The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-19
D|NSMORE TELLS
 WHY UNDERWOOD
 IS MAN FOR PLACE
Man Without Home and Without Church Not Suit able Leader for Chris
 tian Nation
of Birmingham, Ala Statement February 2Sth, 1920. RE CcAI Iral-Ec

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 Before making up my mind as to now I would vote in the long term senatorial race, I have weighed the proposition from every angle. Having spent a part of my life farming, part teaching school and the remainder iu prac ticing law. I feel that I am in q position to express an opinion in this race, because it is of the most in- terest 10 the public.
 In 1907 I stumped Jefferson county for prohibition and have always voted that ticket, but in my judgment that question has had it's final settlement in this state and will never be an is sue in Alabama again, except when a few politicians (and not statesmen) try to ride into office by pretending to the people that it is an issue. No man of good Judgment thinks that the doors of the saloon will ever swing open in Alabama again, and still we find politicians trying to deceive the people by hollowing wolf when the sheep are quietly grazing in the meadow. In this race we have one politician, one candidate for office and cEe proven statesrnan. The politician is arraying labor against capital. and judging from his speech he only in tends to represent labor, and, being A capitalist himself who would repre- sent him and the. remainder of the.cap : italists in Alabama? And who would represent the school teacher, the pro- fessional man and the plain business man? A man that does not represent a fho rn ln ic ant ri hu tn ran sent any of them. If a man should run for office on a platform that he would give all the lawyers the best of any proposition. even I myself would not support him, because a fair Geal is all that any man should ask.
 The same politician is going over the state telling the farmers that they are not getting fair chance. and such tactics will have tendency to H:srupt and drive them from the sup sCrt of their government. I well re- member when the same methods of campaigning were used years ago and the result was the death of the old farmers alliance.
 When Mr. Underwood entered Con gress the farmers of this state were selling cotton for cents per pound and now they are the most prosperous people in the state. They had no roads; today they have the machinery On foot to build good roads in every country. They had no rural credit; today they hsve a great rural credit system. They had no mail and pack age deliveries; today they are in daily touch with every merchandise market and every journal in the land. They had no schools; today every commu- rity has a respectable schoolhouse and still MT. Musgrove is trying to lead the farmers to believe that the government, in putting into effect legislation advocated by Senator Un- derwood, has not given them a fair show. '
 Senator Underwood did not do al Of this alone, but he, has helped to make all the laws for twenty-f five years. and during that time the United States has grown to be the greatest nation on earth, because we have had men like Senator Underwood to make conservative laws for all the people
 Before a man decides for whom he will vote he. should reflect for a long time on two other points. The great est institution on earth is the Amer ican home. and next to that is the church, and Breck Musgrove has no played any part in either for sixty years But. on the contrary, we fint in Oscar Underwood a devoted hus 0and, an affectionate father ant grandfather, and a consistent member uf his church. A man without a home and without a church would not be 2 suitable person to lead Christian na. ton. w. A. DINSMORE.
 Birmingham. Ala, April 19 1920.