The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-07-17
HAS THEIR VIEWPOINT
CHANGED?

CHANGED!
Prior to the meeting of the recen
Democratic National convention
former Ambassador to Great Britain
J. w. Davis, serving under the lat
President Wilson, was but littl
known outside of West Virginia ant
the financial district of New Yorl
where he had been for years promi
nently connected as legal advisor TO
the firm of j. Pierpont Mogan AM
Co.
When Mr.. Davis began to loon
large as the Democratic candidate TO
president, Senator Burton Wheeler o
Montana, William Jennings Bryan
the Peerless leader, former Unite'
States Senator J. Ham Lewis of II
linois, and Senator Dill of Washing
ton, were rather caustic in their com
ments on Mr.. Davis.
The following statement made b,
these distinguished leaders of Democ
racy prior to the nomination of Mr.
Davis will be of interest at this tim
as they expressed the real attitud
of these gentlemen towards Mr.
Davis:
Senator Burton K. Wheeler,
of Montana-"The convention
might as well nominate j. Pier
pont Morgan himself"
William Jennings Bryan
when one makes choice he is
supposed to chose the things
that go with it. One of the ac-
cessories of intimate association
with big corporations is retire
ment from politics. If J. Pier
pont Morgan were suing an av-
erage man, no court would per-
init Mr.. Davis to serve on the
jury even though he had with
drawn from his legal connec-
ton with the Morgan firm just
before the trial began. Why
should conventions subject the
masses to risk no lawyer would
permit his client to take? Mr..
Davis is fine man, but in the
employment of j. Pierpont Nor
gan. LaFollette will take more
votes from Davis than he will
from the Republicans. You are
throwing Democratic chances to
the winds in voting for Davis"
James Hamilton Lewis, form
er senator from Illinois-"If
the Democratic party dominates
a reactionary it will dry up and
fade away, it will cease to exist
and there will never be another
party of that name in this coun-
try"
Senator Dill Of Washington,
commenting on Davis, said: "A
progressive can win. A con-
sentative cannot win"
And also this from Bryan, befor,
Brother Charley was nominated a.
a peace offering, is the comedy note o:
the campaign:
"A colored preacher said to
his congregation: sBreddern, we
nave two courses openin' up be-
fore US; one leading to death
and the other. to destruction. I
think, breddern, we'll have to
take to de woods The progress
sive Democrats of the country
are in that predicament with Mr..
Davis and Mr.. Coolidge. They
will have to take to the woods"
The following from the National
Press association, is a pen picture
that will be of general interest:
In John w. Davis, the demo-
cratic party of the Old South
comes back into its own. He is
not only an aristocrat of the
aristocrats, but he looks and
lives the part. The profile is a
reminder of some fine daeuer-
reotype of the "Fifties." The
hands are beautifully nodded.
The nails long and slender, as
one whose ancestors have been
of the professional or leisured
classes. His voice has the well
restrained tone of one accus-
toned to tn society of gentle
folk; to the Courts of Europe.
To these externals may be added
an ease of manner found only
among those born to beautiful
homes and accustomed 20 the
comforts given by many we'll.
trained servants.
In England, where he repre-
sented Mr.. Wilson as Ambas-
sador, he was and is regarded as
one of their Gown sort" in the
sense of being fully trained and
at home in all that goes to make
up the British ideal of "schol-
ar and gentleman" Mr.. Davis,
while Ambassador made many
friends among royalty and ac-
cording to cable dispatches his
nomination is most pleasing to
England.
Mr.. Davis has a beautiful
country home in Locust VALLEY,
near Glen Cove, Long Island,
New York, where he has lived
for number of years. It is
one of the most imposing homes
in New York state and is situat-
ed in the heart of a region of
estates of very wealthy men.
The house is provided with all
the comforts that money can buy
and is completely equipped in :
every sense even to most ex-
tensive quarters for the many
servants.