Evening star., 1924-10-22
WEEKS SAYS BRYAN
/ CHIEF c. O.P. RIVAL
Declares Election Rests Be-
tween Coolidge and Me-
/, braskan, in Speech.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, October 22.-Declar-
ing in a radio address here last night
that the balloting on November
will result either in the election Of
President Coolidge or the election be-
ing thrown into Congress, Secretary
Weeks predicted that in the latter event
Charles w. Bryan, the Democratic
vice presidential candidate, would be
elected President by coalition OF
Democrats and radical elements In
the Senate. The voters of the coun-
try, therefore, the War Secretary
argued, are confronted with cholce
between the two men.
THE voters know what the Presi-
dent is doing" Mr. Weeks said. His
record speaks for itself. The voters
know that President Coolidge is a
man of common sense, calmness, hlgh
character, courage and honesty. They
know that he will give them the honest
and efficient administration they de-
mand.
Says Bryan Little Known.
every few voters know anything
about President Coolidge's principal
opponent in this campaign, Charles
w Bryan. To the vast majority of
the voters he is known only as the
brother of William Jennings Bryan.
the Democratic candidate for the
presidency, personally selected Mr..
Bryan as his running mate in order
to secure the supposedly powerful
support of the William Jennings
Bryan element of the Democratic
party, to whom Mr. Davis was not
acceptable, and to nullify as much as
possible the effect of the bitter at
tacks made against him in the Demo-
I,,- Ton-
nings Bryan. This statement has
never been denied. Mr.. Davis is.
therefore, responsible for Mr.. Charles
W. Bryan.
Mr.. Bryan's position on national
issues is unknown because he has not
participated in national political dis
cussions: in fact, he has hardly done
so in this campaign. Although can
didate for the vice presidency, the
Democratic campaign managers are
keeping him very much in the back
ground They have not permitted
him to speak in the great industrial
sections of the East, which We're
called enemy territory by William
Jennings Bryan during one Of his
campaigns. The Democratic cam
paign managers are apparently un-
willing to take the chance of letting
Charles w. Bryan arouse into active
opposition the unpopularity of the
Bryan brothers in these sections"
Reviews Bryan Issues.
Holding that through their IS years
OF political and business association
the minds of the vice presidential
candidate and his brother must be
assumed to have been one on i'm
portant political issues" Mr.. Weeks
reviewed the paramount issues upon
which the latter has conducted his
three presidential campaigns.
His defeat in each of these cam
paigns. the Secretary asserted, shows
that there never has been a man in
the public life of this country as per-
sistently and consistently on the
wrong side of great public issues as
William Jennings Bryan and his
brother, Charles w. Bryan"
"They have not given the Nation
one constructive policy" Mr.. Weeks
added. They have advocated poll
cies which would have brought dis
tress and chaos to the Nation IL they
had not been rejected. 1 am not
merely expressing an opinion, but a
fact demonstrated time and again in
the public records of these men.
81 have not the time this evening
to discuss all the vagaries cham
pioned by the Bryan brothers, but are
not the facts l have given you suffi-
cient to prove the utter unfitnesS of
Charles w. Bryan for the great office
of President of the United StateS?"