The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-10-17
.HECKLER TOLD
TO PUT QUERY
TO RIGHT MAN
Democratic Nominee Be-
gins TwO-Day Drive
In Chicago
SEES|G. o. p. RANKS
SPLIT IN TWAIN
CoOlidge's Strength Is
Slapped By Independ-
ents, He Declares
(Bv Associated Press)

CHICAGO, Oct. 16.-John
w. Davis brought his cam
paign back to Chicago tonight
for a series of whirlwind
meetings, which leaders of his
party hope will have the effect
of consolidating the demo-
cratic ranks in Cook county.
The democratic presidential
opened q two days
stay with an address tonight
at the Auditorium theater,
where facing an audience OF
several thousand, he laid re-
newed stress upon what ne
characterized as the necessity
for good government from
the ground up"
After resting tomorrow and comforting
with Marty leaders, as he did after his
arrival here late today from Quincy and
Aurora. Mr.. Davis will carry his fight
tomorrow night into the foreign res
idential sections of the city. He has
three addresses scheduled, one at the
Polish Union hall and the others IN
the Jewish and Bohemian quarters.
A Solemn Business
In his speech tonight, Mr.. Davis told
his audience that it was a solemn bust
ness that calls us together here TO-
nighs. 4.
He said the ouadrennial decisions the
people were called upon to make were
always fraught with serious respon-
sibility and consequence.
He reviewed the political situations
which Abraham Lincoln and Woodrow
Wilson faced during the Civil and
World wars and asked who would have
thought I when these two presidents
were elected that decisions Of world
wide and national Importance would
be made by them.
At this point a man yelled from the
rear of the audience:
''Mr. Davis, what is your stand on
the Ku Klux Klan?
'T win answer the gentleman's
questions" Mr.. Davis replied, amid
cries of "sit down, sit down."
eff the gentleman had been a con-
sistent reader of the daily press, he
could not have overlooked the fact that
in the first speech I made in the cam
paign l answered that question. L
then said that any organization,
whether it was called the khan or by
any other name. which divided the peo-
ple along racial lines, did violence to
the constitution.
But the gentleman must per-
nit me to add something more.
At that same time l veDtured to
express the hope that the nominee
of the republican party would join
me in a similar expression. L sug-
gest that the gentleman's question
is addressed to the wrong quar-
ter"
II hope that 1 have answered the
'gentleman's question:
Reviewing the dissension in the re-
publican ranks and referring specifically
to the bolt of Senator BrOOkhart In
Iowa, Mr.. Davia said that if anybody |
was going to be cut to pieces in the
west, at does not look to me that it
will be the democratic party"
The real antagonist Of the re-
publican party, MIR. Davis con-
TIC OSACE HNAA Va
the independent party"
81 think of one great state in the
west" he said, "where a candidate for
reelection to the Senate has come out
and openly denounced the nominee for
president and vice president on the
ticket ON which he is running. He is
Senator Brookhart of Iowa.
81 think of state where two re- |
publican senator's have declared their
intention not to support the republican
nominee. That is North Dakota.
II think of the state of Nebraska,
where the republican nominee for the
senate has announced his intention to |
vote for Senator La Toilette, his follow
ers to exercise their own Judgment and |
let their consciences be their guides.
Points To Kansas.
81 look at the state of Kansas, and
find two gentlemen claiming to be
members of the same political party |
running against each other for the office
of governor, while another political
party put up it's candidates as the third
members of the triangle. And the two
who are running against each ather
under the rame party name are not |
democrats; they happen to he republic
cans.
II remember that in the state OF
Colorado the republican national com
mitteeman has announced his deliberate
intentions not to support hiS party !
nominee for the office of governor and |
the other state offices-in which he has
been joined by the chairman of the
republican state committee
"And I look clear across to the Pa
cifie and I hold my hand TO my ear and |
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