Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-11-04
COOLIDGE ELECTION
MEANS Do NOTHING
POLICY, SAYS DAVIS

Hun Std leIllPII VI the SSIlSSs USiI =
issued by John w. Davis. Demo
cratic candidate for president, for
the purpose of summarizing cam
paign issues it was claimed today
that the country will elect a con-
gress pledged to progress and RENE
dial liberal legislation"
The statement further declares
that Senator La Toilette has no
chance of election and adds that 1T
is evident that President Coolidge
has not been and will not be in ac-
cord with The purposes of such a
.. congress as it is said will be elected. ="
The statement said:
During the campaign I have at
tempted to discuss the issues before
us with the greatest franlness and
Sincerity. I have done my utmost
to make my position on all the ques-
tions of the day clear cut. 1 nave
pledged myself, if elected, to do
everything within my power to open
up the markets of the world for our
products, as the business men OF our
country can not hope for real ana
durable prosperity on any other
.basis. AS manufacturers and mer-
chants can not prosper unless the
farmers prosper, 1 have promised to
exert nv every effort to raise agrl-
culture to a plane Of equality with
our other great industries. Business
can not prosper while idlenesS, pow
erty and discomfort exist among our
wage earners and salaried men and
II women, who constitute the great
bulk of the buying public. So have
pledged myself to continue the Dem
ocratic policy of Strengthening the
position of labor.
None Of these things can be &C.
complished without honesty and
courage, in government and complete
accord and cooperation between the
president and congress
There is no doubt that the coun-
try will elect congress pledged to
progress and remedial liberal legis-
lation. It is admitted now that Sen
ator La Toilette has no chance of
election. 1t is evident that President
Coolidge has not been and will not
be in accord with it's high purposes.
VetOes and Obstruction
do they want vetoes and obstruction
and four years of deadlock between
the president and congressZ
From the many expressions which
are coming in from all classes from
every state and from the indorse-
ments received from various organi-
cations and from members of all par.
ties, I am convinced that the people
rio Y1+ Yopondia1 1oOiSlatjnn that
they do desire harmonious relations
between congress and the president
and that they realize that they can
assure these things only by voting
at this election for the state and ma
tional candidates of the Democratic
party"
Mr.. Davis made the charge last
- night in a speech that the Repub.
Iican party was trying to buy the
election. He read the letters of Jo
seph r. Grundy, who raised $650,000
| in Pennsylvania and contrasted VIVA.
ne called the spirit Of materialism
which collected money from protect
| ed manufacturers with the spirit OF
- idealism shown in letter of a Gold
+ Star Mother" who seAN her dead
. sons insurance check to the Demo-
cratic campaign fund.
He read freely from the letter of
Mr.. Grundy, which already had been
naade public by testimony before the
Borah investigating committee.
These letters urged Pennsylvanians
to contribute to the Republican cam
paign fund on the ground that they
had profited greatly under the Re-
publican administration.
Receive freely and give freely"
Mr.. Davis paraphrased the Scrip.
lures in comment.
Sons Insurance Check
II have another letter enclosing a
check" he said. 1.-THE check is from
the treasurer of the United States
paid through the Veterans bureau
The check is a small one, especially
when contrasted with the $3.50, 900
collected by Mr.. Grundy. 1t is for
$3.50 and the sender makes no men
ton of sacrifices, such as Mr.
Grundy in his letters said he and
subscribers for his fund We're MAX
ing for the Republican party.
The letter reads as follows:
Mansfield, O., Oct. %. 1924
James w. Gerard, Treasurer Dem
ocratic Committee, New York:
Sir: l enclose the insurance
check Of my dead son toward the
fund for Mr.. Davis campaign. He
would have sent it.
MRS. JESSIE H BLACK
Il don't know. what you would
shoose," Mr.. Davis said, H"but T
would choose that check, small as it
may be-, against all the money that
could be collected from protected
manufacturers and possessors OF
privilege to preserve their power to
plumber their fellow citizens"