The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1913-10-31
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.

Much interest in felt in Washing
ion over the Senatorial fight which
has started in Alabama with Con-
gresham Underwood and Congress
man Hobson as the contestants. They
are seeking the place made vacant
by the death of the late Senator
Joseph F. Johnston
The campaign is going to be a
hot one, Robson has been mailing
out great Quantities of campaign
matter and Underwood has left
Washington for the field of battle.
Hobson has started the row by
calling attention in Congress to the
fact that Thomas f. Ryan contrib
uted very large sum to Under
woods presidential campaign and he
charges that Underwood is a tool of
the Wall street interests.
Mr.. Underwood's friends in Con-
gTess resented this attack by Hobson
The Democratic leader in the
House is an exceedingly popular man
and If the election were to take
place in tAe House Hobson would
be showed under. What the voters
in Alabama will do is an entirely
different matter am told that I'm
deYwood is not as strong in his state
as one wOHad naturally suppose. A
prophet is not without honor save
in his own Country. 1t may be true
of Underwood, just as we hear of
Bryan, nAa4s he is bigger man
outside NesTaska thaa he is in that
state.
In regard to the charge by Hobson,
il is true that Thomas r. Ryan con-
tTibuted upward of $50, 10000 to
Underwood's campaign last year. Mr..
Ryan so stated on the stand before
a COMMITTEES in Washington. He said
he would frave contributed to the
campaign expenses of any Democrat
who had applied to him. He would
have contributed to Wilson's cam
paign, but was not asked to do so.
1t will be recalled that Bryan bit
terly and successfully fought the
Ryan influence in the Baltimore con-
vention and even went so far as to
introduce a resolution excluding the
Ryan delegation from participation
in the proceedings. 1t was with
drawn.
Mr.. Ryan is perhaps the richest
Democrat in this Country. AS to
whether he should be allowed to con-
tribute to campaign expenses is a
matter of taste
= s.
Mr.. Underwood campaign was
managed by his colleague, Senator
Bankhead, and the Senator not only
accepted the money but sent some of
it to Georgia, a few hundreds coming
into Cobb County, which, however,
did not have the effect of turning
the County away from Woodrow Will
son.
| have no fault to find with Mr..
Underwood, although l do not ap-
prove such financing of political
campaigns.
Many men would have been glad
to have received MIR. Ryans support
and his money. Mr.. Ryan was pref
ty effectively downed at Baltimore
but he accepted the result graceful
ly. ! believe he is a sincere Demo-
crat, although his Wall street meth
DDS are not in line with Democratic
ideas
We have in the Democratic party
in small degree the safe and sane"
influences so called, that get pretty
close up to Republican ideas and
MIR. Ryan represents that sentiment.
He is a Virginian. however, and feels
more at home with the Democrats
than he would in the Republican
party.
Governor Harmon would have
been satisfactory to Mr.. Ryan, and
evidently Mr.. Underwood would have
been. But the greatest mystery of
it all to me has been the way in
which Underwood has carried out the
Wilson tariff and currency policies
in the face of his alignment with
Ryan.
Underwood is an able man and
believe will make a great Senator
cannot conceive of the people of
Alabama failing to send him to the
Senate. 1t would be absurd to think
that he would sacrifice his reputa-
/ ton at the dictation of the trusts
II represented by Mr., Ryan.
l once asked a distinguished Journ-
alist with whom was identified
what sort of man the neopla sbOufd