Evening star., 1914-04-07

| WEPRESENTATlNE UNDERWOOD.
I BIRMINGHAM, Ala. April :. 1914.
| Representative Richmond Pearson
! Hobson today conceded the nomination
of Oscar W Underwood for the Alabama
| long term in the United States Senate,
| the concession being made after the re-
! ceipt of incomplete returns from yester-
days democratic primaries held through
out the state
| Mr.. HobSon sent tile following tee
| gram 10 Mr. Underwood:
! Accept my congratulations upon your
nomination. AS the democratic nominee
| YOU can count upon my loyal support in
! the general election
! tSigned.) RICHMOND P. HOBSON.''
| l.. f. Musgrove, campaign manager for
| Mr.. Hobson. also conceded Mr.. Under
I woods nomination i'll a statement at II 10
| clock this morning. Mr.. Hobson left
Birmingham today for Washington.
Pleased With His Victory.
Just before his departure, Mr.. Under
wood gave out the following statement:
Il am more than pleased with the re-
suit of Mondays election. 1t looks like
a 10000 majority. My friends and the
democrats of Aiabama deserve all the
credit 7 take none of the credit to my
self. I do, however. feel that the result
justifies my contention that mans duty
is to stay on the job and attend TO
business
Il desire I express my gratitude to the
| people of Alabama for their splendid sup
port I renew my pledge to stay on the
job and do all in my power to conserve
the interest of all the people OF Alabama
| and the nation.
! Mr.. HobSon also made statement TO
/ the public before his departure. He said:
| PLEASE say to the liquor interests of
| America that have only begun to
| fight; that the work We have done can
| never be undone: that we will meet them
| again on the battlefield of Alabama and
| on hundreds other battlefields; that we
| expect. under Gods providence. to be in
| the battle when the thirty-sixth state
| ratifies the Hobson resolution placing ma
| tional prohibition in the Constitution of
| the United States.
| 1T will be a fight to the bitter end and
| ! look for success The fight has Just
| begun.
/ Representative Hobson was asked if his
| statement meant that he proposed to re-
| turn to Alabama and to make the fight
| against Senator Bankhead for election
| to the United States Senate.
| . Sufficient unto the day is the evil
| thereof was his reply.
| Incomplete returns from practically
! all of the SlXty-SeNen counties in the
| state today apparently substantiated
| early predictions that Underwood had
defeated Hobson for nomination to the
| a la ba ma long term in the United States
| Senate. Counting of the vote cast al
! democratic primaries throughout the
! state yesterday progressed slowly to-
day. especially in the larger cities.
Only four city precincts had completed
! the count in Jefferson county at $50 to-
day. Thirty-nine out of fifty-two pre-
! cincts in the county gave Underwood
| 2,601 votes and Hobson 500,
State returns showed an extremely close
4 hefw q
! cry and Frank S. White of Birmingham
| for the short term nomination to the
| United States Senate, which will expire
! March 4, 1915.
] Gubernatorial Contest Exciting.
! The gubernatorial contest continued TO
| appear one of the most exciting of the
list Former Gov. B. B. Conner maintained
| a slight plurality throughout the early
! part of today p. r. Kolb of Montgomery
! and Charles Henderson of Troy were rum
/ ming a close race for second place. They
| had been credited with such large num-
| ber of votes at $50 that there seemed
! little probability of Conner receiving
majority If none of the candidates re-
/ ceives a majority second primary. with
| the two leading candidates competing.
| will be held May H. at which time sim
| liar contests between other state officers
| will be settled and United States sem
| ator for the short term will be formally
elected
Returns from the eight congressional
| contests indicated interesting races in the
| first eighth ninth and sixth districts. To
| all appearances, Representative G. W.
| Taylor of the first district had been de-
| feated for denomination by 0. L. Gray of
Choctaw county. George Huddleston of
jefferson county was leading his three op-
| ponents in the fight for the nomination
from the ninth district to succeed Repre-
sentative Underwood. 1t was generally
believed from returns available that Will
liam B. Bankhead son of the United
states senator from Alabama, had won
the nomination in the sixth district to
In the Other Districts.
! Judge f. L. Aimon of Colbert county
! seemed assured of the nomination from
the eighth district to succeed the late
| REPRESENTATIVE William Richardson There
! are three other candidates for this nomi-
nation.
i Present members Of the national House
! of REPRESENTATIVES whose renorijna ton
appeared certain were =. Hubert Dent of
the second district. Henry d. Clayton of
the third. Fred l.. Blackmon of the fourth
and John l.. Burnett of the seventh
4 John w Abercrombie. from the state
| at large and J. T. Hefin of the fifth
district were unopppsed in the race for
nomina ton to Congress