The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-22
DAVIS RAPS SLuJSH FUND INCAMPA PAIGN Questions Financial Meth ods Of Other
 Parties FALL OIL SCANDAL SCORED IN SPEECH Forbes And Others Used Power To Enrich
 Selves BALLOT DECIDES ( NATIONS DESTINY Urges Kentuckians Not To Ne glect Duty On Nov.
 Fourth
FALL OIL SCANDAL
 SCORED IN SPEECH
BALLOT DECIDES (
 NATIONS DESTINY
(By Associated Press)

LOUISVILLE,Ky., Oct. 21. Questioning methods which he charged were being em- ployed to collect funds for po- Iitical campaign usage, John w. Davis, democratic nominee for president, called upon Kentucky voters tonight to re- member that Eff one govern ment function can be bought and paid for, you have no guaranty that other govern mental functions may not also be. bartered in the market place"
 "A well filled ammunition chest is never to be despised in politics" NIT. Davis said, "and until you know just how much there is in 1t, it is useless to speculate. But what shall we say of the methods employed, to fill it? Is there not something curiously reminis- cent about some testimony given, l think it was yesterday or the day be- fore, and certain letters that were of
 
 particular army chest?
 "AYhat is the meaning of Mir, Gfundy when he writes ko his Penu< sylvania friends, sPennsylvanians be- cause you have enjoyed much you must contribute liberally? Is there not some thing of that in the old familiar rule !: Nothing yentured, nothing have, or of a bargain struck and goods delivered.
 ''What about the letter of the Penn sylvania manufacturer asking for funds to prevent the dreadful calamity of having the existing tariff law removed from the books at this time? And that, my friends, has been the standing irdict- nent of the democracy against the sys- tenn of prohibitive tariffs written by the Ienefiearies, that they were, in the last analysis, nothing more or less than the sale of the taxation privilege to private citizens in return for political contributions? And, we have insisted in the past and it is cur proud boast to- day that the Democratic party has no favors for sale to any man.
 Cites Fall Case
 'tWhat do you think passed through the mind of Albert B. Fall, when, in exchange for personal bribes, he signed away the naval reserves of the United DLatS6s " udL OLucE tutAl bAAGO iC Wuo using his official power to enrich his friends and share with them the result of that enrichment?
 "What was it that betrayed Charles R. Forbes into his raids upon the Vete- rans' bureau? What but the same idea that government existed for men to en- rich themselves therefr0m? Once let that pernicious doctrine be accepted ave, let it be made respectable by re- spectable men in any branch of govern ment, and the very foundation of human society has been shattered to its ulti- mate stone.
 Davis warned that no ballot cast on November 4 would decide the, destiny of the country for another four years and urged voters not to neglect on that day to discharge the first and most solemn duty of an American citizen.
 Tt is in the ballots of this country and in the ballots alone" Mir. Davis said, that it's destiny resides, and if we are careless, and if it is worse, we cannot criticise those who take public office, we cannot complain in the years 10 come if 1iaster comes to visit us"
 Discussing agricultural problems, Mir. Davis said the farmers made up, to large extent, the ''bone and sinew of this country" and had too long been ignored in governmental affairs.