The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13
GREAT VICTORY FOR
 UNDERWOOD MEN
Adoption of Harmony Plan
 in Tennessee
WILSON IS ELIMINATED
Underwood Clubs in Tennessee Now Able to Work Unhampered-Club No. 1 Now Numbers 2000
 Members and Is Growing

Nashville. April 2.-(Specitn) n)-Without intermeddlng or gaining the i'll will of either faction the managers of the can didaey of Oscar w. Underwod won q great victory in Tennessee today when the committee of regular democrats adopted the plan of the country editors and agreed to go into the convention May l5 with the Independents and to select the dele gates to the Baltimore convention.
 Party Was Badly Split
 When the presidential light first opened 1 in Tennessee the party was badly split 1 into two factions. Early the candidacy of Governor Wilson was espoused by the inde pendents largely on account of the fact that the Nashville Banner favored the New Jersey governor, and when the cry of Wilson was set up by the inde- pendents who helped elect Governor Hoop CT two years ago, the regulars looked about for candidate to oppose Wilson, selected Governor Harmon because he had been long talked Of as good presi- dential timber With the formal entrance into the race of the chairman of the ways and means committee 1t was discenable that MT Underwood had large follow ing on both sides, and he easily proved to be the general fayorte.
 Due to Leadership of Underwood
 This was due In some sense to the close proximity of Alabama to Tennes- see. but the suberb leadership of the Ala bama congressman in Congress also had the greatest effect in attracting the masses to Underwood.
 But with no certainty as to which side would be the recognized delegation in Baltimore there has not been the activity in Tennessee for MT. Underwood that the situation in the future would warrant, but now his followers will put forward a tremendous effort to capture the solid Tennessee delegation for him in the con vention of May 15 with reasonable assur- ances of success.
 Much Encouraged
 With the greatest faith that the fight can be won for the brilliant represen- tative of the Birmingham district, the management is very much encouraged with the rapidly growing membership of the Underwood club No. of Tennessee WHICH WdS lIt liifel Di GfAiiiNdA4HAA bA thN kind in the state and located at Nash vile. The membership is now nearly 5000 and hundreds are belng added each week and volunteers to work for Underwood are making themselves known in all sec- tions of the state.
 The recent visit of Governor Harmon to Nashville at the time of the Conner cial congress was displeasng to his man. agers in that he did not attract the crowd or receive anything like the att tention that was expected of him. on the other hand the Southern Commercial congress on the very night that the Ohio governor spoke and just previous to his address adopted by a unanimous vote q resolution commenting the course of Con gressman Underwood in the national House.
 President Mayberry of the Underwood club No. 1 is confident that Tennessee will cast it's votes for his favorite and in this his opinion is shared by some of the very best posted democrats who gath cred here today to attend the meeting out of which grew the harmony move meDt