The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-12-31
HOBSON'S ABUSE
FIRES UNDER WOOD
TO ANGRY RETORT
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before been more effective. Never be-
fore in this campaign had he so COM
pletely answered a charge of Mr.. Hob
son.
Goes Into Record
But this incident was not the sole
feature of the big day At Collinsville,
Mr.. Underwood went thoroughly into
the record of his opponent. He fur
nished list of the bills and resolu-
tions which Hobson has introduced in
Congress, 26S in number. He showed
where the captain had been successful
in putting into law five. He told the
people what the bills in which he
scored successes contained. And thus
he came to talk about that measure
passed by the aid of republican votes
providing protection for those who
wear the uniform of Uncle Sam.
Mr.. Underwood was talking to a
large number of the representative peo
pie of one of the great white counties
of the state, one of those counties
where social equality is most sacredly
abhorred, and when he explained true
meaning of the bill that negroes in the
District of Columbia must be enter
| tanned by hotels and theatres without
discrimination, provided they wear the
uniform of the army and navy, the au-
dience was shocked. His final word OF
explanation was greeted with silence
seemed to breathe, and the dropping of
a pin would have sounded like the roll
| of distant thunder.
"This bill" added Mr.. Underwood.
does not apply to the SOUTH But in
the debate on the floor, Mr. Hobson
represented that he regretted that he
was unable to make it apply every
where, not only in the district belong
ing to all the people"
Another Attack
The day was further characterized by
an attack against the brand of democracy
| which Captain Hobson advocates. Mr..
Underwood made it plain that Hobson
| claims to be a democrat. But he showed
| to the satisfaction of his audience that
no democrat of the Jefferson and Jackson
school would advocate the direct election
| of a President when, were such an amend
ment adopted, Illinois would be more pow
erful with it's negro and women ballots
| than every state in the southland COM
bined. He declared that Hobson was
not democrat in that he endeavored to
| force the federal government to say that
women shall vote in Alabama and other
! states, and whether or not the people of
any state might retail malt or vinous
liquor. He showed furthermore that Hob
| son had violated the democratic principle
/ that no man should be taxed for the ben
| eft of another when on four occasions
! he voted with the standpat republicans,
| who were aided and abetted by the most
insoent lobby of the most sinister design
to retain prohibitive tariff on lumber, the
| shelter of the poor.
Presented by Hunt
| Mr. Underwood WAS presented at Fort
| Payne by E. p. Hunt, one of the promi-
nent citizens of the place. Mr.. Hunt made
the unnecessary denial for Mr. Under
wood of the Hobson charge that the gov
| ernor, or any other individual had or
| has had anything to do with the can
didacy of the leader of democracy. He
declared that this charge was similar to
| the charge that Underwood took the tax
off liquor and put it on bagging and ties,
| similar to the charge that Underwood had
| never made campaign speeches for de-
| mocracy in the Seventh district and SINH
| lar to the charge that every railroad at
| torney in Alabama to a man was support
ing Mr.. Underwood. He then pointed out
| numerous theories advocated by Hobson
| which stamp Hobson he declared, an un-
| safe man to trust with the credentials of
| the Amerioan people. He was effusive
! in his compliments of "the distinguished
Albanian who desires to be promoted to
| the Senate and whom the people desire
| to promote"
For the people of Fort Payne, Mr.. I'm
1 derwood went again INTO his record in re-
gard to temperance; how he had supported
all temperance bills which had been pre-
sented in Congress, and how his refusal
| to oppose the Webb bill made the passage
of that bill possible. He then went into
the explanation of national prohibition,
showed to the satisfaction of his audience
| that the amendment was untenable and
| dangerous and entirely ephemeral. Ha
! stamped the injection of this matter into
| the campaign as an effort to bolster up
| the captains candidacy, (which cannot
| be successfully launched on the record of
| my adversary" In this regard. national
| prohibition, he charged is a deception and
a fraud.
| He told the people that his own record
was an open book, and subject to their
| investigation. In conclusion he promised
! to remain on the job If he is chosen sena-
| tor, and ito refrain from earning at a
distance from the scene of labor, 500 per
night, and accept at the same time the
salary of Uncle Sam.
| One of the interested individuals in the
| Fort Payne audience was Captain Hardi-
man Bone, an old veteran and a lifelong
democrat who distnuished himself in
back from the battlefield the late Senator
Johnston, who had been stricken down by
| a bullett of the enemy. Another was
| Willie Morgan, the astrte secretary of
| Captain Hobson. Mr.. Morgan made a
| stenographic copy Of Mr. Underwood s
| speech and later investigated conditions
| senatorial in the business section of the
! city.