The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-18
ENTIRE AUDIENCE RISES ID GREET
 UNDERWOOD AS HE
 "OPENS HIS SPEECH
Devotes Address to Labor and Tells Why He Re- fused to Take Or
 ders From MT.
 GOmpers

Before an audience com posed of business, professional and working men, and a num- Der of women, Senator Oscar w. Underwood last night de- livered in Birmingham the final speech of his two weeks cam paigning in Alabama.
 It was an enthusiastic audience, his speech being interrupted at frequent intervals with vigorous applause, as he drove home sledge hammer blows against the men who set themselves up as a superior class and undertake to dictate to Congress what laws shall be passed and what shall not be.
 The vast majority of the audience which filled the parquet and more than two-t thirds of the balcony of the Jefferson Theatre, with a hundred or more men ranged around the walls, were in sympathy with the speaker. They applauded vigorously when he declared that if the people. of Alabama wanted man in the Senate of the United States who would take orders from Samuel Gompers he was not the man they wanted.
 LABOR AND GOVERNMENT
 His entire speech of an hour and half was given over to discussion of the problems of government and la bor. / He traced briefly the history Of the establishment of government by law from the granting of the magma 4 l. p.~tNr oraf of Cummins bill, which, he declared, was labor's magma charta. Disputes over property, questions involving the rights of man, his life and his liberty, are decided in courts of law, he said, and asked if there was any good reason why the question of wages and other disputes between labor and capital should not be decided by court created for that purpose.
 Jelks Cabaniss campaign manager in Jefferson county for Senator Under wood called the meetpg to order and introduced Lloyd NJ. Hooper of Selma state campaign manager. Mir. Hooper stated that Senator Underwoods cam paign had been pitched on a high plane and would be maintained there until the end.
 He told his hearers that he did not believe the people of Alabama would be swayed by false issues, by canards or by misrepresentations, and that the guage of battle as laid down by a' least one of Senator Underwood's op- ponents would not be accepted, bu' that he would conduct the campaign on the high plane which is in accord with the dignity of the man and the office to which he is seeking re-elec tion.
 Just as Dallas contributed it's Nor gan and Pettus we look to you ant see in the presence of you man no despised of men, a man who reflects credit on you just as you reflect credif on the great commonwealth of Ala bama." said MT. Hooper He was SC. lected out of 435 men to be their leader and in two weeks he will be selected by the senators as their leader.
 If you don't give him a decided ma jority you will feel vefy lonesome when you hear from the black belt"
 ENTIRE AUDIENCE RISES
 In introducing Senator Underwood MT. Cabaniss said he was presenting z man who could express his own ideas without cotore of spellbinders goins around speaking for him. As Senator Underwood rose the audience came tc it's feet cheering. It was great ova- toH rum iiSe nome people and tht demonstration deeply affected the dis tinguished citizen who has for over twenty five years represented the DO. pie of Alabama in the Congress oi the United States.
 T am among friends, among the people who gave me my career" he be- gan. "Oh, some people say I have no career but that is a question you may determine for yourselves. For twenty years you sent me to the lower house of Congress. and with two exceptions nominated me without opposition, and in time you carried my name to Balti- more and with your sister states went through forty five ballots in your ef- forts to hand me the highest honor in the land. Six years ago when I was a candidate for the Senate you gave me 5000 majority in this county"
 He said he need not discuss his rec ord& that it had been in the daily. press for more than tive decades; that he had been with these people since he was a boy: his record was an open book and that the people here know him.
 REFERS. TO RUSSIA
 Taking up the problems of govern ment he referred to Russia as an ex- ample of what may happen to a peo- pie, kept in serfdoom for centuries. battling for freedom and representative government and just as their dream was about to come true. victory
 iContinued on Page Nine,