The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-09
JOHNSTON GIVES OUT GARD ON TACTICS OF
 HOBSON'S FRIENDS
Says Even "NOiseless and VOiceless" MusgrOve Has
 Broken Golden Silence
PAYS HIS RESPECTS
 TO ANGUS M'SWEEN
Says Underwood Committee Will Not Bore People With Litter of Trash and Nonsense" Being Hurled
 at the Party Leader


 My genial adversary 'noiseless and voiceless' Musgrove, has been prodded out of the golden silence he usually maintains"
 Forney Johnston, chairman Of the campaign committee in the interest Of Oscar W. Underwood's candidacy for the Senate, Issued a card last night He calls attention to recent tactics of the campaign committee in the inter est of R. P. Hobson. In doing so he refers to l. B. Musgrove, Hobson's s manager. who recently exploited a con versation which he indulged in with Senator Clarke of Arkansas-who op- posed the direct election of senators
 MT. Johnston refers to Angus Mc- Sween, political writer of the Phila- delphia North American. as "a auon- dam sot from Pennsylvania" Since the publication of McSween's articles, highly abusive of Alabama, MT. Under wood and the democratic party. MT. Johnston states that "certain misguided successors to the abolitionist and the invader have been calling for campaign contributions with which to defeat Uln- derwood whom they hold responsible for southern barbarity."
 His card follows:
 ''l had hoped that after Captain Hob son had become reconciled to the idea of opposition, his personal bitterness would subside and the campaign be allowed to close with a dignity and r I f1Il la the selection of a senator and that the captains mad partisans had satisfied themselves with cheap tales about MT. Underwood.
 Unfortunately, the disasters which attended the efforts of McElderry, the fertilizer baron, and the other per sonai satellites of Captain Hobson, with their falsities about negro secretaries cotton bagging and ties. and the like, have poisoned their volatile minds and we are to be treated to 30 days more of expensive political yulgarity ! from the Hobson headquarters.
 "Even my genial adversary, noise less and voiceless' Musgroye. has been prodded out of the golden silence he usually maintains in connection with | the llobson campaigns. He has re- ! turned from trip to the wilds of Arkansas, with the fearsome intelIi- gence that Clarke of Arkansas, labor | ing Tor votes with those stubborn di- | sciples of the late Jeff Davis Is glac | to know that Underwood, serenely un. conscious of the disaster, has been cui | down in the magnificenee- of his sery. | ice,
 Johnston Is Satirical
 l Captain Hobson has been lost sigh
 of. His prodigious services have beer | rather cruelty ignored in the new champions discovered by his hedquar- | ters. The Underwood committee find, | that the real adversaries of MT. Un. derwood are fertilizer baron McEIder. | ", Clarke of Arkansas, a qpondam sol rom Pennsylvania by the name of Mo Sween deposed congressman from Georgia Patterson of Tennessee and { plethoric campaign wad being collect. | ed in the wake of the vicious libels oi ] Alabama recently published in the Phil iadelphia North American, a paper rep.
 resenting the last sullen straggler 1T the ancient company of calumniators of the south and the democratic party | 'Secretary Monette, who has beer acting congressman from the Sixth dis | trict for two or three years, whlt Captain Hobson has been looking fol another job, couldn't stand the lone | someness of life around the captain. office in Washington and hurried bacl to Alabama with his basketful of bas I c6SSi ItdNinE ,dI1 SptlBnef, the ne gro celebrity from the Sixth district as the sole exponent of the Hobsoi
 school O thought left in Washington to represent the unfortunate Sixth. r
 'I call attention to the fact that afteI Angus McSween published his viicou | larticles-calling this state backward
 in morals, reactionary in the uses o Iciyiligation, labelling our sense of ele mental decency and our political integ
 rity and brutal with crude lies of liquo men still selling whisky to negroes | with indecent pictures and suggestion l-certain misguided successors to tn, jabolitionists and the invader, have beer
 calling for contributions to the cam
 paigp fund to defeat Underwood an, the democratic party whom they hoI,
 responsible or this southern barbarism
 HobsOn's PrOdigiOus Services | These and kindred contributions ar,
 enabling Colonel Musgrove and tn,
 holy band around him to give McElder ry full swing, to exploit Clarke of Ar kansas. to repub1ish the slanderou
 articles of Angus McSween--writter with a pen bitter with hate for tn, present administration, for the demo
 cratic leader and for the south
 "So swollen is the campaign funt that they are invading the daily press having found that the Advance ha, bitten itself into a state of inefficienc,
 and cannot become normal enough fo the fireside, until on April 2. 1t nor, aptly styles itself The Retreat
 | This committee does not propose t' bore the people of the state with seri
 ous consideration of the litter of trasl and nonsense being hurled at Mir. Un lderwood by a squad of fortune hunt CTS who have lost the faculty of re specting a great adversary or recogniz ing a great man.
 r.. "FORNEY JOHNSTON,