Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-10-09
DAVIS HITS MELLON,
WILBUR, HUGHES IN
WORK SPEECHES

I. NEW YORK, Oct. 7.-Driving fur
Their north and west into New York
state from Albany to Utica fbr a
noon day address and thence to
Syracuse for an evening meeting,
John w. Davis continued today his
attacks against the Republican
party, its record during the Harding
and Coolidge administrations and his
appeal for support Of voters to the
Democratic national and state tick
cts in the November elections. At
the same time, Mr.. Davis, speaking
as the Democratic presidential nomi-
nee, reiterated his opposition to the
administration foreign policy,
charged that the navy has deterio-
rated IN efficiency below the sos
ratio fixed by the Washington
ornaments conference and reviewed
other subjects touched upon his adj
dress here last night.
The candidate found time also to
submit to two treatments at the
hands of Jim" Cullen, physical in
structor, who is making the state
: tour and probably will remain with
Mr.. Davis throughout the campaign
to aid him better to withstand the
grind of travel and work still ahead.
Those who have observed Mr..
Davis since he started out soon after
\ his nomination by the New York
convention agree that he should give
nQre consideration to his physical
Sndition than has been his practice
to date. While he has withstood the
ordeal remarkably well, his friends
say they can notice effects Of the
strain and believe Mr.. Cullen's en-
ployment will lead to beneficial re-
suits
Hughes and Mellon
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., came in
for passing reference in Mr. Davis
Albany speech. The Republican
gubernatorial candidate, Mr.. Davis
said, would find himself embarrassed
If he continued to praise the party
he represented, for negotiating the
naval reduction treaty and defend it
for allowing the navy to fall below
the sos ratio which the treaty
fixed. Mention also was made of
Secretaries Hughes and Mellon, one
relating to the address made by the
secretary of state in Ohio when Mr..
Hughes said the issue of the cam
paign was whether Mr.. Coolidge
should be continued in office, and
the other describing the treasury
secretary as a defender of the 'alu-
minum trust" cited by Mr.. Davis as
being one of the outstanding hene-
ficiaries of the F'ordney- McCumber
tariff act.
In his reference to the foreign
policy question, Mr.. Davis said he
could see only two courses open to
this country. One was to arm the
nation to a point where it need not
fear aggression even from the united
strength of other powers, and the
second was to meet all other powers
in conference and build up under
standings which would make future
aggression impossible. he pointed
out the refusal of the Washington
government to attend the Geneva
conference called by the League of
Nations to consider questions of
abolishing war, of arbitration, of re-
duction in ornaments and the codi.
fication of international law.
There is neither safety, honor
nor glory in a mere policy of drift
Mr.. Davis said.
Such policy leads inevitably to
situation that not only deprives us
of the power to make up our own
minds, but also the chance to make
our will effective when our minds
are made up. The country has
right to know whether we have a
foreign policy and If so, what that
policy isl
In relteration Of his charges of
corruption in public office during
the last three and a half years, Mr..
Davis declared that the Republican
party "can not cover it's failure to
perform it's past promises by MAX
ing new promises for the future"
Sowing Seeds of Hatred
The worst crop failure this coun-
try ever saw" he said, 'is The fail
ure in the crop of Republican per-
Torrance compared with the sowing
of Republican promises"
The second question of Importance
TO be settled by the November cleo
ton, the candidate asserted, was
that dealing with the growth of sec.
tional feeling in the United States.
Nothing is clearer than that the
policy pursued by the Republican
party and approved by President
Coolidge he said, has succeeded in
selling the agricultural west against
the industrial east. For so years
the fiscal policies Of the United
States have been dictated by an in
dustrial bloc, to whose prosperity
the farmer has been compelled
, against his will to contribute.
Not content with this, we have a
neg effort to pit the north against
tbs south. Since the WASHINGTON
Post has seen fit to publish in full
the extraordinary outburst which
Secretary Wilbur-the latest of the
best minds'-was prepared to emit
at Denver, we set some idea of the
extent to which men are willing to
go foS partisan purposes.
No wonder his party associates
were dismayed at his frankness, and
that an extinguisher was promptly
clapped on his official head. Ap-
parently it was his intention to
wave once more the bloody shirt
and preach against the crusade of
civic hatred"
Another question to be settled at
The election, Mr.. Davis said, was
. that of rule OF privilege as against
the rule of equality.
'Of all the victories which priv
ilege ever won in congress-" he said