The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-23
RECALLS WILSON
Davis Made Visit Twelve -X-ears Ago To
 Sen Girt

ASSFAS 0A1Suo V1slC IWelVe Ae1rS Ago To
 Sea Girt
 SEA G1RT, N. J., Aug. 22-The following is the text of the address of John w. Davis, democratic presidential nominee, delivered at a mass meeting here today of New Jersey democrats
 This IS my second appearance at Sea Girt. You will not b surprised if find my memory turning at this time to the circumstances of my earlier visit It happened on a hot July day, twelve years ago. l was one of a party of 2OO or more who tramped in the dust from the station to the governors S house at Sea Girt. At our head marched a grand old Roman, Champ Clark, then the speaker of the House of Representatives. Among the party l recall Jersey man who was then my colleague in Congress and who was soon to take a seat in the Senate-the loved and lovable Billy Hughes. We were calling on a governor of New Jersey who had just received the demo- cratic nomination for the presidency. Most of that company, including my self, had never made his personal ac- quaintance. It was our errand to as sure him of our hearty support and to place ourselves at his service The inn pressions of that day were summed up for me by one of my colleagues as we tramped back to the waiting train. Said he: when that man comes to Washing ton there will be a leader in the White House
 Wilson As Leader
 T recall how quickly this leadership asserted itself when Washington had been attained. Congress met without delay and the first act in the drama was the scOurg ing fromthe capitol of the horde of lobbyists, hangers-on, seekers for privileges and representatives of special interests who had infested it's corridors. Then came ill quick success sion under his energetic impulse the fa1rest tariff law since the Civil war the federal reserve act for which the country had waited half a century; the federal trade commission and the Clay ton act curbing monUpoIies and estab- fishing the rights of labor; and through this and succeeding sessions the demo- cratic party under his guidance moved in solid phalanx, confident in his lead ership.
 '@The great war broke. There fell upon him burdens heavier than any that his predecessors had been called upon to bear. For two years he struggled to keep America from the maelstrom and then when the attack Upon her rights was made directly he threw himself and his country into the battle with a fiery energy that amazed the world Men and money and munitions came at his call and his clear voice rang out like a trumpet acros the world, giving new meaning to the struggle and new life to those engaged in it. When the war was ended he gave to the making of peace the last ounce of his remaining strength. He endeavored to set up machinery not only to prevent future wars but to mitigate the evils which this war, the last and greatest, had brought upon the world. He never looked upon the treaty of Versailles as a complete and final settlement but hoped that when time had cooled mems passions the machinery he sought to create would removed any element of injustice of re- venge the treaty might contain and would give the world a stable and abid- ing peace. And then he fell, broken. thwarted, his work unfinished but his