The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-09
SOME STRIKING REASONS
 WHY UNDERWOOD SHOULD
 BE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE
By R. H. LEINAD

IElNAD
 on the poor and too lightly on the well to do.
 Believing these cardinal democratic do,- trines he rose superior to his personal interests-rose above the demands of the iron mongers and stood for what he be- lieved to be right, regardless of threats, as to his political future. regardless of 1essened dividends; he heard only the call of Right and Justice and closed his ears to the Sirens song of Dividends"
 Recall the fact that 1t was Mir. Under wood that presented and advocated the measure that taxes revenues--that taxes
 our leader more than a great majority of his constituents-that taxes addition
 ally, many of his warm friends but les
 sens the taxes of those that labor in the mines and furnaces and on the farms.
 We challenge all history to produce an instance where a higher or pnrer patriot ism was shown than when Mir. Under-
 wood stood for the interests of the pro-
 ducers, knowing that the measure would not only reduce the revenues of his fam fly, but of many of his friends It is as
 if the spirit that aetuated the patriots of
 1776 had been reborn in the greatest of southern leaders.
 We do not favor Mr.iUnderwood because
 he represents the sentiment of Alabama but because he represents the patriotism of all true Americans. Every southern
 man has the right to be proud of him.
 and we are-but we favor him because
 he is so free from blgotry and sectional ism that his sympathies for the miner in the coal fields of Pennsylvania. that 1t is expected will voted against his measures and that receives less per year for his services than the negro that mines coal | for the Woodward company, in which | MT. Underwood is interested. is as great | as for his own constituents that cast their votes almost solidly for him.
 1 This is the supreme test of greatness. 1 for goodness must go hand in hand with
 great ability in order to make man
 truly great. Mir. Underwood does not place the coal and iron magnates or any other capitalists in the Annanias class,
 nor would he denounee any class that diff fered with him on any subject On the
 contrary they would receive every con sderation at his hands. We favor him because of his well known
 courage, the courage of his convictions;
 he is intelligently brave. and when com pelled to strike his blows are Herculean i in force
 We favor MT. Underwood because he is
 as philosophical as Jefferson; he follows l closely the father of our country in the l loftiness of his purposes: he is as firm and unyielding in purpose for the right as was i Jackson and Cleveland. yet he realizes 1 that in order to attain something we
 must at times yield part in order to se-
 cure a part, and he is as sincere and sym
 pathetic for the oppressed as was Lin-
 coin.
 1 We favor MT. Underwood because he is
 a true reformer-of the Tilden order He l favors reforms, works for reforms, se- cures reforms and wastes no time or ef-
 fort in telling what he is going to do, nor | yet will he insult the intelligence of the i American voter by teliag what he has already accomplished. He does not prac- | tice the adage that many public men use
 as a motto-"TIe that bloweth not his
 own horn, verify his horn shall not be blown
 The older generation sees in MT Under wood one singularly like MT. Tilden-in his system of defense-his arrangements of topics and matter and his quiet force | ful, gentlemanly manner and methods re- mind me more of MT. Tilden than any i public man I have known
 We favor him because he is conserva- | tive as to the constitution and laws, and 1 aggressively progressive in all reforms | that can lawfully be accomplished that l relate to the general welfare of the peo- l pie. These are not words of laudation,
 but words of truth and soberness" and | an unbiased review of his life will prove | | itself.
 If the doctrines of the democratic party
 are right: if the policies of the party MT.
 Underwood leads in Congress are for the
 best interests of the great majority of l the people, then 1t behooves us to name | as a candidate one that can secure the | electoral votes of those states that will l give to our party not only a majority in l Congress, but to elect an executive that will execute the laws enacted by the peo- ple's representatives in Congress.
 MT. Wilson. we believe. would lose to
 us New York. and for the same reason that MT Blaine lost it; Clark or Wilson
 would lose in the east as did MT. Bryan.
 because of lack of confidence in the issues presented. The issues in the coming cam
 paign are sharply defined. A reduction l of taxatios on the neeessaries of life and
 a return to constitutional methods-the l executive to execute the laws, Congress
 to enact them. the courts to define them
 and the executive not to attempt to coerce ! Congress or our courts.