The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-28
SCORES SILENCE OF PRESIDENT ON CORRUPTION Topics Discussed By Re
 publicans Are
 Enumerated EMPHASIZES DUTY.
 OF EVERY VOTER Recalls Woodrow Wilson's Record To Jersey City
 Audience
(By Associated Press)

(By Associated ffeSSD
 JERSEY CITY, N. J., Oct. 27.-Speaking late tonight in the crowded Fourth regiment armory, John w. Davis, demo- cratic candidate for President, informed his audience that he had been unable to get any re- ply from the White House re- garding President Coolidge's attitude on the Ku Klux Klan question.
 "No reply has been made to me-" MT. Davis said in answer to a question asked from the floor. '"If the gentleman has been fortunate enough to re- ceive it from any other quarter he has more information than T. That is one of the taboo topics in Washington, but there are some other topics about which the American people ought to have some in- formation, and the first of these is where the republican nominee stands on the great question of corruption in gov sernnaent z 7. Mr. Davis said there were some top les, however, regarding which i've are perfectly sure of the attitude of the Republican party through its accredited spokesmen." He enumerated these as follows: The supreme court, Mir. Roose- welt, Irrigation, Electric railways, the ZR-3, Christopher Columbus, Forget Me-Not Day, Hampden, Institute, Henry Ford, Sam Larazus, Charles Nagle, the regulation of the radio, Navy Day, the Amerivan Revolution, the Jewish New Year, parking spaces and the Smoki Indians.
 "My friends" said MT. Davis,
 I've are in the last week of the
 campaign. The time has unques-
 tiOnabIy come when the American
 people must consider in sober
 earnestnesS the duty that lies before
 them. We have told them that
 there was no Cl3cape this year from
 8 verdict on the part of the indi-
 ViduaI voters of approval or dis
 approval of the record of his pub
 lie servants; that he could not, no
 matter how he might salve his con-
 science, escape the expression of an
 opinion which would be cast either
 for on against honesty in govern
 ment and fidelity in high places"
 The candidate asked the people of New Jersey to remember with pride ''the great American who became the incarnate voice of all the allied nations and whose work of freedom and of self determination run around the world, awakening nations from their sleep"
 Volunteer Army
 My message tonight to the democrats of New Jersey" Mir. Davis continued, "is not merely a message of confidence and hope, but it is a message of admon- ition. We are a volunteer army. l would not exchange our character in that respect, for any army that ever marched under the banners of privilege, paid either at the time it left it's camp or expecting loot before it returned to it in the evening.
  committee we know little some thing about the relative sizes of cam paign funds in this year and thanks to the unexpected activities of the internal revenue bureau, we know something about incomes taxes, also.
 "We have no sources on which we can draw for vast financial supplies. We have nothing to sell. Unless we are ready to give our time, our strength, energy and devotion for the sake of the great duties of citizenship which weigh upon us, we have no right to hope for better things in this country. We fall far short of that noblest of all titles, the title of Americans. My sincere hope is that every democrat, to the linn it of his time and capacity, will put shoulder to the wheel this year and march ahead, confident of the victory which is his if he will but reach out to grasp it.
 Reads Letter
 T have in any pocket now a letter sent out by our republican friends for the purpose of raising funds. l never read anything more typical in all my life than that letter of the view which the forces of privilege take of govern ment and of it's functions. Listen to this:
 "The prosperity of your own
 business is the most important
 thing you can vote for"
 'I don't sheer at prosperity. know what it means to the individual citizen. l believe it proper function of govern ment so to plan it's policies as we demo- crats always have done, and always win do, and to promote the prosperity of the people of the United States. But when you tell me that there is nothing higher than that ask myself where those great ideals are that have made this country what it is"