Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-30
FAVOR UNDERWOOD
IN ALABAMA RACE
Hobson Fails to Make Prohibi.
ton Issue in Senatorial
Fight.

| BIRMINGHAM, Ala, March 3d.
Following the bitterest and one of
tie most spectacular political cam
paigns in this State since the Civil
War, the Democratic primary cleo
ticn, April 6, will end one of the most
Lotable contests ever waged in the
| South, and the results will be of keen
interest to the nation.
1t will be the first election of a
senator in Alabama by direct vote
| of the people under the seventeenth
amendment to the constitution.
IT. Alabama the senatorial situa-
lion is unique. The Legislature meets
quadrienially. There was no extra
session to choose Johnston's sue
cessor.
The big race is between Under
wood and Hobson for the long term.
Both candidates have announced that
| il they are defeated for the Senate
they will retire from Congress, and
az tive cand dates for the House to
succeed them are hard at work for
election next week
A spectacular campaign has been
conducted, with Hobson the more
active aggressor. Hobson Gains that
| Underwood is q Ieactionary of irri-
| deemable type; that he out of sym
| patty with the Wilson admin stra-
ton; that Wilson and not Under
wood ppt through the present tariff
| bill; that Underwood is responsible
| for the high tax on brandy, and that
| he voted to tax cotton bagging and
| tires; that he accepted $4,000 from
| Thomas F. Ryan, of New Yors, to
promote his presidential campaign at
Baltimore, thereby obligating himself
tC Wall street; that he is controlled
! by the special interests and the
Iquor trust. which is spending s5,-
on, 600 to defeat Hobson and the pro-
! lib ton cause.
Hobson's Aggressive Campaign.
Hobson has been on the stump
continuously for eight months, visit
ing every county in the State and
sometimes speaking ten times a day,
Automobiles are not fast enough for
him, and he resorted of late to the
motorcycle to conduct his whirlW nd
finish Hundreds of rampant anti
liquor leaders are for him tooth and
toenail and are making big fuss
over his campaign.
Underwood made a tour for three
W. eks during the holidays. and re-
piled to Hobson's charges, all OF
which he denied, and laid bare Hob
sens record in Congress. He declared
Robson had voted for a high tariff
on lumber because his was a arge
timber district; had supported the
bill to reinstate the negro regiment
at Brownsville after President Roose-
welt ordered it discharged for shoot
ng up the town, and had spent only
twenty-five days at his post of duty
in Congress since last April. Under
We cd attacked Hobson as an ''assas-
sin of character" and a "hambuoy-
ant prince of adventure.
Charges Against Hobson.
Probably the most effective argu-
ment against Hobson was his contin-
uous absence from Congress while
drawing his salary regularly, to lee
ture on Chautauqua circuits ano
campaign for senator. This Under
wood and his managers denounce as
dishonest
Hobson has made a desperate at
tempt to make this senatorial contest
a prohibition issue, but has only par
TALLY succeeded.
Underwood will receive the greater
part of the business vote, as well as
the majority of the local option sup
pert. He will fail to get a consider
able part of the steel, iron and min
ing int, rests support because of theil
opposition to his ow tariff views ant
record.
The most trustworthy forecast
available is that Underwood will bS
e,ected by from 10000 to $4,000 ma.
j0rlty.