The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-14

Knoxville Journal and Tribune: Under
wood is campaigning in Alabama against
Hobson. and his friends say he is kicking
at nothing.
Pensacola News: Hobson says the re-
sponsiveness of his audience gives him
assurance of victory. He should remem-
ber that people do not always vote like
they cheer.
Camden News Wherever Underwood
appears he is hurrahed We have had
no statesman in half century whose tai
ents and work have given more pride to
Alabamians, unless 1t was John II, Nor
gan. Alabama is the first state and a
great state, why not have the greatest
man to represent her in the United States
Senate? Our people are proud of Oscar
Underwood, and will keep him in public
life, and will promote him to the Sen-
ate. where his light will still shine and
give glory to our state.
Memphis Commercial l-Appeal Hobson
says that Underwood is losing strength.
Well, he can loose a good deal before ne
gets down to Hobson's fighting weight.
Alabama Courier: Hobson says that
Underwood is tool" We expect Hob
son will think he is a tool of the sledge
hammer variety before the campaign is
over Hobson viii have his senatorial
ambition hammered SO thin before the
time of election that he viii have to
have a microscope to find it.
Savannah Press: The Anti-Saloon
league in Alabama is getting ready to
help Hobson in his race for the Senate.
We do not believe they can beat the anti
Hobson league.
Columbus Enquirer Sun: 1t is said of
Representative Hobson of Alabama, who
lis now a candidate for the United States
Senate, that during the past five months
he has been in his seat in the House only
lG days. Possibly he thought there was
no use wasting time in the House when
he could be out 'lectioneering.
Montgomery Advertiser: Underwood
doesn't excite the populace. He instructs
it, He is a statesman, not a vaudeville
performer.
Montgomery Times: That was a great
occasion and a representative audience at
the Grand theatre which greeted Mr.. I'm
derwood in his opening speech of his CAM
paign for the United States Senate.
People in all the walks. friends and
! foes. were all present. and they gave him
a kind and cordial greeting.
| He has served the people of Alabama
long and faithfully; has made record
of which he has reason to be proud, and
which his people cheerfully and cordially
indorse. 1t was a greeting worthy of the
man and of the people, and one of credit
and honor to him.
! Although the Times is supporting his
honorable opponent in this race. we
would not detract from the fame of the
| distinguished gentleman, and gladly ac-
cord him all the praise rightly due him.
He has done his duty we'll and no true
Ala bamian win do anything to detract in
any degree from all the glory 1t may bring
him. We oppose him because we do not
agree with him upon several essentials of
| policy and principle, and we dc not believe
| that a majority of the democrats of Ala
bama are in accord with him thereon.
That is to be tested in the present con-
test, and we shall have free and clear
and honorable fight, and whatever the re-
suit, we shall cheerfully acquiesce in the
verdict of the people.
Montgomery Advertiser: If there ever
was a progressive in this country we
reckon it is Norman GIapgood. editor of
Harpers Weekly. The fact that Hapgood
| is not more progressive than he is, is not
fault of his WILL 1t is merely a fault
of his capacity. He represents fairly well
the new doctrine that whatever is. is
wrong" Against trusts, against liquor,
for direct democracy in all its phases,
above all he stands before us as the edi-
tor of Harper's, the national organ of the
! feminist movement.
But In the course of an editorial in the
current issue of Harper's, after discussing
a number of public men whom the Weekly
doesn't admire Norman Hapgood says:
"s Free lumber was an issue, and
Underwood gave a body blow to Hobson.
in their recent war of words on the floor,
by reminding him of his vote against free
lumber, in violation of his party platform,
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congressional district, and Hobson will
| have to explain
'Hobson is an amusing character. but,
like others of the oratorical type, his
| thinking is frequently marked by some
what more heat than light"
At Pineapple on November s Captain
| Hobson is quoted as having made the
absurd statement that ''he could not reach
| the people through the columns of certain
papers, as they were paid $500 day by
different trusts" We, therefore, welcome
Harper's Weekly into the ranks of tht
subsidized, anti-Hobson, anti-holy press
! of the country.
"Hobson is an amusing character
| What could be a greater affront to the
vanity of the purest white lily of the pond
than this droll observation from the radi-
! cally progressive editor of Harpers? Car
1t be that Hobson is not taken seriously
anywhere except among those who arc
hypnotized by his round. empty sentences
which float, like feathers. through the airi
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! SENTENCED TO TUBERCULOSIS
In how many prisons does a sentence
carry with it a possible added penalty Il
tuberculosis? This is the challenge of the
following case which is described in the
Survey by willard Brown Thort:
give years ago John Gerrish was a
sailor on the United States cruiser Penn.
sylvania. He was a young man of good