Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-10-25
MIDDLE WEST TOUR
FINISHED BY DAVIS;
TURNS BACK EAST


ROUTE TO CLEVELAND, Oct. 90.
With but one more formal address
that scheduled for Cleveland to-
night-John w. Davis, Democratic
candidate for president, was on his
way east today, completing the last
leg of his two weeks final campaign
drive in the middle west.
The train passed out Of Indiana
early today headed for Cleveland
and thence on to New York, where
the final drive of the candidates
personal campaign will be started
Saturday.
Mr.. Davis put the finishing
touches on his Indiana tour last
night at Evansville after speaking
earlier in the day at Vincennes and
for briefer period at Princeton.
In Evansville he replied to Secre-
tary of War Weeks address in New
York Tuesday evening, characterlz-
ing the war secretary as "one of
the still unmuzzled" members of the
cabinet.
In Vincennes Mr.. Davis charged
that the three and one-half years
of power by the Harding Coolidge
administration "have produced TINS
radical third party of which they
complain" The radicals" Mr. la
y Wis said, had aroused the American
people and offered "stronge ooc-
trines, urging them on the people
as the cure-all for their ills"
Secretary Weeks, he said, had dis
covered a new antagonist for the
Republican nominee in the name or
Governor Charles w. Bryan, the
Democratic vice presidential candl-
date. The secretary's act, he de-
clared was a "bit of strategy so SIM
pie that 1 think the strategy board
of the war department must nave
been working on it thirty days.
"Mr. Weeks has solemnly assured
the American people," Mr.. Davis
said, that the real race for the
presidency this fall was not, as Gen
eral Dawes thinks, between Presl-
dent Coolidge and Senator La Fol
lette, but between President COOL
idge and Governor Bryan
"I do not share Secretary Weeks
horror about that contingency II II
arose. Mr.. Davis said. Il should
+ not tremble for the destinies of my
country if they were committed to
q gentleman, who, after having
spent twenty years of his life IN
contact with public questions, re-
ceived the largest majority ever
given in his state for the office Oh
clief executive, and who, If the
draft had not been made upon MIN
bv the Democratic party, would nave
been reelected by his fellow cltlzens
bv a majority greater than ne en-
loved when they first indicted MIN
into office"
DECLARES THIRD PARTY Is =,
RESULT OF G.. o. p. MISRULh
EVANSVILLE, Ind, Oct. 23.-lBy
the Associated Press. )-Completlh
his third and final campaign tour
of Indiana with addresses last nlght
at Evansville and in the late after
noon at historic Vincennes, Jonn
w. Davis, Democratic candidate. for
nresident, charged that the last three
and one-half years of Republican
administration had produced the
third party and offered with the
help of a Democratic congress 10
remedy "the disease which mad
brought it about"
Mr., Davis also pledged in the
name of democracy to give rellet 10
the farmers OF the country; TO pflhS
about thorough house cleaning OF
the Washington government; 10 puI
Ian end to bureaucraCles ana lnSldlA
q government based on sane, lot
ward looking and progressive hpel-
alism. In addition, Mr.. Davis sala
he would cause the tax and tariff
laws to be rewritten along the hnes
that knew no class or section, PRIV
ileGe or favor.
MisruIe Brought Third Party
Referring to conditions winch ne
declared were responsible for the
creation of the independent party,
Mr.. Davis said:
"Three and one-half years of pow
er by the Harding-Coolidge admin
! istration has produced this radical
third party which our Republican
. friends complain split the Repup'
! lican party. They reused the Amerf
can people and have given the op
portunity for men to offer new ana
| strange doctrines and urge them on
| the people as th1 cure for all their
ills. win you seek to cure the pa
tient by giving him an injection of
the same virus that produced this
. disease?
Suppose you renew the commits
sions of the men that have abused
i official power; that have surren-
dered themselves and their country
to privilege; that have exhibited be-
fore the American people and the
world their own impotence to take
any forward step in the public in
. .terest. Do you think YOU will quiet
radicalism by that? Do you think
you will still the discomfort in the
| Unitedl States by that? VIII you al
lay the vast unrest which unques-
tionably pervades today the Ameri'
can people by giving them, over
again the same condition that
aroused them? Why, to ask the
Stion is to answer it. What will
you do as patriots and Americans?
i Is there no relief? | stand here to
offer one.
DemOcracy's Offer
"In the name of the Democracy
offer You a sane, forward looking
and n progressive liberalism that
knows no class or section, no petted
favorite, that believes it not the bust
ness of those in office either to give
favors to their friends or to official
power to punish their personal ene-
n,ies; but to so administer the affairs
of this government that every man.
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