The Washington herald., 1912-05-19

What reason you ask have I for the be-
lief that he win be nominated by the
Baltimore convention? / answer by say
/ ing that he is Democracy's best asset.
because he is the first constructive states
man We have had In twenty years. He
knows how TO do things and when He
Is levei-headed, paclhcatory, and q nat
ural leader Of men.
Ii Everybody second Choice.
Furthermore, after having named
some OF his elements, 1 would add that
he is in my opinion. the second choice
of all the Democrats in the country who
at present seem to favor the other can
dldates. They realize that he alone has
made the election Of a Democrat 70 the
Presidency possible. This he has done
by his brilliant leadership in the House
OF Representatives And the Democrats
over the creek, meaning the boys in the
woods, understand what he has accom-
plished.
Our party came into the Sixty-second
Congress split into disagreeing groups
with respect to the tariff. There is no
use 10 catalogue the differing views OF
the Democrats. They are known TO every
| one who q interested in politics. Proph-
cts said that the Democrats In the House
would quarrel and ruin the chances OF
Their unwieldy majority of sixty-seven
and their conflicting opinions would. II
was said. make harmony Of action inn
possible. They would fight. as hereto
fore. and their fat would go into the fire.
But the country did not know Oscar IN
derwood. His party did not understand
his personality or his powers. He had
been sitting IN the House for sixteen
years without making an effort to get
into the newspapers. Meanwhile, how
ever, he had been working. He gave up
his law practice several years ago, and
Thereafter devoted all OF his time TO the
work OF making himself skilled legis-
lstor.
During the time that Joseph W. Bail
ey, OF Texas. and John Sharp williams,
of Mississippi both Of whom are now
In the Senate, and Champ Clark, of Mis-
souri,, were leading the Democrats on
the floor of the House, the quiet man
from Alabama served them faithfully and
intelligently. They did not know IT. and
he did not know II, but he was patient
ly and thoroughly preparing himself for
the day when the Democracy OF the ma
ton should need his expert services He
burned the midnight oil. TO quote an an
Client expression. Moreover, he perceived
the errors Of his party.
Underwood's Policy In SIX Words.
mo mob ever carried a welI-defended
breastworks. Team work Is as essential
in legislation as in baseball Underwood,
elevated to leadership a year ago when
Congress met in special session TO dis
cuss Canadian reciprocity, immediately
by his genius brought the 70 Democrats
of the House into a cohesive and agrees
sive body. They stood together in unity.
Suddenly, overnight almost Underwood
became q national character, and Democ-
racy ceased to be the party of opposition
and became the party OF construction.
Boiled down to half, a dozen words, I'M
derwood's tariff policy Is simply this:
Stop protecting the profits of manufac-
turers. He wants the manufacturers to
compete among themselvs in the matter
of their profits and to be scattered to the
four winds Of the comercial heavens by
outside competition whenever they COM
bine among themselves to overcharge the
public.
Il have heard it said that Mr.. Under
woods geography Is unfavorable to his |
candidacy" Senator Bankhead con-
tinued, running his hand through the rim |
OF outstanding hair that half circles his |
head from ear to ear. For my part 1 |
think there are hundreds OF thousands
Of voters who are impatiently waiting |
to show that the line run by Charles |
Mason and Jeremiah Dixon has been
the civil war. and has been washed out
by the blood shed in our war with Spain. /
When Worth Bagley, of North Caro-
lima, the first naval officer killed by the /
Spaniards, lay dead on the deck Of the /
torpedo boat Winslow. on Cardenas no /
one asked the name of the State from /
which he came. His uniform and the
flag over him were enough for any /
American. When Victor Blue located
the Spanish fleet In the harbor Of Santi-
ago. climbing the hills in an enemy's /
country, no one stopped to inquire
whether he was from the North or the
South, though he, too, was born in the
State that wrote and passed the Neck
lenburg Declaration of Independence.
Old Joe Wheeler, OF Alabama, fighting
at Ei Caney. was in himself an answer
to the question, Is sectionaiism dead?
Why, sir. Oscar Underwood's geoe-
raphy will strengthen him all over the
land. We Americans are longing for an
opportunity to prove by our Suffrage
that there is no North, no South. no
East. no West, but only one nation ana
one nag, from the Gulf Of Mexico to the
Canadian boundary. and between the
waters Of the two great oceans"
Copyright. ISL. b. James B. Morrow
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