Dixit

Mr. Davis's speech of acceptance was divided into four main sections 1)preliminary remarks addressed to the Notification Committee; 2) a general review, point by point, of the Republican Administration; 3) a general resumé of what the Democratic Party promises; 4) a peroration dealing with the terms of Mr Davis's acceptance.

Preliminary Remark. "These are the hills that cradled me and to which as boy and man, I lifted my eyes for help. In this soil rest four generations of my people—artisans, tradesmen, farmers and a sprinkling of the professions—laborers all, who played in simple fashion their appointed parts in the life of this community. . . . These witnesses who surround us are the companions of my youth and manhood. . . .

"I have read your platform and its declarations of party principle and find them such as I can heartily approve. For these things I thank God and take courage."

Republican Record. "There is abroad in the land a feeling too general to be ignored, too deep-seated for any trifling, that men in office can no longer be trusted to keep faith with those who sent them there and that the powers of government are being exercised in the pursuit of personal gain instead of common service. ... In 1920 we passed through a political campaign in which materialism was preached as a creed and selfishness as a national duty.

"I speak with restraint when I say that it has brought forth corruption in high places, favoritism in legislation, division and discord in party councils, impotence in Government and a hot struggle for profit and advantage which has bewildered us at home and humiliated us abroad."

1) Corruption. "The time demands plain speaking. It is not a welcome task to recount 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 Reserves so necessary to the security of the country; a Secretary of the Navy ignorant of the spolLaon 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 entitled to the nation's gratitude and care. Such crimes are too gross to be forgotten or forgiven."