The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-16
TARIFF ASSAILED
 ASDAVIS REVIEWS
 FIGHT IN WEST
1920 Success Had Its Re- wards, Hints Demo-
 cratic Nominee
lRY Associated Pressl ]

EASTWOOD FARM, FUNCTION, Mo-, Sept. 15.-John w. Davis carried his fight for the presidency into the heart of agricultural Missouri today, attending a gigantic barbecue at the farm home here of Dr. Arthur W. Mel son, democratic candidate for gover nor, and opening the campaign in this state. Mir. Davis told his thousands of hearers grouped in a natural amphi- S theater in front of the Nelson home that this was fighting campaign" and i've still make war"
 , The democratic presidential candi- date had for an audience the great est crowd ever gathered in rural Mis- souri and he remarked that it prob- ably was the largest assembly that ever met in the open to discuss government tai affairs.
 10000 People Present
 Joshua W. Barbee, democratic state chairman, who was in charge of the celebration, estimated that between 40, 900 and 50,000 persons were present. The vast crowd spread out over the expansive pastures surrounding the speakers stand to hear MT. Davis and Dr. Nelson launch their Missouri cam paigns. The voices of the speakers were carried distinctly to the edges of the assemblage through loud speakers.
 Mir. Davis declared that the cam paign 1920 was made up on "every smoldering hate and discomfort tha: affected the people of this nation. As a result without general regard to any issue without deep consideration of any program the American people in an overwhelming number de- clared for a change in their govern ment. And such a change they un- doubtedly procured
 G. o. P. Distributes Reward
 Those who had by campaign con- tributions or political activity assisted in this victory were prompt to appear and claim the rewards for their finan- cial and personal valor," the nominee continued.
 A result, he said, was the writing upon the statute books in the United States ''of a tariff law which the re- publican papers of this country from ocean to ocean condemned on the next morning as an outrage and an lm- position upon the consumers of the country"
 Tt was then,' MT. Davis said, you got your duty on wheat, which you were assured would put you on an equality with the manufacturer in the east, so far as governmental benefit was concerned; and your duty on pork and meats. Whereupon these ungrate- full and unresponsive commodities in- stead of accepting the bounty given them by the gracious hands of the Re publican party immediately fell in price and gave the whole snap away.
 And now, even such good repubii- | can authority as the candidate for vice president publicly admits that law fixing a duty on commodity of which | we export surplus, IS so much words written in the sand"
 Mir. Davis reviewed briefly the oil | and veterans bureau scandals. He said that the cases of Fall, Doheny and Daugherty were not isolated examples.
 There is in all the history of this sorry business no one chapter, in my judgment, so black and so disgraceful as the administration of the veterans bureau under Charles k. Forbes and his allies, for it did violence to our | promise to those men," he said.
 MT. Davis then spoke of the western country.
 II had heard in the east the tales of deep distress that had settled on tHlS as have come those tales have grown none the less for the telling, none the less distressing in their ultimate fact. It wrings ones heart to hear of strong | and sturdy men whose years of life and | labor have gone for naught and who stand evicted from the soil they had bedewed with their honest sweat. And it stirs ones impulse to search out | relief for such conditions and to apply | such remedies-if remedies there be as the power of government may de- wise.
 He recited a part of the democratic platform:
 '" Railroad freight rates should be ] so readjusted as to give the bulky, | basis, low priced raw commodities such | as agricultural products, coal and ores the lowest rates, placing the higher rates upon more valuable and less | bulky manufactured products
 Such readjustment of freight rates will be of great benefit to producers of such products, but more must be done for them. Waterways offer the cheapest means of transportation for those products which we are discussing and equally as satisfactory where time of delivery does not constitute a mate rial element. We have been negligent of these opportunities and remiss in our duty to our people in failing to improve our rivers to the highest point of utilization and provide the maxi mum of water transportation"
 In conclusion the democratic pres- idential nominee said: Il put it to the farmer, who has seen distress and despair settle upon him in his most laborious moments. I put it to the consumer, who as paid, by reason of iniquitous laws, an unnecessary and exorbitant price fOH all the necessities