Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-16
DAVIS, IN NEBRASKA,
TURNS STUMP GUNS
On SEN. LAFOLLETTE
New vote OF Confidence in
Nominees Speech as He
Widens His Attack

TOPEKA, Kan, Sept. 14-With ar
apparently mounting confidence,
John w. Davis carried his fight for
the presidency across the western
plains Saturday through Nebraska
Kansas in a series of addresses be-
ginning before breakfast at kearney
Neb., in a driving rain, and ending
tonight here in the capitol of the
sunflower state
When the Democratic standard
bearer began his drive through this
territory a week ago he was con-
tent to make his promises on the
= basis of eff or should" he become
but today he told his audi
ee that after he became chief
ecutive next March, he would use
Tdery endeavor of heart and mind to
furnish a government Of honesty, of
courage and of justice
There also was another change of
tactics by Mr.. Davis. Heretofore he
had confined his assault wholly tn
the record Of the administration of
government by the Republican party,
but no whe is naming the indepen-
dent party and appealing to the III
eminent of progress" to vote the
Democratic ticket because, as he put
1t, no one could contend that the
Independent party could hope to ca o
ture the presidency and a majority
of the two houses of congress.
Assails La Toilette Plank
Moreover, in his talk at Grand Is
land, Neb., where he was Joined by
( and introduced by his running mate,
Governor Charles w. Bryan, Mr..
Davis vigorously assailed the pro-
posal of Senator La Toilette, the
Progressive party's standard bearer.
that congress and the legislatures of
veto over the supreme court on the
question of the constitutionality of
legislative acts.
Declaring that he had caught as
he had gone up and down the west
ern plains some of the breath of
freedom and independence that
blows across them,' Mr.. Davis said
he realized that no matter what
might happen elsewhere, never from
the people of this section shall one
fraction of their liberties be filched.'
Defining those liberties as free
dom of speech freedom of the press;
freedom of assembly; trial by jury;
the right of religious worship accord
ing to the dictates of conscience; free
dom from search and seizure, and
freedom from conviction by bill of
'attainder at the hands of any legis-
lature, the Democratic presidential
candidate declared they never should
be surrendered. ''Shall we surren-
der them at the will of majority
of the people?r he asked. mot SO
long as one individual remains to
claim them.
Shall we surrender them at the
demand of any legislature, or ma
jority of the legislatures? Never
Shall we surrender them at the
demand of a majority of congress?
Never
Courts Their Guarantee
Mr.. Davis said that if the Ameri-
can people were not disposed to sun
render these liberties, their guaran-
tee and their protection for their
preservation were the courts.
THAT is the American theory he
declared. And so long as that pow
er remains in an impartial court, so
long are our liberties safe. And
whenever the power is taken from
the court and vested in a mere MAJ
JoIIlJft oolllG uoI VI DoSoIOlI
will rise and sweep us from the
possession of the things we hold
most GEAR"
In his last rear platform speech
OF the day, at Onaga, Kan, Mr..
Davis made an appeal against the
voters permitting the parties bccor1-
ing the masters instead of their serv
ants.
mo free-born American citi zen, .
Mr.. Davis said, ought to say to
himself my party, right or wrong,
but nevertheless my party.
My party when it is right and
some other party when it Is wrong,
Is the motto that Americans ought
to follow"
In, several of his addresses, par
tie&aFly here in Kansas, Mr.. Davis
put forward a new definition of the
difference between his own and the
Republican parties. He said there
always had been in this country two
Ideas about government.
There is the idea he said. "Of
those who think in the language of
Alexander Hamilton, that govern
ment is the province of the rich, and
+ the well-born and the able, and that
5 they have some sort of proVidenti ii
mission to govern the country for
the benefit of themselves and Their
fellow citizens as well.
The Democrats Idea
There is the other doctrine tina
government is not the prerogativ :
of any class or section, no matte
how rich, no matter how well-borIl
or how able, but is the prerogativs
of all citizens, from the highest t.
the lowest, the greatest to hum
sblest; that is the Democratic theory"
Mr.. Davis said these two theories
of government worked out in &C.
ton in two different characters,
that those holding the first theory
believed the government should pro-
mote the welfare of the rich in the
belief that they would in their good
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