The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-02
EVASION OF ISSUES
 ROUNDLY SCORED
Country To Demand That All In Power Be
 Honest
CAUSE IS HOPELESS
 FOR THIRD PARTY
But Call Of Reds Not Half So Dangerous As Corrupted
 Government, He Says
tRy Associated Press. ]

NEW YORK, Nov. 1.-Can- didate John w. Davis summed up his case tonight and virtual ly rested his campaign for the presidency with the jury of American voters. His final appearance before a public audience was made in Carnegie Hall here and, except for the radio address to be delivered Monday night, he brought his personal campaign to a close.
 "An apeal to reason and conscience rather than to. prejudice" was the theme of MT. Davis last formal presen- tation of the Democratic claim to favor at the hands of the American populace.
 And, on that plane, he chose to await the verdict to be re- turned by the jury November 4, the result of which will re- turn him again to private life or give him the reins of gov ernment for four years, begin ming March 4, next.
 Summing up his arguments in be half of the democratic national ticket, he told his audience the decision before the country could not be left to impulse but should be arrived at 'soberly, re- verently and in the fear of God"
 No Trivial Decisions
 "We are here tonight" he said in his opening remarks, ''On serious busi- ness. We have reached the end of the campaign; and on Tuesday next the people of New York will choose those who are to serve them for the next two years, and the citizens of the United States will mark out the course they are to follow for a four-year term. In the lives of great states and great na- tions there are no trival decisions.
 "A single individual who has acted in haste may easily retrace his steps, but decisions which affect the destiny of millions of men and women cannot De left to impulse. It behooves us all, therefore, in this closing hour to think of the duty that lies ahead and to cast our ballots with solemn sense of our responsibility to ourselves and to posterity.
 eve owe it to ourselves and to
 those who shall come after us to .
 make sure that we are guided by
 no spirit of blind partisianship or
 political rancOr, but that we act, as
 the prayer book has it, sOberly,
 reverentIy and in the fear of God"
 In the same tone of seriousness. the candidate turned to the political situa- tion in New York state, declaring the re- suit there was not ill doubt.
 Unless we are prepared to exchange experience for inexperience, mature and proven capacity for untried youth, and record of achievement for wordy promises" he said, there will be no change in the executive offices of this state.
 Regarding the national campaign. Mir. Davis said he had tried as the nom- inee of the Democratic party for the last three months to "direct the public mind to the questions which should de eide this election"
 T have sought to appeal to reason and conscience" he added, "rather than to prejudice. Claiming for myself no virtue which 1 do not freely concede to my opponents. I have endeavored ;o avoid mere personalities. and have neither assailed the character of any man for the sake of political advantage nor magnified his shortcomings in order to arouse partisan zeal
 Mir. Davis, however. criticized tl!e conduct of those responsible for the management of the republican cam paign charging they had diverted atten. ton from the real issues.
 "Yet, never perhaps in any cam
 paign." he said, "haS the fine art of
 diverting attention from the real to
 the ureal been more earnestly at. y,
 tempted than it has in this by our
 republican friends.
 "When we talk of corruption in pub. lie office they point to the existence of
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