Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-30
GUILTY CONSCIENCE
KEEPS COP. DUMB.
JNO. ". DAVIS SAYS
La FoIIette's Supreme Court
Proposals Are Criticized by
Democratic Nominee

of great promises" so he will come
| to denominate 1924 as "the year of
the great silence" John w. Davis
declared in an address to several
thousand persons here tonight.
| 1T is a vast and mysterious 81
lence," Mr.. Davis said. 1T is brokea
here and there by the vocal nominee
of the Republican party, warning
the American people in anxious
tones that around every corner ana
under every bedstead there turks
! bOlSheVik ready to destroy them.
Now and then some person almost
forgotten writes to a candidate and
complains of the terms in which he
has been described.
and then occasionally some cabl-
net officer, standing on the western
shore, will rattle his saber like a
new toy recently given him. The
extinguishment is placed upon him
and silence reigns supreme once
more. 1t all reminds me of moth
! ing so much as the words of Ten
nySon:
The dead steered by the dumb
move onward with the flood. "
why this silence?" asked Hr.
Davis, then he proceeded to answer
his own question with review of
the record of the Republican party's
administration of the federal gov
eminent, both in the field of DO
nestle and foreign affairs.
La Toilette DOGGY Man"
Referring to Senator La Toilette.
the independent presidential candi-
date, by name for the first time
in the campaign, Mr.. Davis said a
DOGGY man" was being set up by
spokesman for the Republican par
ty, DOGGY man" clad in a great
red cloak, with the word ''bolsEe-
vIk" burned across his breast.
But when the cloak drops" he
added, 30 and behold, it's none Other
than our family friend, Senator Bob
La Toilette.
II hold no brief for Senator IA
Toilette" Mr.. Davis said, adding
that he had opposed with all his
vigor the La Toilette proposal Or
veto power by legislatures over
the supreme court on legislative
matters.
AS to the contention that Ia Fol
lette is seeking to lead the coun-
try to Moscow" Mr.. Davis said he
was rather of the opinion that he
was seeking to lead it to London,
where. under the British form of
government, the parliament is SUI
preme.
More Raps for G. o. p.
The Democratic presidential NOM
IF ha
issues of this campaign was that OF
party possibility, and he added
that the Republican party should
and must be held to accountability
for its acts.
And that brings me to pain
full subject" the nominee added. II
could recite that chapter simply by
calling names. l could say Teapot |
see that you understand what [ am
talking about.
Il could say 'Peryville.' I see
that the World war veterans ana
their friends know what L mean.
Then 1 might talk about CASTOR
Means"
That brought a laugh.
But this is a serious subject"
Mr.. Davis went on. 1.-The betrayal
OF the public trust by these m"n
was not a random accident or he
result of unfortunate selection OF
men. All their actions were symp-
toms of disease, the idea that gov
eminent exists for what men can
get out of it and not for what they
can put into it."
when the hopes Of men can no
longer be raised by promises" the
Democratic presidential candidate
said, when their expectations can
NJ longer be met by party perform
ance. what is there left to play upon
but their fears? And so l detect the
bringing on the stage of a new DOGGY
! man. He is wearing a fur cap and
a long, red robe and across his breast
his name is written in curious char
| aCters sucn as We rarely see in the
United States; and they point to him
and tell YOU he is q bolsheVik; and
when this cap falls off and he lays
down his red gown, you will find that
he is none other than our familiar
/ friend, Senator Bob La Toilette, OF
! Wisconsin.
Supreme Court Views
''Now, / have no brief for Senator
La Toilette, and it is not my duty
to defend any of Senator La Fol.
lette's governmental ideas; but there
Is one of his ideas from which j
profoundly dissent-and, unlike GER
| tail gentlemen, who are quite ex.
cited at this hour on the subject, !
/ claim to have been one Of those who
have discussed it adversely for at
! least twenty years-and that is the
proposition that there shall be taken
away from the supreme court Of the
| United States the final power to say
when congress has and when 1t
has not exceeded the limitations of
The power the people gave it; and
when the states of the union have
and when they have not infringed
| the authority of the federal govern.
ment that the people vest in it, and
when the federal government has
I'D when it has not invaded the
rights that the people give to the
states.
But when I am told Senator La
Follettes proposal comes from Mos
co V, from those, in the language OF
Il certain letter l had occasi TO
read last week, fresh from a lurid
baptism in the miseries of Russia.
| begin to scratch my head and think
Il little about my history, and /
realize that my real objection to Sen
ator La Follettes proposal is not that
it is leading us on to Moscow but
that it is trying TO take US back
London.
STOPS FIT ATTACKS