The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-13
JUNE IS SET FOR NAMING DELEGATION ISenator Underwood Says
 He Wants Only Loyal
 Ones Selected |REITERATES STAND FOR ENFORCEMENT Presidential Aspirant,s Majority
 In Alahama Now Hovering E
 Around 2S,OOO Mark IGEORCIA 10 RE INVADED AS NEW BATTLE GROUND |Candidate Expresses Confidence
 Of Getting Nomination Of Dem0cratic Party
REITERATES STAND
 FOR ENFORCEMENT
MAsHrNcroN nukRAul

a WASHINGTON, ID. C.. March K &The Alabama delegation to the national .1enocratic convention to De held in
 New York in July will be appointed
 prohahly as late as June l, Senator Os-
 bar ". Underwood announced today.
 The victor in yesterdays presidential &primary in Alabama received the news If the result this morning without sur Eprise. but with delight. He issued a
 htatement thanking his friends through
 but the state. and declaring his cOnfi- Hence that as Alabama went so will [Eo practically all other commOnwealths &sf the south. That he will be nOmi- hated, the senator in his statement in
 dieated a profound conviction
 Regarding the eanards which fea- .fured the campaign, and the tactics of
 fhose who opposed him as candidates.
 Senator Underwood could not be in
 d1ced to talk He ventured the asser- <tion of opinion. however, that the peO- 'pleuf Alabama had effectively answered Eall that his opponents declared, and 5added that he refused to harbOr ami
 moSity or resentment-
 Regarding Delegation
 As to the personnel of the delegation. Senator Underwood indicated that he
 was not fundamentally interested, just Ss0- each member of the delegation was Known to be an original, sincere Under wood man. The senator intimated, However, that he would insist that the tdese<ste to be chosen for Alabama's s
 member of the platform committee en- fdeavor to secure; a platform plank de- Selaring for the enforcement of all pro .visSons of the constitution, including .shose which prOhihit the traffic in zEquor. and guarantee entire freedom of 'sPeech, the press, and religious worship. The members of the Alabama tlelega- . ton to-day issued no statements either
 of satisfaction or regret regarding the
 rexnlt of the race
 While it was generally believed that 'the majority of the delegatiOn xOted flor the senator if the majority voted,
 less than a majority openly espOuSed his cause. Representative George HuadIeston of stAe ninth sssRrzEk.s aaelaxexf dMfzhR me seampaigm that he wAs not n supporter \ N the eenMear While no other mem a,er openly expressed himself. neither ikepRszeslakixes Lester Hill of the 1econd. HenEy B. SteagalI of the third.
 lamar Jeffers of the fourth, M. c AnEe0d of the seventh, nor W. B.
 Bankhead of tile tenth district. respond e& to . suggestion from Alabama that he contribute his bit towards the election of an Alahamian to the presi- f9nney.
 Senator T. Thomas HefIin agreed to make speeehes for Underwood in Geor- eia following the Alabama primary. While this general quieseent attitude
 is attributed in part to the natural reluctance of OffleehOlders to endanEer Ithem~elves by participating in the fight of others, it Is understood that the at N5tsnie of the Ka klUx Klan, the pro fneziVnal prOhihitioists, and the more radical element of organized labor, ms yell as the senator's opposition to the Hezdiers' bonus, acted as the main deter r1nts- Representatives John MeDuf- l fSe Of the first, W. B. Bowling of the fEkh, w B. Oliver of the sixth, and R B. Alnou of the eighth district, T.hbliely espoused the senator's cause, aud contributed their bits to the final and complete victory.
 There was satizfaetion expressed by EenAtor Unde<Wood and his friends to- day that he had carried Jefferson cOun- ty wherein the opposition had dreamed themselves entrenehed-