Omaha daily bee., 1922-05-19
Support to
President
Is Pledged
Practically Every Question OF
Public Importance Is Touch
ed Upon in Statement
Issued Yesterday.
Third to Enter Race

kIIJIU W AsltNs
Lincoln, Neb.. May ls.-tspeeiai
Telegram. l-Aitorney General Car
enee 4. Davis today issued formal
acceptance OF petitions signed oy
oi Nebraska republicans
IN all parts OF the state urging h'm
10 seek the nomirs'ion Tor United
States senator on the republican
ticket.
In his statement. Davis touches on
practically every question OF pub
tic importance now before the ma
,ion, embracing agricultural ques-
tions. business problems. taxation,
prohibition. irrigation, social welfare
and the soldier bonus. I'D
Strong for Prohibition.
The statement OF the attorney gen.
crai on the prohibition question Is
blunt He says, Few people need
10 enquire TO kEow that l am dr.,
no; only politically. but personally.
/ stand ilatly on consistent record
OF law enforcement as attorney gen
e,al. which speaks more loudly than
any promise might make
Davis declared that he intended to
carry his campaign personally TO
every town and hamlet in the state
which he can visit.
II shall appeal to no particular
creed or faction. league or organ;za-
.ion." Davis said. "But only to that
great body OF Nebraska citizens who
believe in clean government and
faithful administration. who are not
afraid to depart from the crecds OF
yesterday. but will never pursue
mirage or radicalism."
Text of Statement.
The Davis statement follows:
81 have decided to become a candi-
date for the United States senate. |
am absolutely and unqualifiedly 4 re-
publican, and proud to proclaim it.
/ believe in government by respon-
sible political parties.
"The republican party was the con-
trolling political force in the greatest
half century Of Americas progress
1t will continue to be only so long N
il approaches the future with the
same forward looking program as it
did in the past.
Il stand ready to support any and
all measures necessary to place and
to maintain agriculture upon profit
able basis. Conditions have come to
pass with which the individual farmer
cannot cope. I favor the fullest
measure OF cooperative enterprises
to insure to agriculture the just re-
ward of its labor"
More Credit Facilities.
More adequate credit facilities.
stabilized prices, improved market
ing conditions, reduction in trans
portation charges are essential. A
development of the waterway navi-
CATION and the construction of the
St. Lawrence Great Lakes waterway
will cheaper transportation costs.
and benefit agriculture.
I Pending these, such temporary
expediehts as the War Finance COR
poration extending adequate credit
to hold crops through price depres,
sions are to be relied on. | am
happy to have had some part in the
working out of this great agency OF
service to the farmer.
Sound. clean business organized
on a legitimate basis to render sery-.
ice to the community is tosbe en-
couraged.
Promotions, stock selling.
schemes. nefarious trade practices
should be condemned and prosecuted.
Neither the magnitude Of operation
nor prominence OF the culprit should
deter law enforcement. They have
not deferred me.
Taxes to Be Cut.
i am opposed to the entry Of the
government, either state or national,
IN the field Of business activity in
any place where private capital can
function properly. The government
in business leads on to socialism.
Taxation will be lowered. Taxes
rose with everything else They can
be reduced with everything else. The.
national administration is proving
this day by day.
Il regard the continued use and
operation OF the budget. which adj
justs expenses to income, coupled
with systematic supervision OF ex-
penditures, as fundamental. The
promiscuous issuance Of $l0,0O0, ,O0O, 4
600 Of tax exempt securities does not
improve the situation"
Favors Bonus. 81
TO large part Of Nebraska the
development Of irrigation by means
OF federal aid or encouragement is
vital. | shall do, as l have in the
past, all in my power to assist this
development.
"As living conditions are more
complex, the government must take Q
more active position in safeguarding
child life. motherhood, the home and
social relations. At the same time it
must be understood that government
can never be substitute for parent
or character. 1t can materially better
environment, and I believe it should
do so.
Il hope the present republican con-
gress will pass the bonus. Before
the 1920 election I pledged myself
and am still in favor of an adjusted
compensation plan financed so nearly
as practicable by taxes levied upon
those businesses that received undue
profits throughout the war.
Il believe in and will abide by the