New Britain herald., 1924-08-20
DAWES IS READY
 FOR MAINE SPEECH
Candidate, Notified Last NiSht
 In WestbrOOk Tomorrow
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 Eysnsten, lll, Aug, go, - Having formally accepted the republican nomination for yieerpresident, Charles G, Dawes entered actively into the ,pariy's national campaign today with his departure for Maine 10 deliver an address Saturday at Augusta,
 The Augusta address is the only one listed fer Mir, Dawes on the trip un' dertsken today and he will return to his home here early next week and then proceed to Lincoln, Neha for smother speech on August %. His first stumping tour will begin coon sfterKard. d.,.,,,,,.,,,.,,...t,..s- ...,
 Formal notification of his selection ss President 'coelidge's running mate was given, Mr. Dawes last night at ceremonies held on the lawn Of his home here with an audience declared by republican leaders to have been one of the largest that ever gathered at any political meeting in the ,iein- fly of Chicago.
 Big Audience
 The big audience, extending In an almost solid mass from the Dawes home to Lake Michigan. three hun dred yards away, was composed Of the leaders of the republican party of delegations from a number of mid dlewestern cities and towns, and of the neighbors of the nominee. Speaking to this audience, and in- directly to the country's voters. MT. Dawes assailed the LaFollette inde- pendent candidacy as "a mobilization of extreme radlcalism," declared the real contest of the campaign to be between the progressive conserra- tism" of the republican party. and the "untried and dangerous radical Ism, of the LaoFllette movement" and defended the course of the Harding and Coolidge administration In for eign affairs.
 Although giving the credit to Presi- dent Coolidge and Secretary Hughes Mir. Dawes predicted that acceptance of the reparations plan worked out under his direction meant peace and prosperity for Europe, and saving of the United States from inevitable anu
 The nominee after defining the position of the republican party as one of progressive conservatism and that of the LaFolette independent candidacy as one of extreme radical ism, declared the democratic party stood In between and ''instead of re- cruiting itself from the two battle lines, will suffer only the fate which befalls those who try to straddle in a real fight"
 Response to Jcfrcris
 Mir. Dawes spoke in response to the formal notification address delivered by A. w. Jeffers, former representa- five from Nebraska, and chairman of the official notification committee, who likewise attacked the man from Wisconsin" whom he said had thrown off ''all pretense of republicanism and has run away from the home where for 40 years he has been fed and sheltered, and has finally eloped with the socialist party"
 The party leaving here today with Mir. Dawes for Maine was small, con- sisting only of the nominee, Francis J. Kilkenny, his chief assistant; Ma jor George A. Paddock of Evanston; a stenographer, and Howard M. Se- wall of Bath, Maine. who will act as host to Mfr. Dawes during his stay in the Maine capital.
 In New Haven
 Mir. Dawes will arrive in New York at $40 a. m. tomorrow and leave 20 minutes later for New Haven, Conn. Arriving there he will so by automo- bile to Wrstbrook, Conn.,, to spend a portion otsThursday and Friday with Walter H. Wilson, one of the directors of hts Chicago bank.
 Leaving Westbrook late Friday the nominee will go to Augusta by way of Brunswick and spend Saturday and Sunday in the Maine capital. Return ing, he will spend Monday forenoon In Boston arriving back in Evanston Tuesday morning.