Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-29
Democratic House Leader Will Be
Swept Into the Senate BY an
Avalanche Of Votes, According
to the Political Prophets.
Managers Claim so Out Of 81
Counties for Underwood and
Give the Figures in Support.
Hobson's Own District Split.

BIRMINGHAM, March 2s.-oscar
Underwood will be swept into the
Senate by popular majority running
from 10000 to 10000. This is the
consensus Of opinion Of political ora
cles in touch with the campaign in
this state.
The final week finds the friends Of
both Underwood and Hobson hard at
work and full Of enthusiasm. but the
Underwood people alone show speci-
fic figures to support their confidence.
The undoubted opinion Of vast
majority Of those who are credited
generally with more than ordinary ex-
rertness in political representation
is that the majority leader Of the
House of representatives is sure roE
victory
Congressman Hobson is expected
to run strongest in his own Congress
sonal district, but even there, where
through feeling Of courtesy, the I'M
derwood fight has not been pushed
extensively, the vote VIII run heavily
to the Birmingham member, and he
will carry several counties,
so Counties for Underwood.
OF the 81 counties in Alabama. I'm
derwood Is given 50 by the more con-
sentative estimates, and even more
by others
So widespread has been the nation
al interest in this fight that Alabama's
pride has been stirred as seldom be-
fore. uuderwood's fine and generally
approved achievements in Congress
have aroused in Alabama the great
est enthusiasm for him.
Hundreds Of newspapers. from
Maine to California, have served mo-
tice on Alabama. in a way, that this
Underwood Hobson fight is to be
supreme test Of Alabama's loyalty to
its so-calied favorite son.
Mr.. Hobson, himself well known
throughout the nation. has pitched
his campaign on one issue oniy-pro-
hibition. He has attacked his adver-
sary from many personal points os
view but the one issue he has ham,
mered at has been the liquor ques-
ton.
Apparently the one time hero ar
the Merrimac'' has staked his polifi-
cal fortunes on that isolated propo-
sltion, to the exclusion of all things
else
Hobson's Attacks Fall Flat.
Mr. Underwood, in Congress
through all the years that the prohi-
bltion question figured the most ex-
tensively in Alabama, will, despite
Mr.. Hobson's attacks. receive a very
heavy vote from the ranks Of the
white ribboners.
There is nothing whatever In I'm
derwood's record remotely attaching
him to or smacking of sinister inter-
ests or influences, and consequently
the sustained and strained effort to
couple him with something unworthy
has fallen entirely fiat. Indeed, in
hundreds Of instances these attacks
have operated as boomerangs and
have hurt Hobson far more than I'm
derwood
II, however, the Hobson camp has
found It necessary or desirable to
harp necessarily on one string. such
has not been the case in the Under
wood camp.
From out Of a mass Of official ac-
tons in a long and active career in
Congress the Underwood people have
been able 10 select scores Of specific
instances in which Underwood not
only has served the nation we'll and
acceptably, but his State ana district
also.
In his long but quiet and no-spec-
tacular term OF service Underwood
has accomplished far more in con
structive craftsmanship than usually
may be set down TO the credit Of the
average Congressman. Even as a
member OF a vigilant but generally
non effective minority in the House,