Evening star., 1924-10-19
DAVIS SEES SPLIT
# COOLIDGE WINS
Declares G. O. p. Cannot Get
Congress, and Deadlock
Will EnSUe.
BY the Associated Press.

unless all the signs Of the times are
playing false, there is no possibility
of the election this year of Re
publican Congress and a Republican
Senate"
"And il there WERE" he said, you
would find repeated in both these
bodies as soon as they were called
in session, either regular or special
the same sorry spectacle of party di-
vision and party impotence that has
rendered this country rudderless and
leaderless for the last three and one
half years.
II suggest to the American people,"
he said, that there is but one avenue
through which you may secure, tor
the next quadrennial period, a gov
ernment acting in harmony, in uni
formity and in unison; there Is but
one party today that stands before
the American people harmonious and
undivided There is but one party
that marches in serried ranks and
military order, and that party is, be-
yond peradventure. the Dem ocracy.
Mr.. Davis expressed the hope that
If a Democrat be elected to the presi-
dency he would be given a Demo-
cratic Senate and House.
And" he continued, cit is not
matter of pure partisanship, for all
experiences prove in this country
that our government can only func-
ton we'll when one and the same
political party is in control at both
ends of Pennsylvania avenue.
Strength Only in Unity.
NO single man or woman in this
country is potent or strong enough
standing alone and unaided, to nix
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ernment. We must associate our
selves into party groups.
We must give not only authority
we must place responsibility on them.
And il IL is your purpose to have
party government in this country,
YOU must place parties in power
and YOU must hold them to strict
responsibility for the use they make
of it"
For the las, three and one-haf
wears Mr. Davis told his audience
the. wheels of government have been
running in the opposite directions.
Congress at one end of Pennsylvania
avenue. has been pulling one way, ne
said, and the Executive at the other
end has either been marking time
or working in a contrary way 10 tnat
of the legislative branch OF the gov
ernment.
And, the nominee SsAiO, tiiae L"
not good government.
He reiterated his opinion that there
is no possibility of a Republican
President and Congress being elected
and asserted If the country wanted
to get away from the sorry specta-
Gle" il has experienced since March
l. 1921, the only recourse is to vote
for the Democratic nominee and Dem
ocratic candidates for the House and
Senate.
Mr.. Davis stressed his Willingness
to be held responsible for the con-
duct Of the Government.
IT would still insist that the rule
must prevail" he said, land that you
hold the Democratic party-not some
individuals among it-but the party
as a whole is responsible for the
record that 1t and it's representatives
had made
Between the afternoon and night
address, Mr.. Davis made two-min-
ute talk to the Missouri State Demo-
cratic Press Association.
Confident Of Success.
"I have great confidence in Demo-
cratic success in this State" he said.
"I can use stronger adjective
have entire confidence In Democratic
success. Day-by-day, as 1 have gone
up and down the United States, from
the Rocky Mountains on the West TO
the shores of the Atlantic, New
England, on the East, my confidence
in a Democratic victory on nation
wide scale has daily grown and
strengthened. 1 feel sure that vic
tory is within our grasp. and that
nothing is needed on the part OF the
Democracy except the will to take
advantage of the opportunities that
are already clearly right at their front
door,"
Mr.. Davis spoke in the Coliseum
where the Democratic convention of
1915 renominated Woodrow Wilson.
Every one Of it's 10000 seats was oc-
cupied.
Late paraders who had participated
in a torchlight procession from the
city's Democratic wards arrived ana
the aisles and other spaces which
had been held open by the police
were jammed to capacity.
Thirty days ago." Mr.. Davis said,
IT attended what believed was
the largest political gathering ever
held in the United States. 1t was
not until tonight that the Battle of
Bunceton' was surpassed in numbers"
Mr.. Davis reminded the audience of
the responsibilities which rested upon
Woodrow Wilson during the war
period and said the electorate in NO
vember of 1916 little realized what
was transpiring when they voted
then. THE same sort of responsible
ity still is yours" the candidate said,
land I want you seriously to think
Praise for Wilson.
Throughout the ages" he said.
mon will warm themselves by the
fires Woodrow Wilson lit"
Among other things the people
Davis said, would be a reduction
of taxes all along the line"
Assailing the Republican campaign
leaders he declared:
"I'here seems to be a conspiracy of
silence on their part. Now and then
you hear a discourse on non-political
things. But what is there in the rec
ord of the Republican party in the
last 1S months for the nominee of
that party to tell unless 1t be about
the failure Of his subordinate Off
cials?"
Mr.. Davis set forth the record Of
the Wilson administration during the
war, declaring that rivers of moulten
gold had run then, but none had been
diverted to private property" He
concluded with a challenge to the au-
dience to name a single man, in the
Army, Navy or the civil service who
served under the commission of that
great man and to whose fingers had
stuck a single dollar Of dirty money"
Secretary Hughes reference to
debris" which had been inherited by
the Republican administration when
it took over the Government was
characterized as q smoke screen" by
the candidate.
why" Mr. Davis asked, did 1s9
banks fail in the last year of Wood
row Wilson's term of Office and 1,649
fail in the last three and one.half