The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-22

l ALABAMA OFFERS UNDERWOOD F. om the Atlanta Constitution.
 It is upon a platform singularlg sane, strklngy suggestive of Ind, rwool him- self. that the people of Alabaraa offer that statesman to tho nation as all aspr- ant for presidential honors.
 As is appropriate, tariff revision Is given right Of way. The genius and leadership of Underwood in a greater degree than any otter living democrat, will be iden- ;, tiied with the tariff programme with which the party goes to the country. It is meet that that overwhelming issue should be accorded precedence by his own people.
 Next follow revision of our antlquated end panic breeding banking and currency laws;
 Maintenance of the Monroe doctrine; 1 Federal aid in the construction and maintenance of post roads. and other subjects of a similarly basic nature i The Alabama democratic platform, like the New York democratic platform, is as far apart from '1sms' as midday from midnight.
 It's every provision breathes that cool, deliberate poise and sanity upon the pos session of which Governor Woodrow Will son of New Jersey SD warmly congratu- lated the southern people. Nothing fan tastie, nothing iridescent, no demagpgic short cut masqnerading as democracy" closures it's meaning or weakens It's ap- peal.
 The platform is as direct and straight I forward as was Thclnas Jefferson hm- self As free of frills and non-committal senoraltles as the big and broad Ala banlan who Is to stand upon it.
 Upon that confession of democratic faith and hope the party may with safety go to the nation. Underburdened with eqilvoeations or antiquities it will strike 12 upon the receptive mind of evsry American in every doubtful state essen tia to the partys triumph. It is informed with the spirit of that original Jeffersonen democracy which, like the man for whom it was buded, has never shifted or squirmed or trimmed sail to catch every fleeting breeze of op-
 
 elamor of a day plagued with false prophets and suddenly self constituted po- litical redeemers it sends a calm, clear call for return to those sound and homely doctrines desertion of which have ever heralded party disaster.
 Alabama confidently calls upor the democrats of her sister states rings the challenge. The call will be answered, if manhood wins over timdity in the soutlle ern states. Speaking of Underwood, the Chicago Journal said; Nothing but shame should be accorded to the Aneri can who would support or oppose him or any other man-merely because of the place of his residence" Nothing but rshpme.' That from a northern paper in debatable territory
 If the south does not rally around Oscar Underwood, greatest of living democrats in practical achievement it will invite merited contempt from the nation.
 Across the reach of distance and the chasm of the sixties the state of Ala bama and the state of New York unite in political creed that is the written in- caination of Alabamas favorite son.
 Alabama offers Underwood to her sister states She offers him also to the nation Tor the platform which is dramatized in his every public deed is the one platform upon which the democracy can sweep the doubtful states-and tne nation.