Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-08-28
CANDIDATE Is GIVEN
A ROUSlNG OVATION
IN OHIO METROPOLIS
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we agreed with four powers only TO
discuss the problems of the Pacific.
"And that sublime action, my
all partial action Of any sort. There
can be no settlement in this world
of the question of armament and dis
armament unless all of the nations
Of the world participate in that set
Element, that anything short Of that
is but a temporary eXpedient and
pretense. And then the last thing
in this roster of foreign achievements
is the Dawes report. In the speech
to which L am addressing myself
that is called General Dawes report
So far as l know that is the only
individual, not excepting the gen
eral himself, who has ever claimed
that he is the sole author of that
project. We are told that that is
great achievement Of this admins
tration.
Coolidge Played Safe 4
MAY 1 read you what the admin
istration said on that subject on
the 18th day of January, LASTS
cit was stated emphatically at
the White House following yester-
days cabinet meeting, that the
Dawes mission is not to be viewed
as the first step of an American
policy to participate directly in the
solution of Europe's problems.
There can be no such policy under
the Coolidge administration, it was
explained. In other words. the Unit
ed States government is neither di-
ractIy nor indirectly responsible for
anything that General Dawes says
or does, according to the White
House.
81 wonder il that still remains?
81 go now to the question of fl
nances; and I read in the speech
to which 1 am referring this state
ment to which I ask your attention:
Takes Fling at Weeks
""The finances of this nation have
been managed with a genius and
success unmatched since the days
of Hamilton
mot 'equalled,' not unsurpassed
but unmatched since the days OF
Alexander Hamilton.
81 think the modest gentleman
who now presides over the treasury
department might well pray to be
delivered from his friends. There
have been some rather full-groWn
men in the United States treasury
/ when YOU come to think about 1T.
After namlug a number OF former
secretaries Of he treasury Mr.. Davis
said that if the time ever came When
the historian searches the pages oil
American histry for a secretary OIL
the treasury to stand alongside
Alexander Hamilton, our first secre-
tary, he will run over the list untll
he finds this name, and then write
tine name of William G. McAdoo.
Goes Over Treasury Record
What has this unmatched admin
istration of the treasury done that
it should loom so great?
1--WE are told, in the first place,
that expenditures have been cut from
five billions and a half in 1921 TAT
the end of the fiscal year being July
/ of that year, to roughly three and
one half billions in July of 1924.
"Why the comparison? Why not
y
when we spent nearly 20 billions of
| d1llars and say that since that year
| expenses have gone down to three
and one half millions? And why not
| tell the country that in 1921 thanks
| to the partisan obstinacy of the
| United States senate and Of his po-
litical opponents therein, Woodrow
| Wilson was compelled to leave Of
flee with his country still in a state
of war
| Turning to that portion Of Presi-
/ dent Coolidge's address relating to
the scandals disclosed by senate in
vestigations, Mr.. Davis said:
Then we are told in quasi
apologize tone that individuals
charged with wrong doing are being
prosecuted; that it is not possible for
any government entirely to prevent
wrong doing; but wherever there
have been suspicious of guilt I have
caused them to be investigated and
/ presentation made to the grand
jury
Goes Back to Roosevelt
"Now, my friends, that is not the
! tone that, has always emanated from
occupants of the presidential chair.
L remember a president OF the
United States who sat there, four
| teen years ago, or more, who ad-
/ dressed himself to this identical sub
! ject, and he said No man would
ever raise against him or his admin
! istration the cry Of turn the rascals
out because he conceived it to be
! his business to detect and turn them
out himself; and the president whom
/ am quoting was none other than
| Theodore Roosevelt.
II make no charge against the
honesty and integrity Of the present
occupant of the White House.
think no man truthfully can. I do
not allege TO "a moment that it is
not his purpose to carry forward the
legal processes that have been put
in motion and punish the offenders
who have been pointed out to him
but am somewhat surprised to find
| credit for the investigation that dis
closed those offenders claimed by
the White House. For, as L read
American history, those disclosures
came from faithful servants in the
legislative and not in the executive
| branch Of the government"
And, then last of all, we are told
that the things for which the Ameri
can people are longing and yearning
that the things which above all
! others they desire, and the things
which they are going to struggle to-
is a government of common sense
| Now, L shall not go back over the
history of the last three and one.
| half years, in order to define that
| term. Those who are familiar with
the history of the last three years
and a half can reach the definition
of that term as well as +
Democrats Offer Justice
Now what have the Democrats
to offer? We want, my friends, to
offer the American people, first of