Evening star., 1924-08-12
WALSH DEFENDS
RECORD OF DAVIS
Declares Services as Lawyer
Cannot Be Held Reflection
of Real Opinions.
BY the Associated Press.


| BY the Associated Press.
CLARKSBURG, w. Va, August IL
John w. Davis was hailed as a leader
| fitted by character, training and ex.
| perience" for the presidency. in The
| address of Senator Thomas ]. Waist
of Montana here last night formally
| notifying him of his nomination t.
| head the Democratic ticket.
Tried by the touchstone, the acid
| test Mr.. Walsh said. the nominee had
been adjudged by all fair-minded mer
| as a liberal and a progressive.
In the Sixty-second Congress" he
| continued, you were conspicuous 10
| the advocacy of every measure thai
| served to differentiate the reactionarg
from the progressive. You assailed
| government by Injunction set forth
with a great wealth of illustrations
| the abuse of that process and of tbs
power to punish for contempt and
supported with marked ability and
| eloquent tongue the effort, subse-
| quently successful, to remove o,
minimize the oportunity for oppress-
| ing labor through resort to that rem
| edy. In the same Congress you sup
| ported with zeal and learning the
Webb-Kenyon bill, the farthest ad-
| vance then considered toward sup
| pressing through Federal action the
1 unspeakable evils of the liquor traffic.
The entire program of remedial legis-
\ lation entered upon when the Wilson
administration assumed control of our
National Government had your cordial
\ support"
Wall Street Charge.
After summarizing Mr. Davis rec.
| ord in advocating progressive legis-
lation and later supporting it before
| the Supreme Court, Senator Walsh
declared the argument that you are
1 a Wall Street man, in an oppobrious
sense, is without merit, as is the as
| sertfon that your nomination is a
Wall Street nomination.
Let the campaign then be waged," he
eaid, upon the political issues which
divide the major political parties. These
1 conceive to be, in the main, four: Hon
| esty in government, revision of the tariff,
the maintenance in principle of the pres
ent income. tax law and frank co-opera-
| ton with the nations of Europe for the
| restoration OF peace and the revival Of
industry to insure an increased demand
| for our surplus, mainly of agricultural
products
| Senator Walsh said the head and
front" Of Mr.. Davis offending had
been nothing more or less than that
since retiring to private life he had been
| employed professionally by gigantic
business interests" whose policy had
aroused quite general indignation"
Duty of Lawyer.
/ "A lawyer may honorably defend
one accused OF murder, or treason. or
OF defrauding widows and orphans
without suspicion of sympathy with
such hideous crimes or with yiolators
of the law generally or specifically.
How, then, does a lawyer forfeit the
regard in which he would otherwise
be held by accepting employment
from those whose career is open to
censure on grounds of public policy
or who may have been guilty Of even
the grossest violations of the laws
declaring and enforcing the same.
1T is an unjustifiable inference
that your views on matters of public
concern approximate those of your
employers or that called to high pub
/ lie office you would, upon considera-
| ton, accommodate your own TO theirs
or grant them aught but Justice. You
owe them nothing, not even graft
tude. You have rendered them serv-
ice. They paid you. Your powerful
clients never discovered you until
your fame as a lawyer was firmly
established, until your pre-eminence
at the bar was nationally and inter
nationally recognized. I am sure
! your gratitude is reserved for those
, humble friends who took a chance on
you when you were a stripping at
the law, eager to demonstrate your
ability, yet improved"
Senator Walsh gave Mr.. Davis. as
chairman of the House judiciary COM
! mittee, much credit for the Clayton
act, sometimes referred to as labor's
| Magma Charta"
~.
tor said, had not hampered his vision.
Your practice has been general
. he said, "one day speaking for some
great and possibly ruthless corporation,
the next for an impoverished contender
| against the massed wealth of such or
the victim of its ruthlessness; today
appearing for interests demanding
} the process of the law in some in,
duStrfal war, tomorrow for organized
labor striking for living wages or in
dividuals charged with illegal acts in
aid of a strike.
Even more fortunately you, were
/. privileged to speak for five years be-
. fore the Supreme Court of the United
States in the capacity of solicitor gen.
|. eral for all the people of this mighty
nation against the contemners of. the
law of all classes. high and low,
against the most odious trusts and
monopolies, against the pillagers of
the public domain and the insidious
robber who plies his nefarfous trade
OF deception and fraud through the
mails. Your professional engage
ments peculiarly fit you, they in no
sense disQualify You for eminent serv-
ice as President of the United States.
The anthracite trust, the lumber
trust, the shoe machinery trust, the
steel trust, found you an antagonist
worthy of the highest talent they
could command. You fought a good
though a losing fight to uphold the
drst child labor law, and a winning
one to maintain the Adamson law"
Senator Walsh vigorously attacked
the record of the Republican admins
tration, and spoke of the shocking
scandals" which had rocked the
country" He was especially sharp
in his attack on officials connected
with the oil leases and charged the ad
ministration and the Republican party
with indifference toward them. Con-
/ cludinH his address with an outline
Of agriculture and tariff issues. he de-
| clared the Democratic party offered q
candidate in whom there will be gem
eral pride" '.-e..t
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