The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-06-12
FLETCHER RETURNS
TO j. 5. SENATE
PEOPLE REFLECT MEN IN sYMPA-
THY WITH WILSON ADMIN
IsTRATToN.
OVERMAN is RETURNED
UNDERWOOD AN EXAMPLE OF
Observation-Disclosures FOR
NOMINATION HIT STICKS
TO HIS POST.
OVERMAN IS RETURNED
My J.. Fl. MCGOWAN.

Washington. June 1.-THE return
Florida, to the senate of the United
States for another term Of six years
he having defeated BY a ma jority of
10000 votes one Of the strongest men
in the state is the latest proof of the
fact that the people are seriously
considering whether 1t is wise to send
man to congress who is not in sym
pathy with the administration when
there is already one there working in
close and thorough harmony.
NORTH cHr0ffra viewed tie matter
In the same light and has returned
Senator Lee s Overman TO the SEN
ate, as did Florida In the case of
Senator Fletcher
To 20 back a little further. Ala
bama saw the wisdom Of maintain
ing true and tried men at the nationl
capital. and what that State did in
! the contest Of Underwood and Hobson
is now already known the country
over
There is much in the Fletcher
election 10 convince those who are
open to reason of the greatest wisdom
Of sending To congress men who will
stand by the administration and Of
the folly of acting otherwise Sena-
tor Fletcher had as his opponent
Hon J. n c. Stockton. man to
whom al, give the highest praise for
upright conduct for experience and
for all around ability and ii man. who.
in time, would undoubtedly have
made good representative Of the
state should he have been elected
instead Of Senator Fletcher. 1t was
L.
claimed from every stump and house
top that he had been an original
Underwood man before the Baltimore
convention, and, for this reason, ne
should not he sent back to Washing
ton. But he was able TO CONVINCE
the Florida voters that although he
had been for the Alabama man. ne
was big enough 10 labor for and
support the administration from the
time Woodrow Wilson was nominated.
There was no trouble in producing
the facts TO show that in every in
stance he had been mosx closely al
lied with everything the administra
ton has been trying to do. and eff
forts made by the opposition to have
the voter believe that he was a ere
dictionary was turned into a boone
rang when the president himself pro-
nounced Senator Fletcher to he
progressive That turned the scale,
II anything was needed to do so. and
meant return TO the senate for him,
No less Interesting the official life
OF Oscar Underwood since he was n
candidate for the presidency He fall
ed of nomination, but did not sulk.
He said then that he would support
Wilson should he be elected, and has
done SO in every instance possible.
h ~uF re "a s7afy ~
lstration are just az closely safe /
guarded by Oscar Underwood AS they
are by President Wilson, Secretary
BRYAN. or any other Democrat. I'm
derwood IL standing by and co-operat-
ing with the president. and that IS
why the people OF Alabama refused
10 retire hum in the recent primary
10 make room for another
In the case Of Senator Overman.
there is cited another man who.
though he may not have favored
Wilson as a presidential candidate.
put his shoulder 10 the wheel and is
one of the most Influential Of all the
southern congressman,
In the case Of Virginia, there are
Senators Martin and Swanson, Wiz
ginia was not for Wilson at the Bal
timore convention. and this has long
since become history. but neVerthe-
less, her two senators are influential
because they lined up squarely with
Wilson when ii was decided that he
should become the Democratic stand
ard bearer {
Other States. when their elections
come off for the house and senate,
win undoubtedly see the wisdom Of
sending to Washington as their repre-
sentatives men who are part and par
eel OF the administration, and will
leave at home those inclined To be
critical Of everything that Is done,
There Is no place for the latter At
then atfonal capital. nor is there room
in the Democratic party for breeders
Of dissention.