Evening star., 1924-09-14
DAVIS TURNS FIRE
ON INDEPENDENTS
Confidence Increasing, Series
of Attacks on La Toilette
in West Reveals
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TOPEKA, Kans., September 10
With an apparently mounting conf
Lence, John w. Davis carried his
fight for the presidency across the
western plains today, through Ne
braska and Kansas. in series Of
addresses beginning before break
fast at kearney, Nebr., in driving
capital of the Sunfiower State.
When the Democratic standard
bearer began his drive through this
territory a week ago he was content
to make his promises on the basis
of "if'' or should" he become Presi-
dent, but today he told his auditors
tive next March he would use every
endeavor of heart and mind to fur
nish government of honesty, Of
courage, of justice.
There also was another change of
tactics by Mr.. Davis. Heretofore he
had confined his assault wholly to
the record of the administration of
government by the Republican party,
but now he is naming the independ
ent party and appealing to the inde-
pendent voters desiring a govern
ment of progress" to vote the Demo-
cratic ticket, because. as he put it,
no one could contend that the pro-
gressive party could hope to capture
the presidency and majority of the
two houses of Congress.
Asxails In Toilette.
Moreover. in his talk at Grand Is
land. Nebr., where he was joined by
and introduced by his running mate,
Gov. Charles w. Bryan, Mr.. Davis
vigorously assailed the proposal of
Senator La Toilette, the Independ-
ent party's standard bearer, that Con-
gress and the Legislatures of the sew
eral States be given the power Of
veto over the Supreme Court on the
question of constitutionality of legfs-
lative acts. -
Declaring that h<had caught. as
he had gone up and down the west
freedom and independence that blows
across them, Mr.. Davis said he re-
alized- that no matter what might
happen elsewhere, never from the
people of this section shall one
fraction Of their liberties be filched."
Defining those liberties as freedom
of speech, freedom of the press, freedom
of assembly. trial by jury. the right
of religious worship according to the
search and seizure and freedom from
conviction by bill of attainder at the
hands Of any legislature, sthe Democratic
presidential candidate declared they
never should be surrendered. Shall
we surrender them at the will of a
majority of the >people?" he asked.
Not so long as ono individual re-
mains to claim them.
shall we surrender them at the
demand of any legislature, or a ma
jority of the legislators? Never!
"Shall we surrender them at the
demand of a majority of Congress?
Never"
Sees Protection in Courts.
Mr.. Davis said that If the Amer
lean people were not disposed to sur
render these liberties, their guaran-
tee and their protection for their
preservation were the courts.
THAT Is the American theory" he
declared And so long as that
power remains in an impartial court,
so long our liberties are safe. And
whenever the power Is taken from
the court and vested in a mere ma
iority. some day gust of passion
will rise and sweep US from the pos
session of the things we hold most
dear"
In his last rear platform speech
of the day at Onaga, Kans., Mr.. Davis
made an appeal against the voters
permitting their parties to become
their masters instead of their SER
wants.
"No free-born American CITIZEN"
Mr.. Davis said, Ought to say to him
self, my party, right or wrong, but,
nevertheless, my party.
My party when it is right, and
some other party when 1t is wrong.
That is the motto that Americans
ought to follow"
!. I'm several of his addresses, par
ticularly here in Kansas, Mr.. Davis
put forward a new definition of the
difference between his own and the
Republican parties. He said there
always had been in this country two
ideas about government.
There is the idea" he said, "of
those who think in the language OF
Alexander Hamilton, that govern
ment is the province of the rich and
the we'll born and the able. and that
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