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...third candidate, this time a Democrat, to emerge in 1924 is Senator Underwood of Alabama. By comparison he treads softly. He has a moderate foothold in the delegates of the South with which to go to the Democratic Convention and do his fighting there. It seems probable that he will go as an anti-bonusite (he is expected to vote against overriding the President's veto) and not irreconcilably dry. In both respects he will be in sufficient contrast to the other leading Democratic candidate...
Bayard, Dela. Bruce, Md. Dial, S. C. Edwards, N. J. Glass, Va. King, Utah Owen, Okla. Shields, Tenn. Swanson, Va. Underwood, Ala. George,* Ga. Stanley...
...William R. Hearst's magazines, is conducting a straw-vote-for-President among the women of the country. With a count of 81,303 ballots, President Coolidge led with 52,274 votes. Next came McAdoo with 6,611 votes. And after him, in order, Ford, Hughes, Wilson, Hoover, Underwood, Hiram Johnson, Pinchot, La Follette, Borah, Lowden, W. J. Bryan, John W. Davis, Ralston, Glass, Alfred E. Smith, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Mellon. Tied for last place (with one vote each) were Ring Lardner and John Davison Rockefeller...
...Democratic Party, the pre-eminent candidate is McAdoo, with Underwood as a less favored rival. But the Democrats apparently will bring out a crop of favorite son candidates, not making national pre-Convention campaigns, but each going to the Convention with all or a part of his state's delegation. Such men are Senator Glass of Virginia, Senator Ralston of Indiana, Governor Smith of New York, Governor Bryan of Nebraska. The activities of the four leaders of the field...
...Oscar W. Underwood. The activities of the Alabaman are confined mainly to the South. The strategy of this course is the necessity of a two- thirds vote to nominate in the Democratic Convention. The Underwood men calculate that McAdoo will fail in this and they want their candidate to have a nucleus of 100 or more delegates when the alignment breaks up in the Convention and the McAdoo forces begin to disperse to other candidates. They are appealing to the South much as McAdoo is appealing to the West, yet Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Florida are the only states whose...