The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-24
DalDes FolLoDs Davis Lead
 In Open Attack On Klan
Maine Campaign Opened By Denunciation Of Hooded Order And Rejoinder To Labor Chiefs

tlon far beyond that possibility, but to inject religious and racial issues into politics is contrary to the welfare of all the people and to the letter and spirit of the Constitution of the United States.
 "Josiah Quincy was right when he said Society is never more certainly in the path of destruction than when it trusts itself to the guidance of secret societies..
 Acrimony Is Denied sa
 T have told you am opposed to the klan. Take what say into your hearts and conscience and think it over calm ly. However, it may be with the mind there is no acrimony in conscience" An answer to John W. Davis ac- ceptance, some comment on the tariff, and definition of his own trade union opinions were delivered by Charles Dawes.
 He said Mir. Davis speech indicated personal high purpose" but was the kind of oratorical presentation "de+ signed to put to sleep practical think ing" It was unfair, Dawes said, to maintain that individual dereliction in great organization "alone justifies the demand that an administration should be thrown to one side" He re- | ferred to Davis ''oratorical appeaF to install in power "a party which has | demonstrated in the past business in- capacity"
 True At All Times Of Davis attitude on foreign rela- | tions, he remarked: "It sounds well | to say, as Mir. Davis does-'if l become | president, America will sit as an equal among equals, whenever she sits at alP. This has been true, of course, at all times"
 He thought the inference from Mir. | Davis speech was that such a matter l as the @expert committed would have gone to the Senate for sanction, and predicted that there in futile debate American participation would have perished because the Senate would not have allowed the word official to at- tach to it. ,s..-s-
 Regarding Davis attitude on the league, Dawes asked: But is he prac- tically constructive" Dawes added ]: with him I would welcome the day when this great question would be en- tirely lifted above the plane of partisan | politics. and then said 'the situa- | tion demands some consideration of the practical question how things are going to be done" The republican program, he continued, offers the only present policy possible of accomplishment.
 Seeks. Specific Facts
 Concerning Davis rerlarks on the Fordney-McCumbe tariff act, Dawes said: T wish I could find less affir- nation and moR supporting data in his speech" He added that specific facts would have been more in order to sup. port Davis statement that for every dollar this statute has drawn into the treasury, it has diverted five from. the pocket of the consumer into the pocket of the favored few" Dawes held that tariff benefits go chiefly to labor, in sustaining an American wage as com pared with the European wage, and sketched labor conditions he found in Germany last winter.
 The benefits of trades unions, hon sestly administered. sare recognized by me- he said. Trades unionisfI has s'ele. yated, protected and dignified labor and been an element in the progress of our nation"
 To Shun DemagOgue
 Trades unionism stands loyally be- hind it's good leadership and never will follow the demagogueP He also re- ferred to 'those fine citizel-s, the up- right labor leaders of the country"
 q have been denounced,p he said, because I opposed the kind of union tactics that have made building opera tions in Chicago dangerous to human life" naming as factors ext0rtion, gun men and the bOmb-maker.'
 Trades unionism, with preponder- ant majority, does not approve these conditions"
 Dawes predicted that "the few labor leaders who are attempting to influence patriotic union men into a political combination with socialists are en- dangering their own leadership"
 About the open shop, he said: "The supreme court of tn eUnited States has held that the right of employees in body to bargain with their employers for the closed shop is one of the inalienable rights of the individual under our con- stitution" He added that a political party placing an open shop plank in it's platform would be striking at the Con- stitution.