Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1924-08-15
DAVIS ACCEPTS
NOMINATION
G. 0. P. Regime is Subjected
to Sharp Attack
THIRD TICKET IS IGNORED


To Notification Ceremony; Rain
Mars Proersms-outlines
Problems.
Clarksburg, W. va.-With joyful
confidence" in the outcome Of the No
vember election, John W. Davis ac-
cepted the Democratic nomination for
President. The notification eere-
monies were held in a torrent OF rain.
which drenched thousands in the au-
dience..
A vigorous arraignment of the Re
publican administration and the
pledge Of IAN honest, an impartial and
a just government constituted the
theme Of the address.
Half Of his speech Mr.. Davis de-
voted to a detailed and carefully
drawn indictment of the Republicans
The disclosures made by the. various
Congressional investigations figure
large in the Indictment.
Addressing his hearers as "the rep
resentatives of millions Of Americans
who are dissatified with existing con-
dItions." Mr.. Davis outlined "the prob
lens of the hour" as follows:
"The allied forces of greed and dis
honesty, of self seeking and partisan
ship, Of prejudice and ignorance,
threaten. today as they have rarely
done before the perpetuity of our ma
tional ideals, traditions and institu-
tions. Men are looking askance at
one another: are mistrusting one an
other: are doubling each others good
will and honesty OF purpose.
"The solidarity Of the Great War
has given way to a chaos of biocs and
sections and classes and interests,
each striving for its own advantage,
careless Of the welfare of the whole.
Government itself. TO which the hum
blest citizen has the right to turn
with confident reliance in its even
handed justice, has fallen under the
prevalent distrust.
DfstruSI is RDFodu.
There is abroad in the land feel
ing too general to be ignored, too
deepseated for any trifiing, that men
in office can no longer be trusted to
keep faith with those who send them
there, and that the powers Of Gov
ernment are being exercised in the
pursuit of personal gain instead Of
the common service.
"Out of this and because Of it there
has developed an alarming tendency
to take the administration of the law
out of the hands of constituted officials
and to execute its processes through
individuals or through organized so
cielties, by methods little different
from those Of private revenge.
"A situation so threatening to the
very foundations of the social order
demands boldness in facing the causes
which have brought 1t about, and tire
less exertion in the effort to remove
them.
"In 1920 we passed through po-
litical campaign in which materialism
was preached as a creed and selfish
ness as a national duty, and say
that it has brought corruption in high
places. favoritism in legislation, divi-
sion and discord in party councils,
impotence in government and hot
struggle for profit and advantage
which has bewildered us at home and
humiliated us abroad.
For all these things the party now
in power cannot escape the responsi-
bility that is its due. No repentance
at the eleventh hour and no promise
of reform can cancel half line of
the indisputable facts.
Robbery Under Law.
ITO pervert high office to personal
gain is an offense detested by all
honest men; but TO use the power Of
legislation purposely to enrich one
man or set OF men at the expense Of
others is a robbery on larger scale,
though done under the forms of law.
"In the passage Of the Fordney-Mc.
Cumber tariff act, imposing the high
est rates and duties in the tariff his
tory of the nation. there was an un-
blushing return to the evil days of
rewarding the party supporters"
Mr.. Davis then took up the tax re-
vision program supported by Secre-
tary Of the Treasury Mellon and
claimed for the Democrats full credit
for the tax law passed by the last
Congress. He referred pointedly to
the disagreements between President
Coolidge and the Republican Congress,
and charged the Republicans with
division in council and impotence in
action"
When party becomes a leader
less and incoherent mob, he asserted,
"it must give way to some rival bet
ter fitted for the task of government"
Raps Foreign Policy.
In this connection, Mr.. Davis took
up the foreign policy of the Harding
Coolidge Administration, which, he
charged. was evidence of creeping
paralysis" He mentioned the differ
ences between the President and Con.
gress over the World Court proposal,
and pledged the Democrats to support
the World Court idea. Secretary of
the State Hughes, he said, had made
q Confession of impotence"
Continuing. Mr.. Davis said: