New Britain herald., 1924-08-12
 DAVIS ON OFFENSIVE.

DAtls oN oI1IsHitts
 Creeping paralysis" in domestic matters and "bootlegging partieipa' ton" in international affairs that ''does not dare 10 speak its mind be' yond the three-mile limit" were charges against the Harding Coolidge administration hurled by John W. Davis. Democratic candidate for the presidency. during his speech Of ac- ceptance at clarksburg. W. Va.
 Protected at a formal occasion. at the modification" that he was the se- iectcd candidate Of his party, the ad- dress was far from being a perfume tory greeting to the committee which with medieval punctiliousness told him what he already knew--that he was chosen as the Moses who was to lead the children of Democracy to the promised land.
 Candidate Davis took the offensive with spirit and determination. In ringing words he let Field Marshal Butler of the c. O. P. hosts realize that administration scandals remain the chief issues. And he called upon the rank and file in the Republican party not to condone the offenses that their bosses would so readily forget
 The attack upon President Coolidge made without direct mentioning of the presidents name, but referring to him simply as the "executive"--was subtle and effective.
 The revelation of these crimes
 was not the result of any action
 taken by the Executive" Davis told
 his vast audience. NO burning
 indignation there put in train the
 forces of investigation and of pun ishment. Again when dis
 covery was threatened, instead of
 aid and assistance from the Ex-
 ecftive branch there were hurried
 efforts to suppress the testimony, to discourage witnesses, to spy
 upon investigators, and finally, by
 trumped-up indictment, to frighten
 and deter them from the pursuit. The spying on senators and con-
 gressmen the nasty interchange of telegrams in department code; the
 refusal of those accused to come
 forward, under oath, to purge themselves-all these things serve to blacken a page that was already
 dark enough
 The domestic record of the ad- ministration, he pungently put it, "bewildered us at home and humili ated us abroad And for these scandals, he added, the party now in power cannot escape the responsibility that is it's due" All of this he said, was because in 1920 i've passed through a political campaign In which materiaism was preached as creed and selfishness as national duty. We have eaten of the fruit of the tree that was planted and it has been bitter in the mouths of even the most indifferent" The candidate speaks eloquently | for the World Court and favors turn ing our 'unofficial observers" in Euro pean affairs to official participants in the rebuilding of Europe. If I be- come president America will 1 sit as an equal among equals when ever she sits at all."
 The candidate does not think the i League of Nations is a dead issue. It Is destined more and more to become the bulwark Of peace and order to mankind, he ayers, and continues
 None of the nations in all this lengthening list nave parted with their sovereignty or sacrificed their Independence, or have imperilled ] by their presence their safety at home or tn air security abroad. cannot reconcile their experience : with the fears of those who dread : q different fate for the United States" Persons who oppose both the World Court and the League of Nations, he
 
 declared. wish the United States to Hive a purely opportunist life" But the candidate does not believe that the entrance of America into the League should occur until the com mon judgment Of the American pco- pie Is ready for the step.
 On the klan issue he was out spoken. Without mentioning it by name he reiterated his recent utter snce opposing discordant groups di- vided on racial or religious lines. No ! disaster that the mind can picture equals such division. he declared. He denounced bigotry, intolerance and face prejudice with biting words.
 Someone apparently had asked him for his stand on the 18th amendment and vo1stead law His answer was foreefui and uas1s,s oeal.