The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-14
l. IF IS REMOVED; NOMINEE NOW
 2 MAKES PROMISE
Democratic Standard Bearer Openly Plays Third Party
PERSONAL RIGHTS
 IS FREQUENT. THEME
Government Of Honesty And Courage Is His 7. .,..,s s {. Promise

TOPEKA, Kan, Sept. 13.- With an apparently mounting confidence, John w. Davis carried his fight for the presi- dencys across the western plains today through Ne braska and Kansas in a series of addresses beginning before breakfast at Kearney, Neb., in a driving rain, and ending to- night here in the capitol of the Sun Flower7state.
 When the democratic stand ard bearer began his drive through this territory a week ago.. he was content to make his promises on the basis of eff, or should" he become president, but today he told his auditors that "after" he became chief executive next March he would use every en- deavor of heart and mind to furnish a government of hon. esty, of courage and, of jus- tice.
 There also was another change of tactics by Mir. Davis. Heretofore he had confined his assault wholly to the record of the administration of govern ment by the Republican party. But now he si naming the Progressive party ana appealing to the independent voters de- siring a government of progress to vote the democratic ticket because, as he put it, no one could contend that the progressive party could hope to capture the presidency and majority of the two houses of congress. F*r Names La Toilette
 < Moreover, in his talk at Grand Is- land. Neb.. where he was joined by and introduced by his running mate, Coy ernor Charles W. Bryan, Mr. DaVis vigorously assailed the proposal Of sen ator La Toilette, the Progressive party Standard bearer, that congress and the Legislatures of the several states be given the power of veto over the su- nreme court on the question Of the con stitutionality of legislative acts.
 Declaring that he had caught as he had gone up and down the western Tlains some of the breath of freedom and independenee that blows across SI,efn." MT. Davis said he realized that ,IS; matter what might happen else where. never from the people of tnis section "shall one fraction of their hD- critics De fiIched."
 Defining those liberties as freedom of speech; freedom of the press; free . dom of assembly; trial by jury; the right of religious worship according to the dictates of eOnscience;f freeQom from search and seizure and freedom from conviction by bill of attainder at } the hands of any legislature the demo- cratic candidate declared they never should be surrendered. Shall we sur render them at the will of majority of the people," he asked. Mot so long as one individual remains to claim them.
 "Shall we surrender them at the de- mand of a majority of congress never"
 MT. Davis said that if the American people were not disposed to surrende. these liberties, their guarantee ana thelr prOUecLlOH TUT thSh were the courts.
 In his last rear platform speech Of inc day at Onaga, Kansas, MT. Davis made an appeal against the voters per hitting their parties to become their masters instead of their servants.
 Party Must Be Right
 "No free-born American citizen," !" MT. Davis said, fought to say to him. self, my party, right or wrong' put nevertheless my party t
 "My party when it is right, and some other party when it is wrong, that is the motto that Americans ought to follow"
 In several of his addresses, particu- larly here in Kansas, Mir. Davis put forward a new definition of the differ ence between his own anC the HepuDli- can party's. He said there always had been in this country two ideas about government.
 ''There is the idea," he said, 'of those who think in the language of Alexander Hamilton, that government IS the province of the rich. and the well born and the able, and that they have some sort of providential mission to govern the country for the benefit of them selves and their fellow citizens as we'll.
 "There is the other doctrine that goy- ernment is not the prerogative of any class or section, no matter how rlch, no matter how well born or how able, but is the prerOgative of all citizens from the highest to the lowest, the