The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-21
Clark Howell Emphasizes NOn-Importance of Sec
 tioRal Bugaboo
ANDERSON FINDS
 SENTIMENT STRONG
Says Two- Thirds of Men He Has Met Feel Sure Underwood Can Carry New York Against Any
 Republican
By c. E. STEWART

By c. E. STEWART Washington, June 20.-(Special)- The Underwood leaders are gathered in Baltimore. and they have the enthusi- asm born of the knowledge that their candidate Is the one man to nominate and make the victory in November sure.
 Clark Howell of Georgia, oldest mem- Der in point of service on the demo- cratic national committed; E. w. Bar rett and E. K. Campbell of Birming- ham and B. J. Anderson of Raleigh, N. C., constitute a militant advance guard of the forces that are to follow.
 Mr. Howell is as busy as can be among his old friends, and never loses sight of the main issue. He said, Tt is time" that the south threw off this old fashioned idea that the north will not support a man from our own sec tion. We have done penanee in the south for 50 years.
 During all these years we have de- livered our votes for any one named by the party no matter from what section he hailed. The obsession that southerner is Handicapped by place of birth in a presidential race exists no where except among our own people, and they are gradually outgrowing | this peculiar view. The time is ripe for the south to come into its own and Underwood Is the logical candi- date.
 Underwood is the ablest advocate of the democratic doctrine of a tariff for revenue only. As the democrats will make the tariff the paramount issue in their platform, Mir. Underwood at once becomes the logical candidate | of his party. The democrats will con duct their campaign on their record in Congress. No man is more responsible than MT. Underwood for this record. l say this without defracting from the record of any democratic member of Congress, for there is glory enough in the record of all.
 Because He Is National Leader
 q am not urging MT. Underwoods claims for nomination for President be- cause he is a southern man, and because I am a southern man. What is true of myself is true of other southern | friends of MT. Underwood. We are urg- ing him because he is a national lead CT, a national statesman. His work | his ability, his achievements belong to | the nation, which has been the gainer 1 because he has lived We know no lsectionalism in the south. If sectional lines have not been wiped out after nearly half century, when will they disappear? If the fact that MT. Un- derwood lives in the south initiates | against his nomination for President we would be willing, as much as we love and honor him. to surrender him to any section of the country that he may be nominated and elected Presi- | +1,t ,t- t.,- ! der that the whole country may profit by his wise statesmanship, his lovable character and his creed.
 | We believe that the next democratic candidate for President will be the next President Believing this we are con- vinced that the democratic party, with MT. Underwood as it's candidate, will re- | turn to power with a long lease on the presidency assured"
 Anderson Reflects Sentiment
 MT. Anderson, who Is now in Wash ington, but was in Baltimore yester- day, and talked to a number of demo- crats regarding the situation, said; | 50 far as I have been able to judge from conversations had with leaders from various sections of the country, it looks at the present time as though the choice would be Oscar Underwood | for President and Governor Foss of Massachusetts for Vice President.
 The Underwood people are claiming ! the support of New York's 90 votes in the convention. They seem sanguine that Tammany Hall, after 1t casts its complimentary vote for M. yor Gaynor will fall in line and indorse the can didacy of the Alabama representative. While supporters of Speaker Clark and other candidates have been dickering with Mir. Murphy, it seems 70 me that the latter has reached the conclusion 1 that Representative Underwood is the man who should be selected as the l standard bearer of the party. am not alone in this view of the situation MT. Underwood, in the opinion of two thirds of the men with whom I talked while in Baltimore. can carry New York state against any man the republicans may nominate. In addition, MT. Un- derwood. assured of the solid south can carry some of the western states, which are essential to success at the polls in November. Unless sentiment changes. I believe the Alabama can didate will be the one chosen for Pres ident at Baltimore"
 Campbell Is Confident F. K. Campbell, a life long friend and classmate of Mir. Underwood stopped off at Washington to see him today and will go to Baltimore to- night MT. Campbell Is very enthusi- astic over the cheering Lews of Un- derwood's strength with the leaders at the convention and he is firm in the belief that he will be nominated. "A great army of enthusiastic work | CTS are coming on from Alabama, and l from all over the south,' said MT. | Campbell And as We know we have the right man to win the fight with, we simply are not going to be denied. We are going in to win and nothing ct.a