Evening star., 1924-10-14
PLEA F0R COOLIDGE
VOICED BY HUGHES
,Secretary of State Answers
!, Candidate Davis, Charges
Against Administration.
Ey<the Associated Press.

F.; nail occupied saturday DS ,iOHH "
Davis. Democratic presidential nomi-
| nee, answered attacks by the natter
! on the, present Republican admins
| tration. and made a plea for the elec-
! tion of Coolidge.
Mr.. Hughes termed Mr. Davis Slec-
i laration that there had been more
! bank and business failures in the East
| three years than in the three years
prior to 1921 as 'eXtraorlinary state
! mentS-
The serious conditions, which
| arose in 1920 and 1921" Mr.. Hughes
declared. were due TO the unwise
| finagcing policy of the Democratic
| ADMINISTRATION
The speaker declared the Demo-
| cratic administration resorted to de-
| liberI1e imitation, leading TO appal
| ling protitcering and speculation and
! then bVuGht about a drastic de1'ation
program which resulted in a smash
Democrats Planted Mine.
! The Democratic administration Ia;lnt
ed a mine under our economic
I system and blew il up. Mr.. Hughes
/ declared in answer to Mr.. Davis. and
! then tried TO hold us responsible for
| the debris. The later failures are
simply the exposure of the debris
! Mr. Hughes was accorded an en-
! thusiaStic reception by the croWu
| which packed the auditorium TO ca
| paCity.
American sentiment will mot toll
| crate" submission of domestic ques-
i ,ions "to the determination of any
| group of powers Secretary Hughes
declared. He did not mention the
| proposed League of Nations proto-
I col by name, but he laid stress on
the question of jurisdiction over DO :
i mestic issues which. at the behest
/ of Jap.in, occupied so large a place
! in the recent discussions AZ Geneva
! He has not previously referred to
! the G;eua&a developments. directly or
! indirectly, in any public address
! Discusses Recent Developments.
! .Recently:" the Secretary said. "the
! nueStion has been discussed OF the ap-
rrorriateneSs of investing group OF
powers with the authority 10 deaf with
I domestic questions. not questions ar 5
| ing under treaaeS by which parties
! have limited their rights, but with
! questions within the competency OF a
nation as to which it has not limited
! IFS rights. The sentiment of this coun-
! Try | repeat would not tolerate the
! submission Of such questions which
! pertain TO our own policy to the de-
| termination Of any group of powers
! 1t would not toierates the making oil an
| agreement for such submission. We
would not be willing to enter any or
| ganization through which group OF
! powers would be in a position to inter
| venc or attempt to determine our poll
| cieS for us.
We have favored. arsn do favor, the
! submission To arbitrat or Judicial
! tribunals of interna tiorsl questions
! that is. the decision of questions aris-
tipS- II n
! ternational law, because shese ques-
| tions are to be resolved by principles
| which are commonly accepted. But
| when we are outside the domain of our
| treaties and questions of international
/ law. and are dealing with our own
| domestic questions, we reserve our
| freedom to determine our own, policies.
Aid in Humanitarian EndeA vorx.
so far as cooperation is concerned
| in humanitarian endeavors, We now
have it, and on a considerable scale.
| We are glad of that co-operatiohL AS
[ have said, our form of co-opeE alton
| is suited to the fact"
| Mr.. Hughes led up to his decLara
ton by saying that IF Mr.. Davis
! criticisms have any significance. or
! point to any definite line of polk.y,
! they mean that he would like to re-
new the controversy over the league
! with the disastrous obstinacy of
| the last Democratic administrator
| he continued, "Mr. Davis apparently
would rather have controversy than
achievement. Mr.. Davis may be spoil
| ing for fight, but the Democratic
party has taken away his ammuni-
| ton and left him nothing but empty
| shells.
We have said that the people of
! this country would never tolerate the
+! submission to any power or group of
! powers of the determination of our
! domestic questions. If we are to CO.
| operate we must be permitted to CO.
! operate without the sacrifice of our
right 10 determine our own policies"
Mr., Davis Called to Account.
Mr. Hughes referred also to what
| he termed the Democratic candidates s
effort to "belittle the Washington
| conference" adding: He says that
/ there are those who say this or that,
and without specifically making these
statements his own he gives them
currency and apparent approval. Thus
| Mr.. Davis permits himself to say that
| the country asks whether the Wash
ington treaties have bound us to a
definite inferiority as compared with
| Enpand.' If he has read the treaties
| he should know that neither in letter
| nor spirit have the aShlnSton
treaties bound us to inferiority with
| England. This sort of innuendo can
not avail. On the contrary, within
the scope of the treaties, Great Bri-
| tain for the first time agrees to naval
equality.
! Mr.. Davis refers to the appropria-
| ton by Congress of s6,500.o00 for the
elevation of guns on certain OF our
retained ships. He does not mention
that this applies to ships which Will
| be replaced within 10 or II years. he
should know that in the vessels when
will replace these ships we can have
any elevation we please"
| Mr. Hughes said the dominating
question at the close Of the campaign
was; Shall the third party be permit
ted to prevent the election OF Presi-
dent Coolidge?"
| "All the indications point to the
breakdown of the campaign of the
Democratic party" he declared. IT
is still making it's strident appeals
but they are impotent The issue is
not between President Coolidge al
the Democratic candidate. The issue
is President Coolidge or no election
He added that selection of Bryan as
his running mate by Mr.. Davis "shooh
the confidence of the country in Mr.
Davis as political leader" and was
one of the chief reasons why the Dem
ocratic campaign has failed so mis-.
eratly."