Evening star., 1924-11-02
DAWES LAST BLOW
HITS LA TOILETTE
Winds Up Tour in Indiana
With Attack on Menace
of Progressives.
BY the Associa ted Press.

| SOUTH BEND, Ind, November L.
| Charles G. Dawes here tonight
! closed his speaking campaign as he
| began it-with an attack on the La
| Toilette Independent candidacy.
When he accepted the Republican
home in Evanston last August 19
Mr.. Dawes described the La Toilette
moveme as the first mobilization
Of extreme radicalism" and declared
the alternative was the progressive
| conservatism of Calvin Coolidge"
Hire tonight in his final campaign
| speech he reiterated many OF the
statements then made and declared
| that the American electorate next
Tuesday would be called upon to Ike
| stand either on the sinking sands
| of socialism under the red flag or on
the rock of the Constitution under
! the American flag with President
Coolidge.''
Theme Continues Same.
More than 10000 miles of travel
M We separated the acceptance address
of mid-August from the speech made
he.'e tonight at a Republican rally
in the Southside High School audi
tor um, but the theme Of virtually all
| OF tie more than 100 intervening cam
patgn utterances of the Republican
nominee has been the same.
This is the issue and these are
the battle lines" he concluded. "Citi-
zens OF Indiana. where do you stand ?
Do you stand with that aggregation,
the largest portion of which are the
Socialists, flying the red flag nd at
tackinE the Constitution of the United
States? or do you stand on the rock
of the Constitution under the Ameri-
can flag, and with President Cool
idgc, who is upholding the Consti-
tution?"
Then he boarded his special train
for the final run back to Chicago,
confident he declared. of the decision
to be expressed by the Nations yot-
.rs at the polls on Tuesday.
Speaks Twice in Day.
The address here tonight was the
second of the day, the nominee pre-
v.ously having spoken to a large
gathering at Hazelden farm, home of
George Ade, the Indiana author, in
the northwestern part of the State.
The setting for the Ade farm
speech was a real old-fa shioned
Hoosier political gathering. Farmers
for so miles about, from both Indiana
and Illinois, had arrived ahead of the
candidate and his party, travelling by
special train from Chicago, and the
20-acre field near Mr. AIDES home was
packed with automobiles. The gath
ering included largely neighbors of
the Hoosier writer. but also present
were many of the Indiana party lead
ers, including Clyde A Walb. State
chairman. and Representative Will r
Wood, chairman of the Republican
congres rional campaign committee,
while in the day a special car attach
ed to a regular train brought num-
Der of Chicago bankers and business
men, including John T. McCutcheon,
the cartoonist; Carl Van Vechten, the
author. and George NJ. Reynolds,
chairman OF the board of the Cont
mental and Conan ercial National
Bank.
Uncle Joe Comes.
Then just as big basket picnic
and chicken dinner was getting uu-
der way after the arrival of Mr.
Dawes and his party, an automobile
drove up bringing Uncle Joe" Can
non from his home at Danville, Ill.
Mr.. Dawes spoke from a platform
erected on the lawn of Hazelden
Farm, which is two miles east of the
town of Brook. Mr.. Ade presided and
introduced the Republican nominee,
Chairman Walb, Representative Wood
and Uncle joe" The aged former
Speaker of the House, who was pres
ent at the August notification cere-
monies for Mr.. Dawes, received an
ovation, to which he responded with
a two-sentence speech, saying:
Where do you all come from?
handsome people,
Mr.. Dawes began his address with
reference to "Uncle joe"
when they introduced Speaker
Cannon, or Uncle joe as he was
called all over the United States, I
could not help but think of the diff
ference between the Uncle joe type
of craftsmanship and a lot of the
counterfeit variety that have been
West" he said
Public office is not worth any
thing unless it is decorated with pub
lie respect; and lot of these blather-
sixties that are going over the coun-
try preaching that by legislation you
can get high beef on the hoof and
low beef on the table, high
railroad wages and low railroad
rates. and all. that sort of tincons-
istent stuff and claptrap, not caring
anyway about this issue over here.
for fear they will lose votes, or this
issue over there-there is a great diff
ference between that type of public
man and the type that Statesman
Cannon represents. He represents
the kind of men who appeal to the
ultimate sound, common-sense tudg-
ment Of the people as distinguished
from temporary and passing phase
of popular opinion on its way to that
eventual sound, common-sense judg-
ment."
President Coolidge, he told his au-
dience, is a man of the latter type,
"a statesman taking the gaff at times
If the public happens to be wrong in
it's temporary opinion. depending
upon the vindication which comes
from the ultimate sound judgment,
which is the very rock upon which
this representative constitutional