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JOHN W.DAVIS ARRAIGNS ADMINISTRATION OF COOLIDGE
HARMONY APPEAL '
VOICED IN ANSWER
TO NOTIFICATION:
BY RALPH SMITH
(Journal Staff Correspondent)
CLARKSBURG, W. Va„ Aug. 12.
The following is the complete text of
the address made here Monday night
wherein John W. Davis, chosen lead
er of the Democratic party, accept
ed the nomination for the presi
dency:
“Mr. Chairman and Members of the !
Committee:
“You will understand, with little
explanation on my part, the feel
ings which have led me to fix our
meeting at this spot in the hills of
West Virginia. These are the hills
that cradled me and to which as
boy and man I lifted up my eyes
for help. In this soil rest four gen
erations of my people —artisans,
tradesmen, farmers and a sprinkling
of the professions, laborers all, who
played in simple fashion their ap
pointed parts in the life of this com-
I munity. Among them now lie those
F who gave me life, and to whose high
precept and example I owe all that
I have ever been and all that I c'pn
hope to be. These witnesses who
surround us are the companions of
my youth and manhood.
"With them most of my days have
heen spent, and when circumstances
have called me elsewhere they have
followed me with a regard and af
fection that has laid on me a debt
of gratitude greater than I can re
pay. Twenty-five years ago they
first called me to their service as
their representative in the legisla
ture of this state, ( and since that
day, in public office or in private
life, I have fought with them un
ceasingly the battle for democratic
ideals and democratic principles.
"Os their own free will and mo
tion they presented my narhe to the
Democratic convention as one de
serving its consideration. Better
than all others, they will know
whether what I shall say to you to
day is in keeping with the convic
tions I have expressed and the ac
tion I have taken in the past, and
more than any others, they will
resent anything I may say or do
that shows their confidence mis
placed. It is in the presence of
these hills, these graves, these wit
nesses, that 1 wish to hear your mes
sage and give you my reply.
Approves of Platform
“You come to give me official no
tice that I have been chosen by the
Democratic party as its nominee for
the highest office in the gift of the
American people. You invite me to
take the reins of leadership and
marshal its hosts for the coming
campaign. No weightier commission
could be laid on any man. He must
be vain indeed who does not feel his
own unaided strength inadequate to
such a, task, >and he must be ambi
tious beyond reason whom thought :
of fame or honor tempts to under
take it without the fullest sympathy
with his party and its aims.
“I reflect, however, that you are
the representatives of millions of
Americans who are dissatisfied with
existing conditions, who long for the
day when America will set her face
to the front again and who are readv
to follow whenever the forward
march begins. And I have read your
platform and its declarations of
party principle and find them such
as I can heartily approve. For
these things 1 thank God, and tu.ke
courage.
"Many and grave are the problems
of the hour, and all the resources of
patriotism and statesmanship at our
command will be taxed in their so
lution. The allied forces of greed
and dishonesty, of self-seeking and
partisanship, of prejudice and ig
norance, threaten today as they
have rarely done before the perpe
tuity of our national ideals, tradi- j
tions and institutions. Men are
looking askance at one another; are
mistrusting one neither; are doubt
ing each other’s good will and hon
esty of purpose.
“The solidarity of the great war
has >given way to a chaos of blocs
and sections and classes and inter
ests, each striving for its own ad
vantage, careless of the welfare of
the whole.
Government Distrusted
Government itself, to which the
humblest citizen has the right to
turn with confident reliance in its
evenhanded justice, has fallen under
prevalent distrust.
V . "There is abroad in the land a
( ’ feeling too general to lie ignored,
u too deep-seated for any trifling, that
men in office can no longer be trust
ed to keep faith with those who sent
them there, and that the powers ot
government are being exercised in
the pursuit of personal gain instead
of the common service. Out of this,
and because of it, there has devel
oped an alarming tendency to take
the administration of the law out
of the hands of constituted officials
and to entente its processes through
individuals or through organized so
cieties, by methods little different
from those of private revenge.
"A situation so threatening to the
very foundations of the social order
demands boldness in facing the
causes which have brought it about,
and tireless exertion in the effort
to remove them. To bring the gov
ernment back to the people is and
always has been the doctrine of De
mocracy. Today, in addition, it is
the supreme need of the hour tc
bring back to the people confidence
in their government.
“The search for the cause of this
state of affairs leads us at once to
the history of the last four years.
In 1920 we passed through a politi
cal campaign in which materialism
was preached as a creed and self
ishness as a national duty. All the
forces of discontent were marshalled
and the embers of every smoldering
hate were fanned into burning flame.
“We have eaten of the fruit of
the tree that was planted and it has
been latter in the mouths of even
the iflnst indifferent. I speak with
restraint when I say that it has
brought forth corruption in high
places; favoritism in legislation; di
vision and discord in party councils;
impotence in government and k hot
struggle for profit and advantage
which has bewildered us at home and
humiliated ns abroad.
G. 0. F. Held Responsible
"For all these things the party
now in power cannot escape the re
sponsibility that is its due. No re
pentance at the eleventh hour and
no promise *ot reform can cancel
half a line of the indisputable facts.
"The time demands plain speak
ing. It is not a welcome task to re
count the multiplied scandals of
these melancholy years; a senator
of the United States convicted of
corrupt practice in the purchase of
his senatorial seat: a secretary of
the interior in return for bribes
granting away the naval oil re
•♦rves so necessary to the security
of the country; a secretary of the
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navy ignorant of the spoliation In
progress if not indifferent to it; an
attorney general admitting bribe
takers to the department of justice,
making them his boon companions
and utilizing the agencies of the law
for purposes of private and political
vengeance; a chief of the veterans’
bureau stealing and helping others
to steal the millions in money and
supplies provided for the relief of
those defenders of the nation most i
entitled to the nation's gratitude and
care. Such crimes are too gross to
be forgotten or forgiven.
"I do not believe that the millions
of sincere and patriotic men and
women who have composed the rank
and file of the Republican party are
more ready to condone these and
similar offenses or to pardon the of
fenders than those of other political
faiths. Indeed, their indignation has
perhaps a sharper edge, for it is cou
pled with the chagrin that must fol
low from the knowledge that under
authority issued in their name cor
rupt men have crept to places of
power and then betrayed the trust
that placed them there.
Executive Failed to Take Action
"There are circumstances, how
ever, which spread responsibility for
the effect of these things upon the
public confidence beyond the list of
the criminals themselves. There is,
first, the fact that the revelation of
these crimes was not the result of
any action taken by the executive.
No burning indignation there put in
train the forces of investigation and
of punishment. 1
“The disclosures came only as the
result of the painstaking effort of
faithful public servants in the leg
islative branch of the government
who could not close their eyes even
when others chose to slumber.
"Again, when discovery was
threatened, instead of aid and assist
ance from the executive branch
were hurried efforts to suppress
testimony, to discourage witnesses,
to spy upon investigators and
finally, by trumped-up indictment,
to frighten and deter them from the
pursuit. The spying on senators
and congressman; the hasty inter
change of telegrams in department
code; the 'refusal of those accused
to come forward, under oath, to
purge themselves—all these things
serve to blacken a page that was
already dark encugh.
"Different perhaps in moral qual
ity', but hardly' Jess painful to the
country, has been the attitude of
some of those in high places whose
effort it has been to weaken the
effect of these exposures by crying
out not against the guilty but
against those who exposed them.
“What shall we say when a
statement comes from one who of
all men should have been most deep
ly stirred that the wonder is not
that so many have fallen but that
so few have been shown untrue?
With what patience shall we greet
the libelous suggestion that, after
all, these are but incidents provoked
by the demoralization attendant
upon the great war?
‘ls memory then so short that
we no longer recall the heroic days
of 1917 and 1918, when America
rose to heights of moral grandeur
unsurpassed, when every meeting
place was a temple and every house
a shrine? Shall we forget that no
taint of dishonesty or corruption
has ever attached to any man who
held public office during that great
sti uggle or to any man who con
tinued to hold office under the fed
eral government until March 4,
1921? Shell shock was late indeed
in arriving if it i s to be put for
ward now as the excuse for these
gross misdeeds.
Corruption Charged
I charge the Republican party
with this corruption in office. I
charge it also with favoritism’ in
.egislation, I do more, I charge it
with that grossest form of favor
itism which gives to him who hath,
and takes away from him who hath
not.
"To pervert high office to per
sonal gain is an offense detested by
all honest men; but to use the now
er of legislation purposely to enrich
one man or set of men at the ex
pense of others is robbery on a
s S a . le tho; ’ 8h done under the
ioi ms of law.
"In the passage of the Fordney-
McCumber tariff act, imposing the
«« u®! rates and duties in the tar
iff history of the nation, there was
an unblushing return to the evil
da-vs of rewarding party support and
political contributions with legisla
tive favors.
“In the language of one of the
advocates of that measure: ‘lf we
take care of the producers, the cus
tomers can take care of themselves ’
Jor every dollar that this statute
has drawn into the treasury of the
United States, it has diverted five
tiom the pocket of the consumer into
tha pockets of the favored few.
"Although the Republican platform
adopted at Cleveland holds out to
the taxpayers the elusive promise
of relief to those who are ‘daily
paying their taxes through their
living expenses,’ as indeed they are,
it nowhere offers any promise of
a reduction in tariff duties, but
lauds the existing bill as the sum
mit of human wisdom.
“Is there not something of hu
mor as well us, honesty lacking in
those who in one and the same
breath can promise a reduction of
the cost of living and praise a stat
ute which raises the price of the
elemental necessities of life; who
can demand, as they should, the
payment of our foreign debts but
refuse to accept from the debtor the
goods in which alone payment can
be made; who clamor for an Amer
ican merchant marine, but deny it
the cargoes necessary for its ex
istence?
Democrats Force Action
“When a reduction in the burden
of income taxes could no longer be
denied, the country was presented
with the Mellon bill, offered by the
administration to the people as the
last word on that subject. When
it met the test of impartial analysis
here, too, there appeared the motive
to favor the few possessors of swol
len incomes beyond the many of
moderate means.
“Under Democratic initiative and
Democratic guidance a bill was
passed in its stead, so changing the
weight and emphasis of the proposed
reduction as to give the greater re
lief to those whose tax payments
pressed upon their scale of living.
"Although the executive approval
this bill received was grudging and
reluctant, not even the submissive
convention at Cleveland dared to
suggest that the Mellon bill be re
vived and adopted as a substitute.
"We assert in our platform that
the Republican party ‘believes that
national prosperity must originate
with the special interests, and seep
down through the channels of trade
to the less favored industries, to the
wage earners and small salaried em
ployes. It has accordingly en
throned privilege and nurtured self
ishness.’ I repeat the words and I
register the emphatic dissent of the
Democratic party from that doc
trine.
"I charge the Republican party
with corruption in administration:
with favoritism to privileged classes
in legislation. I charge it also with
division in council and impotence in
action. No political party has the
right to hold the reins of govern
ment unless it can exhibit the car
dinal virtues of honesty, sincerity and
unity. Os these the last is by no
means the least important. No mat
ter how lofty the ideals or how pure
the purposes of any party, the coun
try is not served unless it possesses
both the will and the power to carry
these ideals and purposes into ef
fect.
Leadership Lacking
"When it becomes a leaderless
and incoherent mob it must give
way to some rival better fitted for
the task of government. r
"Need I dwell on the picture that
the last twelve months presents:
"Qn one side the executive, on the
other the members of his party in
both houses of congress, seeking dif
ferent aims: entertaining different
views; advocating different meas
ures? The executive proposes ad
herence to the existing world court.
The request falls on dull ears until
finally the leader of his party in
the senate brings forward, mani
festly for obstructive purposes, an
entirely different scheme. The ex
ecutive demands the Mellon bill and
members of his party in both houses
of congress, regular and insurgent,
hasten to reject it. He disapproves
the adjusted compensation act, but
congress re-enacts it by the required
two-thirds majority.
"Congress passes a measure grant
ing to postal employees an increase
in their meager salaries; the presi
dent disapproves it. He protests
against the restriction on Japanese
immigration; congress adopts it.
Whenever before did a party in con
trol of the executive and of a ma
jority in both house's of congress
present so pitiable a spectacle of dis
cord and division? By what right
can a political organization so led
and so disciplined appeal for a fur
ther lease of power? Four year& ago
the Republican party, in snarling
criticism of the great leader then in
office, promised to ‘end executive
autocracy.’
“It lias fallen into the pit that it
dug, for its efforts in that direction
have succeeded beyond its wildest
dreams. An executive who can not
or will not lead, a congress that can
not and will not follow —how can
good governrment exist under such
conditions?
American Tradition Ignored
"Nor is it in domestic matters
alone that the symptoms of this
creeping paralysis have appeared.
Not only have the executive recom
mendations for adherence to the
World Court, sanctioned as they are
by long American tradition and ex
ample, been flouted and ignored, but
no evidence is in sight that the Re
publican party as now constituted
can frame and carry to its conclusion
any definite and consistent foreign
policy.
“Four years ago we were prom
ised a new association of nations to
be created in order to protect and
preserve the peace of the world. No
single proposal of this sort has yet
appeared from any of those who so
loudly promised it.
“With the reconstruction of Eu
rope weighing heavily on the world;
with American economic life dwarfed
and stunted by the interruption of
world commerce; with the agricul
tural regions of the west sinking into
bankruptcy because of the loss ot
their freign markets; we have stood
by as powerless spectators, offering
to the world nothing but private
charity and individual advice.
"It is well enough to praise in un
measured terms the charity of the
American people. It. is not an un
worthy pride that makes us dwell
upon the efforts individual Ameri
cans have made toward the solution
of great world problems. But the
question which presses itself upon
the mind and conscience of the Amer
ican people and will not be denied is
what they, as a nation, speaking
through their government, have done
or dared to do in this great field of
action.
“The Washington conference alone
aside, and that of more than doubtful
value, what single contribution has
the United States of America, as an
organized nation among nations,
made to world peace in the last four
years?
Responsibility Shirked
"Individual Americans have gone
abroad but they went without the
blessing of their government. ‘Un
official observers’ have appeared at
international conferences where
America, if present at all, should
have been present as an equal among
equals.
“When but yesterday three Ameri
cans went to the confernece on repa
rations, whose fruitful outcome all
all the world desires, Washington
was prompt to disclaim all responsi
bility for their going though eager
to take credit for whatever they
might accompl.sh.
“W© achieved only what one oi
them has called a ‘bootlegging par
ticipation.’
"Three weeks ago, in the city of
London, there came from the secre
tary of state himself an amazing
confession of this impotence.
"Said he:
“ ‘I may give it as my conviction
that had we attempted to make
America’s contribution to the re
cent plan of adjustment a govern
mental matter, we should have been
involved in a hopeless debate ana
there would have been no adequate
action. We should have been beset
with demands, objections, instruc
tions This is not the way to make
an American contribution to eco
nomic revival.’
"If I can read these words aright,
they can mean only this; that by
reason either of the inability of the
executive to lead or the unwilling
ness of his party to follow, the for
eign affairs of the United States, in
cluding the great and vital question
of European settlement, must be
left in private hands. We must face
the humiliating fact that we have a
government that does not dare to
speak its mind beyond the three-mile
limit.
“A political party, which is at
best but human, may make honest
mistakes; they can be forgiven. It
may pass unwise laws; they can be
repealed It may, through honest
error, set men to tasks beyond their
power; they can be displaced and
others chosen in their stead.
The Unpardonable Sin
"The unpardonable sin, however,
for it is a sin that strikes at the
national life, is conduct so corrupt,
so partial and so feeble that it shakes
the public confidence in government
itself.
“I indict the Republican party in
its organized capacity for having
shaken public confidence to its very
foundations. I charge it with hav
ing exhibited deeper and more wide
spread corruption than any that
this generation of Americans has
been called upon to witness. I
charge it with complacency in the
I face of that corruption and with ill
I will toward the efforts of honest
I men to expose it. I charge it with
I gross favoritism to the privileged
and with utter disregard of the un
privileged. I charge it with indiffer
' ence to world peace and with timid
i ity in the conduct of our foreign as
; fairs. I charge it with disorganiza
■ tion. division and incoherence, and
j on the record I shall ask the voters
' throughout the length and breadth
I of this land to pass judgment of
condemnation, as a warning to all
: men who may aspire to public of
i fice, that dishonesty either in
thought, word or deed, will not be
tolerated in America.
"I cannot doubt what verdict they
will render.
"When they have made their an
swer they will turn to us, as it is
right they should, and ask what
We have lo offer in exchange and
what pledges we can give that our
offer will be performed. We are
ready for the question. We are pre
pared to offer a Democratic pro
gram based on Democratic principles
and guaranteed by a record of Dem
ocratic performance.
The Promise of Democracy
"This program we have outlined
in our platform, these principles
are those by wnich the Democratic
party has heen guided throughout
the years—and which, like the creed
of the church, should be repeated
whenever Democrats assemble—a
belief in equal rights to all men
and special privilege to none; in an
ever wider and more equitable dis
tribution of the rewards of toil and
industry; in the suppression of pri
vate monopoly as a thing indefen
sible and intolerable; in the largest
liberty for every individual; in lo
cal self-government as against a cen
tralized bureaucracy; in public of
fice as a public trust; in a govern
ment administered without fear
abroad or favoritism at home.
“Anq,our pledge will be the long
roll of beneficent legislation passed
during our years of power, and the
conduct without scandal or corrup
tion of a great and victorious war
fought under the gallant and inspir
ing leadership of Woodrow Wilson.
“I have expressed, in general
terms, my approval of the proposals
contained in our platform. You will
not expect me at this moment to
discuss them in detail or to outline
the methods by which they are to
be carried into effect. There will
be time enough for that.
"Far more important than the lan
guage of such documents is the spir
it that breathes through them and
gives them life. The country has
the right to know whether under
the guidance of the Democratic party
it will follow a. course of wise and
continued progress, or be given over
to the delusive panaceas of the
dreamy radical or the smug com
placency of the conservative who
thinks that all goes well if only it
goes well with him.
Political Terms Defined
"The words ‘progressive’ and
‘reactionary’ have been much used
in American politics. There has
been little effort to define their
meaning. They are becoming mere
tags which politicians fasten on
themselves or their opponents with
out indulging in any mental process
that remotely resembles thought.
“But, like shipping taps, the thing
which really counts is the destina
tion written on them —progress to
what; reaction from what —that is
the real question.
"Motion may be either backward
or forward; it may even be going
around in circles. From my point of
view he only deserves to be called
a progressive who cannot see a
wrong persist without an effort to
redress it, or a right denied without
any effort to protect it; who feels a
deep concern for the economic wel
fare of the United States, but real
izes that the making of better men
and better women is a matter great
er still; who thinks of every gov
ernmental policy first of all in its
bearing upon human rights rather
than upon material things; who be
lieves profoundly in human equal
ity and detests privilege in what
ever form or in whatever disguise,
and who finds the true test of suc
cess in the welfare of the many and
not the prosperity and comfort of
the few.
"The civic unit of America is not
the dollar, but the individual man.
All that goes to make better and
happier and freer men and women
is progress: all else is reaction. Pro
gressives of this sort, though th?y
may not care , ■ use the name, never
theless in their hearts are Demo
crats.
Striving for Great Ends
"We shall strive, therefore, for the
things that look to these great ends;
for the education of our youth, not
only in knowledge gathered from
past ages, but in the wholesome vir
tue of self-help; for the protection
of women and children from human
greed and unequal laws; for the pre
vention of child labor and for the
suppression of the illicit traffic in
soul-destroying drugs.
"We shall conserve all the natural
resources of the country and pre
vent the hand of monopoly from
closing on them and on our water
powers, so that our children after us
shall find this still a fair land Ito
dwell within.
"And to the veterans of our wars,
especially to those who were strick
en and wounded in the country’s
service and whose confidence has
been so cruelly and corruptly abused,
we shall give, in honor and in hon
esty, the grateful care they have so
justly earned.
"Concerning our sentiments toward
labor, three is room for neither
doubt nor cavil in the light of our
past history. The right of labor to
an adequate wage earned under
healthful conditions, the right to or
ganize in order to obtain it, and the
right to bargain for it collectively,
through agents and representatives
of its own choosing, have been es
tablished after many years of weary
struggle. These rights are conceded
now by all fair-minded men. They
must not be impaired either by in
junction or by any other device.
"The Democratic party, however,
goes a step beyond this. Its atti
tude has been well described as one
inspired neither by deference on the
one hand nor by patronage on the
other, but by a sincere desire te
make labor part of the grand coun
cil of the nation, to concede its
patriotism and to recognize that its
knowledge of its own needs gives it
a right to a .vice in all matters of
government that directly or pecu
liarly affect its own rights.
Democracy Unchanged
"This attitude has not changed;
it will not change. Democracy in
government and democracy in in
dustry alike demand the free recog
nition ot the right of all those who
work, in whatever rank or place, to
share in all decisions that affect
their welfare.
"To the farmers of the United
States also we promise not patron
age but such laws and such admin
istration of the laws as will enable
the.m to prosper in their own right.
They are not mendicants and. fortu
nately for all of us. are willing to
take the risks that attend thir all
important calling. They are entitled
in return to a government genuinely
interested in their problems and
keenly desiro. to serve them to the
limit of its power. They feel today,
more perhaps than any oth
ers, i pressing effect of discrim-
I inatory taxation.
“Buying in a protected market
i and selling in a market open to the
j world, th ' ave been forced lo con
; tribute to the profits of those in
other in 'strieg with no compensa
' ing benefit to themselves.
“Recent experience has proved, if
! nroof were needed, that an eff-rt to
help the farmer by a tariff on his
i products, is the baldest political
i false pretense. He knows as we'l as
any economist can tell him that the
i price b» -rets fnr bis surplus cron
depends upon conditions at the place
of sale; and he realizes that his
permanent prosperity depends not
upon the decrease through crop
shortages of the quanitty he has to
sell, but upon the restoration and ex
pansion of the markets to which his
goods must go.
To End Tariff Discrimination
"When he faces as many do to
day, impending bankruptcy and
ruin, it is small comfort to be told
by those who are so solicitous to
protect other industry from all pos
sible competition that the farmer's
salvation lies wholly with himself.
“The ‘courageous and intelligent
deflation ot credits’ which the Re
publican party promised in its plat
form four years ago, would have
come with better grace and have
proven more acceptable in its results
if there' had been at the same time
any effort to narrow instead of
widen the gulf between the prices
which the farmer receives and those
which he is compelled to pay, and
to assist him in finding a market
for the things he has to sell.
"We propose to see to it that the
discriminations which the tariff
makes against him shall be re
moved; that his government by doing
Its share toward a European settle
ment shall help to revive and enlarge
his foreign markets; that instead of
lip service to the principle of co
operative marketing the forces of
the government shall be put active
ly at work to lend assistance to these
endeavors; that the farmer shall be
supplied not only with information
on problems of production, but with
information such as the dealer now
receives concerning the probable use
and demand for his product, so that
he may be enabled to think as intel
ligently as the dealer in terms of
consumption and demand; and that
in times when general and wide
spread distress has overtaken him,
every power which the government
enjoys under the constitution shall
be exerted in his aid.
"He is entitled, too, to demand an
adequate service of transportation at
reasonable rates. In spite of the
failures and shortcomings of exist
ing laws, this is an ideal which I
can not believe to be oeyond the
reach of attainment. If the seasonal
production ot the farmer's crops is
the pulsation of the nation’s heart,
the railroads of the country are the
veins and arteries through which its
lifeblood flows.
Joint Work Essential
"Neither can hope to function
without the other's aid: and it is
quite as important to the railroads
that the farmer should prosper as it
is to the farmer that the railroads
should be adequately paid for the
service that they render.
“Believing that no people are truly
free who are unjustly taxed, we
promise to the people of America not
only revision and reform but a furth
er reduction in the taxes that weigh
them down and sap the vigor of
their productive energy.
"The exorbitant rates and discrim
inatory provisions of the present tar
iff law must be wiped out, and in
their place must be -written, with
fairness to all and favors to none, a
statute designed primarily to raise
revenue for the support of the gov
ernment and framed on a truly com
petitive basis.
“We have no hostile design toward
any legitimate industry; we propose
no action that would’ tear down or
destroy. But we are resolved that
the laying and collecting of taxes
shall remain a public a. d not a pri
vate business and that monopoly
shall find no section of the law be
hind which to hide itself. The rates
of the income tax should be further
lowered. Unnecessary taxation is
unjust taxation no matter on whom
( the burden falls.
"I m ready to agree that there is
no right in government to tax any
man beyond its needs solely because
he is rich; and yet I stoutly hold that
every dictate of reason and morality
supports the rule that those who de
rive from the common effort of so
city a greater share of its earnings
than their fellows must contribute to
the support of the state a proportion
ately larger share of that which th&y
have received.
"Nor 'will we overlook the sounl
distiction which exists in principle
between those incomes gathered
without effort from invested capi
ital, and those which are the product
of exertion day by day.
Economy Pledged
“And with reduction, indeed as a
condition precedent to it, there must
be economy in every part of the
governmental establishment.
"I shall if elected welcome the op
portunity to support and strengthen
the beginnings which nave been
made in the direction of a national
budget and to co-operate with con
gress to that end.
“We must have, in addition, an
economy which consists not merely
in securing a dollar’s worth for every
dollar spent, but that far less popu
las form of economy which imitates
the prudent householder in doing
without the things one wishes but
cannot at the time afford.
"Economy, however, begins at the
wrong end when it attacks the pay
of government, employes, who are
justly entitled to pay equal to that
they would receive from private em
ployers for similar work. Every
business executive knows that under
paid service is the dearest of all.
"To the enforcement of the law,
and all the law, we stand definitely
pledged. We shall enforce it as fear
lessly against wealth that endeavors
to restrain trade and create monop
oly, as against poverty that counter
feits the currency; as vigorously
against ambition which seeks to
climb to office through the corrupt
use of money as against the lesser
greed that robs the mails.
. “For no reason that is apparent
to me the question has been asked,
as perhaps it will continue to be
asked until it has been definitely an
swered, whaft views I hold concern
ing the enforcement of the Eight
eenth amendment and the statutes
passed to put it into effect. Why
the question; is it not the law? I
would hold in contempt any public
official who took with uplifted hand
an oath to support the constitution
of the United States, making at the
same time a mental reservation
whereby e single word of that great
document is excluded from his vow.
Obedience to Laws
“An administrative officer Is no
more entitled to choose what statutes
he will or will not enforce than is
a citizen to choose what law’s ha
will or will not obey. As well might
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every violator, rich or poor, is the
solemn obligation of every official.
“But all that we do will be un-
I done; all that we build will be torn
down; all that we hope for will be
denied, unless in conjunction witn
the rest of mankind we can lift the
burden of vast armaments which
I now weighs upon the world and
silence the recurring threat of war.
This we shall not do by pious wishes
or fervid rhetoric. We will not con
tribute to it as a nation simply by
offering to others,' no more concern
ed than ourselves, our unsolicited ad
vice.
“Providence does not give the
gifts of peace to those who will not
labor to achieve them. In the name
of the Democratic party, therefore,
I promise to ’he country that no
enterprise sincerely directed to this
end will lack our approval and co
operation.
“We favor the w’orld court in
sincerity end not merely for cam
| paign purposes or as an avenue of
escape from the consideration of
larger questions. We believe it a
real advance toward the peaceful
settlement of international disputes;
an advance from w’hich America
cannot turn away without proving
herself false to the teaching of a
century.
"We wish to see America as a
nation play her part in that recon
struction of the economic life of
Europe which has proven itself so in
dispensable to our own well-being
an<j prosperity.
"We. are ready for any conference
on disarmament, provided it is so
general in its membership and so
wide in its scope as to be able to
deal broadly with 4feo broad a
theme.
New Foreign Policy Promised
“We do not and we cannot ac-
I cept the dictum unauthorized by any
j expression of popular will that the
I League of Nations is a closed inci
dent so far as we are concerned. We
deny the right of any man to thus
shut the gates of the future against
us and to write the fatal word
‘Never’ 1 across the face of our for
eign policy.
“My own beliefs on this particu
lar subject have been so frequently
avowed, and are I believe so well
understood, as hardly to need repe
tition.
"I yield to no man in my resolve
to maintain America's independ
ence, or in my unwillingness to in
volve her in the quarrels of other
nations. Yet, from the day when
the proposal was first put forward I
believed that American duty and
American interests alike demanded
our joining, as a free and equal peo
ple, the. other free peoples of the
world in this enterprise. Nothing
that has since occurred has shaken
me. in that belief. On the contrary,
the march of events has shown not
only that the league has within it
I the seed of sure survival, but that it
is destined more and more to become
the bulkward of peace and order to
mankind.
"Fifty-four nations now sit around
1 its council table. Ireland, I rejoice
| to say, has shaken off her long sub
j jection. and once more a nation has
made her entry into the league the
sign and symbol of her glorious re
birth. The time can not be far dis
tant when Germany will take t-he
seat to which she is rightly entitled.
Russia. Mexico and Turkey will
make the roll, with one exception,
entire and complete.
Independence Maintained
“None of the nations in all this
lengthening list have parted with
their sovereignty or sacrificed their
independence, or have imperilled by
their presence their safety at home
1 or their experience with the fears of
those who dread a different fate for
the United States.
“There are, in this country, sin
cere minds who oppose both the
world court and the league and, in
deed, any organic contact with other
nations, because they wish the Unit
ed States to live a purely oppor
tunist life. They wish no obligation
at any time to any other powers,
even the slender obligation to con
sult and to confer.
"I respect such opinions, even
I do not share them; for, on
sheerest grounds of national safety.
I cannot think it prudent that the
United States should be absent
■whenever all the other nations of the
world assemble to discuss world
problems. But I must be permitted
to doubt the intellectual honesty of
those who profess to favor organized
■ international co-operation for peace
and who studiously turn away from
the only agencies yet created to that
| end.
"In my own thought concerning
the league, two aspects of the ques i
I tion have been constantly before me
I I have never found it possible great
j l.v to concern myself as to the terms
:of our adherence or the language in
J which those terms might be phrased.
“Deeds are of more consequence
than words. Time and custom and
the laws of natural growth will have
their way in spite of language, pro
vided a sincere purpose lies behind
i them. Whatever the character in
i which we shall finally appear, it is
| the fact of our presence that will
count.
People Must Judge
"Neither have I at any time be-
■ lieved nor do I now believe, that the
entrance of America into the league
can occur, will occur or should occur
until the ommon judgment, of
the American people is ready for
the step. We waited for this
judgment to ripen in order that we
might enter the war. I am content,
if need be, to wait until it speaks
for the agencies of peace.
“That a day can and will come
when this great question will finally
be lifted entirely above the plane
of partisan politics; when men will
cease to take counsel solely of their
passions, their pride and their fears;
and when the voice of public ap
proval will find means to make it
| self heard, I am serenely confident.
"Until that day arrives I deem
it the duty of the chief executive
ito co-operate officially by every
| means at his command with all legit-
I imate endeavors, whether thev come
from the league or from anji other
: source, to lessen the prospect of fu
; ture war; to aid in repairing the
i ravages of the wars that are past;
j to promote disarmament and to ad-
■ vance the well-being of mankind.
“Equally, too, his duty and the
without opiates The genuine bear,
j signature nf
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Tm »'<■. WiH'ai H, iii-L
duty of congress, burdensome as it
may be, to maintain the means of
adequate national defense until rea
son is permitted to take the place
of force; we cannot throw away the
sword when other scabbards are not
empty. Nor can I reconcile it with
my ideas of the dignity of a great
nation to be represented at interna
tional gatherings only under the
poor pretense of ‘unofficial observa
tion.’
“Jf I become president of the
United States, America will sit as an
equal among equals whenever she
sits at all.
"This brief outline of the views
and purposes of the party as I un
derstand them might well serve all
the demands of this occasion, but
in the platform we have adopted I
find a further declaration concern
ing which my own convictions are
too profound for silence.
Liberty Assured
"We have taken occasion to reaf
i firm our belief in the constitutional
t guarantees of religious freedom, and
I to deplore and condemn any effort
from whatever source to arouse
racial or religious dissension in this
country. Such a. declaration every
right-thinking American must in
dorse.
“No disaster that the mind can
picture equals in its hideous possi
bilities the coming in this country
of a separation of its citizenship in
to discordant groups along racial or
religious lines. Nothing would so
utterly destroy our happiness and
security at home and our dignity
and influence abroad.
“Let us thank God with reverence
that those who builded the inheri
tance we enjoy dealt with that ques
tion and settled it long ago. Let
it be said to the immortal glory ot
th,ose who founded the Province of
Maryland that religious freedom on
this side of the water bega,.n with
the Toleration act which they adopt
ed in 1649. It broadened with the
years until it. was written into the
Constitution in language too plain
to be mistaken that in this happv
land of ours every man might, with
out loss or threat of loss, without
lessening or threat of lessening his
civic, social or political rights, wor
ship in his own way and fashion
the one God and Father of us all.
“This toleration runs noi only to
the creed professed by a majority
but to every creed, no matter how
numerous or how few its adherents.
It was written, too, that church ami
state should be forever so far sep
arate that neither the right nor the
duty of public service should be
diminished or enlarged by the re
ligious belief of any man.
“It is the solemn duty of every
believer in Amercian institutions to
oppose any challenge of this sacred
doctrine, organized or unorganized,
under whatever name or in what
ever character it may appear.
Honesty and Faithfulness
"From one who aspires to the
presidency, however, a declaration
even more direct than this may be
rightfully be expected. I wish, there
fore, not merely to denounce bigotry,
intolerance and race prepudice as
alien to the spirit of America, I wish
also to state how and in what way
the views I entertain are to influ
ence my actions. Into my hands
will fall, when I am elected, the
power to appoint thousands of per
sons to office under the federal gov
ernment.
“When that time arrives I shall
set up no standard of religious faith
or racial origin as a qualification
for any office. My only query con
cerning any appointee will be wheth
er he is honest, whether he is com
petent, whether he is faithful to the
Constitution. No selection to be
made by me will be dictated, inspired
or influenced by the race or creed
of the appointee.
"One word more and I am done,
and this of a personal character.
“It is known of all men that the
nomination which you tender me
was not made of my seeking. It
comes, lam proud to believe, as the
unanimous wish of one of the most
deliberate conventions in American
history, which weighed in th© bal
ance with soberness my too scanty
virtues and my manifold shortcom
ings. It is not for me to reject so
clear a call to duty.
Free to Serve Unhampered
"I am happy, however, in the
thought that it finds me free from
pledge or promise to any living man.
I shall hold it so to the end. Per
haps my sense of obligation is all
the greater because of these things.
"To those who saw fit to present
my name to the convention for its
consideration, and to the delegates
to that convention who accepted me,
1 am under a duty to justify their
choice which I fully realize: to the
party which honors me with its
leadership I owe every effort which
my faculties will allow; and to my
fellowcountrymen whose support
you bid me to solicit.
"I owe the ditty, first, to speak
the truth as 1 see it, without fear,
favor or evasion, and then so to
bear myself that every person in the
land, no matter how high or how
humble, may feel that he has in me
a friend, and that every citizen may
know that he can look to his gov
ernment for unflinching honesty in
thought and action.
No Favors for Sale
“Whan it becomes necessary, as
no doubt it will, to raise funds for
the conduct of the campaign they
will be contributed with this under
standing and this only: that neither
the Democratic party nor I as its
leader have any favors for sale.
“We can make hut one promise
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an impartial and, so far as human
wisdom will permit, a just govern
ment.
“To these things, Mr. Chairman,
I pledge myself.
"In the struggle to secure them £
invoke the support of all patriotic
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Two Plead Guilty
To Robbing Tampa
Banker of $24,000
TAMPA, Fla., Aug. 12.—R. D.
Hogue, former finger print expert
of the Tampa police department, and
Ted Albury, pleaded tuilty Monday
to participhtion Apijl 23 in the
holdup of A. C. Lewis, Tampa bank
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