Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-03-29
WHY
UNDER WOOD?

confirming squarely the Constitu
tons contention that whenever tn,
country thought of Democratic tariff
revision it would in the same breath
think of Oscar Underwood, comes the
Associated Press report which relate.
that the Representatives of the sugar
industry of Louisiana, protestins
against the placing of sugar on the
free list, also denounced Oscar I'm
derwood as responsible for that pol
icy.
The Louisiana incident sheds pro
phetic light upon each phase of the
situation as it touches the tariff in
the presidential campaign, again cor
roborating the Constitution upon the
proposition that Underwood is pre-em
lnently the logical Democrat to defend
and @propound the paramount issues
OF the party that will bear the stamT
of his name. 1t remains only to be
seen if the people of his own sec
ton will lift the embargo of section
alism already discarded wholesale BY
other portions of the country.
When the free sugar bill was first
reported out of the committee. &C
claimed by the country and accredited
by common consent to Underwood as
a beneficial achievement, what hap.
pened? Washington correspondents in
imical to Underwood at once exhaust
ed every device of language to prove
that credit should go, not to Under.
wood, but to other parties. But when
the industries directly affected by the
bill, and with no interest save in plac.
ing responsibility for it, seek to ex.
press their resentment, it is upon Tn.
derwood that the blow falls. That is
what will happen, also, with every
other interest and among the Repub.
lican high protectionists generally
upon every revised schedule that
energies from the house, once battle
is joined in the fall Incidentally, the
Louisiana Democrats appear to be of
that variety who are for tariff reform
for every interest save their own. I'm
derwood has made it plain that if that
policy prevails there will be no tariff
reform at all 1t must be revision all
along the line, and with statesman
like courage he started the ball rolling
by making 80 per cent slash in the
leading industry of his home section.
The unanimous action of the teach
ers of Henry county, Georgia, might
to the Observation-Disclosures
Democrats In their recent session
they passed a resolution endorsing
the candidacy of Hon. Oscar Under
wood of Alabama, for president of the
United States, since the Democratic
party is doomed to defeat or is to ?
crowned with victory through his pol
icies."
The issue could not be stated more
systematically. If the party is
crowned with victory, it will be be-
cause of the Underwood policies If
it goes down to defeat, the Underwood
policies will be called upon to stand
the responsibility. Is the man who
stands in this super-important relation
to the party to be prejudiced as a
presidential candidate because his
own people are hypnotized by the
bogie of sectionalsm which the north
has dismissed? Or is the man who
must stand the fire to be given also
the party's Endorsement for the lau-
rels, irrespective of the section from
which he comes Atlanta Constitu-
ton.
On November 90, 1911, the Argus, a
paper published in Albany, N. Y, has
this to say: mo northerner would
hesitate to support Mr. Underwood be-
cause he comes from the south
northern papers and northern Demo
Gratis are constantly speaking out on
this line and it shows that Mr.. I'm,
&c MT only nOnul9r with