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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-12-20
Congress Adjourns for the
Holidays Without TAX
ing ANY Action
HOKE SMITH GIVES
SMOOT HOT ANSWER

Saws Presidents Appoint
ments Has Reached the
Unprecedented Total OF
Thirteen Thousand
Democrats Would Con
firm Army and Navy
Nominations.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-12-20
But None Agree Upon Nha'
Except Commission
Boosters.
Mr.. SEMMES AND Mr..
MHUGH WARM ROOM

About Ten Speeches Each
From Mcssrs. Bingham,
and Semmes, Half Dozen
or so From Mr.. Walket
and Then a Few More
From All Three Feature
Session.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-12-20
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Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-04-11
ALABAMA AND
r1R. UNDERWOOD

But the present leader of the House
is not impulsive. In truth, that fact
explains his leadership. He is a man
of calculation. Had he not been, he
could never have piloted his party
through the difficulties of the extra ses-
sion. His task then called for a calm
vision ard a single purpose. Had he
Lccn a 5pellbinder and a scatterer he
would have wasted his opportunity.
Were Mr.. Underwood to set his heart
on the White House and maneuver for
a stay under that famous roof he would
play hobs with all the reputation he has
just acquired. His vision would be-
come confused, and everything would go
by tb. board. He could not serve two
masters, and his work in the House has
the trst and highest claim on his at
t@enti)n.
THIS does not mean that Mr., Under
woods name will, as the result of his
reply to his House colleagues, disap-
pear from the Presidential speculation,
OF course, it will not. 1t is there to
stay, with the other names now or
many pens and tongues. The matter Of
tie nominee is in the lap of fate, anC
We shall all have to wait for the deci'
sion.-The Washington Sunday Star
December, 1911.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-04-11
OSCAR UNDERWOOD

The appearance of Oscar Underwood
here last night, in advocacy of the Dem
ocratic principles he has done so much
to advance, was an event not only Lightly
gratifying to his party associates in
! ouisville, but of exceptional interest to-
the community in general.
1t is not often that a man returns to
the scenes of his youth to speak with
such authority, from so commanding a
position, won on his own merit. 1t has
rot been so long as the years ago-he is
not yet 50-since Oscar Underwood was
a schoolboy here; he comes back now
the recognized and applaudcd leader Of
his party on the floor of the National
House of Representatives, the head Of
the great committee which shapes the
fiscal legislation of the country; a new
chieftain of Democracy who has arisen
at a crisis when the old party seemed
all but leaderless.
Bravo, Oscar Underwood! 1t is a
bright day for Democrats when they are
fortunate to find and quick to acclaim
such a charlottesville Couriey-Jonr-
nal, reprinted in Age-Herald, Birming-
ham, Ala, October IS, 1911.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-04-11
THE TAN TO WIN

The Mobile Register declares that
the relief Of ninety millions Of people
from tax eNtortion is the issue, and the
is p~ersonihed in Oscar w. Under
wood. What more fitting, therefore,
asks this paper, than that the man who
is the perSonifcation Of the issue should
stand before the President who vetoed
The bills drawn by Mr.. Underwood seek
ing to give relief to the American peo-
pie? What more fitting that the can
didate should be Mr.. Underwood, stand
ing for tariff reduction as against Mr..
Taft standing in defense of present tariff
laws? What more fitting for the Demo
cratic party to nominate a man who can
win-for this is the time Democracy can
win. Powerful political leaders Of
thought and those journalistic exponent;
of Democracy throughout the country
should take note of Mr.. Underwoo
They should investigate; and with party
LOYALTY frm-with sectional prejudice
eliminated, learn to know the mar ar,
re principles for which he stands. Thu
Southern press, especially, should raj,
with unhesitating yigor to support arr
use their influence for the man who ha
done more than any living Democrat tt
rcunite Democracy, and who cam, as
Southern Democrat in the White House
establish forever a rerr'ted country
Pichmond Journal, r"""r IN tn
f}-rr''Scr, Montgomcr, IT,. 'o"rar
co. 1912.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-04-11
UNDERWOOD AS A CANDIDATE

If Oscar Underwood, when he was
made Chairman of the Ways and Means
Committee, had been as well known
throughout the country as Champ Clark
or Judson Harmon or Woodrow Wilson
he would have gone into the Democratic
convention far in the lead. He was at
that time, however, little known and
this fact may give to the Speaker a part
of the prestige that Mr.. Underwood
otherwise would have had.
Mr.. Underwood is well known nows
however, and will be better known be-
fore the convention meets or the States
elect delegates. Taking it for granted
that he will conduct the tariff fight as
we'll during the regular session as dur
ing the extra session, Mr.. Underwood
will be much stronger at the end of the
regular session than he is now. If we
judge by results we must conclude that
no Democratic leader has ever had his
forces so well in hand as Mr.. Under
wood had during the last session.-The
Florida Times-U Union, Jacksonville, Fla.y
October "a, 1911.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-04-11
PROJECTIONS TNIOUITIEs
Gin the U. S. House of Representatives
April q, l9ll.l

April Il, l9ll.)
The protected interests of this coun-
try know we'll that this bill will make
a break in the dixie; that whenever the
protective tariff is removed and the
Northern farmer stands out alone with
out pretense of protection to his prod
ucts that he can no longer be counted
on to stand in the ranks of the monopo-
listic interests of this country. That is
why they are afraid of it. 1t is not So
much what is in the bill, but they know
that the death knell Of the protection
system will have sounded-that protcc-
ton that means the protection of 0
nous profits ard the creation of mo-
nopolics in tits country-when the
farmer understands ard abandons the
Republican Party to those alone who
ave fattcned upon his hard-earred dol
lars. They are using, my frierds, every
effort in tie districts on that side of the
House and in your district, my fellow
Democrat and in my district to break
tlc column. l have protected interests
in my district, but I do not represent
them. | represent the great mass of my
constituency who want honest treatment
and fair play,
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-04-11
UNDERWOOD SOUND ON ALL PUBLIC QUESTIONS
VIEWS ON RECIPROCITY, ANTITRUST LEGISLATION
MERCHANT MARINE, PUBLIC SERVICE, THE TARIFF

in favor of American ships. 1t was the
policy Of the fathers; it built up our
merchant marine from a point where
it was carrying u per cent of our COM
merce to a point where it was carrying
90 per cent of American commerce in
a period Of seven years. 1t does not
place additional burdens on the people;
it is not a policy Of doubtful constitu-
tionality; it is a policy that has been
tried and proven effective. 1t is a pol
icy by which we can restore the Amer
lean flag to the seas and the American
ships to our commercial trade. 1t is {
policy that will enable us to build uI
the export trade of the American peo-
pie. 1t is a policy that will enable IS
to find foreign markets for our surplus
products in agriculture and manufc-
ture. 1t is a policy that will restore the
balance of commerce as we'll as trade to
our Nation, 1t is a policy that will
ultimately overcome the necessity OF our
paving a foreign balance in gold to
European rations ard will bring Pros
perity to all lines Of industry.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-04-11
UNDERWOOD

Every public speech that Oscar W.
Underwood, Democratic leader Of the
House of representatives, makes brings
him closer to the people as a presiden-
tial possibility. What Congressman
Longworth, a Republican, said OF him
at the dinner of the Pennsylvania So
ciety in New York on Saturday night
is coming to be generally felt by the
public. ,
mot for many years." said Colonel
Roosevelts s~on-in-law, "has so f%orceful
a personality come to the front Of his
party as the present leader Of the House.
Not in my time, certainly, and not, as
believe, in modern times, has the Demo
cratic party developed a mar POSSESSING
in so full degree the qualifications fol
real leadership as it has this year in the
person of Oscar Underwood."-The Jer.
sew Journal, Jersey City, N. j. Deem
Der II, 1911.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-04-11
WHY | AM FOR
OSCAR UNDERWOOD

changed, before the present system Of
representative government and legisla-
ton could be changed for direct law
making.
When, do you suppose, we could elect
a Congress that would give the people
the opportunity to vote away the pre-
negatives of Congress?
When, do you suppose, there would
be "a States ready to adopt the new
system?
When, do you suppose, would the
small States be willing to surrender
their equality, in the Federal Govern
ment?
When Wilson and Bryan pirate of a
national initiative, referendum and re-
call, they make themselves demagogues.
Can either of them tell US how Direct
legislation can be applied, nationally,
in such a manner as to preserve the
sovereign equality of the small States?
If either of them can, l should be
glad to publish their plan.
1t will be time enough to talk about
national Direct legislation and the recall
after we shall have tried it, in the
States.
ClO) Lastly, I am for Oscar Under
wood because his record, public and
private, is unstained; his character ele-
waited and spotless; his leadership ST.
pcrb; his work and purposes patriotic
and practical; his sympathies, for the
oppressed. He doesn't stoop to dema-
gogy to win popular applause; and he
doesn't cater to wealth and power, as
the s~tandpatters of both parties do
Tom Watson, in The JrferS0nian
Thomson, Ga, January Is, 1912,
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-04-11
SOUTH ELECTED CLEVELAND

at was due to the South that Grover
Cleveland was nominated and elected"
said Judge Parker. at was due to the
South that William J. Bryan was twi'e
nominated, ard in like manner the South
was responsible for the nomination Of
a New Yorker, who speaks to you now,
II still believe that the South is the sec
ton of our country from which a pref
DENTAL nomiree could be chosen who
could qucll the voices of all the Demo-
cratic factions and hcll all breaches.
When the Democratic National Conven-
fion secs fit to nominate a Southerrer,
believe T. at the Northern Democrats
;} srooc~. I'm with their ballots
Tudoe Alton B. Parker, in The State,
7lnmbia. s. c, January IS, 1912.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-04-11

That Representative Oscar w. I'm
derwood is rapidly crowding to the wall
all other aspirants for the Democratic
presidential nomination, is the informa-
ton that comes from sources close to
the alabama leader to-day. In fact, it
is now a subject of open gossip about
the House that New York State is veer-
ing toward the Alabama member and
that Clark, Wilson and Harmon are los
i~g ground in the chief pivotal State of
the Union.
A member of the New York delega-
ton in the House, who is not person.
ally an advocate of the candidacy Of
Mr.. Underwood, admitted in confidence
to-day that the trend of sentiment in
New York city and New York State
row favors the Alabama leader. From
Representative Henry D. Clayton, OF
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-04-11
UNDERWOOD THE MAN
OF THE HOUR

But Mr., Underwood's rise in public
favor has not been spectacular. His
is not the kind of popularity that will
decline. 1t dawned suddenly but its
dawning was rather the awakening of
recognition than the discovery of a new
star, Mr.. Underwood and his ability
had been there all the time, but they
had not been called into action. Op-
portunity revealed the man and the
leader.
His leadership and his qualities are
of the stuff that will last. He may never
be President of the United States. He
may never be given the nomination by
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-04-11
SOMETHING OF ALABAr1A'S
CANDIDATE FOR THE
PRESIDENCY

Whoever was floor leader Of the De-
mocracy was good enough for Mr.. I'm
derwood during all the long years that
party was in the minority, and day after
Gay, whether that leader was Joseph W.
Bailey, of Texas, John Sharp Williams
of Mississippi, or Champ Clark, of Mis-
souri,, the gentleman from Alabama was.
always at his leaders elbow, ready and
eager to do anything he could to help.
Other statesmen might try to black their
party leaders eye, but Mr.. Underwood
was never known to extend anything
but the helping hand.-George Z. Miller,
Staff Correspondent, in the Detroit
NewS, October "a, 1911.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-04-11
WIDE APPEAL OF UNDERWOODS CANDIDACY

Alabama, also, comes confirmation Of
the fact that the Underwood boomers
are receiving most encouraging reports
from New York. These reports 60 so
far as to say that if the South will keep
Representative U~nderwood's name be-
fore the convention, New York State
may be counted on to fall into line after
the second or third ballot,
If the South can get over the ancient
obsession that a Southern man cannot
be nominated for President and if the
South will keep the name of Underwood
before the convention, for a few ballots,
there are many wise political observers
in Washington and New York who arc
confident that the New York delegation
will swing into line for Underwood
Washington correspondence of the
NoshviHe TenneSseean, December 81,
1911.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-04-11
ANTITRUST LEGISLATION

(In Speech Before Pennsylvania So
ciety Of New York, Dec, 9, 1911
"Ts it not proper for all Of us, ire
spective Of party, TO insist that the
time has come for us to join together
in putting an end to this prohtless agi-
tation and proposals for tinkering with
the (Sherman) law? AS the necessity
arises, we can from time to time enforce
the act, without fear or favor, but with
out any disposition to get political cap
ital out Of what we may be called upon
to do. Let our pilot be experience and
accurate knowledge and high resolve,
and not party expediency or misdi-
rected energy, whether proceeding from
good or bad motives, and above all this
let us not proceed upon a crude guess"
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-04-11

% Because he is the strongest all
round man in the field;
(2) Dccouse he is old enough to have
learned a great deal, and young enough
to learn nlorei
(3) Because he is a constructive,
practical statesman;
(4) Because he fathered the Farm
ers' Free List Bill, which was an i'm
mense stride toward free trade, and a
measure that would have been magically
beneficial to u oyer-taxed people;
(5) Because he proposed and put
through Congress a drastic reform of
the Infamous wooden tariff; and also a
sweeping reduction in the cotton goods
schedule;
(6) Because he had the manhood to
defy the Birmingham Board of Trade,
when it tried to intimidate him as to
tariff reduction;
(7) Because he has introduced a bill
to cut the steel and iron schedule
from 80 to 50 per cent;
(8) Because he had the courage to
oppose the Sherwood pension grab,
which the shirkers and skulkers, and
dcscrters, and bounty-junpers demand.
Champ Clark voted for the grab
Bryan has not had the pluck to say a
word against it, nor has Woodrow
Wilson.
(9) Because he has the sanity and
the spunk to tell the people that all this
talk about the initiative, referendum
and recall, in national politics, is
tommy-rot. Everybody should know
that the Constitution of the United
States would have to be radically
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-04-11
WHO1 SHALL THE
DEnOCRATS NOMINATE

Congressman Underwood, as house
leader of the Democrats and as chair
man of the Ways and Means Commit
tee, has measured up to the standard Of
true craftsmanship. He has rendered in
calculable service to the cause of honest
tariff revision, the one great issue in
the pending campaign, and by his SPLEEN
did poise and mastery of affairs he has
exalted his party's name in the minds Of
thinking Americans.-AldHtG Journal,
January 7, 1912.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-04-11
CONVICTIONS TORE POWER
Full THAI LO-AL PRESSURE
(In the U. S. House Of Representatives,
April 81, l9lL.)

(In the U. S. House Of Representatives,
April Il, l9lL.)
Two years ago, when the proposition
came before the House to cut tie tariff
on iron and steel products, n many
cases about half, | favored the PROPOSE
ton because | thought it was just and
fair, but some Of the protected interests
in my district met and passed rcsolu-
tons, and resolved that they would re-
Luke me if | voted to reduce the tax
on iron and steel, | voted 70 make the
reduction Applause on the Democratic
sidel, but they did not turn me out Of
Congress Applause on the Democratic
sidel, and they will not tIrn you out
of Congress if YOU stand true to TIE
people you represent. Applause on the
Democratic side. The distinguished
gentleman from Illinois [Mr. CANNoNl !,
when he addressed the House several
days ago, stated that the United States
Steel Corporation was in favor of this
ill and asked if l did not know it,
or if that was not the reason why
favored it. As | then stated to the
gentleman from Illinois, l was not in
formed as to the wishes of the United
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-04-11

Oscar w. Underwood of Alabama is
unquestionably of presidential size. His
leadership of the Democratic majority
on the floor of the House has never been
cxcelled for skill, force and definite di-
rection. 1t is a respectful hearing from
all over the country which Senator
Bankhead of the same State will have
in naming him for the Democratic nom
nation.
Has the time come when it is expe-
dent for the Democracy to nominate a
~Southerner living in the South for the
presidency? 1t has not been thought SO
since the civil war. 1t has not wen
been thought e~xpedient to give the South
second place on the ticket. The nearest
approach to this was the naming on the
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-04-11
Birmingham News
Supports Underwood

In many quarters there has arisen a
demand that Oscar w. Underwood be
named the standard bearer Of the Demo-
cratic party in the campaign that will
be waged for the presidency in 1912.
1t is the earnest hope of The Birming-
ham Ne7ys that this may come about.
Should the banner be entrusted to the
keeping Of Oscar w. Underwood, The
birmingham NszvS thoroughly believes
that by him it will be carried to glo-
rious victory, and that it will never be
stained by compromise with wrong or
sullied by collision with privHege.-lhe
Birmingham News, Thursday, November
q, 1911.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-04-11
RECIPROCITY
(In the U. S. House of Representatives,
April q, 1911

AlH LlC " d 41OuSG VI
April q, l9ll.)
Our agricultural implements supply
the farmers wants beyond the seas.
Our boots and shoes are worn by peo-
pie who speak many foreign languages
and who tread the highways of the
Occident and the Orient. The looms Of
our factories clothe the people of dis
tant lands. The freight of our foreign
rivals is carried to market on American
rails, drawn by American engines, across
chasms spanned by American-built
bridges. Applause. The harvests of
II farmers feed the toiling masses of
Europe. We would be the unrivaled
masters of production and industry in
every land where free competition can
be obtained if we would but strike off
the shackles that bind us to the dead
and unnecessary economic system main
tanned by the Republican Party, that
creates false standards and wastcful
conditions at home. Applause on the
Democratic side.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-04-11
UNDERWOOD AS A CANDIDATE

there is added a genius for %organiza-
ton and command not often observable
in party leaders of his section. For
candor compels a good word in
acknowledgement Of what he did in the
way of harmonizing and knitting to-
gether the warning elements of his
nartv in the House. Not in twenty
years has there been in Democratic
councils a leader who proved success
full in uniting all shades of opinion and
presenting a solid front on practically
every issue that came to a vote, For
that reason, if for no other, Mr., I'm
derwood's availability would seem to
merit careful consideration at the
hands of the Democratic Darty.-Wash-
ington Post October 8, 1911,
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-04-11
The South and
the Presidency

This constant reference to an alleged
dead line" when it comes to the selec-
ton of a candidate for the presidency, is
out Of place. 1t is a peculiar fact that
we hear more Of it right here in the
South than anywhere else in the coun-
try. We are getting to be painfully
sclf-conscious about this supposed politi-
cal bar sinister. Not only that, but we
act on the assumption that it would be
politically i~nexpedient for us to support
any man who is Southern born and
bred. 1t is folly Of the worst kind and
only serves to keep alive the dying en-
Lers OF acknowledgements Times,
December, 1911,
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-04-11
A SOUTHERNER ON THE TICKET

Parker ticket in 1904 of Henry C. Davis
of West Virginia. But that is essen
TALLY a Northern State. Carlisle Of
Kentucky had a few votes for President
in the conventions of 1884 and 1892;
Blackburn of Kentucky and Tillman Of
South Carolina in 1896; Williams of
Mississippi in 1904. But they were
merely complimentary,
Yet the war is over. A Southern
Democrat and a former Confederate
soldier is Chief Justice of the United
States Supreme Court by appointment
of a Republican President. The day
may not be so far off when the last
traces of the sectional line will be oblit-
Grated in American politics.-The NeU
York World, October "a, 1911,
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-04-11
A NATIONAL REPUTATION
WITHOUT SEEKING IT

order to make anybody hear your name.
1t is a rule to which there is no excep-
ton that | know Of except Underwood.
lie sat back there quietly in Congress
for sixteen years doing splendid work
and never getting his name into the pa
pcrs. Finally the crash came, the Demo-
Gratis carried the House, and from sheer
merit and nothing else the quiet man
from Alabama was made floor leader
and put in charge of the party's tariff
bill. And he so acquitted himself that
within a month he became a national
figure, and now he is quite likely to be
nominated for President.-Charles Will
lis Thompson, in The Sunday Herald,
Boston, October y, 1911.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-04-11

In Mr.. Underwood's candidacy the
South for the first time in 60 years
comes forward with a man with a rea-
soma man with a valid claim on
Democracy for signal recognition, If
unselhsh devotion, high performance,
Nationwide breadth of view, and rare
qualities for leadership entitle a man
to sympathy and support in his aspir-
atoms, the nomination of Mr.. Under
wood would be a testimonial logically
bestowed,
The Southern Democracy never
wants, in or out of Congress, for
powerful champions of party politics.,
men who come in for honorable men
ton when the Presidential year rolls
round, but in Mr., Underwoods case