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UNDERWOOD SOUND ON ALL PUBLIC QUESTIONS
VIEWS ON RECIPROCITY, ANTI TRUST LEGISLATION
MERCHANT MARINE, PUBLIC SERVICE, THE TARIFF

in favor of American ships. 1t was the
policy of the fathers; it built up our
merchant marine from a point where
it was carrying II per cent of our COM
merce to point where it was carrying
90 per cent of American commerce in
period of seven years. 1t does not
place additional burdens on the people I;
it is not a policy of doubtful constitu-
tionality; it is a policy that has been
tried and proven effective. 1t is a pol
icy by which we can restore the Amer
lean flag to the seas and the American
ships to our commercial trade. II is a
policy that will enable US to build up
the export trade of the American peo-
pie. 1t is a policy that will enable US
to find foreign markets for our surplus
products in agriculture and manufac-
ture. 1t is policy that will restore the
balance of commerce as well as trade to
our Nation. It is a policy that will
ultimately overcome the necessity of our
paying a foreign balance in gold to
European nations and will bring pros
perity to all lines of industry.
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WHY | AM FOR
OSCAR UNDERWOOD

changed, before the present system of
representative government and legisla-
ton could be changed for direct law
making.
When, do you suppose, We could elect
a Congress that would give the people
the opportunity to vote away the pre-
negatives of Congress?
When, do you suppose, there would
be "a States ready to adopt the new
system?
When, do you suppose, would the
small States be willing to surrender
their equality, in the Federal Govern
ment?
When Wilson and Bryan pirate of a
national initiative, referendum and re-
call, they make themselves demagogues
Can either of them tell US how Direct
legislation can be applied, nationally,
in such manner as to preserve the
sovereign equality of the small States?
If either of them can, should be
glad to publish their plan.
1t will be time enough to talk about
national Direct legislation and the recall
after we shall have tried it, IN the
States.
(10) Lastly, am for Oscar Under
wood because his record, public and
private, is unstained; his character ele-
waited and spotless; his leadership SUI
perb; his work and purposes patriotic
and practical; his sympathies, for the
oppressed. He doesn't stoop to dema-
gogy to win popular applause; and he
doesn't cater to wealth and power, as
the standpatters of both parties do
Tom Watson, in The yefersoniGn,
Thomson, Ga, January Is, 1912.
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UNDERWOOD THE MAN
OF THE HOUR

But Mr.. Underwood's rise in public
favor has not been spectacular. His
is not the kind of popularity that will
decline. II dawned suddenly but its
dawning was rather the awakening OF
recognition than the discovery of a new
star. Mr. Underwood and his ability
had been there all the time, but they
had not been called into action. OPP
portunity revealed the man and the
leader.
His leadership and his qualities are
of the stuff that will last. He may never
be President of the United States. He
may never be given the nomination by
his party, but his usefulness to the party
and to the people will not be destroyed.
He is hanging no hopes on the reward
that may come to him from the party.
Mr.. Underwood's public record is I'M
usual for its clean brilliancY. 1t stands
without a flaw. Critics may search it
through and through and Mr.. Under
woods smile would never waiver. His
party record is just as clear. His pri-
Vate life is without a bleInish-
LIE is Peculiar1y fitted by L1atS.cs sE.sl
training for the leadership of men and
the administration of executive func-
tons. He comes of good stock, if that
means anything in this peoples repub-
lie. His education was thoroughly
rounded. His character we'll poised.
His training has been broad and wise.
He is thoroughly practical His aca-
demic education has been broadened by
well directed experience and constant
application to useful research.-Walter
Harper in the Birmingham Age-HerGld,
January 7, 1912
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PROJECTIONS INIoUITIEs
(In the u. s. House of Representatives,
April q. 1Qll.)

Gin the y. S. House of Representatives
April II, 1ol1.)
The protected interests of this coun-
try know well that this bill will make
break in the dixie; that whenever the
protective tariff is removed and the
Northern farmer stands out alone with
out pretense of protection to his prod
ucts that he can no longer be counted
on to stand in the ranks of the monopo-
istic interests of this country. That is
why they are afraid of it. II is not so
much what is in the bill, but they know
that the death knell of the protection
system will have sounded-that protec-
ton that means the protection of enor-
nous profits and the creation of mo-
nopolies in this country-when the
farmer understands and abandons the
Republican Party to those alone who
have fattened upon his hard-earned dol
lars. They are using, my friends, every
effort in the districts on that side of the
House and in your district, my fellow
Democrat and in my district to break
the column. l have protected interests
in my district, but / do not represent
them. / represent the great mass of my
constituency who want honest treatment
and fair play.
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ID Because he is the strongest all
round man in the field;
(2) Because he is old enough to have
learned a great deal, and young enough
to learn moreSs
CD Because he is a constructive,
practical statesman;
% Because he fathered the Farm
ers' Free List Bill, which was an i'm
mense stride toward free trade, and a
measure that would have been magically
beneficial to our over-taxed people;
90 Because he proposed and put
through Congress a drastic reform of
the infamous wooden tariff; and also a
sweeping reduction in the cotton goods
schedule;
90 Because he had the manhood to
defy the Birmingham Board of Trade,
when it tried to intimidate him as to
tariff reduction;
Cd Because he has introduced bill
to cut the steel and iron schedule
from so to 50 per cent;
(S) Because he had the courage to
oppose the Sherwood pension grab,
which the shirkers and sllulkers, and
deserters, and bounty-jumpers demand.
Champ Clark voted for the grab /:
Bryan has not had the pluck to say a
word against it, nor has Woodrow
Wilson.
20 Because he has the sanity and
the spunk to tell the people that all this
talk about the initiative, referendum
and recall, in national politics, is
tommy-rot. Everybody should know
that the Constitution of the United
States would have to be radically
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OSCAR UNDERWOOD

The appearance of Oscar Underwood
here last night, in advocacy of the Dem
ocratic principles he has done so much
to advance, was an event not only highly
gratifying to his party associates in
Louisville, but of exceptional interest to
the community in general.
1t is not often that man returns TO
the scenes of his youth to speak with
such authority, from so commanding a
position, won on his own merit. It has
not been so long as the years ago-he is
not yet 50-since Oscar Underwood was
a schoolboy here; he comes back now
the recognized and applauded leader of
his party on the. floor of the National
House of Representatives, the head of
the great committee which shapes the
fiscal legislation of the country; a new
chieftain of Democracy who has arisen
at crisis when the old party seemed
all but leaderless.
Bravo, Oscar Underwood 1t is a
bright day for Democrats when they are
fortunate to find and quick to acclaim
such a leader.-Louisville CoHrier-JoEy-
nal, reprinted in Age-HerGId, Birming-
ham, Ala, October IS, 1911.
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UNDERWOOD OVER AGAIN

The rapid rise of Oscar w. Under
wood in the discussion of Presidential
possibilities is full of significance, and
may well cause CONSERVATION in the
Wilson, Clark and Harmon camps. AS
a distinctive Southerner, his boom espe-
cially is a menace to Wilson, who APP
pealed strongly to the sentiment of that
section, in which he was born and spent
his early years. In the soundness of
his Democracy, the statesmanli1e judg-
ment and moderation he displays in
dealing with the issues of the hour,
Mr.. Underwood has no superior among
his rivals. He avoids indorsing very
questionable issues to which Wilson
committed himself somewhat inconti-
nently.-Tke Troy Press, New York,
November Is, 1911.
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UNDERWOOD

Every public speech that Oscar w.
Underwood, Democratic leader of the
House of Representatives, makes brings
him closer to the people as a presiden-
tial possibility. What Congressman
Longworth, a Republican, said of him
at the dinner of the Pennsylvania So
ciety in New York on Saturday night
is coming to be generally felt by the
public.
mot for many years." said Colonel
Roosevelt's son-in-law, "has so forceful
a personality come to the front of his
party as the present leader of the House.
Not in my time, certainly, and not, as /
believe, in modern times, has the Demo-
cratic party developed a man possessing
in so full degree the qualifications for
real leadership as it has this year in the
person of Oscar Underwood.-The Ter
sey Journal, Jersey City, N. J., Decem-
Der II, 1911.
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WIDE APPEAL OF UNDERWooD's CANDIDACY

Alabama, also, comes confirmation of
the fact that the Underwood boomers
are receiving most encouraging reports
from New York. These reports go so
far as to say that if the South will keep
Representative Underwood's name be-
fore the convention, New York State
may be counted on to fall into line after
the second or third ballot
If the South can get over the ancient
obsession that Southern man cannot
be nominated for President and if the
South viii keep the name of Underwood
before the convention, for few ballots,
there are many wise political observers
in Washington and New York who are
confident that the New York delegation
will swing into line for Underwood
Washington correspondence of the
Nashville TennesseeGn, December 81,
1911.
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UNDERWOOD AS A CANDIDATE

If Oscar Underwood, when he was
made Chairman of the Ways and Means
Committee, had been as we'll known
throughout the country as Champ Clark
or Judson Harmon or Woodrow Wilson
he would have gone into the Democratic
convention far in the lead. He was at
that time, however, little known and
this fact may give to the Speaker a part
of the prestige that Mr.. Underwood
otherwise would have had.
Mr.. Underwood is well known now,
however, and will be better known be-
fore the convention meets or the States
elect delegates. Taking it for granted
that he will conduct the tariff fight as
well during the regular session as dur
ing the extra session, Mr.. Underwood
Will be much stronger at the end of the
regular session than he is now. If we
Judge by results we must conclude that
no Democratic leader has ever had his
forces so well in hand as Mr.. Under
wood had during the last session.-The
Florida Times Union, Jacksonville, Fla,
October "a, 1911.
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That Representative Oscar w. IN
derwood is rapidly crowding to the wall
all other aspirants for the Democratic
presidential nomination, is the informa-
ton that comes from sources close to
the Alabama leader to-day. In fact, it
is now a subject of open gossip about
the House that New York State is veer-
ing toward the Alabama member and
that Clark, Wilson and Harmon are los
ing ground in the chief pivotal State of
the Union.
A member of the New York delega-
ton in the House, who is not person
ally an advocate of the candidacy of
Mr.. Underwood, admitted in confidence
to-day that the trend of sentiment in
New York city and New York State
now favors the Alabama leader. From
Representative Henry D. Clayton, of
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A SoUTHERNER ON THE TICKET

Parker ticket in 1904 of Henry G. Davis
of West Virginia. But that is essen
tally a Northern State. Carlisle of
Kentucky had few votes for President
in the conventions of 1884 and 1892;
Blackburn of Kentucky and Tillman of
South Carolina in 1896; Williams of
Mississippi in 1904. But they were
merely complimentary.
Yet the war is over. A Southern
Democrat and a former Confederate
soldier is Chief Justice of the United
States Supreme Court by appointment
of a Republican President. The day
may not be so far off when the last
traces of the sectional line will be oblit-
Grated in American politics.-The Ne1U
York World, October "a, 1911.
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Oscar w. Underwood of Alabama is
unquestionably of presidential size. His
leadership of the Democratic majority
IN the floor of the House has never been
excelled for skill, force and definite di-
rection. 1t is a respectful hearing from
all over the country which Senator
Bankhead of the same State will have
in naming him for the Democratic NOM
nation.
Has the time come when it is expe-
dent for the Democracy to nominate a
Southerner living in the South for the
presidency? It has not been thought so
since the civil war. It has not even
been thought expedient to give the South
second place on the ticket. The nearest
approach to this was the naming on the
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The South and
the Presidency

This constant reference to an alleged
dead line" when it comes to the selec-
ton of candidate for the presidency, is
out of place. 1t is a peculiar fact that
we hear more of it right here in the
South than anywhere else in the coun-
try. We are getting to be painfully
self-conscious about this supposed politi-
cal bar sinister. Not only that, but we
act on the assumption that it would be
politically inexpedient for US to support
any man who is Southern born and
bred. 1t is folly of the worst kind and
only serves to keep alive the dying em-
bers of Observation-Disclosures Times,
December, 1911.
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WHOf1 SHALL THE
DEr1OCRATS NOMINATE

Congressman Underwood, as house
leader of the Democrats and as chair
man of the Ways and Means Commit
tee, has measured up to the standard of
true craftsmanship. He has rendered in
calculable service to the cause of honest
tariff revision, the one great issue in
the pending campaign, and by his splen-
did poise and mastery of affairs he has
exalted his party's name IN the minds of
thinking Americans.-AtIGnt0 Journal,
January 2, 1912.
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SOMETHING OF ALABArIA'S
CANDIDATE FOR THE
PRESIDENCY

Whoever was floor leader Of the De-
mocracy was good enough for Mr. I'M
derwood during all the long years that
party was in the minority, and day after
day, whether that leader was Joseph w
Bailey, of Texas, John Sharp Williams.
souri,, the gentleman from Alabama was
always at his leaders elbow, ready and
eager to do anything he could to help.
Other statesmen might try to black their
party leaders eye, but Mr.. Underwood
was never known to extend anything
but the helping hand.-George E. Miller,
Staff Correspondent, in the Detroit.
Meas, October "A, 1911.
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A NATIONAL REPUTATION
WITHOUT SEEKING 1T

order to make anybody hear your name.
II is a rule to which there is no excep-
ton that l know of except Underwood.
He sat back there quietly in Congress
for sixteen years doing splendid work
and never getting his name into the pa
pers. Finally the crash came, the Demo-
Gratis carried the House, and from sheer
merit and nothing else the quiet man
from Alabama was made floor leader
and put in charge of the party's tariff
BILL And he so acquitted himself that
within a month he became a national
figure, and now he is quite likely to be
nominated for President.-Charles Will
lis Thompson, in The Sunday Herald,
Boston, October p, 1911.
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ANTITRUST LEGISLATION

Gin Speech Before Pennsylvania So
ciety of New York, Dec. 9, l9ll.)
as it not proper for all of us, IRE
spective of party, to insist that the
time has come for US to join together
in putting an end to this pro6tless agi-
tation and proposals for tinkering with
the (Sherman) law? AS the necessity
arises, we can from time to time enforce
the act, without fear or favor, but with
out any disposition to get political cap
ital out of what we may be called upon
to do. Let our pilot be experience and
accurate knowledge and high resolve,
and not party expediency or misdi-
rected energy, whether proceeding from
good or bad motives, and above all this
let US not proceed upon crude guess"
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Underwood is probably the greatest
authority on the tariff in the House of
Representatives, or, for that matter, in
Congress.
what do you think of Underwood"
| asked Senator Bailey.
Underwood" said Bailey, @is the only
man in either house of Congress who
could be locked in a Theoretically sealed
room for a week and emerge from it
with a perfectly good tariff bill"
Underwood is the strongest example
in modern times of thoroughly modest
man getting a reputation without going
after it. Politics is a noisy game; you
have to have a trumpet and bugle in
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UNDERWOOD'S RISE NO
SURPRISE TO THOSE
WHO KNOW Hill

For years Oscar Underwood has been
recognized in his district as a man of
marked ability. His broad knowledge
of the tariff displayed time and again
on the floor of, Congress and in public
utterances on the stump; his far-reach-
ing insight into large public questions
under consideration in the national law
making body; his skill in debate; his
complete mastery of himself in times
of political turbulence on the floor of
Congress; his judgment as well as his
tact, have all convinced his constituents
that he was a man of force and achieve
ment long before he became Chairman
of the Ways and Means Committee with
a tremendous task to perform.-Biy-
minghGm Ledger, 1912.
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UNDERWOOD AS A CANDIDATE

there is added a~genius for organiza-
ton and command not often observable
n 1saEtS-- Lea ds-s-2f his section For
candor compeIs a good word in
acknowledgement of what he did in the
way of harmonizing and knitting to-
gether the warning elements of his
party in the House. Not in twenty
years has there been in Democratic
councils a leader who proved success
full in uniting all shades of opinion and
presenting solid front on practically
every issue that came to a vote. For
that reason, if for no other, Mr.. IN
derwood's availability would seem to
merit careful consideration at the
hands of the Democratic party.-Wash-
ington Post, October 8, 1911.
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In Mr.. Underwood's candidacy the
South for the first time in 90 years
son-a man with a valid claim on
Democracy for signal recognition. If
unselhsh devotion, high performance,
Nationwide breadth of view, and rare
qualities for leadership entitle a man
to sympathy and support in his aspir-
atoms, the nomination of Mr.. Under
wood would be a testimonial logically
bestowed
The Southern Democracy never
wants, in or out of Congress, for
powerful champions of party politics,
men who come in for honorable men
ton when the Presidential year rolls
round, but in Mr.. Underwood's case
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AN EMINENT TAN

The destiny Of the American nation,
which | think is the most wonderful in
the whole history of the world, is per.
fectly safe in the hands of such men
as your Underwood. 1t is a pity that
We cannot have more of his kind in
Washington. He is one of the most
eminent men that the South has pro-
duced, and look with vast satisfaction
upon the plans of his Alabama friends
to give him their unanimous indorse-
ment for that high ofice-the presi-
dency-Prof. Willis L. Moore, Chief of
U. S. Weather Bureau, in the Birmin0-
ham, Ala, Age-HerOld, October II,
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SOUTH ELECTED CLEVELAND

ct was due to the South that Grover
Cleveland was nominated and elected"
said Judge Parker. at was due to the
South that William ]. Bryan was twice
nominated, and in like manner the South
was responsible for the nomination of
a New Yorker, who speaks to you now.
l still believe that the South is the Sec
ton of our country from which a presi-
Dental nominee could be chosen who
could quell the voices of all the Demo-
cratic fEctions and heal all breaches.
When the Democratic National Conven-
ton sees fit to nominate a Southerner,
believe that the Northern Democrats
will support him with their ballots
Judge Alton B. Parker, in The State,
Columbia, S. C., January Is, 1912.
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Birmingham News
Supports Underwood

In many quarters there has arisen a
demand that Oscar w. Underwood be
named the standard bearer of the Demo
cratic party in the campaign that will
be waged for the presidency in 1912
It is the earnest hope of The BiTnsing-
ham NeGUs that this may come about,
Should the banner be entrusted to the
keeping of Oscar w. Underwood, The
Birmingham NeaUs thoroughly believes
that by him it will be carried to glo-
rious victory, and that it will never be
stained by compromise with wrong or
sullied by collision with privilege.-The
Birmingham Ne1US, Thursday, November
q, 1911.
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States Steel Corporation. AS a matter
of fact, l am interested in the iron and
steel business myself. Everything ]
have in the world is in the iron and
steel business except my home, but not
with the United States Steel Corpora
ton. Ny people are Independent manu-
facturers. We meet the United States
Steel Corporation every day of our ex-
istence in a competitive battle on the
industrial fields of America. Ny people
have not asked me to vote for protec-
tive tariff on iron and steel
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o'SHAUNESSY BOoMS UNDERWOOD

sion, and except for his residence so far
South, l feel that he is in every way
suitable for the place. ! believe the
Democrats could not nominate more
acceptable acknowledgements
O'Shaunessy, of Rhode Island, in The
Providence Journal, August. 1911.
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RECIPROCITY
Gin the U. S. House of Representatives,
April Fl, 1911

Gin the y. S. House of Representatives.,
April Fl, 1911
Our agricultural implements supply
the farmers wants beyond the seas.
Our boots and shoes are worn by peo-
pie who speak many foreign languages
and who tread the highways of the
Occident and the Orient. The looms of
our factories clothe the people of dis
tant lands. The freight of our foreign
rivals is carried to market on American
rails, drawn by American engines, across
chasms spanned by American-built
bridges. [Applause.l The harvests of
our farmers feed the toiling masses of
Europe. We would be the unrivaled
masters of production and industry in
every land where free competition can
be obtained if we would but strike of
the shackles that bind US to the dead
and unnecessary economic system main
tanned by the Republican Party, that
creates false standards and wasteful
conditions at home Applause on the
Democratic side.