Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-08-02
UNDERWOOD READY
To. "CAST HAT INTO
PRESIDENTIAL RING"
Continued from Page /,

character of the candidate.
We have seldom gained by yield
ing to expediency. In the past nan
| { injury we have elected two demo-
cratic presidents. When Mr.. CleVe-
land was elected in 'S4, he, carried
| New York state by narrow margin
his great personality and the fact
| that he was q son of New York state
probably turned the tide but when
he was elected in '92 the tide was
overwhelming and the question as to
what state he came from could not
have effected the result. SO it was
with Mr.. Wilson. He would have
been elected president after his NOM
ination in 1912 regardless of what
state in the union he hailed from,
and in 1916 he lost his own state of
New Jersey bpt carried the country
in spite of the TACT.
UNLESS the southern state are
willing to forget their birthright,
the time has come when they have
Alright to ask their sister states,
whose sons have so often been hon
| ored by the votes of the south in thu
electoral college, that a son of the
southland should again bear the
CetAAAiGI VI hClIIOCl dCy cSIlu ne cnOS6H
TO direct the destinies of the ma.
ton. We cannot maintain the re-.
spect of others if we do not stand
for reasonable treatment for our.
selves. 1t is no question Of idle
honors, 1T is a question where most
serious governmental problems that
affect the very life and happiness of
our people are at stake.
South Not Recognized
1t may not matter much to us
who represents us in a foreign court
| Or who commands our armies and
navy, but there are certain great
governmental commissions that now
direct the agricultural and industrial
destinies of the nation. We have not
been given our full representation
on these commissions. More than
one-thlrd of the people of the nation
are IN the south and on the great
commissions that control our desti.
mes we never have full recognition
uhIess II was first fixed by law.
The interstate commerce com.
MISSION through the control of the
Irelght rates of the country can
make or unmake our ports-can
drive the moving commerce to the
east or the west and awav from
the south. 1t can put burdens on
transportation that prevent our
reaching our legitimate markets.
and yet in the last twenty years the
only representation we have had
has been on the border line of the
Potomac and Ohio rivers, and that
was not equal to what we are fairly
entitled to.
The south is a great agricultural
country, deeply interested in the
agricultural affoirs of the union.
and yet when the farm loan board
was organized, we were not given a
single representation from the
south. [ do not say this in criti-
clsm of others. [ say it in criticism
of ourselves. AS long as we are
content to admit that our place is
at tire second table, we. cannot ex-
pect the recognition in governments
al affairs that our people are Justly
entitled to.
Let the southland present its
candidates to the Democratic ma
t1onal convention confident that the
final decision rests in the house of
our fathers, and that our sons will
receive the same cordial and friend
ly treatment that for decades past
we have accorded the sons of the
north and the west"
The senior senator of Alabama re-
ceIved an ovation when he entered
the hall of the house which followed
demonstration given in his honor
IN the downtown section by a dele
cation from Mobile and southern
Alabama, headed by Mayor r. V.
Taylor, of Mobile.
The senator was introduced by
Governor w. w. Brandon, who de-
clared he was commissioned to say
that Alabama demanded that he
throw his hat into the ring and
make fight to place democracy
back in control of national affairs"
He presented Mr.. Underwood as the
senior senator from Alabama, "the
next president of the United States"
Refers to Harding's Illness
Before launching his address, Sem
ator Underwood called attention to
the sad news of the illness of Presi-
dent Harding and expressed the
hope of his speedy recovery.
Il come before you today as a
Democrat" he told the legislators,
and proceeded to a discussion OF the
foreign and domestic relations of the
United States.
The speaker declared that now for
the first time since the days oe
Washington, the United States was
not shwOing a vital interest in Euro
pean affairs.
Because We did not take our seat
at the head Of the international ia
BILE in Europe in 1919, a great part
OF that continent has been contin-
ually torn by war and strife" the
senator said. There will be no sta
bility in Europe until stabilized gov
ernments pave the way for the sta
bilized finances" he declared.
International Policy
Senator Underwood expressed the
hope that the next Democratic con-
vention will have the courage to
face the international situation with
the firm purpose to pledge the party.
if successful in the elections, to take
its place in the international fam
| lily"
Turning to domestic affairs, SEN
ator Underwood discussed the tariff
question, taking the Republican
party to task. for erecting a tariff
barrier against Europe at a time
when the only way in which that
continent could absorb the surplus
products of America was by trade
He asserted that America is an
agricultural country, but that de-
spite its promises and pledges, the
Republican tariff has throttled that
| industry to death.
An cover production OF bureau
cracy" is one of the evils confronting
the country, he declared.
Senator Underwood told his audi
ence that he had been designated
| by some critics as a %''wet," but that
he objected to government being
run by nicknames. So far as he
was concerned. he said, the decision
of the country on the 18th amend
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