The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-04
SENATOR BANKHEAD
 IS MUCH PLATED
Underwood Sentiment De-
 vel0ping Rapidly
WILSON DUE SURPRISE
Washington Correspondent of New r ork Paper Surprised at Growth of Underwood Sentiment.
 Presiding Over House
ny WALTER HARPER

Washington, May 3-(Speeial 1-Sen4tor Bankhead, chairman of the Underwood campaign comp9ittee. returned to WAfh- ington today from Georgia and Eiorixe elated over the great victS'ies Non forNs Underwood in those states. He Is moro than pleased with the showing made against some local odds in both states and feels that Underwood is now safely in the running with excellent chances of winning the nomination at Baltimore. He is assuring friends of the Alabama candi- date that Mississippi and North Carolina will give even better indorsenent of Un- derwood than the other two states. The successes already attained will have d reassuring effect on other southern states yet to act
 Sentiment Develops Rapidly
 Letters and telegrams received in Wash
 ington today indicate that Underwood sentiment is developing rapidly in South Carolina since the Florida and Georgia elections. In this state the Wilson people are working for an instructed delegation. while the Underwood people want an un | instructed delegation. The Wilson peo- | pie feel that actual instruction for Wil- son is all that will save that state for them. They realize that with the increase | ing Underwood sentiment he will be sure to capture an uninstfueted delegation. The same condition exists in Virginia. ! where the Underwood sentiment is de-
 veloping even stronger than in South ! Carolina
 The Wilson publicity bureau made the
 claim today that Underwood has only car | ried territory adjacent to his home stats
 and that he will be unable to carry other
 states not bordering his own. It is con- 1 fidently stated by the Underwood people
 that they are due the surprise of their lives If they really believe this. The correspondent for one of the big New York papers who travels with Pres ident Taft said while in Washington for few hours today that he had been fairy astounded at the development of senti- ment favorable to Oscar Underwood in most all the states that he has recently visited. He said that this development | is especially noticeable in the southern states, through which the presidential
 train has just passed. ], 1 Underwood Pfesides Over House
 Oscar Underwood is temporarily presia- l ing over the House, which is just now In the committe9 of the whole considering l the judicisL.And executive appropriation bill. Speake. Clark took the opportunity to make short campaign tour inea, Nary land today. He made no formal speeches but stopped at q number of towns ank met the people informally. Clark, WilA son and Harmon are running in the Mary land primaries to be held Monday.
 After securing the next annual meeting of the southern commercial congress for Mobile, John T. Coehrane, president of the Mobile Chamber of Commerce, con- tinued on his way to New York, accom- panied by Mrs. Cochrane. MT. Cochrane is proud of his success in securing the meeting of the congress, which will be held simultaneously with the opening of the Panama canal. This event will be emphasized at the meeting and it's im- portance and value to the material de- velopment of Alabama will be feature. While in Washington Mir Coehrane con- firmed the report that he intends to ex-
 tend his railroad, the Alabama, Tennessee and Northern, into the Birmingham dis- trict as early as possible.