The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-19
Dauis And La Toilette Join
 In Attack Ono. O.P. Record
Independent Candidate Pledges World Peace
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 of Congress, Mrs. Harriot Stanton Blatchete, daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, pioneer advocate of women suffrage; Norman Thomas, socialist can didate for governor of New York, and the Rev. John Hayes Holmes, pastor of Community church here.
 As MT. La Toilette continued read ing his prepared text, the first real burst of applause came when he de- clared the independent ticket stood flor the maximum control of govern ment by the entire electorate in the 1T terest of all the people and with spe- cial privileges to none.
 Urges War Vote. [ There was prolonged cheering whril ] the candidate said Il at amohs otllcl proposed constitutional amendments he l favored one providing for popular ref erendum for or against war, except in cases of actual invasion.
 | When Mir. La Toilette reached the point in his address where he made the | only direct reference to John W. Davis he omitted a phrase from his prepared speech which said that Mir. Davis was trying to get the people to forget his former clients"
 COOiI0ge lnVOlVed.
 Senator La Toilette discussed the | tration, the acts of which he contended, must be judged as a whole, and declared that President Coolidge knew every act and policy of the last administra- tion because he was participant in their formulation"
 He referred to John W. Davis as a "certain distinguished lawyer, now running for president and trying to get the people to forget his former clients; who blocked" efforts of the public to bring about a reduction in telephone rates in New York.
 Declaring that parties and candi- dates should be judged on their records and not on prediction promises the Wisconsin senator continued
 '"The best that the republican party. for example can offer with its present candidate, is four years more of miss government such as we have witnessed during the last fonr years-the same control by powerful private interests. the same cynical bestowal of special privileges on the favored few. the same shameful betrayals of the public trust
 By an extraordinary procedure adopted at the beginning of President Harding's administration, the vice-presi- dent was made a member of the Presi- dents cabinet so that he might not only be fully informed of every policy and action but so that he might also give his counsel and advice. He sat with the cabinet while it discussed. ac- cording to the testimony of those who were present, the transfer of Teapot Dome and the other naval oil reserves from the navy department to the inte- rlor department, so that the corrupt leases of those great properties might be made. He knows every act and every policy of the last administration because he was ready participant in their formulation.
 Only Good Hearing Required.
 "A man might have been blind n man might have been dumb. but if he still retained his sense of hearing. he would have learned from trustworthy sources that the department of justice was nest of corruption, that the de- partment of the interior under Secretary Fall was bartering away the nations resources and that almost every de- parment was honeycombed with corrlp- tIon. 1t was heard in the corridors of the capitol, in committee rooms. ii, banks and in business houses. There was no escape. It was everywhere.
 "knoking these facts there was only one way in which a member of that administration elevated to the presi- dency could relieve himself from fnll responsibility for it's every act. That was by cleaning house as soon as the power came into his hands.
 What Was Done?"
 What was done? It was net. On the contrary every member of the cab. met was kept in office and ex-Secre- tary Fall, then known to be in the employe of Sinclair, was received ot the White House by the present repub- llcan candidate when he came to Wash ingtOn to give his perjured testimony. Even after the evidence of fraud and corruption became overwhelming Denby was retained in the cabinet, Daugherty was retained in the cabinet and they were allowed to resign, un- der pressure from the public and from more thin-skinned leaders of the party. with expressions from the White House l of high esteem and confidence in their integrity.
 But there is another reason, far more powerful, why the acts of the ! last administration must be regarded as q whole, free from all question of i personality. That reason is that the policies, appointments and actions of that administration, during its last year, as during its first three, were dictated not by the individuals who happened to occupy the White House but by the forces that control them and dominate the republican, as well as the democratic party. The Presidents were merely the servants of the system
 These things occurred, not because the Presidents who occupied the White House were bad men. They were not so far as personal, honesty and domes- tic virtues are concerned. They hap pened because they were weak men under the control of soulless system that knows nothing of honesty, in. tegrity, or civic righteousness where its selfish interests are concerned.
 "The republican party is now seek ing to avert a similar fate on the pres ent campaign by attempting to shift all the responsibility from the system that controls that party to a man who is now dead. This is perhaps the vilest piece of political strategy that has ever been attempted in the history of poli- ticians.
 'The differences between ourselves and our opponents" he continued, 'are fundamental and irreconcilable. On the political side the primary difference is this:
 We stand for the maximum control of government by the entire electorate