Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1924-08-22
PARTY UNITED
SAYS NOMINEE
Bryan Promises Party's Aid to
Farm and Labor
10000 IN LINCOLN STADIUM
oeplores Mobilization Demonstrations
As Economic Waste
Honesty In Gov
ernment.


colorful gathering of longtime friends
and supporters and national and sec.
tional party leaders, Gov. Charles W.
Bryan formally accepted the nomina-
tion for vice-President by the Demo.
cratic Party and laid down in unmis-
taxable terms the principles and is-
sues upon which he will go before
the people for victory at the polls.
In the center Of the football field held
at the University of Nebraska Memorial
Stadium Governor Bryan made his
speech of acceptance. following the
lead Of his party's standard bearer,
John w. Davis, who a week ago chose
the outdoors for launching the Demo
cratic campaign at Clarksburg. W. Va.
Governor Bryan definitely opened
his campaign with a promise to the
progressive farmers and wage earners
that the Democratic party would
stand as a unit in seeking a solution
OF their difficulties.
Senator Harrison, of Mississippi,
who delivered the notification address,
also acclaimed the Democratic organ
ization as the only one to which the
progressive elements could look for
direction and leadership and asserted
the Presidential race would be be
tween the two major parties.
In beginning his address the Vice
Presidential caudfdata nrofead HE
iie'iueh.iai eanuiuate praiseu ms
party pia'iorh as oroau' suohs anu
pios'essiNe enough 10 JUSTIFY the sup
poIt Oh lnose VINO peheVe IN equaiity
ueioie 'he ia"' ana ueciareu tne
Deiiooia's nave presented a plosran
u prosIessl'e poilcles ior Which the
party stahuS as a unit wltnout tne
intervention Oh iaet'on' Oioc or sec
'ion'
he pieoeeu ms iuli support 70 mr.
Da'is anu ueciareu Doth ne anu the
rrssiuentiai cahoioate are IN mar
mony win tne PLATFORM upon which
'hey VIII nsht ior electoral support.
honesty eniciency ana economy IN
eoFeinnieh' were uecialeu oy the
NOMINEE as tne neeu OF the hour'
ne isio 70 tne uoor OF tne fepuoii
can administration tne respohsiohl'y
.or lhe unrest throush the country
uupiication o. Government "ork, uh'
necessary ooarus anu COMMISSIONS
lisn cost oi government ana excessive
taAatlon'
Woman's worth and activity. child
welfare, the Democratic Party's in
terest in and support of labor" out
lawing of war, water power, law en-
forcement and private monopoly were
other subjects discussed by Governor
Bryan. He promised to take up later
during the campaign other matters
enumerated in the party's platform as
demanding attention.
He dwelt particularly, however, on
agriculture and charged the Republt
cans with changing the farmers con
dition from prosperity to adversely"
Their policy, he said, of reducing the
higher surtax schedules on incomes
and removing the tax from the prof
teer had shifted the burden to the
shoulders OF those least able to pay
ana caused INJURY TO the farmers
Inc farmer, ne continued heeds
tne nign tarin rates reduced so as 10
enable nun 10 ouy IN competitive
market at nome ana remove the re-
strictions which nave inJariousiy ar
ieeted the foreign market IN which ne
sells MS surplus product.
support OIL the Feaeral reserve sys
tenn lower ran ana water rates, de-
Veiopment OF deep waterways sys-
TEN from the treat Lakes to the At
iantie ocean ana Guli' water power
eneap lertlizef' more UNIFORM ware