The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1920-01-05
UNDERWOOD'S MANAGER

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
m VEN candidate of the high char
IS acter and splendid ability of
N Senator Oscar Underwood might
consider himself fortunate in the begin
ming of a political campaign. to secure
as his manager a business man of the
tvne of Mr.. Lloyd Hooper of Selma. The
acceptance of Mr. Hooper of the man
agement of Senator Underwood's cam
paign Immediately sets the standard and
gives the specific character to the cam
paign which will precede the renomi-
nation and reelection of Senator Un-
derwcod.
1t will be campaign conducted on as
high a level as is known in American
politics. 1t will be campaign in whlcn
the constructive business man and the
producer. who have Jared so badly in
Congress and in the Legislature through
the hurried legislation which accom-
panied the war, will recognize that
their interests are being served and de-
Tended. 1t will be campaign designed
to protect the law-loving and constitu-
tional observing people of the country
from the radical demands of any one
class, no matter what class it may be.
If Senator Underwood has stood for
anything in Congress and in the SEN
ate he has stood for constructive prog
ress, for the maintenance of the consti-
tuition and for the preservation of the
American system of government. His
courage has equalled his ability. He
has not hesitated to pick up the chai-
lenge to the continuation of the Amer
lean system of government, when that
challenge has been thrown down. Mr..
Hooper as patriotic Alabamian ana
American has already said that he re-
garded the reelection of Senator In
derwood as a matter of vital lmpor-
,tance not only to the people of Ala
bama, but to the people of the nation
and that he believes the business men
apd the farmers of Alabama are more
deeply concerned in the continuation
of the services of Senator Underwood
in the state than any other classes.
A business man has dropped his own
large affairs for several months to run
a business mans campaign to serve
the people who produce and handle the
products of the state and who pay the
taxes to the state and to the federal
government. The business man as we
have said, has Jared rather badly at the
hands of the men who have drawn up
recent taxation legislation in Montgom-
erv and in washington. That Senator
Underwood has opposed such legisla-
ton when it assumed radical form and
that he has succeeded in the Senate in
some degree in lowering the original
taxation proposals is known to all men.
The Alabama senator has stood
steadfast against the insidious APP
proach of socialistic doctrines which
first would take the profits of men who
labor and spend themselves to make
successes of their business, and which
has later assumed the threatening form
of state socialism. In opposing such
radical legislation and in taking a fear
less stand against the threat of a gov
eminent by minority class and the
sequestration of private property
There are indications that at least one
is trucking and fawning to class of
agitators whose rise TO power would be
disastrous; such reported alliances and
fawning had best be kept under cover