Evening star., 1924-10-22
DAWES TO INVADE
DAVIS HOME STATE
Discusses Budget and La
Toilette Campaign in
Philadelphia Speech.
By the Associated Press.

PHILADELPHIA, October 22.-
Charles G. Dawes carried his speak
ing campaign as Republican vice
presidential nominee to Western
opened his Eastern tour here las
night with an address divided equally
between a. discussion of the budget
system and an assault on the La Fol-
lette Independent candidacy.
Leaving here early today, Mr..
Dawes had before him two speeches,
one at a noon meeting in Pittsburgh
and rear platform talk at Wash
ington, Pa. before entering West Vir-
ginia, home State of John w. Davis,
Democratic presidential candidate,
for an address tonight at Wheeling.
The Republican nominee in his
speech here last night declared he
was confident of the outcome in the
Middle West. where he has done the
greater part Of his campaign
speaking.
Opening his Eastern speaking tour
here with a discussion of the budget,
Mr.. Dawes declared this Government
Is safe in its present method of do
ing business so long as We retain as
President man who keeps his place
at the head of the Government busi-
ness organization and keeps club
hanging on the wall for the beneft
Big Crowd Hears Speech.
Mr.. Dawes spoke before an audience
that packed the Academy of Music,
where President Coolidge spoke a
month ago.
Gov. Pinchot. seated on the speak
ers' platform. formally welcomed Mr.
Dawes to Pennsylvania. and declared
he was present "as a Republican to
stand beside Mr.. Dawes on the plat
form and urge his election"
Mr.. Dawes aroused his audience at
the start by commencing the people
of Philadelphia as loyal enough and
patient enough to stand by my friend,
Smedley d. Butler" There was an
outburst OF applause. and Mayor Ken
drick. seated in box near the
speakers platform. smiled broadly.
When the cheers ceased, Mr.. Dawes
added amid further applause: Il am
glad to see that mention of Gen.
Buffers name shows what you think
of a man who has quits"
The Republican nominee went on
to say that he knew of no man more
loved by the men that'he led than
Gen. Butler.
Beginning his address. Mr. Dawes
took occasion to speak of the eulo-
CYSTIC introductions he had listened
to during the campaign and said that
he might be tempted to think of him
self IF this thing runs along much
longer as a great man. but between
US, girls. it really sometimes makes
me sick"
Credit fer establishment of the
budget system, Mr.. Dawes declared,
lay not in enactment of budget law.
but in the courage of President Har-
ding in putting the system into effect.
LaNs ONLY nm Incident
The budget law was only an incl
dent" he asserted. THE law was
good thing because It outlined the
method and because it called atten-
ton to what any President could
have done"
The Republican nominee empha-
sized, however, that he did not con-
slider the budget or any Of the other
subjects mentioned in the national
platforms of the two major parties as
the dominant issue in the campaign
The real issue in this campaign
was raised July : when an attack
was launched against the Constitu-
tion of the United States" he de-
clared, referring to formation OF the
La Toilette independent movement
He assailed the La Toilette platform
declaration for curbing of the power
or the Supreme Court and told his
need not fear for the West"
They recognize in the West that
real issue has been presented, and
= out there you are going to see not
the small percentage OF a vote you
have had recorded in those States in
the past. but vote greater than in
any previous election" he added.
Don't fear for the West. Only you
people here do your duty as well as
thew will do II ont thara
Mr.. Dawes. in beginning his dis
Cussion of the budget, said he owed
his appointment as first director OF
the Budget Bureau to an article he
wrote for the Saturday Evening
Post.
Gave Ideas in Article.
II gave my ideas as to what this
Government needed in connection
with it's business administration in
the article, which was published in
the Post, and President Harding saw
it and then l was appointed" he con-
tinuel.
speech is because never yet, so far
as I know, has anybody ever
thought that 1t was not the budget
law that was responsible for the
great reduction in expenses in this
country. Everybody talks as if it
were the budget law. The budget
law was only an incident in that ac-
complishment. The whole thing
could have been done without the
budget law.
What was the reason we didn't
get expenses down in the United
States? 1t was because for 125
years the President OF the United
States hadn't taken his position at the
head of the routine business organi-
zation and put a club on the walls
CT the cabinet room, so that those
men would administer as vice presi-
dents and not as Independent sa-
traps at the head Of Independent es-
Establishments. That is the reason
Cabinet officers, Mr.. Dawes asserted,
ARE the natural enemies of the
budget" These officers. he added,
should be the conduits for transmits
sion downward of the executive plan,
but instead often times are, as they
have been for 125 years, the conduits
for the transmission of pressure up
from the separate departments upon
the President for complete independ-
'ence Of action"
Mr.. Dawes also took occasion to
deny the claim of Republican orators
generally" that a billion. seven hun
:dred million dollars were saved the
first year through operation of the
budget, the actual saving, he said,
was only $250.000, 900.
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DRUGGIST GETS 2 YEARS.