The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-25
POSITIVE CLAIM |OF NOV. 4VICTORY
 ISSUED BY DAVIS
Voters Not To Excuse
 Corruption, Is Declara- ation Of Nominee
(Rv Associated Press)

NEW YORK, Oct. 24-The flat statement that the democratic party will win the presidential election was made tonight by John w.. Davis, demo- cratic nominee for president, upon his return here from a final campaign tour of middlewestern states.
 MT, Davis, in a formal statement, declared that personal contact with the voters had demonstrated that they will not excuse the corruption and mal- administration that has prevailed at | Washington during the recent years ot republican misrule."
 It also was positively asserted that, in addition to the victory he claimed for the national ticket, the democrats twill control congress, thus insurlng putting into effect our promised re- forms just as soon as legislation to that end can be framed and passed" Among the reforms" promised by Mir. Davis are revisions of the tariff !; reduced taxes, international co-opera- tion improved inland waterways and farm legislation.
 Says Victory Certain
 Efforts of his political opponents to bolster up their cause by suggest ing danger of the election going into the house, Mir. Davis said, had been investigated with the result that "more than the necessary 260 votes to elect me president already are assured" That announcement was supported, he de- clared, by the drift in the west and the central west"
 'The democratic party will win the presidential election" the statement said. "I am convinced of this: make my claim only after a very careful in- vestigation into the situation---a first hand inquiry which has taken me more than 12,OOO miles. My opinion is not based on what politicians have told me. It comes from direct contact with the individual voters themselves.
 When I first started out to carry to the voters of the country the mes sage of the democratic party, the cam. paign was in it's infancy. Even then | there were indications that the people were deeply interested. That interest has increased from day to day until at the present moment the coming cleo tion a week from next Tuesday is the chief subject of discussion everywhere. Won't Excuse Corruption "When I make the statement that the democrats will carry the election and will elect their national ticket and congress to uphold the new adminis- tration, I do so because of my knowl- edge of the exact conditions that pre- vail in this country. Personal contact with the voters has demonstrated that they will not excuse the corruption and l maladministration tha has prevailed at Washington during the recent years of republican misrule.
 "The people are making ready to order a change. This is indicated prob ably more than anywhere else in the great increased registration reported from one end of the country to the other. It does not take any great | familiarity with political affairs to understand that such heavy increases bode i'll to the party in power. When the voters are satisfied it is very hard task to get them to take an in terest in politics. They see little reason for a change, and defy the efforts of I the party workers to persuade them to qualify to discharge their duties at the polls.
 ''This year, however, we find reported an increased registration that has as- tonished the wisest of politicians. It is not confined to any particular sec tion. Everywhere the story is the same, the men and women of the country have registered to do their part in ordering a change in conditions. | Same Story Everywhere
 ''This latest trip has taken me into the great central west and some of the border states. Everywhere the story has been the same. The meetings which have addressed have been the largest ever had in the particular localities visited. The audiences have been en- enthusiastically friendly. They have listen- ed intently to the exposition of the real issues of this campaign with a sincerity that indicated how deeply they have been impressed with them.
 'They have shown that they resent the efforts of the speakers for the re- publican party to evade the real issues and to erect straw men to knock down. i In community after community l have assured that this is a democratic year and that on the fourth day of November next the people of the United States are certain to declare for a change in the conduct of their affairs and are going to summon again to the public service the true and tried democracy of the United States"