Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1924-08-22
Davis Says Coolidge
Fails To Meet issue
OF Official Corruption
Davis Refers to Oil, Veterans
Bureau and Prohibition in
His Jersey Address

ing Is the text OF t--e ADDRESS OF
John w. Davis, Democratic Presi-
Dental nominee, delivered at a mass
meeting here today of New Jersey
Democrats:
"This is my second appearance at
Sea Girt. You will not be surprised
il I find my memory turning at this
time to the circumstances of my
earlier visit. 1t happened on hot
July day, twelve years ago. l was
one of a party of two hundred or
more who tramped in the dust
from the station to the governors
house at Sea Girt. At our head
marched that grand old Roman,
Champ Clark, then the Speaker of
the House of Representatives.
Among the party 1 recall Jersey
man who was then Iny colleague in
Congress and who was soon to take
a seat in the Senate-the loved and
lovable Billy Hughes. We were
calling on a governor of New Jersey
who had just received the Democra-
tic nomination for the Presidency.
Most of that company, including
myself. had never made his person.
al acquaintance. 1t was our errand
to assure him of our hearty support
and to place ourselves at his SER
vice. The impressions of the day
were summed up for me by one
of my colleagues as we tramped
back to the waiting train. Said he,
"When that man comes to Wash
| ington there will be a leader in the
| White House.
'I recall how quickly this leader.
ship asserted itself when Washing.
| ton had been attained. Congress
met without delay and the first act
In the drama was the scourgine
from the capitol of the hords OF
lobbyists, hangers-on, seekers for
privilege and representatives of
special interests who had infested
It's corridors. Then came In quick
succession under his energetic i'm
pulse the fairest tariff law since the
Civil War; the Federal Reserve Act
for which the country had waited
half a century; the Federal Trade
Commission and tho Clayton Act,
curbing monopolies and establish
ing the rights of labor; and through
this and succeeding sessions the
Democratic party under his guild
ance moved in solid phalanx. con-
fident in his leadership.
THE great war broke. There fell
upon him burdens heavier than any
that his predecessors had been called
upon to bear. For two years he
struggled to keep American from
the maelstrom, and then when the
attack upon her rights was made
directly he threw himself and his
country into the battle with fiery
energy that amazed the world. Men
and money and munitions came at
his call and his clear voice rang out
like trumpet across the world
giving new meaning to the struggle
and new life to those engaged in 1t
When the war was NEEDED he gave
to the making of the peace the last
ounce of his remaining strength. He
endeavored to set up machinery not
only to prevent future wars but to
mitigate the evils which this war
the last and greatest, had brought
upon the world. He never looked
upon the Treaty of Versailles as q
complete and final settlement but
hoped that when time had cooled
mems passions the machinery he
sought to create would remove any
element of injustice or revenge the
| treaty might contain, and would
give the world a stable and abiding
peace. And then he fell, broken
thwarted. his work unfinished, but
his spirit unsubdued. They called
him an idealist, they pronounced
| him ahead of his times. They for.
| got that they were but echoing what
| the world has said through all the
| centuries OF those who sought tt
| lead It. Envy and hate and malice
| can touch him no more forever, bu
| the thoughts to which he gave ut
terance and the ideals he proclaimet et
will live long after those who op
| posed them have passed and beer
| forgotten.
1--WE stand at the threshold of an
! other President campaign and tn,
| American people are called on onc'
more to decided whether they vii
! leave their destinies in charge o.
| those who are ow in power or giv'
them over into other hands. Dt
! they want a change or do they not
That is the question upon which al
| popular elections turn. Under
parliamentary system like tina
which obtains in Great Britain or II
France, the government of theN day
| put to the House of Commons ol
| the Chamber of Deputies the ques
/ tion of confidence or no confidence
We do the same thing, except thai
with the question is put to the peo'
pie as a whole. Republicans mus
not be panied or surprised, there
! fore, IL we ask them to give account
of what they have done or left un'
done. They must not blame us Il
we jog the public memory concern
ing things that might otherwise be
| forgotten.
ITO all such complaints we car
but reply in the language of the
Scriptures, Beware ye of the leaver
of the Pharisees which is hypocrisy
But there is nothing covered VI
that shall not be revealed. nothise
hid, that shall not be known. There
fore whatever ye have spoken II
darkness shall be heard In the light
and that which We have spoken In
the ear in closets shall be pro
claimed upon the housetops.'
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