The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-13
CHAIRMAN SETS PACE FOR DRIVE Davis Pictured As Ideal Man To Lead The
 Fight LEADERS GET BACK TO COMMON GROUND LaFOllette Plans To Gen. ter Efforts On Ma
 tiOnal Issues ----------------- TO AVOID MISTAKE
 OF BULL MOOSE Community Squabbles To Be. Avoided By Inde-
 pendent Forces ].
TO AVOID MISTAKE
 OF BULL MOOSE
Bs RAYMOND CHAPTER,

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 WASHINGTON, July i2.--T two Opposition" political groups, the democrats and the Lar oaiette 0and, today began the opening of their offensives against the party ir power, the republican administra- ton of President Coolidge.
 Tn each case the move was aimed directly at undermining the repilb- iican strength and now, for the first time since the end of the nae tional conventions, the repubh bhcAns know from the official acts of their opponents what kind of q fight they must face this fall.
 Cordeaf Hull, chairnAan of the democratic national coEinAittee, ia- sued an affieial statement sound is r.ias demOckasic issue honest xo28Rnna0nt and denuneiation Of aiIased corruption in the enes.ag Ramp. $
 oa Natlonai Issues
 The executive cgHnmittee of the pro grsssises in preparing the battle platle for LaFolletfe, made known the de- eision to concentrate everything on na9 tional Issues, to fieht for the eleetion s-of d president and vice president, and to discourage Independent, third party candidates for state and national of. fees.
 The democratic move, as embodied in Hulf'e statement, carried out the cor. rnption theme sounded in Senator Pat Harrisol's keynote speech before the convention and incorporated in the platform.
 Hull raised the issue anew when he described John W. Davis, the democrat ic presidential nominee, as prominent ly the man to lead the fight against, the wholesale corruption and public immortality existing at Washington during the Harding Coolidge adminis- tration."
 Tt would be idle and futile,v Hull continued, ito consider any other ques- tions or principles without first es- tabiishink the government upon the bed rocks of sound public morals and off cial honesty"
 In praising Davis qualities, Hull de- eIared that ''cleafi, efficient and liberal government for the people of the United States will be guaranteed by the cleo tion of John W. Davis and Charles w.. Bryan.
 Lose No Time
 This means that the democratic strategists are losing noftime in bury ing the dissension that threatened to split their convention and are getting back to the issue on which they all agree ---conde demnation of the republicans for the oil scandals.
 Wise democratic leaders recognized long before the conventions that Sen ator Thomas. J. Walsh and his Senate investiRation had given the party oriA of the best campaign weapons it had in years. But it appeared the party had thrown this weapon aside, forgetting the common cause in the pickering over internal differences. Now the na- tionaI chairman is seen in an effort to get the democrats back on the ground, hack on what is considered the best common fighting cry that can be used against the enemy. That IS the signi- ficafce of HuI1's move and his renewed emphasis on republican ccrruptions.
 That represents the whole tone of HnlPs coninunique, stressing as 1t does the ..reactionary leadership" in Wash ington and charging that the adminis- tration has done nothing ''to remedy the conditions complained of." And shain when Hull concludes with the v;ew that '1the ticket of Davis and Bry- an will appeal strongly to the intellee. tuaf honesty of every lover of good government"
 s"Intellecutal honesty-good govern uent." The democrats are getting back to the effective campaign phrases with which they began their convection, but
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