Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-08-21
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G. O.. P. Vice Presidential
Nominee Accuses Demo-
Gratis of StraddIing

EVANSTON, Ill, Aug. 2O.-(By
the Associated Press -Having
formally accepted the Republican
nomination for vice president,
Charles G.. Dawes entered actively
into the party's national campaign
today with his departure for Maine
to deliver an address Saturday at
Augusta.
The Augusta address is the only
one listed for Mr.. Dawes on the trip
undertaken today and he will return
to his home here early next week
and then proceed to Lincoln, Neb,
fy<, another speech on August 20.
His first stumping tour will begin
soon afterWard.
Formal notification of his selection
as President Coolidge's running mate
was given Mr.. Dawes last night at
ceremonies held on the lawn of his
home here with an audience declared
by Republican leaders to have been
one of the largest that ever gathered
at any political meeting in the vicin-
ity of Chicago.
The big audience, extending in an
almost solid mass from the Dawes
home to Lake Michigan, three hun
dred yards away, was composed or
the leaders of the Republican party,
of delegations from a number of mid
die western cities and towns and of
the neighbors of the nominee.
Issue as He Sees 1t
Speaking to this audience and In
directly to the country's voters Mr..
Dawes assailed the La Toilette in
dependent candidacy as "a mobiliza-
ton of extreme radicalism,' declared
the real contest of the campaign to
be between the progressive con-
servatism" of the Republican party
and the "untried and dangerous rad
icalism" of the La Toilette movement
and defended the course of the Hard
ing and Coolidge administrations in
foreign affairs.
Although giving the credit to Pres
ident Coolidge and Secretary Hughes.
Mr.. Dawes predicted that acceptance
of the reparations plan worked out
under his direction meant peace and
prosperity for Europe and saving of
the United States from inevitable ag-
ricultural and industrial depression.
The nominee, after defining the
position of the Republican party as
one of progressive conservatism and
that of the La Toilette independent
candidacy as one Of extreme radical
ism, declared the Democratic party
stood in between and instead Of re-
cruting itself from the two battle
mil fnt xuLf aJ1
Details those who try to straddle in
real fight"
Mr.. Dawes spoke In response to
the formal notification address de.
lvered by A. w. Jefferis, former
representative from Nebraska and
chairman of the official notification
committee, who likewise attacked
"the man from Wisconsin,, whom
he said had thrown off call pretense
of Republicanism and has run away
from the home where for forty years
he has been fed and sheltered and
has finally eloped with the Socialist
party
Small Party With Him
The party leaving here "Wednesday
with Mr.. Dawes for Maine was
small consisting only of the NOM
inee. Francis j. Kilkenny, ms chef
assistant; Major George A. Paddock.
of Evanston; a stenographer and
Howard M. Sewall, of Bath. Maine,
who will act as host to Mr.. Dawes
during his stay in the Maine capital.
Mr.. Dawes will arrive II New
York at $40 a. M, THURSDAY and
leave twenty minutes later tor New
Haven, Conn. Arriving there, he
will go by automobile to Westbrook,
Conn. to spend a portion of Thurs
day and Friday with Walter III. WIZ
son, one Of the directors OF his Chi.
cago bank.
Leaving Westbrook late Friday,
the nominee will go to Augusta by
way of Brunswick and spend SatGr-
day and Sunday in the Maine capital.
Returning, he will spend Monday
forenoon in Boston, arriving back in
Evanston Tuesday morning.
Acting as the spear-head of tho
Republican battle lines in the north.
west, General Dawes initiated
vicious attack on Senator La Fol-
ette, candidate for president on the
ticket, and on Governor
Charles w. Bryan, vice presidential
candidate on the Democratic ticket.
Dawes branded them as radicals"
He attacked La Toilette for attempt
ing to tamper with the constitution.
In his speech accepting the nomi-
nation, he dealt with only a few is
sues, devoting himself largely to ma
assault on La Toilette and on the
'one radical candidate on the Demo
cratic ticket"
Robert M La Toilette, leading
he army of extreme radicalism, has
platform demanding public owner
ship Of railroads and attacking our
courts which are fundamental and
safeguard of Ameri-
;an citizenship" Dawes said.
Sees La Toilette as Menace
Our nation is asked to leave inn
'ortant constitutional moorings to
EMBARK again into these contests
through which it has fought up to
he establishment Of good govern
nent Through the war Of the rev.
tuition, through the Civil war and
through the World war, our people
ave struggled to maintain our con-
titutional principles. They are ask
d to follow with an attack upon
hem, massed behind by an aggres.
i've personality, Heterogeneous
objection Of those opposing the ex.
sting order Of things, with the So
ialists flying the red flag, and into
that? Into confusion and conflict
f ideas and ideals and into the re-
pening of war upon these funda-
rental principles Of human liberty
nd the inalienable rights of men
hitch are giving in this country
afety and opportunity to the hum
lest and to establish which the
lood of our forefathers was shed.