The Winslow mail., 1924-10-31

Do you know the record OF John
w. Davis in congress? He was elect
ed to congress in 1910. He immedi
ately lent his great energy and abil-
ity to the following humane legisla-
ton:
The Adamson eight-hour day bill.
! subsequently enacted).
The workmen's compensation act.
| The parcel post act.
Increased pay for railway mail
clerks
The establishment of the children's
/ bureau.
| The income tax amendment.
| The amendment for the election Of
senators by direct vote of the people.
1t was he who aided in formulat-
ing the provision in the Clayton anti
trust law declaring that labor was not
a commodity, but human.
| 1t was Davis whose ability urged
the provision that labor and farm or
CARNATIONS should never be consider
ed as trusts.
It was John w. Davis who, in the
i house, fought the abuse of federal in
functions.
No one will deny this. The Con-
gressional Record proves it.
| His ability as lawyer first at
tracted the attention of President Will
son when he acted as prosecutor of
Judge Archibald of the United States
I commerce court, in impeachment pro-
ceedings in the house of representa-
tives where Judge Archibald was
charged with receiving favors from
the railroad companies while he was
Judge He sustained the impeach-
ment charges and Judge Archibald
was impeached.
And then in 1912, Woodrow Wilson
took him out of congress and made
him solicitor of the United
States so that he could defend the
constitutionality of all these rumane
measures that he had taken part i'll
preparing and passing. Do you know
his record as solicitor-general? This
is part of it: He defended before the
supreme court of the United States
and established the constitutionality
of the following acts
The federal reserve act.
! The income tax amendment.
The Adamson eight-hour law.
The authority of the interstate COM
merce commission to compel railroads
to increase tankage capacity.
He ably defended before the SUI
preme court of the United States the
child labor law.
No man can be reactionary who
has this record, and no man who has
this record can obtain the political
support of reactionaries.
What has been his position in this
campaign? Take labor, first. In his
speech af acceptance he said:
, Concerning our sentiments toward
y labor there is room for neither doubt
+ nor cavil in the light of our past
, history The right of labor to an ade-
ouate wage earned under healthful
conditions, the right to organize ir
order to obtain it and the right t.
bargain for it collectively, through
agents and representatives of its own
O choosing, have been established after
p many years of weary struggle. These
rights are conceded now by all fair
- minded men They must not be i'm
ii paired either by Injunction or by any
other device. The democratic party
however, goes a step beyond this. tt
. attitude has been we'll described a!
one inspired neither by Difference or
the one hand nor by patronage OF
. the other, but by sincere desire Il
! make labor part of the grand coun
Gil of the nation, to concede its pat
riotism and to recognize that it,
knowledge of its own needs gives i
a right to a voice in all matters oil
government that directly or peculiarly
affect its own rights. This attitude
has not changed; it will not change
Democracy in government and democ
racy in industry alike demand the free
recognition of the right of all those
who work, in whatever rank or place
to share in all decisions that affec'
their welfare"
J In his Labor Day speech at Wheel