The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-11-25
Underwood Won't Stay Leader And Be Called Boss"
Democratic General Of Con greSs Vexed at Obnoxious Title, And Won't Re =
 main Tn House.
Hobson Uses Circus Methods In His Campaign For Sen ate Against Under
 wood.
By Our staff Correspondent.) ).


 Ry Our Staff Correspondent.)
 Washington, Nov. 24-The kind of Democratic fibre that goes to make in Congress can be judged from the fact that he will not return to the House of Representa- tives after his present term he does not want the title 'Boss'' Underwood. Some of the Republican newspapers have begun to use it already and it rankIes in the bosom of the great A1abaman. who was one of the leaders in the fight against "Cannonism." MT. Under wood has great power in the House through his great individuality and he could undoubtedly use those powers for personal advancement and privi- lege if he so desired.
 He is said to hold the views that there should be no boss in the low CT House of Congress and that when a tboss'' appears there 1t means that g. brfdle has been placed upon freedom and speech and freedom of action.
 While MT. Underwood was busi1y engaged during the past six months engineering the great tariff measure which bears, his name it happens that Capt. Richmond Pearson Hobson. hero of the Merrinac, who has become the George M. Conan of the Ameri- can congress has been gumshoeing' about the state of Alabama making a fight for election as United States States Senator to succeed Senator Johnston. deceased. Hobson is eun- doubtedly one of the best takers in Congress, and as 9 snowman he has the late and 1amented P T. Barnurn lashed to the mast. MT Barnum used to lecture on temperance, and so does Capt. Hobson but MT. Barnum did not have the. advantage of having a Congressional frank to send out his advertising. But Capt sHobson does nothing that he has not the right to do for his advertising consists of a speech given in Congress. the printing of which he pays for. He calls the speech, The Great Destroyer be- cause he Hkens the Demon Rum to a destroyer as great in sense as the Merrimac.s* The captain has about 30 or 40 young ladies employed in Washington sending out his speeches He floods a community with them in advance of his coming and they have the same effect the yellow posters of the Greatest Show on Earth used to have.
 The captain finds featuring profita- ble and in a recent speech in Con- gress he saidA that with one SYs zsyvo s4ceptions haY was flaes highest paid mah on the le cture platform in Amer tca- It is said that the Anti-saIoon League pays him $10O lecture and xpenses while other organizations pay him more. So when Senator Johnstone died Capt. Hobson found himself in good condition to make a talking campaign and 1t is said that he has been known to make i've ad- dresses each of two hours duration, in a single day and be ready to con tinue if anyone will listen to him.
 While MT. Underwood was looked upon in most quarters as the logical candidate for the senatorial toga Capt Hobson got several months start of him in the contest, and the captain knows the cards to play in an Ala bama contest before the people, and 1t is said that he will shake the hand of every farmer in Alabama before he has finished his contest.
 Although the primary will not be held until next April MT. Hobson has had the state in the throes of a cam paign since last May and will keep 1t up until the close. Mir Under wood has been on the ground for few weeks since there was let up Of business in the House, but he will return and leave the field to the cap tain again as soon as Congress de- mands his presence.
 But Captain Hobson will continue on the firing line and will continue to draw his, $7,500 year from Uncle l Sam the same MT. Underwood l When Congressman Jeremiah Dono- l van was making his fight against "ab- senteeisnl'' he found by a search of the records that CaptainaEobson was undoubtedly the most fragrant viola tor of the rules of attendance for from May to October Is the captain was in attendance just three times. ] If Captain Robson goes to the Sen ate it means the retirement to private life of one of the greatest figures 1 in American politics, and the Senate will miss holding as member the franer of the greatest piece of con- structive legislation since the Civil War. For Oscar W Underwood will | not come back to the House and be l called Boss"