Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-03-14
DAVIES HAS COURAGE
TO FIGHT FOR RIGHT
HIS RECORD is A GUARANTEE
THAT WISCONSIN CAN TRUST
HIM IN CRUCIAL PERIOD

A native son, Mr.. Davies has alb
sorbed the ideals of the common
wealth which has placed it at the fore
front of the loyal States of the Union.
He is qualified by birth, education,
training and experience to be a true
spokesman Of Wisconsin in the senate
Mr.. Davies private and public life
is sufficient guarantee that Wisconsin
may safely trust him to represent it
in the highest legislative body of the
land in this most critical of all periods
in the nations history.
President Wilson has shown his
complete trust in Mr.. Davies by
honoring him with positions of re-
sponsibility and the ability, vision and
honesty of purpose he has shown in
sures that he will not dishonor the
commission of senator should the peo-
pie of his home state send him back
to Washington.
Although only AZ years of age, Mr..
Davies has already established for
himself national reputation. He has
been credit to his state and is in
every way qualified to take the place
of Senator Husting, his close personal
friend and co-worker in the cause of
good government.
The one thought, of Paul Husting
was loyalty to country in it's hour of
peril. That, too, is the guiding
thought of Joseph Davies.
Husting had the courage to fight
for the right. Davies, too, possesses
that courage. His every public act
attests it. Wisconsin will make no
mistake if it elects Mr.. Davies. 1t
will herald to the world that it has
chosen a man whose love of country
is superior to all other considerations.
1t will proclaim to the enemies of
America that it has sent to Wash
ington man who will aid in the great
struggle to make the world safe for
Democracy"
Joseph Davies is in every sense a
self-made man. He is of the people
and for the people. He was not born
to the purple, as biographer has
said, but was obliged to work his way
in the world and to climb the ladder
of success rung by rung.
AS Commissioner of Corporations
and as an expert in the Federal Trade
Commission he has become a recog-
nized authority on the business prob
lens of the country. He only recent
ly resigned from the commission so
that he might be free to make the
race for the senate. At the outset of
his work on the Trade Commission he
advocated a policy which became the
policy of the commission, to be help
full to the commercial interests of the
country rather than harmful, to build
up rather than tear down, at the same
time seeing to it with a firm hand
that the small man in business and
the interests of the consuming public
were protected.
Mr.. Davies service as commissioner
of corporations and as chairman and
member of the Federal Trade Com
mission have placed him in a position
where he is perhaps better qualified
to speak of business and industrial
conditions than any one else in the
country. This knowledge and expert
ence will prove invaluable to the
senate and to the country if he is
made a member of that body, when it
becomes necessary to take up the
great problems of trade and COM
merce which are certain to develop as
a result of the war and especially
after peace shall have been concluded.
Since war was declared, Mr.. Davies,
at the direction of the President, has
been engaged with the commission in
important war work. The investiga-
tons which were carried on by the
Federal Trade Commission of steel,
meat and other food supplies form the
basis for the action of the government
in controlling these commodities.
Possessing firm convictions, Mr..
Davies is able to express them with
force and Understandings. FIRE.
quently he has been called into coun-