The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-10-04
PLEDGES
PARTICIP ALTON
IN ARMS FARLEY
Nominee Makes Seven
Speeches In Jersey
In Day
tBy Associated Press9

NEWARK, N. J., Oct. 3.-John w.
Davis, democratic presidential nominee,
making seven speeches in New Jersey
today. chose the chapel of Princeton
university, once presided over by Wood
row Wilson, as the place to express
his ambition to call the American peo-
ple back to a realization of their great
part in the world, to the great loppor-
tunities with which they are confronted,
to the great duties that stand before
them todayf
II fully realize" he said, that our
entrance into the league would not only
be impossible, but, if achieved, would
be fruitless unless it represented the
co-ordinated will of a nation content
with that decision. But until the day
comes. am not willing that everything
we do shall be conditioned upon its
raising no dispute in the Senate of the
United States"
Mr., Davis reiterated his pledge that
if he were president and there were a
conference on world disarmament in
1925, this country would take part in
Has Full Day
Beginning with two addresses in
Trenton and finishing with speech
tonight in Newark, the nominee spent
busy day in this state. He spoke at
the interstate fair near Trenton, for q
few minutes, then stopped at Elizabeth
for talk on citizenship. He attended
the beginning of dinner of Essex
county democrats, in Newark tonight,
taking an hours rest before his last
speech of the day.
Frederick w. DonneIly, democratic
nominee for senator, spoke with Mr..
Davis in Trenton and accompanied him
on the rest of his tour. Senator Ed
wards joined him in Newark. Governor
Silzer made the circuit with the
nominee, introducing him at Trenton
at the fair.
81 take it for granted" said DIR.
Davis at Princeton, that in 1920 the
program of the party in power was
supposed to be either adherent to the
League of Nations on some reserya-
tions acceptable to the public and TO
the Senate, or the creation of some
new agency for peace that might take
its place. And / think the American
people as a whole, believed that in
that election, so far as any foreign
policy was foreshadowed, the men were
reaching in advance into one of those
directions or the other. No advance in
either direction as all men know, has
been made in the five years that have
passed.
Only A Timid Step =
when the World court was created,
when, at last it poured out of the
hopes and ambitions that men had de-
layed for ages-when at last our own
preceipt and example, reiterated from
time to time to all nations, bore its
fruit and the World Court came into
being, think the American people
assumed; as a matter of course, that
it would enjoy our moral and our ma
tional spirit and to this hour, except
for a few timid recommendations no
single step in that direction has been
taken.
'And / think 1 see, in these latter
hours, the foreshadOwing of the dan
ger which merely hint at.-the fore
shadowing of day when, by processes
of conferences. of communication and
cooperation, there will arise among
the free nations of the world solidar.
ity of interest, outside which alien ia
it and foreign to it, the United States
of America will stand alone, and with
out imputing to any other nation any
motives of aggression, or Of envy, or
of purpose to injure it, / am not will
ing that the United States should stand
alone outside the diplomatic as well
as the military circle of the world"