Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-02

A lasting place In Americas memory
Is accorded universally to Oscar W.
Underwood, former Senator from Ala
banla, who died recently at his coun-
try home, near Washington. His brill
liant and useful career is attributed
to rare combination of the qualities
Of the gentleman and the practical
wielder of political power.
In the State which he served for
many years, the Birmingham News
says: "In death he is acclaimed by
all Americans worthy to be his coun-
trymen. In the annals of his adopted
State he ranks with Alabama's purest
and noblest. In the select company
of his country's great his inspiring fig-
ure will be surely niched. 1t
was Oscar Underwood's intellectual in
tegrity and moral height that evoked
respect and admiration for him at
Washington quite as much as it was
his gentle birth, or his urbane man.
ner, or his gracious spirit. or his VIM
ming address. or his happy temper.
Every one who knew him there, or here
In Alabama, recognized that his grace
Of character lowered out of his
strength of character. If the perfume
of violets poisoning in the oaks cleft
was scented by his associates, it may
be said that none who knew him
was unmindful of the oak ITSELF"
Sanity. poise. reasonableness-these
are not among the more brilliant traits
OF human character" observes the At
lanta Journal. but they are among
the most useful, and they earn for him
who possesses them the respect of his
opponents as well as the confidence of
his allies. They may lose battles, but
they win wars. They not infrequently
fall into popular disfavor, but how well
they stand the tests of time and his
tory! Because he embodied these calm
virtues in so rich measure and COM
b1ned with them trenchant mind and
a fearless soul, Oscar Underwood will
long live in the memory of America"
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"All alike could trust him, the public
most of ALL" AYERS the Montgomery
Advertiser, with the added tribute:
He was then the gentleman in poll
tics, than which no higher praise could
be bestowed upon public man. Yet
ne was more than gentleman; he
was a creative statesman, a man pc
cullarly endowed with breadth of
vision, Judgment, humane sympathies
and ripe scholarship"
The Indianapolis News also views
him as a representative of "a very
high type OF public servant-intelligen
well informed. conscientious, knowing
no guide but his own conscience and
acknowledging no master except duty"
He was man of wide reading, a
Southern gentleman of the best type"
in the Judgment of the Newark Eve
ming News, while the Oakland Tribune
calls him IAN old-line Democrat, ex-
pounding with oratorical grace the
principles of the founders of that
party" and one who was broad
enough. when occasion called, to assert
Times predicts that "hc will be remem-
bered as leader cast in the mold of
craftsmanship who played conspicu-
Gus role in the political life of the
Nation."' The Salt Lake Deseret News
commends his brilliant political ca
reer as pattern of which every Amer
lean can be proud, for in all essential
things he was patriot rather than
partisan" An analysis by the San
Francisco Chronicle emphasizes the
thought that he was one of the first
of the representatives of the new
South to sense the relation between
national economic policy and national
and regional prosperity"
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Mr.. Underwood's influence with both
parties is a subject of comment by
many papers. including the Manches-
ter Union, the Wheeling Intelligencer
and the Baltimore Sun, while the
Raleigh News and Observer says,
Support in Alabama by those who
were not in harmony with what his
friends called his conservatism, and his
political critics called his reactionary
views, was high tribute to faith in
his ability and character"
His political principles were grounded
on the foundations laid by Jefferson and
built up on the blue prints drawn by
such successors of Jefferson as Ken
tucky's own Beck and Carlisle" testi-
fies the Louisville Courier-Journal.
Others that speak Of his craftsmanship.