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Show I E ERIE RAILROAD HEAD I PRAISES PRESIDENT Ij jl F. D. Underwood Denies That I f Wilson Played Politics With 1 1 1 Adamson Eight-Hour Bill, lj I Chicago, Oct. 22. In an authorized H i interview, F. D. Underwood, president I I of tho Erie railroad, has declared in II P favor of the re-election of President Ml Wilson. Mr. Underwood said he fully M jj endorsed the recent approval of the 111 111 l president's policies by Judge Samuel I Lovett, chairman of tho board of the ifi Union Pacific railroad. M "I agree with all Judge Lovett Will; stated, and possibly the interview can lj ! end with that," said Mr. Underwood, 11 ' vr10 is one o tne country's ls rall I I road chiefs. R Acceding to a request to "go on," jj Mr. Underwood gave his reasons for ft thinking "that the administration of HUH President Wilson has, on the whole, 9 been successful and worthy of a'fiir- I ther trial." lj "For many years," he said, "the fl Democratic party was one of opposing opposi-ng tion, devoted to destructive attack Mft and barren of constructive suggestion. tjJr Hungry for office, impatient of author- ity, it constituted a force that seemed D h certain to go to pieces whenever it Bill' tried to go forward. lUj Did Seemingly Impossible, fl! "With its accession to power some H ; of us expected four years of futility. fl f In place of which its accomplish-SJljl: accomplish-SJljl: ments and actions have surprised its adversaries. The president has UH achieved the seemingly impossible. ' "As to the staetment that Prosident ffllj Wilson played politics in the railroad Mh i negotiations for an eight-hour day by ami the brotherhoods in Washington I ByHli once stated, and now reaffirm, that my opinion is he used, his best judgment Mm in doing as he did. ' No one could fair-jf fair-jf ly accuse him of playing politics, and MM while my views did not correspond Id jj with his, I concede that his motives Hjljl Were honest Ho did not carry the 111 burden of the railroads or the claims of the brotherhoods as his load. He II carried that of the people of the MM United States. His eminent fairness mm shown in the personnel of the com-mfi com-mfi mission that is to study the working MM of the exDBrlment and his appoint-M appoint-M ment of the committee on national do- , fense, which, with but one exception. could not be Improved on." I i ,ln a8.ked hlB opinion of the I ei?.TrVu0Ur lavr Mr- Underwood said: Ml , c W,halPlatterB hoy7 1 or anyone else m i feels? The eight-hour law is past dis-H dis-H SS?l0n' Jb RePublican party, as loTi . ,7s the Democratic party, advo-II advo-II f? iL Wither wo like it or not, u MM . a hero, to be lived up to so long as It MM Is tho law of the land." |
