The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07
GOVERNMENT AID N
 IS ONE OF PLANKS
Nominee Thinks Farmer Should Receive Market
 ing Assistance
SAYS RIVAL PARTY
 DENIES EQUALITY
Decries Assaults On Farm Bloc As Outgrowth Of IgnO-
 rance Or Insincerity
Ry Associated Press

readjustment and lowering of rail and water freight rates; tariff and tax reform, and gov ernment aid in stimulating the cooperative marketing move Lment and in establishing an export marketing commission, constituted the cardinal points in a farm relief program pre- sented here tonight by John w. Davis in the first address in has campaign for the win ming of the west.
 Tn offering this platform before an audience in the city auditorium, the democratic |presidantial nominee NigoE- |ously assailed the Republican party for what he character |ized as the discrimination against the farmer in favor of the manufacturer and for it's failure to cooperate fully in the restoration Yf economic conditions abroad so as to fur nish a market for American farm products.
 In this connection. MT. Davis ex- pressed his resentment at 'the beiated attempts of the administration to cap italize the possibilities in the Dawes rep arations settlement "as a political as- set" He declared that if Americans had in fact 'by their unofficial pres ence" aided in this settlement, 1t laid "a crushing burden of blame and re- sponsibility on the shoulders of those who for five long years prevented any form of American participation" in solv- ing the reparations problem.
 The address by Mir. Davis tonight, the fourth fixed one of his campaign, was the first to be delivered indoors, his Clarksburg, Seagirt and Wheeling speeches having been open air events. To this same building had come Roose- welt, Taft, Harding and Cox to present their causes to the west and here, too, Woodrow Wilson came during his last appeal to the nation, an appeal for ratification of the treaty of Versailles, with the League of Nations covenant.
 Auditorium Filled
 The auditorium, with its capacity for seating and standing 5000 people, was filled even before Mir. Davis and Gov ernor Bryan appeared on the stage. While the crowd was waiting for the main actors in the political drama, band amused it with popular airs, car ried to waiting crowds outside by means of amplifiers and over much of the country by radio.
 The crowd was in happy mood, and the local and state celebrities each got Ia hand as he or~she came from behind the wings and took chair behind the speakers row.
 As Mr. Davis reached the rear stage the band swung into the Star Spangled Banner. The democratic candidate stepped out from behind a wing and the crowd cheered and applauded. When the band had done the crowd stood standing and cheering and applaudinG.
 Governor Bryan came in behind Mir. Davis. Arthur F. Mullen, democratic national committeeman from Nebraska. presided, and greeted the crowd lon be- half of the militant democracy of Ne braska."
 Governor Bryan was presented as the first speaker and he got rising shout of applause. He held up his hands for silence and launched at once into his address, welcoming in his capacity as the states chief executive, the head of the democratic ticket.
 Mir. Davis was hailed by Chairman Mullen as the leader of the constructive political thought of the day.
 "He is the fearless exponent of those principles laid down in the bill of rights" Mir. Mullen said. ''those prom ciples of equal rights. freedom of reli- zion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press and right to assemble"
 Before Mir. Davis could begin to speak he was presented with bouquet of car nations by the Davis-Bryan club of Sioux City, Iowa.
 There was laugh and applause when Mir. Davis. departing from his prepared address. announced that he was mot a dirt farmer"
 I'm not even a pictorial farmer" he said and the applause swelled. As the democratic nominee warmed up in his attack on the republicans there was frequent applause This was particularly true of his attacks on the tariff. The real outhurst came, how ever, when Mir. Davis first mentioned the name of Woodrow Wilson. Here the nominee began to inteTpolate in his address. declaring that under Wilson the horde of lobbyists had been driven
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