =.
GRAM buff split rough and sole leather band bend betting
and shoes made wholly chief value of leather made from
and cattle skins of whatever weight of cattle of the bovine specs
cadns and harness, saddles and saddey in sets N parts
unfinished composed wholly in chief value of leather and @
shoe upper vamp other forms suitable for
tured articles
Barbed fence WIRE wire rods wide strands or wire rooe wiz
manufactured for wire fencing and other kinds of wire suitable
including wire staples
Beef veal mutton lamb pork meats of all kinds fresh sal
dried smoked dressed undesssd prepared or preserved
bacon, hams, shoulders, lard lard compounds and lard N
| sausage and sausage meats.
Buckwheat -four, meal, wheat flour and semolna, rye
mddngs and other ofals of grain oatmeal and rolled oats anu
cereal foods and biscuits bread waes similar articles
Timber hewn sided squared round timber used for %
other lumber rough dressed boards panks deals %
be of gnuviae ancewood ebony box granadia, mahogI
satinwood, and all other cabinet woods.
| Sewing machines, and all parts thereof.
Salt whether in bulk in bags sacks barrels other p
Attest VIC 'OASe u Representatives May i'i SOUTH
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A FALSE POSITION

Rumors generally believed to have
emanated from the camps of men who
either are or have been considered as
Democratic presidential possibilities, that
Mr.. Underwood, of Alabama, could not
command the support of the North be-
cause of the fact that lie 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 10 cause dissatisfaction on the
part of Southern Democrats, but be,
cause of the effect they may have ir
giving rise to sectional prejudice through
false representations of conditions which
do not exist. No Northerner woulC
hesitate to support Mr.. Underwood be
cause he comes from the South.-Th,
Argns, Albany, New York. November
q, 1911
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a New IN eader
From the South

"The Presidents veto, of course, de-
stroyed the Free List Bill, as well as
all the other features of the Democratic
platform. The special session, however,
was not without far-reaching results.
Its chief accomplishments were reor-
gained Congress and a resurrected
Democratic majority under 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, a 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 Hen
drick in McClare's Magazine, February,
1912.
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AIabana'S
Candidate

Mr.. Underwood's service to the coun-
try during nine terms in the National
House of Representative 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 partys
battle line, leader from his youth, and
ever faithful to his party's principles
and candidates. No Democrat can find
a 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
infallble proof of his merit, for none
know so we'll the capabilities of a
statesman as those who have served
many years with him and noted his
conduct in days of peace and those OF
political storm.-CmcinHah Enquirer
October q, 1911
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UNDERWOOD A UNHFYIN0
FORCE

The Republicans cannot agree with
his tariff views; the country, we are
sure, will never put him into the presi-
dency, but assuredly 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-
ciates 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
!
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 Underworld
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.
pies, but it would be folly to deny hi.
strength and capacity-The Post Err.
press, Rochester, NJ Y, June Fl. 1911.
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UNDERWOOD THE TAN

We have been humbugged and scared
off long enough by the bogy of North
ern prejudice against 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
acter of 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 Presideney.-Live Oak, Fla, Demo
crGf, reprinted in the Montgomery Id
oertissr, January IL. 1912
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rINE. TO ABANDON
UNWORTHY SECTIONAL
AMUSEMENT
ABAS z. M IN II

course, as people, TO be SO interpreted
1t is not in human nature to accord
respect, where seI1-respCct 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 go 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 a 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.
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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 Maine 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 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
big, brainy, courageous man.-BG|ti-
more Sun, july 26, 1911.
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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
prejudices 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 Ne9V York
american, Monday, September rs, 1911.
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Underwood PreSi-
Dental 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 dogmas
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 thorough believer
in the principles of tariff for revenue
only.
.
There is no fub-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-Dcmocrat, Mus.
kegee, Okla, October 28, 1911.
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FORAKER ON UNDB

Mr.. John Temple Ora''
town soon to make us .
was in Birmingham the o''
The Age-Herald printed :
with the former Georgian
gentleman discussed Mr. y,
a presidential candidate
said: "Mr. Foraker used y
terly opposed to the Soum =,
a great deal after his els,,
Senate. | asked Mr.. Fora. =.
Mr.. Underwood is nomin1ssl'|
ident, will it make any dlnS
that he is a Southern man (,
Absolutely none SAD
'Of course, I cannot vote
am a Republican, but II =
should get up and denoTn =,
he is from the South ! W
stump in Underwoods os.I
That reads well, eomns
rom a man whose antagS
towards the South in oIlr
him the appellation Of al
Foraker.-MOHtgomsfy Y"
vertiser, reprinted in n.
Ala. Ags-Herald. Janu-'''
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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
lip to that prophetic utterance in the
Senate Of Ben Hill, 1--WE 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 priv
leges as American citizens, as the re-
mainder 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 a man capa-
Me for the presidency. For the sec
tional cowardice, here and there mani
tested, is equivalent to that shameful
and ungrounded admission-The Con-
stitution, Atlanta. Ga. January 2l 1912
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of the manner in which the North views
the situation. We use Underwood only
as an illustration, though his magnlncent
record as House leader during le Spe-
cial session would, as our correspondent
declares, have assured his nomination
with a 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 Northerner
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
crumbed 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
received the announcement of the broad
and patriotic action of President Taft
in elevating Justice White, 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-
ional freak frebrand to rise and at
tempt to wave the bloody shirt," to be
ur;ed with ridicule, not only by his
confreres, but as we'll by the news
papers of all sections of our common
country.
Not a Question of Expediency or
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1912-03-15

By this agricultural tools and implements of every
the free list order to prevent any possible
against farmers in the prices of these articles and
equal footing with their competitors elsewhere the
mestc manufacturers of agricultural tools implements vehicles
have great proportions and largely organized
and combinations These organizations selling their produces
world meeting and overcoming all competition They need
and rule, ask for For number of years they
their products in foreign countries lower prices than
recently 1907 agricultural associations in public resoun
against this practice The imports of these agricultural inp
significant the value Of all such imports free and duiab in Ion
to $22N2 The exports of these implements have become mai
Importance than the domestic trade the figures indicating an In
$3859S4 in 1890 to $8l033 in 1910 This foreign business will
aided by the removal of duties from lumber provided for this
BAGGING AND BALING MATERIALS
of the greatest Importance producers of
cultural commodities that the materials necessary for baggng
otherwise packing these commodities be made free from
may be available the producers the favorable prices
shelter for the exacon of unreasonable by
of manufacturing interests The bill, therefore, places all such
articles the free list, including baggng and ties
butts hemp, fax seq tow buraps and other materials
coverings and bags sacks made erefrom together with all
iron hoop band steel for bang any commodity wire
agricultural products All these coverings and materials maxim
essentials the transportation Of agricultural products
The products not receive the benefit of any protection
and for this and other it is unfair and unjust co1ta
coverings for agricultural produce These duties have annoyed
farmers and have served principally to increase the profits OF
and combinations.
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Dangers of a Direct Democracy.

They knew from the history the that those had failed
that the liberties of the people had been destroyed by the
and which marked the administration Of where
product of selected especially trained for the work hand
direct Democracy
of citizenship
semd the the fact that they often wayed by their
knowledge
sui of their
his individual will the Golden Rule
would be
itself
the minority
Democracy, the trainers
enod establish that would the
individual and the reflect ultimately
Of the majority in the enactment Of the law Of the land
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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.-NeaV York San,
1911.
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REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT, AS CON-
CENED 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 the life liberty and
The safeguarding of rights essential the advancement of
Men always awake the realization that the of
Of
Less than century half the Federal Constitution written
The world had experimental with almost conceivable method of
thousands before republic The
who created the form of the essentially students of the
liberties the Most
m had offered their lives and their fortunes the struggle for their country
independence No either lack
regarding
children Unon establish Justice domestic Tranquility,
Welfare
Blessings of Liberty themselves and their Posterty."
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FREE LIST BILL vETOEl'
BY PRESIDENT |
DRAWN BY CHAIRMAN UNDERWOOD
WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE
A Bill of Direct Benefit to the Farmer
Hopes Were Dissipated by Rep
ICan President
Mr.. UNDERWOOD THE FRIEND OF ALL
MR. UNDERWOOD, FROM THE COMMITTEE ON W
MEANS SUBMITTED THE FOLLOWING REPORT eek
To accompany H. R. ABB

The Committee Ways and Means whom referred M
44l3) to place free list agricultural implements cotton %
leather boots and Shoes saddery and harness. fence wire
-four, bread timber, lumber sewing machines SALT and other
had under consideration report back the House viii
and recommend that the bill do pass.
expressly stated in the Democratic platform 1903 thu
promises of tariff reform made that by the Republican
ardy recognition of the righteousness of the Democratic position
on but that the people could safely nust execution
portant work party which deeply obligated the HID
interests is che Republican Party
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The most huniliating paradox in
American politics to-day is the shrink
ing attitude of some OF our own people
toward the presidential possibilities OF
Southern men.
The civil war, the memories of which
furnished the nursery for this indefenSi-
Bile sectional abasement, is 50 years at
our back. Ninety per cent of the Amer
can voters who elect a president re-
member this war and its dividing rancor
only as history. With outstretched
hands, having given every proof Of view
ing Mason and Dixou's line as no more
l political barrier than the Mississippi
n the Rockies, the dominant generation
It the North invites the South, its pub
'ic men, by right OF citizenship and by
light 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 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
ticipation in the nations voice, the ma
TONS destiny, to which the nation is
eager to admit lis.
The consequences of this abnegation OF
,ommon manhood could not be more
iorcefully portrayed than in the words
f the Constitutions Washington corre-
pendent, in a dispatch discussing the
presidential status resulting from the
Observation-Disclosures episode, III
he" writes Our correspondent, canvass
7g the possibilities of Oscar Under
wood, the brilliant Albanian, along
With other Southerners, pays the penal
of being a Southern man, il will be
he South and not the North to ex'
lct it"
South's Political Stage fright
That is also an accurate dclineation
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Teferson's Wise Views.

In speaking equal of man. Thomas Jefferson declared
odern signal advantage too Of having discovered
by rights be secured 10 VIII:
en BY the people acting but by representatives chosen
by themselves
The author Of the Declaration Independence knowing that all
the decisions OF the Pp
uncontrolled depos
government coud express
proposed abandon the representative
fathers to the
the people principle of Athenian democracy adapea 10 ~
conditions
Representative Only Check Excuses and Passion
established
direct popular government 10
RESPOND
principle OF a.
reflect that at times thg may ms
instrument Oh
people change at recurring perOuS'
the the itself
leads believe that the congress OF
respond the enlightened anu
sentme of the people. 49,. .o.o.sd1v s~Drrienced
tides of public sentiment we nave Psu
changes in the of the powers -..oo,.,
Of arect
railroad legislation pure
of campaign funds national quarantine
Canal truthfuly ao
ultimately place the statute books the laws tina
Of tbe American people of result Of their
nent and deliberate Judgment? - .,>
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Not a 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
lenses" it is discreet" or "expedient"
for a Southern man to offer himself for
presidential honorsl We insult our
selves, we debase our manhood, we sur
render the rights tie North is SO willing
to concede US, when we permit our