Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-30

| trip. NJ. Lowry was member of the
party and improved his unusual opportuni-
ties for observing the Democratic candidate
at close range.
BY EDWARD g. LOWRY
John w. Davis went west to
nroiect his personality and get &C
o1ainted rather than to appeal for
votes But he so conducted himself
that he attained both ends. He want
ed first to meet the people of the
west and to let them see him. He
wanted the thousands who knew him
ONLY vaguely by name to know him
in his own proper person and as ne
| is He started out on his journey
| September 1, a vague figure to all
of the country west of the Alleghe-
| MES; he has come back to New
York after having made himself
definite personality to hundreds OF
! thousands of men and women.
/ have been going troubadourlng
with presidents or candidates for
the presidency in the mellow autumn
months preceding election every
four years since McI<inley's time.
I That meant adventuring OFT into
! the open with Roosevelt, Taft, Bry-
an, Wilson, Hughes and scores of
lesser lights In all of that long and
varied experience, I cannot recall
q candidate who did more for him
! self and for his party than Mr..
| Davis has done on his first west
ern trip.
/ Made Friends Everywhere
The whole enterprise was really
a remarkable achievement, and
quite unlike anything that 1 can re-
| col IN Ia
! DRY. Mr.. Davis did not have a sin
| gle setback; he did not have a sin
| gle incident to mar his progress; he
did not make a single break"
| Wherever he went he visibly and
demonstrably made friends. The
west took to him. | will not pretend
to say how many electoral or popu
lar votes Mr.. Davis has made for
himself in West Virginia, Indiana,
! Illinois, Wyoming. Iowa, Nebraska,
! Colorado, Kansas and Missouri on
| his Notwithstanding journey, nor
| Will L predict which of these states
| ne Will carry in the election. but I
Go say that he gained strength and
made votes in every one of these
| states.
lie succeeded by being himself
| his agreeable, charming, natural
self. He is simple and approached BILE
and friendly; he is dignified; he has.
10 an exceptional degree grace of
NINA and of speech. He makes ev-
| efybody glad that he came to the
party. lie found the hand shaking
! a hard chore. On the first dav of
| the TRIP, at Wheeling, an enthusiasts.
VIC ana excited partisan reached up
| from the platform railing, grabbed
| his hand and Wrenched his right
| arm against the rail so successfully
WAT ne pulled tendon in the can.
oldates elbow. This caused him
tfouble from time to time all through
| Inc "Trip, and toward the end of it
ne was doing much of his hand
shaking with his left hand.
Little characteristics Plead
1t is some of the little things on
! the TRIP, however. that [ choose to
| WIlte ABOUT, revealing little Incl
oehts and happenings that made Da
WIS definite human being. They
served Mr.. Davis as we'll as his
set speeches and his contact with
local political leaders.
saw him, for example, make
votes at Denver In his evening
speech there in the auditorium
crowded with twelve or fourteen
thousand people, he put on his
glasses to read an extract from
| Dawes Lincoln speech. AS he made
a gesture the glasses fell to the
Iloor and bounded on to the press
table below the platform. Fred Els
sary,' of the Baltimore Sun. picked
them up and, after hesitating a mo-
ment, stood up and offered them
TO Mr.. Davis. The candidate ston-
ped in the middle of a sentence in
the tull flood of his discourse, and
said, Thank you" to Essary. and
| then resumed.
Two women sitting behind me were
oeilShted Did you notice that?"
sad one to the other, He did not
take those glasses without saving
anything; he did not even wait nm.
I'll he came to the end of his sen,
tehce; he just instinctively and NAT
ufally stopped in the middle of
sentence and thanked that reporter
Ior ms courtesy" Later in the eve
nihs heafd these two telling this
story 10 a group of people in the
ioopy Oh the Brown Palace hotel and
making an impression with it. I
| N'O NNtbl IL is DolnS told with
variants all over Colorado now. If
oy such little things that can
dloate is measured and judged.
Unstudied Kindness
Again, in the Muelbach hotel. at
Kansas City, Mr.. Davis made half 4
oozen or more warm friends bv an
other little act of unstudied cour,
tesy' He spent Sunday in Kansas
City, and all day long his rooms
were crowded, Late in the after
noon, when the throng was thick
est, MIR. Davis noticed an old gen
tleman who was standing and wait
ing Tor an opportunity to speak to
him. Davis stepped into an adioin.
ing room and brought his visitor A
chair. The old boy was immensely
touched; he was telling everybody
about it for an hour-"He amt one