The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-22
DAVIS SURE OF VICTORY AFTER TRIP Middle West Ready For
 New Regime He Says
 FINDS UNITED PARTY ON 5,OOO-MILE TOUR State Groups Found To Be Working In Per
 feet Harmony FOREIGN AFFAIRS WIDELY DISCUSSED Campaign Was Shaped To Meet Conditions, Says Democratic
 Leader
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
 WIDELY DISCUSSED
(Leased Wire to Age.Herald)

NEW YORK, Sept. 21.-- "After having travelled 5000 miles in my initial campaign trip, I return with the convic- ton that all signs, point to a sweeping democratic victory in the coming election.
 With this confident declara-. tion John w. Davis, demo- cratic candidate for the presi- dency, greeted New York when he arrived here Sunday night from his western tour At the Grand Central station, where he was met by a delega- tion headed by Thomas j.. Spellacy and including friends and neighbors from Locust Valley, Davis issued state Inent damned with optimisslas and tense with campaign fire.
 He attacked the administration for inefficiency, corruption, and an atti- tude of negation,. and reported that he had found the midwest keenly alive to international affairs and disappointed in the administration foreign policy. Davis is proceeding to his country es- tate at Locust Valley, where he will rest several days before taking up his eastern campaign.
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 "In the states visited on this trip, which included West Virginia, Indiana. Illinois, Wyoming, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas and Missouri, found the Democratic party intact and un- divided" Davis statement declares. "It's members are working together with an absolute unity of purpose and with an interest which have never seen surpassed in any campaign"
 Davis pointed out that in his tour he had had an opportunity to study the situation at first hand, and then proceeded to carry the attack into the republican camp.
 Everywhere that have been have heard but one story, the statement said. Tt has come to me from men regardless of previous party affiliations. It is one of dissatisfaction with the service rendered, or rather with the service denied, by the government dur ing the last three and a half years Ths feeling of unrest premeates every strata of society.
 ''The farmer resents the deception that was attempted by the Republican party in placing an utterly ineffective tariff duty on his products--the labor ing man is no longer deceived by the cry of republican prosperity and feels keenly the rising cost of living--the exposures of corruption in Washing ton made far deeper impression on the public mind and the morals of the country than the leaders of the Repub- lican party are willing to admit They have not been forgotten and will not be forgotten"
 Davis stressed the interest of the people of the middle west in the for eign policy of the United States.
 Interested In Europe ''The people are deeply interested in K the foreign policy of the govrnmnt and A entirely out of sympathy with the timid \ and evaisive course which. the present R administration has pursued" he said.  tenance of foreign market is neces- sary to their continued prosperity, and have lively sense of America's moral ' obligation to contribute toward a permanent world peace"
 He declared that the Hack of lead ' ership and coherence which the Repub- E lican party has exhibited has made a deep impression" and further rapped [ the administration in saying that in the middle west people were 'resentful x that our navy has been permitted to fall in strength in comparison with other powers.
 "I return to the east confident of success. Privilege has won it's last battle" the statement concluded. The first interruption of Davis Sunday rest was at Utica, where a cheering crowd drew him to the rear platform of the car.
 ''We are going to nominate Al Smith for governor next week." one of the crowd told him.
 |I That sounds good to me-" said lE Davis, and we are going to elect him. '