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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-04-20
"a New Leader
From the South

1.-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 reor-
ganized Congress and 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, 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
driciI in McClwe,s Magazine, February,
1912.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-04-20

Congress- R. place
agricultural implements, bggng leather, shoes
cereals flour, bread TIMBER lumber, machines salt
America Congress assembled That and after the day following
the this Act the following articles shall be from duty when
imported into the United States:
Pow arrows headers agricultural drill.
horserakes cuvators hg machines
and and all other agricultural implements of
whether specifically
in whole including repair
CLOTH and all similar fabrics materials
suitable and ban whole
jute butts hemp flax Russian New Zealand tow Norwegian
suitable
urlaps wholly
up other material suitable for baggng sackg agricultural
products
wholly partly manufactured hoops coated
other with without buckles asten
ng bang other commodity and bang hay
straw and other agricultural products.
split rough and sole leather band bend betting leather boot.
wholly chief value of leather made from cattle hide:
skins whatever cattle of the bovine including
ckns; and harness. Saddles and saddcr finished OF
composed wholly leather; and leather into
other forms suitable for into anutac
ucd articles.
wire rods wide strands wire wire woven or
including wire staples.
Beef veal mutton lamb pork Of all kinds fresh sated picked
smoked, dressed undred prepared any manner
shoulders compounds Iard suDSutes
Buckwheat senlolna, -four brar
niddngs and other o of oatmeal and rolled oats and all prepares
ood and biscuits bread wafers and similar articles not
sided squared timber used IN build
shingles, boards panK ane
lumber boards pank deals and other un
anccwood ebony box granadla mahogany F0"o
sainwood, and all other cabinet woods
machines and all thereof
Salt whether sacks barrels other packages
Passed the House of Representatives May g. 1911 . o-
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-04-20
UNDERWOOD THE TAN

We have been flunbugged and scared
off long enough by the bogy of North
crn prejudice against Southern candl-
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 a fighter and the cla;rvoyance OF
true reforrner, and if the South pre-
sents him as her candidate and the party
ratifes her choice this fine, strong char
acter of new day in Our annals will
catch both the sentiment and the sober
Judgment OF the North, sweep awav the
last remaining debris of the dead old
war and its dead issues and carry
enough States in that section to give us
the Presidency-Live Oak, Fla, Demo-
crat reprinted in the Montgomery Ad-
veytiser, January II, 1912.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-04-20
FORAKER ON UNDERWOOD

Mr.. John Temple Graves will be IL
town soon to make us speech. nc
was in Birmingham the other night and
The Age-Heyald printed an Interview
with the former Georgian, in which that
gentleman discussed Mr.. Underwood a:
presidential candidate. Mr.. Grave.
said: "Mr. Foraker used to be very bit"
tcrIv opposed to the South, but softened
great deal after his elevation to the
Senate. | asked Mr.. Foraker il in case
Mr.. Underwood is nominated for Pres
ident, will it make any difference to you
that he is Southern man!"
Absolutely none said Mr.. Foraker.
OF course, I cannot vote for him, as !
am Republican, but if any Republican
should get up and denounce him because.
he is from The South, I would take the
stump in Underwood's defense"
That reads well, coming as it does
from man whose antagonistic attitude
the South in other days gave
him the appellation of Fire Alarm
Foraker-Montg0mery (Alabama) Id
vertiscr, reprinted in the Birmingham.
Ala. Ags-Herald, January, 1912.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-04-20
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
cnt 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, 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
prejudces 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 Nc7v York
american, Monday, September Is, 1911.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-04-20
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 Maine and Oregon, stand within easy
ha!ing 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.-Balti-
more Sun, July &c, 1911.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-04-20
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.
r X 4
There is no fub-dub about Mr.. I'm
dcrwood. He doesn't believe in shams.
He is 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 TimcS-Democrat Mus
kegce, Okla, October %, 1911.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-04-20
TIME ABANDON
UNWORTHY SECTIONAL
AMUSEMENT
ABASEM In I

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 a by
gone era, and let go by default the
rights inherent in American manhood!
For virtually half century the South
has furnished the hewers of wood and
drawers of water for the Democratic
party. It has, faithfully with each re-
current four years, furnished the Democ-
racys army and its line oficers-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.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-04-20
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.-Ne1v York San,
1911.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-04-20
Let Us Claim Our Birthright

For so 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, "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 privi-
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 man capa-
bic 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 q, 1912
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-04-20

The most huIniliating 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-
bic sectional abasement, is SO years at
our back. Ninety per cent of the Amer
lean 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 Dixon's line as no more
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 BoIdness
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
tury ago, guilty of an embarrassment
and a self-consciousness that is nothing
short of arrant sectional cowardice,
there is a 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 us.
The consequences of this abnegation of
common manhood could not be more
forcefully portrayed than in the words
of the Constitutions Washington CORE
spondent, in a dispatch discussing the
presidential status resulting from the
Observation-Disclosures episode. IF
he," writes Our correspondent, canvass
ing the possibilities of Oscar Under
wood, the brilliant Albanian, along
with other Southerners, pays the penal
ty of being Southern man, it will be
the South and not the North to ex-
act it."
South's Political Stage Fright
That is also an accurate delineation
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-04-20

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 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 acrinlony 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
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 fron-the Northern
press! It 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
country.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-04-20
Not a Question of Expediency or
Discretion

In the face of these cumulative facts,
there are some in the South who still
question if, "on 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
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-04-20
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.

By this agricultural tools and implements of kind placed
against farmers in the prices Of these necessary articles and PLACE them
of agricultural TOOLS implements vehicles
and largely organized
These selling their
meeting overcoming all competition They protection
rule ask for number of they sold Of
products foreign prices home
this practice The imports of these agricultural implements
all and duiabl
s2 The exports these implements have become
domestic
S3S59S in 1890 SSl24o33 1910 This foreign business greatly
of duties lumber provided
BAGG1NG BALING MATERIALS
the producers
cultural commodities that the materials necessary bagsng sacng bans
packing
be available to the producers at the most favorable prices possible with
unreasonable
manufacturing The BILL therefore, places all such materials and
including
burp
bag commodity
All and making
products markets.
agricultural produce These
principally the profits
combinations.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-04-20
Ito accompany H. R. 44l5.]

Committee Means the H
Implements baggng
TIMBER lumber sewing machines SALT and having
under back the House
ment recommend that the bill do
the beated
ardy recognition righteousness the Democratic position on this ue
safely inn
por work to party deeply obligated highly protected
interests is the Republican Party
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-04-20
REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT, AS CON-
CEVED 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.

OF the protection of life liberty and
The safeguarding rights essential to the advancement OF
on civilization.
realization that the enforcement OF
than the enactment OF
and half the Federal Constitution was written;
The world had with almost conceivable method OF govern
The
who created the form OF the new were essentially students the
liberties Most
lives and fortunes the for their cony
independence No justly charge them with either lack norma
that would themselves their
Welfare
Blessing O themselves and their Posterty."
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-04-20
CONTINUED from First Colunn.)

Continued First Counn)
response may rapid probably permanent and
there certainly much danger enacng has condered bad
legislation.
Congress- composed representative
initiate legislation within the limitations the Constitution guard
majority friends order
that they accomplish result tempted reach TAR that they
wake of collateral touches?
Untrustworthiness of Petitions.
himself how
petitions please rid of the who presented
paper thought and elaboration will exercised by
the who signs petition
Suffer More Failure of Law Enforcement Than From
Lack of Proper Legislation.
crce would that the people suffer
the failure enforce the laws the statute books than they
books that if fairly enforced would remedy the evils
complain against but much out for legislation
nbor shall jail violating the law al
ready have
If government exists today is not in its
organic failure of those office honestly fairly
and Justly perform the duties imposed Them The remedy PLAIN
unfahfl Will faithful and
the imposed upon them
The People and the Representatives.
faithful tell
the masses OF than they
likely select honest man than an honest
and be faithful the Constitution his
country reflect the first principle free government and
honesty the intelligence the American people
Constitution born the hour when the love liberty freedom
ripe century whstood the storms
ho
has protected the lives liberty and our people
public
for the represent regardless of what
their There then will no demand
change of the fundamental principles of government
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-04-20
independent Judiciary Established.
Unwise Changes Now Proposed.

Inv
government Revolutionary fathers and adopt system that
would ultimate to make
the hands all the people, ana the
liberty
will the through political
pnlsion r1,u,,+o, od;or. n The va, for Aneri
United States but there whose
sxden the Of government
VINO doubt the sincerity OF
andth honesty of opinion OF other men,
Jefersons Wise Views.
y, knc Of "s equal rights of Jefferson declared
Moden times signal advantage of having discovered
secured to Govern
acting but by representatives CHOSEN
by themselves"
The author of Independence knowing that all popular
nnn before his time resting decisions Of the people, had
uncontrolled despousn reoceo
could express the VIII
abandon the representative principle
Of government fathers to the direct action
conditions
Only Check Excuses and Passion
Our representative government established guard against the
es which had brought direct popular to
all times respond poh
principle OF government al
be reflect they may
en (the people change recurring peoo
Ny experience legislator believe that the Congress OF the
will always ultimately respond to the enlightened ana
the people. .o.o g.. -,o-o,oed
changes il the exercise the taxing
Legislative branch of the government IN direct response
the be ruthtuly ha
Che Congress ultimately place the statute books the laws that
majority people in favor OF as result OF their peFna
" quo ' CIV " CONTINUED counn)
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-04-20
Worlds First Written Constitution.

world written Constitution
absolute conradstncion of The
familiar
principle the
ultimate
OF
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-04-20
Dangers of a Direct Democracy.

They from the history of the that those had failed
had
the of
mature especially
the failure of direct Democracy to
of
the fact that they often by their
utant of their actions
Mo in Golden Rule
others would be but rarely
the
Of the of O
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-04-20
DRAWN BY CHAIRMAN UNDERWOOD OF THE
WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE
Bill of Direct Benefit to the Farmer, Whose
Hopes Were Dissipated by a Repub-
IICan President


MR. UNDERWOOD, FROM THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND
MEANS SUBMITTED THE FOLLOWING REPORT (EXTRACTs>
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-04-20
Ours Representative Form of Government.

Ours Representative Form OF government
To established form OF
will OF
ctroying and OF the individual
Constitution
establish freedom of Government for they created Gov
expressly the Nation
States eerying the States the right make of the laws that
The Constr
the liberty the citizen and the protection OF his
against the of the Government ITSELF
Independent Judiciary Established.
independent judiciary established
the individual
II is O
selected legislative body by the the
established Constu
;onal guarantees liberty the could rae
apon the Government itself destroy
that majority OF the people will not endnge the Liberties
times the people, when unchecked
destroyed individual rights and individual
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-05-10

to the infantry summoning General Il.
V. Sumner with General W. +. Smiths
division. He arrived just at dark.
Early on the morning of the 9Th Gen.
eral Joe Hooker's Federal division az
rived and with great impetuosity at
tackled Fort Magruder.
Longstreet, with his own division
and that of D. II. Hill, defended this
point from early morning. until noon,
inflicting a heavy loss upon Hookers
column. Hooker called for help, but
none could be sent him because Sum-
ner, the chief in command, had begun
a new line Of attack which would turn
the Confederate left, If it succeeded.
On this flank the old Confederate re-
doubts were unoccupied. Sumner or
dered the brigade of General W. 8.
Hancock to occupy two Of these Han
cock did so and attempted to advance
still farther, but was checked by troops
sent over from General Longstreet's
column.
Seeing the danger impending on this
flank If Hancock remained on the ridge
he had seized, General D. II. Hill
brought forward four regiments and
attempted to break through Hancock's
line. Slowly retiring his front line,
Hancock drew his enemy into trap
and then opened a murderous fire OF
musketry which staggered the Con-
federates. Their leader fell, and Han
cock rushed his whole brigade forward
on a charge. This was decisive, and
the Confederates gave way.
Meanwhile Hooker had just held his
own on the Federal left. Re-enforce-
ments had come to him from York
town. but Fort Magruder still blocked
bis progress when night put an end to
the combat Next morning the Con-
federates were miles away from VIII
liamsburg. having left 400 wounded be-
hind them in their hasty retreat The !
Federal loss was over 1000 and fell
chiefly upon Hooker's column. The
Confederates lost about 1000.