The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-20
SAYS COOLIDGE. HELPED FOLLOWER
 FEDERAL TAXES.
Dawes Delivers Speech Accepting Vice-Pres-
 idential Nomination

EVANSTON, H.. Aug. 19.-The acceptance speech of General Dawes follows:
 MT. Chairman of the committee la dies and gentlemen
 I accept the nomination of the re- publican party for the office of vice president, of which you now formally notify me.
 The formal notification of the candi- dates of the political parties has es- tablished the custom of discussion by them of the issues of the campaign.
 This campaign is a campaign of domestic issues. and in the campaign l shall try to discuss them fully, but I cannot cover them all in one speech and say what want to say. Political issues in the United States have be- come too serious to trifle with, and its citizens realize it. The discussion of facts and truth is demanded, and that takes time. This is a campaign of brass-tacks-not bombast.
 This administration has reduced the cost of governmental operation and it was not an accident. It did thiS by firmly assuming executive control of the business organization of govern ment and by hard wOrk-not by oratory. As a result, under our next tax law, approximately six million dol lars per day less, for national purposes, will be collected in 1925 from the tax payers, than for the fiscal year of 1921, and our public debt has been reduced during the budget years, under this administration, in the sum of $2,722,- 396, ,331. .49. In 1921, the last pre- budget year, of the cost of government collected in national, state, and munl- cipal taxes, after debt payments, our federal expenditures were 59 per cent and those of the states, cities and towns, fl per cent, but in 1925 the red eral government took only 2S per cent of the taxes, and per cent was spent by the states, cities and towns.
 In Right Direction
 These figures indicate that in the matter of economy and tax reduction, the federal government is headed Tn the right direction, and most ot the states, cities, and towns of our country in the wrong direction. The administration, in lowering the enormous amount of federal taxation, has lessened the drain from the pockets of the people and from the capital ac- lively employed in productive industry.
 President Coolidge, with fear
 less common sense and full lmOwl-
 edge of the facts and circum-
 stances surrounding important de.
 eisiOns, endeavOrs to do the right
 and wise thing in the interest or
 the nation, uninfluenced by mcglveS
 of political expediency. He cour'
 ageOusIy recommended the rec0g-
 nitiOn of right principles in the
 fax reduction bill, indifferent to
 the def1agOgues who represent to
 the minimizing that those who Iightened the burden on their backs
 sought to betray them in the
 method 0f unloading. But StAtes-
 msnship, braving temporary 'cTfei-
 cjsm and misrepresentatiOn of right
 nnrnOse. is always decorated with
 the eventual vindicatiOn which
 comes with full understanding on
 the part of the public.
 This subject of public economy, the subject of relief from taxation, and of mn adeouate tariff for the protec- tion of our national prosperity, will discuss upon other occasions. The nom nartisan and economic agricultural question is a national question of such vital importance and so affecting na- tional welfare, that it demands fuller consideration than is here possible. shall discuss it in my speech at Lin- coin, Neb., on August 29.
 I will therefore cover, however short ly, in this speech of acceptance, only three issues One which l deem of the utmost importance, and two others The League of Nations and the world court.
 An Important Question
 It is in the heart and conscience of our people that great issues are de- tended, and politicians align on them, but have little to do with selecting them. A formidable attack has been launched on the fundamental principles of our constitution, and elemental things like this must be fought out.
 Our party-the republican
 party, the party of progressive con
 serVatiOn, under the leadership of
 President Coolidge, has taken it's
 stand firmly upon the Constitution
 of the United States and all know
 where it stands. Opposed to it,
 and in reality its chief opponent,
 though the result of the effort may
 be to deadlock the contest for the presidency and make Bryanism
 succeed the Coolidge policy, is
 movement of untried and danger
 Ous radicalism. With platform
 drawn by one man, designed to
 soften as much as possible the ap-
 prehensiOns as to what the move
 n1ent really means, an attempt is
 made to induce those who are
 patriOtic at heart but discOncerted
 with existing conditions, to join
 with the socialists and other di-
 verse clements opposing the existing
 order of things, in a mobilization
 of extreme readicaliSm. A man IS known by the company he keeps.
 In the words of the Associated Press of July z, "The National Convention of the Socialist Party of America for mally-en enrolled under the LaFollette presidential banner" What is this ban ner which confronts the flag of the United States, upheld by President Coolidge and his platform? In answer, I quote from the same dispatch of the Associated Press, from a telegram sent by Eugene V. Debs, reading Tn part "I think it wise for our party to make no nominations under the circum- stances, but at the same time to hold the Socialist party intact, adhere rigid ly to it's principles and keep the red flag flying" Says the Associated Press further: "The Debs sentiment echoed the opinions expressed in the debate by such party leaders as Morris Hillquit of New York, Representative Victor Berger of Wisconsin, and Mayor Daniel Hoan of Milwaukee" Here is the battle alignment and here are the flags.
 Democrats In Between
 Lying between these two armies of progressive conservatism and of radi- calism, which are properly aligned upon this issue in the minds and consciences