Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-10-30
9INIAeHINIG7 WIND
FOR G.NMI?'II1AI IS
PREPARED BY DAVIS

NEW YOHk, Oct Entering
The final lap of his presidential
race. John w Davis, Democratic
nominee, worked today at his home
in Locust Valley preparing his wind
up address scheduled for Saturday
night at Carnegie Hall.
He contemplates making a gen
cral rcStatement Of campaign Is
sues at this meeting and is drafting
his speech for thar occasion with
painstaking. care AT no time since
he prepared the speech of accept
ance delivered at Clarksburg, w.
Va, has the candidate given him
self over so completely to the task
of speech writing.
His work today was interrupted
only by the engagement which was
to take him tonight from his home
to Jersey City fOr an address there.
Mr.. Davis has been requested to
speak regarding his attitude on Ia
Dor and to contrast the record of
the Democratic and Republican leg
islative bodies on labor matters. y
reference to Senator La Follette'S
offers to labor also has been sug-
gested for inclusion tonight in the
Jersey City remarks.
The candidate has addressed HIM
self to these questions since his re-
turn from the middle west and has
made known his dissent regarding
the La Toilette plan.
La Toilette Court Plan Hit
In his last speech here, Mr.. Davis
emphasized his objections to the
WISCONSIN senator's proposal TO
give congress supreme power and
make final judgment of its own au
thority, taking away from the courts
the right to say when that body had
exceeded the authority vested in it
by the people.
Il am not willing" Mr.. Davis
said then, that the relation of this
observation-disclosures the federal
government and the states of the
union-shall lie with congressional
discretion and l am not willing, my
laboring friends, that your right to
organize-which | believe to be q
right predicated upon the life, lib
erty and happiness clauses of the
constitution-can be denied to you
by any chance authority in con
gresS, or in a state legislature.'
SHAVER PREDICTS VICTORY
IN OFFICIAL STATEMENT
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27-Abso-
lutte confidence in the straight out
election of John w. Davis and
Governor Bryan was expressed by
Glenn Shaver, chairman of the
Democratic national committee, in
statement here Sunday declaring
that the election of Calvin Coolidge
is Fan impossibility."
"Davis and Bryan will be elected
in the electoral college Mr.. Shaver
said This analysis is based on
the congressional and other cleo
tons of 1922 and reports from state
and county chairmen from every
state in which the result is in doubt"
States carried by the Democratic
party in the congressional elections
of 1922 would alone be sufficient to
guarantee the election of the Demo
cratic ticket, Mr.. Shaver contended
With La Toilette in the field
drawing two votes from the Re
publicans to one from the Demo-
Gratis the outcome is made doubly
certain, he asserted.
ITO be exact, the states carried
by the Democrats for members of
the house of representatives in that
year total 277 electoral votes or %
majority in the electoral college,
Mr.. Shaver said.
IF we added to these the states
carried by Democratic candidates for
governor or United States senator.
or both, they total 50 more, or 359
electors, a majority of 1S7 in the
electoral college.
Conditions since that time have
certainly not grown more unfaVor-
able for us. On the contrary the
various exposures of oil and other
scandals, the widespread business
depression and distress of the farm
ers, and other similar developments,
have certainly weakened the Repub
lican party and added, as a natural
CONSEQUENCE, to our strength.
"When to all of the above is add
ed the fact that the third party
ticket is drawing more from the Re
publican candidate than from our
own, the reason for our faith in
Democratic victory is at once APP
parent.
The Democratic party carried the
country two years ago and is strong
er today than it was then. A solid
Democracy is behind John w. Davis
ana III ADDITION ne Is gaming dcceS-
sions from the leading educators and
thinking men and women of the
country. There is tremendous
silent vote that determines all cleo
tons. and this silent vote [ have
every reason to believe will in large
measure be cast for Davis"
Mr.. Shaver said that in the only
two previous election years a third
party was strong enough to make
itself felt, the Democrats came off
victorious by virtue of the third
party dividing Republican strength.
These years were 1892, when Cleve-
land was elected with the populists
taking % electoral votes. and 1912.
when Woodrow Wilson went in.
with Roosevelt and Taft splitting
the Republicans.
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