The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-08

hurt the feeling of the captain. Mr..
Taylor at considerable length reviews
the situation. presents his argument
and draws his conclusions The letter,
constituting one of the most terrific
arraignments of a candidate ever de-
livered in Alabama. follows:
January 81. 1911.
Hon. r. Z. Hobson, Washington, .. &.
My Dear Sir-l have your letter
dated January 20. with enclosures, in
Wblch there is a letter for my sigma
tdre, addressed to you. | do not sign
this, but as you expect a reply from
me, l will take this opportunity to
write you. 1 really intended to have
replied sooner, but did not know eX-
aC;ly where to address my letter to
you; but l notice in yesterdays paper
that you would return to Washington
Immediately, so as to be there on pay
day. Therefore l will send this letter
there
Returning to the various topics men
tiuned in your letter, I beg 10 say that
agree with you in some of your plans,
but in most things l do not And in
stlilt VI tit pA OpCSNt iNeh'bNit7 Ai'N'A
you speak of | believe that If you
would remain at your post of duty and
show to the world that you mean what
YOU say | would be more impressed by
your sincerity. l have no hope of the
success of any effort, neither in the
halls of Congress nor elsewhere, If the
advocate gives his support merely for
the purpose of what he can make peo-
pie believe he is tryingPt to accomplish
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all his energy in doing something else.
Now everybody believes, whether he
is your political friend or foe, that
You are sincere in your desire to be-
come United States senator from Ala
bana. You are showing this by your
works. And by their works We shal
knew them That may not be the
exact text. but il is mighty good com
mcr senseD
Fill Present Job
"T have worked hard all my days, and
I came along in the school of life which
taught that promotion should come to
those who best deserve It; and | don't
know any better way for man TO show
that lie deserves promotion than to fill
his last position so well that his fit
ness for the job next higher is clearly
apparent. Have you done this? Have
you stayed at your post of duty with
pure and simple for duty's sake. that
an employer has the right to expect of
a we'll paid employe? Have you grasped
the responsibilities of the great office
which you already occupy, and discharged
them in such a way that you are per-
fectly satisfied with what you have done?
Or does your extraordinary ambition for
office holding. for soaring higher and
higher. politically, force you to look
lightly upon smaller things, and as way,
only, to the greater glory of self-ag-
grandizement2 | have no right to an
swer; 7 might misjudge you; l do not
know what is in your heart; you should
know.
There is one thing, though which l
think I should have the right to pass
judgment on You may have the right
under the law; if So the law is wrong.
That is this; You send out all this cam
paign matter under your congressional
frank You are thereby turning an Off
cal privilege into a personal private, and
political benefit You do this, others may
do not know; but it matters not; it is
not right
"In your letter to me / find much
advertisement concerning matters of gen.
eral good that you felt an interest in,
to which you wished to call attention,
and then, this: My speech dealing with
the misrepresentation as to my attention
to duty in Congress and condemning the
practice of candidates for high office al
lowing Wall street or the liquor interests
to finance their campaign or use them
as tools to defeat other candidates whom
these interests fear
"Tn plain English, knowing that you
are running for office and that you have
an opponent, that means nothing but to
accuse your opponent of being the candi-
date and tool of Wall street and the
liquor interests, for the purpose of de-
feating you.
Unfair and Unjust q
Don't You know that statement is
manifestly unjust and unfair to your great
opponent, and untrue of him? l have read,
recent newspaper accounts of your
speeches. and you are reported as say
ing worse things that that In one ac-
count you call him a political thug
in another you call him a criminal
''I have known Oscar Underwood for
20 years. and have always considered him
one of the best and cleanest of men.
personally. officially, mentally and moral
ly. that l ever knew.
would you have me to believe those
things and change my exalted opinion
of him? And for what purpose? Just
t. get my vote? Is the office worth
to you the great and impossible ef-
fort of making the voters of Alabama
believe those misrepresentations? Do
you really hope to succeed by such
methods? And would you, if you could :?
DO you really believe those things
yourself. or is that all that is left to
you in your hopeless effort to defeat
him. not because he is bad, but be-
cause he is mountain in your path?
You have much ability Mr.. Hobson
in many ways, but my opinion is that
you are In too big a hurry politically,
and that if you had earlier adopted the
plan of building your house more
slowly and upon a better and safer
foundation it would last longer.
Religious Fanatic
Your statements and speeches make
me consider you, not a man of con-
servative, sound and sober Judgment,
but a religious fanatic. You can make
no error; you can do no wrong; every
thing that you want to do Is always
the right thing whether or no; you
base your campaign on a great moral
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