The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-04-30

Washington, April 3O.-John w
[ DaVls Is not candidate for the
/ Democratlc presidential nomination
lie will take it if it comes his way
ana be mighty glad to get it, but
only on his own terms.
1T is one thing" he wrote to a
friend about year ago, Ito decline
nomination when rendered and a
wholly different thing to go out and
seek it, the latter of which | have no
intention Of doing"
with some, the fact that he's a
corporation lawyer may not help
him. but with others undoubtedlv i
| will.
Davis, however, isn't any Wall
Street slave. He has J. 7. Morgan &
co. on his list of clients, but let it
be remembered the first two clients
he ever had were "Mother" Jones
and Eugene V. Debs.
That was some 25 years ago. Davis.
recently graduated from Washington
and Lee University, had settled down
IN his native town of Clarksburg, w.
Va, to practice law. A mine strike
was on. Mother" Jones and Debs
turned up to help it along. They
were promptly thrown in Jail. Davis
took their cases. And he got them
out.
He has fought various legal bat
ties for labor since then. Quite late
ly he won il brilliant court engage
O1nnf fnr ha rlnc Il In ;,,1n
tional union. AS labor's attorney, he
beat an attempt to have the Adam
son law declared unconstitutional.
Former Ambassador
Still, his hackers do appear to con-
slider his corporation connections,
popularity speaking, something of
political handicap. All the publicity
in his behalf is being framed and
paid for in New York, but it's being
distributed from Clarksburg, W. Va,
just as if he were simple, rough
hewn mountaineer. AS Il mountain
eer, his eyrie is at is Broad street,
Manhattan, but Clarksburg, w. Va,
sounds better.
They do say that ex-senator Clar-
ence W. Watson, one Of West Vir-
ginia's richest mountaineers, al
though, like Davis, now living in
New York, isrpaying the bills.
1t must be admitted that Davis
doesn't class as leading candidate.
He's dark horse. But his friends
believe the leading candidates forces
will be so evenly divided that none
will get the necessary two-thirds of
the votes, and after about the tEir
tieth or fortietR ballot they re con
fident Davis will come to the front.
Davis isn't without political ex-
perience. He's served in the West
Virginia Legislature, in Congress, as
federal solicitor general and as am
bassador to England.
He was, chairman of the first West
Virginia convention to adopt a wo-
mans suffrage plank. 1t was IA
years before it's time, and the voters
showed it under overwhelmingly.
For World Court
He's member of the New York
legal firm Of Stetson, Jennings, Rus
sell & Davis. This isn't as "junior"
as it sounds, for Stetson, Jennings
and Russell are dead and Davis real
ly is head Of the firm.
Davis is just SO. He's tall and dig
nified, with smooth face and nearly
white hair. He doesn't exactly look
like Woodrow Wilson but some say
if he wore glasses he'd suggest the
latter. He's widely travelled, deeply
read, wonderfully, we'll informed. 4
Here's, his personal platform for
the United States:
1. Elimination of hang over, lame
duck administrations.
2. Ratification of treaties. by both
houses of Congress, instead sof the
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