| Show DAVIS SERVES I NOTICE TO HIT AT CORRUPTION N Demo Democratic Candidate for Presidency Replies to Daugherty Letter Stressing Stress Stress- ing Element of Honesty I NEW EW YORK Sept 24 Having HIwing Having served notice that there is to be no i obscuring of ot othe the issue that the American American people shall be aroused I Ito to condemn and nd not to condone the I betrayal of official trust John W W. Davis prepare prepared toda today to return to the stump determined to strike out harder than ever on the subject of or corruption In itt government Th The notice from the Democratic presidential nominee was contained in a letter written yesterday esterday to Harry M M. M Daugherty in reply to toolie toone toone one olie one In which the former attorney general protested against what he characterized the usually vague and all the more reprehensible reference w which Mr Ir Davis has made during the campaign to his official conduct Agreeing with Mr 11 Daugherty that there is something more Im Important in this y jear ear of ot gr grace ce than election to office or of political success suc suc- cess cess ces Mr 11 Davis said aid the Issue of ot honesty honesty of r public officials could not be beclouded by your forced effort to represent the real contest of this campaign as one between the de defenders defenders de- de fenders lenders of ot the constitution and andI I those who seek seele to to overthrow iti it i Under tinder leaders fresh from froll a n. baptism of or In lurid and suffering suffer suffer- suffering ing Russia FIRST REQUISITE If It the tho constitution is to endure en en- en- en dure lure Mr 11 Davis wrote the first requisite is is is' that men who hold office of office office of- of fice under it shall shaH be honest and faithful to their trusts Its real enemies s are not th the reds and bolshevists bol- bol sh of whom you ou speak whose shadows frighten you but corrupt and impotent public officials and their A Asserting that instead of being quite veiled his allusions In the campaign to Mr Daugherty had been bren both direct ct and specific Mr D Davis vis declared that he found no warrant whatever for tor withdrawing withdraw ing lag a n. single one of t them I In connection with the Indictment of of United States Senator Burton K IC Wheeler of ot Montana Mr Da Days Davis Js I assailed both the department of or Justice and the Republican national nation nation- I al committee in hi connection with sending their agents to Montana I He lIe added that the significant thing W was S that no effort eort to Uh findan find findan 1 an indictment had been made until I assumed a leading part pai t tin I in the criticism of ot the administration administration adminis and of your yourself elf I RESUMES CAMPAIGN Leaving Leaving New York this this' aft afternoon afternoon after after- r- r noon Mr Davis will renew his c campaign in West st Virginia speakIng speaking speaking speak speak- ing there tomorrow noon at Charleston and tomorrow night at Huntington On Friday he ho he will will r speak at Bluefield and will make malte a number of or brief brier talks t at places along the route between those cities Le Leaving West Virginia Friday night he will return to New York but will stop over at Wilmington Saturday evening to sp speak ak there Next Nest Monday he will deliver addresses addresses addresses ad ad- dresses at Frederick and Baltimore Md lid and then he plans to campa campaign cam cam- pa in New England and New NewYork York YorI state f 1 |
