The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-10-14
WARM RECEPTION
ACCORDED DAVIS
BY INDIANIANS
Dem 0cratic Nominee
Urges Voters Search
Is Their Hearts
nv Associated PreSs)

vstTBRRE HAUTE, Ind, Oct. ID
s Tn1iAna voters were asked today by
John w. Davis, democratic presidential
nominee, ito search their hearts for a
reason before they decide what candl-
date they would support in November.
- In speeches tonight at Terre Haute
|. and in the afternoon at Lafayette,
UrawfordviIle, Greencastle and Lebanon,
Mr.. Davis rec0unted the record OF the
republican administration as he saw
|. 81 and pressed hard his attacks upon the
Fordney- McCumber tariff acts, the
Conduct of foreign affairs and the adj
nJinistration of the department OF JUS
! fice under former Attorney General
Daugherty.
Enthusiastically Received
- At each point where he stopped alsng
the route from indianapolis to Terre
! Haute, Mr.. Davis was greeted by crowds
which made it necessary in each place
to use electrical amplifiers. Democratic
state and local leaders were enthusiastic
over the receptions given the candidate.
None Of the political speakers or can
didates who had visited the same points,
it was said, had been greeted by audi
ences of comparable sizes.
The tariff act, Mr.. Davis said was "a
Il
United States"
The indictment Of Senator Burton X.
/ Wheeler. Senator La Follette's running
mate, Mr. Davis said, was "as black
and rs. dastardly a crime as could be
committed by any man."
This trust the candidate aimed par
ticularly at the former attorney general
whose agents, he charged, together with
those Of the secretary of the republican
national committee, "put on foot and
procured at a joint conference" the in
dictment of the Montana senator.
DeplOres Hughes Stand
The attitude of the American govern
ment towards Europe for which Mr..
Davis blamed Secretary of States
Hughes was described as one of perfect
willingness to cooperate provided our
Willingness never leads us into cO-opera-
ten"
The little green house on X street"
also was referred to. Mr.. Davis said
| it was the grand central headquarters
which sent out its detachments of its
olitposts' for purposes of corruption.
Mr.. Davis explained that he had no
brief to defend Senator Wheeler, but
added: 1.-The sworn testimony is that
. the indictment was put on foot and pro-
cured at a joint conference between
the agents of the attorney general and
the secretary of the republican national
committee; and that because Senator
Wheeler had become an obnoxious critic
of the national administration and of
the attorney general and particularly, it
was felt necessary to get something on
him, and they went out for that pur-
pose"
Promises Farm Aid
Another problem for the voters to
consider, the candidate said, was ,the
depression that has overtaken Ameri-
can agriculture" In this connection he
promised that the democrats with all
the vigor and with all the constitutional
power they possess will address them
selves to remedying" such troubles.
ssWe can see two Of the robbers yerS
clearly" Mr.. Davis said. Zone of them
is the tariff I have spoken of, that
raises the price of everything the farmer
has to buy and does no advantage in the
world to the farmer when it is imposed
ON the things he has to SELL" y. 'el