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Show UNDERWOOD SEES j PARTY'S FAILURE ; Aoknowl'dgment by Democratic ' Leader of the United States Senate. SAYS CONDITIONS ARE BAD In a Talk to Returned Soldiers Ho Points Out How the Country Is Suffering Under the Present Administration. Senator Oscar Underwood, Democratic Demo-cratic leader of the United States senate, does not seem to be entirely satisfied with the condition of the country under a Democratic administration. adminis-tration. His speeches' to World war veterans sound like a Republican attack. at-tack. The senator says: "The government gov-ernment has become the football of the partisan and the desire of the plunderer." And this sweeping declaration dec-laration is made after seven years of Woodrow Wilson in the White House and seven years- of the Democrats in the saddle. Mr. Underwood of Alabama Ala-bama knows what he Is talking about. Under the Wilson Democratic regime the southern partisan and southern plunderer with others certainly cer-tainly have fattened upon the government govern-ment of the United States. Senator Underwood finds that other bad conditions con-ditions have arisen in the country. He says : "The war profiteer glories in his new wealth, and the high cost of living threatens the humble home." this all has occurred under the peerless peer-less idealist. Mr. Wilson, and his Democratic Dem-ocratic leaders in congress. In short in his talk lo the returned soldiers Senator Underwood hit his party in a non-political speech good and hard. It was frank confession of Democratic failure in the administration administra-tion of public affairs. And it also was truly IViiHe.-nii.ic in that he proposed pro-posed nothing remedial or compensatory compensa-tory to he done by the party so long in power for the lamentable condition in which the soldiers returning find the country for which they fought. |