The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-07-11
DAVIS DIFFERS
WITH BRYAN
IN VIEWS
Democratic Candidates at
Odds on Government Help
to Business
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legged corruption at Washington in
terms which Mr.. La Toilette could
not exceed and which, when used
by Mr.. La Toilette. have been de-
nounced by the leaders of the Re.
publican party as scandal monger-
ing and 'demagoguery.'
Not Real Progressive.
"Mr. Davis will be quite a 'dena-
Uogue' before the campaign is far
advanced.
Nevertheless, when IL comes to
prOgreSsiviSm, he is not by any
means a progressive in q certain
important part of the meaning now
currently given to that word among
the uprisers and upSetters of the
West and Northwest.
Mr.. Davis is anti.bureaucratic.
He dislikes governmental interven-
tons Of all sorts if they possibly
can be avoided. He is consistent.
Disliking such interventions on be-
half Of one class. he dislikes them
equally on behalf of every other
class.
Unless some strange change Of
mind happens to him he will give
scant comfort to the Westerners
and Northwesterners who want the
Federal Government to go into the
business of the buying and selling
or farm products in order to enable
farmers to produce excessive sup
plies OF crops without suffering the
natural result Of low prices.
Some Irony Of Fate.
by a fine irony it happens that
Mr.. Davis on the Democratic Presi-
dental and Vice Presidential ticket
Is yoked with a running mate who
mates to have the Government in.
tervene to help the manufacturer,
but who loves to have the Govern
ment intervene to help the farmer
and the consumer.
Mr. Charles w. Bryan is COM.
united to Governmental activity, and
even to Governmental ownership and
operation in the oil business, and
in the gasoline business in order to
help the consuming public.
The tail OF the Democratic ticket
VIII Wag In friendly way at any
such sOcialistic schemes.
The head Of the ticket win bark
against them.
That is, he will do SO, unless the
campaign changes his nature.
His nature is altogether Jeffer-
son1an. 1t Is not progressive in
the Western and Northwestern
bureaucratic sense. e. It tends to.
ward holding that government is
best when 1t governs least.
His True State of Mind.
MI. Davis has exhorted all Pro
gressives' to support him. He has
said that he will show no mercy to
reaction Such language is wrung
from him in the heat and excite.
ment Of his nomination.
"A truer account OF his state Of
nina was given by him at a calrner
llonnenC recently when he said that
words IKE progressive and re-
actionary' and conservative and
radical SHOULD be left to the Re.
puDllcans to express their internal
0lLIerences among themselves. AS
LOT the democrats, he said, thew
were not progressive or reaction.
ary or conservative or radical
lhey were simply traditionally and
eCernaliy IN his belief liberal
IN other words. like the Liberals
OF england. the Democrats. accord.
ing TO Mr.. Davis. are for a mini.
mum or governmental action and
Ior maximum Of leaving the
cltlzens to develop his own affairs
through his own energies without
governmental favors.
Mr.. Davis will attack Coverr.
mentai raVors to corporate interests
sounding thus progressive, he. never.
theless, will not be demanding. Gov.
ernmental favors to laboring inter
ests or to farming interests.
Attacks Like CIeveland's.
He will even accuse, and does
accuse, the Republicans of passing
TOO many laws and of cluttering the
statute books with too much I'm.
necessary legislative alleged bene.
ficience.
Thus his attack upon Mr.. Cool
ioge and the Republicans will be
almost the same sort of attack that
Grover Cleveland might have made.
1t will assail alleged Republican
bureaucracy and alleged Republican
use OF the Government for private
purposes, and will demand that the
Government be brought back to its
old Jeffersonian function of provid.
ing not privilege to some but sim.
ply equal opportunity to ALL
by his character and by his
Temperament such will be the edge
of his sword in this campaign"