The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-16
|Underwood' 'sAttitudeOn
 Candidacy for President
Whoever Is Nominated It Is Felt Sure That Alabamans Advice and Counsel Will Be Eagerly Sought-Mar- tens Case May Become Famous
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washington, January 15.-(Special)- D. |Hhen to an inquiring local bureau core ipondent Senator Underwood of Alabama formally announced that which his most |ntimate friends already knew, namely,
 hat he was not a candidate for the pres |dency of the United States, he was
 peaking truthfuliy and in all sincerity.
 ie is not candidate for the presidency. However, there is no gainsaying the l aet that were the democrats to nomi- ate him at San Francisco, he would ac-
 ept the nomination.; and further. it is
 htirely probable that if the democrats.
 rior to the convention, should insist in a olce great enough to express the desire
 the party, that he stand for the nomi-.
 atlon, he would yield. For Senator Un-
 erwood is, if anything, a party man wills
 hg to make sacrifices for the party.
 Senator Underwood was asked by the
 correspondent above referred to if he was
 candidate because of the growing be-
 CT throughout the United States that
 IS standing on all controversial topics
 breed him into the status of a candi-
 ate; and, in addition. because of the
 act that in all speculation he was re-
 arded as a factor. And again, it is
 nown Of all local observers that consid-
 rabte pressure had been brought to bear
 D the end that the Alabamian would an-
 ounce.
 Senator Underwood replied to the fn- uiry as he did because of the fact that
 is still regarded as somewhat immodest
 ar in advance Of convention to indulge
 } scramble for the presidency, or ven for man, by admitting himself
 candidate, to convey the idea that he l worthy of serving as chief executive fl the greatest union on earth. And gain, Senator Underwood having an- |ounced his candidacy for reelection to he Senate, did not desire to assume the Ittitude of grasping for all offices with 1a the gift of the people
 That Senator Underwood is not can |idate, that he is resident of southern late which is regarded as an impossible 'arrier to the presidency, is a source of |een regret, expression of which is not oppressed, on the part of many demo- |rats throughout the nation. That vast 3orde of democrats which would Institute tactical measures for fanciful theories, fhich abjures socialism and socialistic bndencies, which opposes governmental
 wnership and operation of public utili- | es which believes that despite modern {vasions the separate states, under @.e pnstitution, have inalienable rights, es- |ecially affecting franchise; that vat .ement which opposes the domination of hpital on the one hand and labor on he other, and which opposes the impo- 1tion of puritanical restrictions on a |piceess people, desire Underwood ae hndidate and President. lit is not a betrayel of confidence to | ate that some of the most prominent hd most representative men of the east Rve asked Senator Underwood to be a hndidate, have stated that as the nomi- I be of the party he could. more easily | han any other man, carry the pivotal |ates of New York, New Jersey and liners touching the Atlantic. And it is |hown that the south, through represen- Live men of each of it's states, has ex- ressed it's desire with promise to l hpport the southerner as Georgia, Flor Ia and Mississippi supported him in 1912. l h this connection, it is interesting to ! kport that Georgia was more insistent l is representations to the senator than l hy other southern state. NV tile Underwood is not candidate, it l