The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-06
DAVIS PLEASED
 WITH SITUATION
 IN MIDDLE WEST
Chicago Conferences Re. veal Satisfactory Pro-
 gress, He Says
tBy Associated Press) )

ABOARD THE DAVIS DEE
 GAL TRAIN FEN ROUTE TO OMAHA, Neb., Sept. 5.--John w.
 Davis, the democratic presidential !. candidate, in the first address of
 his campaign in Illinois told
 crowd of several thousand that
 greeted him at Rockford as his
 train stopped there early tonight
 that the democratic party proposed
 to offer the American people a
 government of common courage
 (which knows its own mind and
 is not afraid to declare it.
 CHICAGO, Sept. 5.-After four days of conferences here with democratic leaders from half a dozen states, John w. Davis departed tonight to carry his fight for the presidency into the ter ritory west of the Mississippi river.
 Before boarding his special train for Omaha, Neb., where he will speak to- morrow night, the democratic standard bearer declared that the four days spent here had been as profitable as any four days he has spent since his nomina- ton.
 "I am really very much encouraged by the conferences held here" he said. ."I have seen people from Indiana, from Illinois. from Missouri, from Kansas, from Nebraska, from Iowa. The situa- ton in all those states is not only as good as I thought it was it is a good better. I am not prepared to announce how many of these states I am going to carry, or by what majorities, but l am going to make fight in every one of them"
 "You do not regard any one of them as hopeless?'' Mir. Davis was asked.
 None Are Hopeless
 "Assuredly do not regard any of them as hopeless"
 Asked about reports in wide circula- ton to the effect that Davis is through in the vest" the democratic candidate denominated this as propaganda and de- clared there could be no doubt about it's purpose.
 Undoubtedly the reason it is spread" he said, lis to make the fight in the west on it's face fight between Cool idge and La Toilette with the hope that the vote will be split between the radi- calls and the conservatives and that Coolidge will get all of the one and La Toilette all of the other, I expect to hold all of the democrats of the west and hope to add to their number be- fore it is over"
 MT. Davis stated emphatically that he would not make direct attack OH the La Toilette movement.
 "I am not going to discuss any move ment," he said. T am going to discuss the issues of the campaign" g
 ''Yon are not going to discuss per sonalities at any time?" Mir. Davis was asked.
 "No," was the reply.
 The democratic standard bearer win return to Chicago on September IS or 19 and he stated that at that time he will deliver an address in thls city. Ar engagements for that meeting will be made while he is speaking in Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming and Missouri dur ing the next two weeks. Among those with whom Mir. Davis conferred here to- day was Grey Silver of the American Farm Bureau federation, who gave the nominee a vivid picture about the farm ers' distress.
 A Collective Force
 MT. Silver believes the farmers have begun to cooperate" MT. Davis said, "and have begun to organize, in fact, he thinks they have not only begun to organize but that they have organized. In other words, that the farmer is pre- pared to be very much more of col lective force than he ever was before" :"
 Speaking in the auditorium at Omaha tomorrow night Mir. Davis will make his first extended declaration on the ag- ricultural question His advisors re- gard this as one of the most important of his campaign declarations and ar engagements have been made to have the address broadcast over many states.
 Governor Charles w. Bryan of Ne braska, running mate to Mir. Davis. will go to Omaha tomorrow from Lincoln to attend a luncheon of business men and farmers to be given in honor of the presidential nominee and to be present at the night address. It will be the first meeting of the two candidates since right after the New York conVen- tiOn.