Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-07-22
CANDIDATE ADDRESSES
HUGE NORFOLK CROWD
Declares Combinations That
Are Detrimental to Virginia
Must Be DESTROYED.
RECALLS OPPONENTS WET VOTE
"But You Never Hcnr Anything
About That" Speaker Tells
His Audience.
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NORFOLK. July 2i.-Charglng
that Senator Swanson, State Chair
man Harry F. Byrd and other po-
litical leaders OF Virginia are merely
political puppets. who act when Rev.
David Hepburn pulls the strings.
westmoreland Davis spoke tonight
to packed house in the Colonial
Theater
Tho man who asked me ~ was
wet, dry or both wns not Harry
Byrd" MIR. Davis said; Hepburn
pulled the string and Byrd squawked
out the question"
Hepburn "T.ikc EVIL Spirit"
While Mr. Davis gave some at
tention to other issues OF the cam
paisn. to his record as Governor. 10
Senator Swanson's record in Con.
sress and 10 the achievements he
the greater and the more pungen,
part of his address concerned the
Anti-Saloon League and ite hold
He threw out few shots al the
Virginia Pilots Association. bu,
mainly 10 link them up with Mr.
Hepburn. who. he said. passes here
and there through the halls OF the
Capitol when the General Assembly
is in ecssion like an evil .pirit -
He declared that the Issue at stake
ls the domination OF the Anti
Saloon League" and concluded by
| saying that. whether he is elected
or defeated. combinations that are
detrimental! TO Virginia must be de
stroycd"
The most important suggestion
thrown out as to legislation which
he would try to have accomplished ID
II elected TO the Senate was that OF
an executive budget applied to the
nation and or an amendment to the
Constitution giving the Presiden,
the right TO veto any part Of an an
| propriation bill without vetoinr the
| whole.
Congress Will naturally not fall
in readily with that plan" he said
because OF the loss OF it's pork
barrel privileges. which usually ac,
ae political sop. AS the stua.!on
now stands. the President is power
less TO act, because he can saw. when
ne approves an appropriation bill
| tnat he dared not veto IL for fear
OF stopping the wheels OF govern
| msnt"
Says Record ColorIess.
In eleven years service in the Sen
| ate. Mr.. Davis charged senato,
| Swanson has his name attached r.
! none but unimportant bills enacted
into law. and the candidate read
from the Congressional Record the
votes of his opponent on the wa,
profits tax. the luxury tax. the ex
tension OF the corrupt practices ac,
and other bills and amendments. or
| all OF which, h. said. Senator Swan
son voted no"
Declaring that he hesitated to joir
IN a combat with State .Chairnar
Harry F. Byrd. because NV cam.
paisn for the Senate is with Sen.
ator Swanson" but that he "neye,
tailed TO meet an issue" Mr.. Davis
| referred To the statement OF Mr
Byrd in which the State chairman
asked II the Loudoun County man
was wet. dry or both
When Mr.. Davis announced tina,
no had voted against prohibition
wi'd applause broke forth from tho
audience and interrupted the sneak.
ing for minute. Then re added
But so did my opponent. tut you
never hear anything about that"
Mr.. Davis struck popular chord
with his hearers when he expressed
his opposition to entering peoples
homes without a warrant. going into
women's berths on railroad train.
and high handed breaking of consti.
tutionnl rights"
What He Did as Governor.
The speaker then digressed into
the subject OF accomplishment at.
| tributed to the Davis administration
particularly the executive budget
the simplification commission, effort.
to reorganize the State government
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