Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1912-03-14
By JAMES a. ED Ter r = \


That is the way Oscar w Tn
derwood puts it, and he Is the man in
charge Of the attack on the ancient
breastworks Of protection, or maybe
1t Is ancient bulwarks. Anyway he
Is attacking them.
While he is a candidate for presi
dent, Mr.. Underwood. like the man who
was Christian. Is not working at it.
He Is perfectly willing that all Of his
friends should boom him; but, as for
himself. he Is busy, being majority
leader Of the house. That is a mans
Job and leaves him no more time for
ing headquarters and doing the 9th
ef things that presidential candidate
Is supposed to do.
A great many people talk about the
Office seeking the man. but they don't
practice what they preach. The min
ute an Office timidly ventures in sight
they make it run for its life. Pc
troleum Y. Nasty once heard that
phrase about the office seeking the
man. so he hid himself under beach
In the convention hall. He was not
nominated. Thereupon he concluded
that the man should stay out in plain
sight. where the Office could see him.
That is what Underwood Is doing
It the presidency is looking for a man
six feet high. weighing 1875 pounds.
and mailing from Birmingham. Ala.
why Oscar W is right there But ii
he has to chase the said presidency all
over the map and charm it by rear
platform Oratory and press agent stuff
he will let i. look elsewhere. He has
his hands full with being chairman Of
the ways and means committee and
manicuring the tariff.
Underwood is Of the genus known
as able citizen. He is not an orator
and does not run to fuss and feathers.
He has been called the Democratic
Mckinley" not because be believes in
protection, but because he is Of the
Mckinley type. He is always i'm
maculately dressed. is the soul Of or
der. has his hair carefully plastered
down and has never been known to
get ruf1ed His predecessor as ways
and means chairman. Serene E. Payne,
Is himself a suave. calm and smiling
citizen. but Underwood goes him one
better. He is more serene than Sc
reno.
Plain Oscar ".
The Democratic majority leader is
also modest. as surprising as that may
seem in politician. He does not puff
himself or pose for the newspa pers |
spent two hours trying to find what
the W. in his name stands for. ran
sacked two newspaper "morgues" and
even called up man who used to be
Oscar VS. professor in college. but all
to no avail. He IS 50 modest he has
never allowed it to appear in print. II
may he Oscar William or Oscar Will 2
ing or some other meiliduous and far
sounding name. but nobody knows He
will be fifty years old in May and has
been in congress seventeen years. yet
he has modesty hidden his middle
name all that time So plain Oscar ". !
1t must remain
Has the time come when southern
man can be nominated for the presi
dency? The last southern president
was Andrew Johnson. aud he was not
elected to the office Neither did he
have an entirely happy time Of it. The
last southern man elected president
was Zachary Taylor. who was credited
to Louisiana, and the last one nomi !
mated by one Of the great parties was
Winfield Scott Of Virginia. That was
sixty years ago, in all of which time
the southern half of the country has
not had even a look in at the White
House
We are now celebrating the semi
centenary Of the civil war ana every
one says that sectionalism is forever
dead If so. Why not prove our faith
by our works and elect southern
president? To a man up a tree it
would seem the only thing lacking to
the carrying out of this happy pro
gram is courage. If the Democratic
party only had the nerve 10 name a
southern candidate would not the
north make it a special point to vote
for him:
Alabama comes first ii the list of
states. Ia former rati0na. conven-
lions She has given Ter time to some
other state tina, had q favorite SON
Now she has q candidate of her own.
1t will be an unusual spectacle in Il
democratic national convention when
for the first time in more than fifty
years a southern laan is seriously pre-
scented and supported for the highest
Office In the r'fr Of the uaton And
why not? The south furnishes the
bulk Of the Democratic votes and she
alone has remained true t. the party
Of jefferson and Jackson through good
AMI evil report Why should She not
name the standard bearer?
Looks Like a Business Man.
Mr.. Underwood IS a true southerner
Of an old family native of Ken
lucky. q citizen of Alabama. educated
in the Univer- -v If Virginia and mar
ried first tn q belle Of Virginia and
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