The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-19

fill it with 10000 persons who would
be glad to hear the debate
'They gave You the impression he
said, that in Washington Mr.. Under
wood and myself had a joint debate
No such thing. l only gave Mr., Tn
derwood 10 minutes and for an hour
heard him reveal his true instincts
his true place as a reactionary. He
admitted all my charges made in my
Wetumka speech He admitted the
Thomas Fortune Ryan money. In facI
he admitted that everybody was doing
1t ahd that even our esteemed Presi
dent had accepted a contribution of
$4,000 from Mr. Ryan when making
the race for the governorship of New
Jersey 1 admit my surprise at this
admission from the suave and smiling
Oscar from Alabama
But the very next day Mr.. Under
wood was summoned to the White
House and was informed that Mr. Will
son had accepted no contributions from
Mr.. Ryan. Not only that, but Mr.. I'm
derwood had to come to the House
and ask for unanimous consent to
expurge his remarks concerning Mr..
Wilson and Ryan money from the Con-
gressional Record. He had tried to
fool the people by saying that our
President did as he did and he signal
ly failed"
MI iIobSOn SDOht VI lHt dbilily VI
Mr.. Underwood in that he was a har
monizer. He stated that Mr.. Under
wood, not being able to fight himself,
was useful in getting the fighters to-
gether "He will be needed in the
House in 1916,' he said, when the eff
fects of the tariff law are felt to har-
monize the warning elemetns that will
seek to disrupt the party. He can do
nothing in the Senate for he'll not get
there"
Underwood" he said, "is seeking to
round out a career as a routine con-
gressman by seeking election as a SEN
ator. But you do not find him seek
ing service for the people. What has
he done for the people of Jefferson
county? What has he done to educate
your children? Don't you know that
education is the greatest problem to-
day. The world renews itself every
80 years and it is in the plastic mind
of youth that we should instill eduea-
tion in order that we progress for
ward Education is fundamental and
education is detrimental to reaction
aries OF the type of Underwood.
"As to Underwood liquor record he
is afraid to take a stand. | say that he
is stepped in red liquor, There is no need
of splitting straws; he is the candidate of
the liquor interests in this fight and their
slush money is behind him In the local
OpIlOn elecIlOnS OF JEFFERSON county ln-
derwood voted wet-voted whisky straight
Prohibition is the issue in this race and
Mr. Underwood cannot sidetrack it. He
states that he is the friend of temper
ance. He is it's worst enemy but he is
also the past master of the art of hid
ing his correct attitude.
1T is my stand on the liquor question
that has really brought on me the abuse
from so many sources The press is
CT I 11nornirnr
you will read in The Age-H Herald a story
about an inch long stating that fair
sized crowd. composed nine-tenths of
women, heard Hobson deliver a TRADE at
Underwood. which met with little en-
thusiasm.
Their Deadliest Enemy
The liquor interests regard me as their
deadliest enemy and that is why your
minds are being slowly poisoned against
me. But | am in the fight to stay, not
to be called out like Clayton was. OF
course you know of Clayton poor Clay
ton.
But / have them on the run The
same phenomena of the waning strength
of Clayton is to be seen today with I'm
derwood. | am in this race to win, not
so much for myself but to break the
strangle-hold the liquor interests have on
the throat of Alabama. I want to see the
little country boys and girls of this state
grow up in education and not in darkness
as decreed by reactionaries. l have placed
my faith in you and you men of the
empire county of jefferson who | know
are incoruptible will help me in my work
and endeavors for the truth
His speeches outside to the overflow
crowd and inside the theatre were prac-
tically the same in text though there
were great many deViations in the
speech within the theatre, as Mr.. Hobson
was continually being interrupted by en-
thusiasts. One of them, long-haired Joe
Brady of Jonesboro, who has a slight inn
pediment in his speech, started to make
an impromptu speech while Mr. Hobson
was speaking. Mr.. Hobson smilingly al.
lowed Mr.. Brady to speak a few minutes
While Mr.. Hobson was speaking out.
side the theatre the crowd within were
kept entertained with an orchestra and
remarks from the following speakers:
Fred NJ Jackson. c. p. Beddow, Henry
Fits. Walter Sessions and Frank Dom
mick. Walter Sessions was announced
as county chairman of the Hobson or
ganization and Frank Dominick and Perry
Turner as vice chairmen.