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Maryland State Archives Jeffersonian, Towson, Maryland mdsa_sc3410_1_81-0099 Enlarge and print image (6M) |
| DAVIS, DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE, HAS HELD HALF DOZEN PUBLIC OFFICES, ALL OF WHICH SOUGHT HIM. His Career Is Largely Due To The . . Approaehableness That Draws Men To Confide In And Trust Him —His Life As Seen By Intimates. (Continued from Page 1) he so abnormally studious that he stood out in his classes as a criterion for others." He has always been known as a "gentleman and a thinker," discovered another inquiring reporter. He has been too much the gentleman to indulge in the strenuous tactics and pyrotechnical language that have brought other notable presidential candidates into the public eye. "He is simply another Coolidge," announces a less friendly critic in his own party. "You said it," replies an even less friendly critic, from the new and lively army of Senator La Follette. Mr. W. J. Bryan applied even severer characterizations in the course of a convention speech, which he may now wish to have forgotten, but at least he inspired Arthur Brisbane to announce in his colmun of July 8: "Instantly Davis's vote (in the convention) dropped away to practically nothing, and there it will stay. For, as Mr. Bryan said, you can't nominate the lawyer of J. Pierpont Morgan for President of the United States." All of this may be normal campaign persiflage, and Mr. Davis may be a "simply normal" sort of man, but it is rather abnormal, his friends point out, for a man to secure a Presidential nomination on a total campaign expenditure of less than $5,000. "Not in recent political history," declare the Davis campaigners, "has the nomination of a President been brought about with the expenditure of such small amount of money as was that of Mr. Davis." Another abnormal thing about the candidate and his candidacy is the fact that, even two days after he had received the nomination for President, considerable search failed to reveal that he had an efficient publicity bureau in operation. Modern press agents and modern publicity methods presumably were not provided for in the $5,000 Davis campaign fund. Both in the rtcent New York convention, and throughout most of his life, it appears, large and important plans have had a way of being handed to Mr. Davis, without much effort on his part. He has been too much of a gentleman, too dignified, to scramble for favors. Few men in public life, v/ho ascended the political ladder from State representative to his present nomination have been further from the realms of partizan politics. He has held half a dozen public Offices, and the offices all have sought him, generally with his consent. His career is largely due to the approachableness that draws men to confide in and trust him. Davis's career is a legal career with a political complexion. A good guide to it lies in the fact that he rarely has made a speech lasting more than half an hour, including his analysis of complicated legal problems before the Supreme Court, his expositions for personal political support, and his arraigaments of the Republican party. Exactly half of Mr. Davis's fifty-one years have been spent in public offices, but, nevertheless, he has never been classed as a politician. He comes from a section of the country where a man must look sharp and quick to avoid tripping! over economic, social and political: lines; yet he has been somewhat ofi a bipartizan favorite with his home folks. He doesn't stumble. It isn't his physical appearance only—.he is a bit tall and a bit slight—but his record of accomplishments and his attitude towar I life that give the impression of Davis that here is a man who has his head in the air and both feet solidly on the ground. Neither does he appear to have dug too deeply into the earth, but only to use it as a base for his nimble mobility; and when he moves the clouds that exist in the higher altitude dissolve. From all that has been learned of him in his public affairs, the appearance of Davis seems a perfect index to the inner man. His face is one of those open physiognomies, but suggestive more of a door than a window. "Come right in," he says without parting his lips. But yoj know you had better be very careful when you enter and not say "ain't" for "isn't." You feel that he would understand all right—but only too well. His eyes are frank—large, wide open and steady; his jaw is long, protruding and resolute—too assertive for trifling; his mout'i and nose are chisled as Praxiteles might have molded them; his forehead is high, broad and bulging, but relieved by frank, arched eyebrows. The un usual length of his head, accentuated by his underslung jaw, g^ves him a commanding, formidable aspect. Chief Justice Taft, recalls a friend of Mr. Davis's quoted in a special distpatch from Charlottesville, Virginia, once announced his opinion that Mr. Davis was the best all-around lawyer who had ever appeared before him; and in the straw vote taken among the principal business men of the community by a local newspaper Davis was put ahead' of even Senator Glass. Going back to his West Virginia days, Davis was born in Clarksburg, West Virginia, home of the coal baron and also the coal miner, on April 13, 1873, the son of John J. Davis, a Congressman, and Anna Kennedy Davis. His youth was that of the average small-town boy and there was nothing in it of sufficient importance for the newspapers to chronicle. Then he went to Washington and Lee University. He was graduated with a bachelor's degree when he was nineteen, and two years later, after he had received his master's he was offered the presidency of the little institution, which he declined. He preferred to practice law and was admitted to the bar, but he could not entirely resist the call of his alma mater, and he returned as assistant professor of ia.w for one year. In 1897 he and his father formed the law firm of Davis & Davis. His law practice at that time was of the average small-town lawyer—police court cases and as counsel to labo*-unions and corporations. On one occasion during a strike he was counsel for "Mother" Jones, the widely known labor agitator, and Eugene V. Debs, who were charged with inciting to riot. He became the regular counsel for the National Window Glass Workers, a labor union, and afterward successfully defended them in the Supreme Court. In June, 1899, Mr. Davis married Miss Julia T. McDonald of Kentucky, who died the following August. In that year he was elected to the West Virginia House of Delegates, the lower division of the State Legislature, where he was immediately made chairman of the Judiciary Committee, a position usually reserved for a man experienced both in law and politics. Chronicles hold that he was nominated while absent from his home, and that he was supported largely by Republicans, his constituency being composed in the majority by voters of the political faith opposite Butler Improvement Association WILL HOLD ITS BIG PICNIC August 7th, 1924 On Falls Road, Half Mile North of Butler, Md. Commencing at 2 P M. Games and Entertainments in Afternoon Good Old-Fashioned Conntry Supper at 5 P. M. Addresses by Prominent Speakers beginning 7 P. M. Followed by Big Open Air Dance on specially constructed floor. GRAY'S GINGER PEP ORCHESTRA WILL FURNISH THE MUSIC i^ALL WELCOME-BIG TIME^i Built by DURANT The A Remarkable Car With A Remarkable Value which is truly "QUITE GOOD ENOUGH" TOWSON FLINT COMPANY Phone Towson 317 COURT GARACE Towson, Md. to his. The following year he was a Democratic elector-at-large, an honorary preferment, and until 1904 he stuck to his knittin', going back into politics as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention at St. Louis, which nominated Alton B. Parker. Again he dropped from politics to pursue his own affairs and remained an obscure . attorney until 1911, when he was elected to the Sixty-second Congress the second Legislature of Taft's Administration. He was assigned to the Judiciary Committee and plodded along, gaining distinction by his work in committee rather than on the floor, where he made virtually no speeches. He was re-elected to the Sixty-third Congress, the first of Wilson's Administration, but was not destined to remain in the House. His Congressional career was distinguished by his work on the Judiciary Committee, particularly for the Clayton Act, which exempted labor unions from the operation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Law, with whose authorship he has been credited. Also he was active in the proceedings resulting from the impeachment of Federal Judge Archibald. His candidacy in both his campaigns was supported by both the steel and mine corporations and by organized labor. In the meantime he had, in 1912, married Ellen G. Bassel. He became the champion for women by assuming responsibility for the first equal suffrage platform ever introduced into West Virginia. Wilson picked him as Solicitor-General, the second in command of the Department of Justice. H3 made a reputation for talking little and saying a great deal. His colleagues said to him that he didn't mind how long his opponents talked, and that in fact he gave them full leeway in the hope they would pu the court to sleep, so he could wake the tribunal with a rapid-fire series of definitions. Among his chief cases as Solicitor-General were the selective draft, child labor, and Adamson eight-hour laws. His argument in favor of the last, which established the eight-hour day for railway employees, was cited later as illustrations of his liberality of convictions and his intellectual strength. The selective draft case he, of course, won but the child-labor law was held unconstitutional. He also argued successfully four noted anti-trust suits against the Reading Railroad, the Internationa] Harvester Company, the United States Steel Corporation and the anthracite coal-mine operators. He handled the first income-tax cases, winning the so-called "5 per cent, discount customs" case and the first "corporation stock dividend" case. He convinced the Supreme Court of the validity of the Federal Reserve Act in those sections in whlcii it empowered member banks to act as trustees, and the so-called tank-car cases, which dealt with the'pow-er of the Interstate Commerct Commission to order railroads to increase their tank-car equipment. Davis continued to serve as Solicitor-General throughout the first year of America's participation in the World War, but in the second year President Wilson appointed him a member of the commission sent to Berne, Switzerland, to confer witn German government representatives over the disposition and exchange of prisoners. The commission had scarcely organized when Walter Hines Page resigned as Ambassador to England and Davis was appointed to succeed him. There is a story in Washington, that has never been denied, that Wilson and Lansing, then Secretary of State, was very much perplexed over a successor to Page, one of the most brilliantly successful of all the Ambassadors the United States had sent to the Court of St. James'. The President and Lansing were discussing the situation one day, ;^o the story goes, in the presence of a confidential clerk of the State Department, who timidly suggested Davis for the post. His appointment was received with surprise, some of the President's critics feeling that Davis, though a potentially able man, had not sufficiently distinguished himself or been in the public eye long enough to receive such a responsible post at such an unprecedentedly critical time. He hurried back from Berne to consult with the President before taking the Ambassadorship, and did not present his credentials at No. 10 Downing Street, until after hostilities had ceased, accompanying the Presidential peace party on its first trip across. London looked upon Davis, we are told, "as a representative of the new diplomacy, then so widely headlined." During the three ytars that Davis occupied his post, during the tense period of peace negotiations and afterward, the American Ambas sador is credited with winning the respect and admiration of the British Government to an unusual degree. The London Times, with more prophetic insight than might have appeared at the time, remarked, on his departure, that "Englishmen love him because his head is right and his heart is right, and because in a world overfull of folly and uncharity he stands out as a consistent, witty, charming pleader for sanity and good-will among men. It is of such stuff that Presidents should be made." The London Morning Post, the best diplomatically informed newspaper in Europe, said of him during his tenure: "There is none, perhaps, whose counsel is more eagerly sought or whose word command?: more attention." When he relinquished his post in 1921 with the advent of President Harding's Republican Administra tion, he delivered a farewell address to the Pilgrim's Society in which he pleaded for continued Anglo-American co-operation. "Britain and America are big ships," he said on that occasion. "In their maneuvres they must ever take account of one another's proximity and they must occasionally expect to get one another s wash. But God pity the steersman who precipitates a collision between them one7 the passengers and crew get their hands on him." In April, 1921, shortly before ho retired from his diplomatic post, he was beseiged by Acting Lord Mayor O'Neil of Dublin and High Sheriff McWalter to intervene in behalf of the hunger strikers dying in Mount Joy Prison, but he declined, saying his powers did not extend "to any representations except on behalf ol the citizens of the United States." He later pointed out that he was not prejudiced against the Irish, his mother, Anna Kennedy, being a Celt. "I have Irish blood in my own veins," he said. Davis was introduced as a Presidential candidate at the 1920 Democratic Convention in San Francisco, and "was gaining strength when, on the thirty-eighth ballot Palmer sud-dely withdrew and Cox was nominated." Davis came .o the United States during the campaign, and worked in behalf of Cox and Roosevelt, "emphasizing his view of the necessity of the United Statts joining the League of Nations." Upon his return to England to close his affairs, he was widely mentioned as the American to be chosen to sit on the Court of International Justice at The Hague, and it was reported that President Harding considered him for an appointment to the Supreme Court. The American newspaper correspondents in London presented him with a set of pipes upon "lis departure, and he was made an Honorary Pencher of the Middle Temple by the legal profession of England. His first address upon his return was before the New York State Bar Association, he having joined the firm of Stetson, Jennings & Russell of 15 Broad Street, the firm of which Grover Cleveland was a member when he was elected President of the United States. The head of the firm, Francis Lynde Stetson, personal counsel to J. P. Morgan, invited him to participate in its general work because of the death of Frederick B. Hennings, and the name of Davis was added to the "shingle," The firm represents many big corporations, both banking and industrial, and it was because of his connection with it that many political seers have argued against his availability as a political candidate. In his first address at home he advocated American entrance into the World Court, declaring that from his experience abroad he knew that "discussions of the foreign relations of the United States have not only cut to the quick in the last three years, but they have also touched many on the raw." "Soon or late," he told his colleagues, "passion and partizanship must end their sway, and realism— the only realism that is lasting, realism inspired by great ideals and lofty purposes; realism resting not alone on finite reason but also on faith—must come into its own. "When the hour of calf reflection strikes, who will deny that the peace of America is oy the side of the Permanent Court of International Justice, to which by example and precept she has been so great a contributor? Will not sentiment, reason and self-interest then show the way to her full participation and support?" It is recalled that, in his legal capacity, he has served not only great corporations—whicn he particularly needed to do, in recent years, since he returned from his Ambassadorship in England practically "broke," but also Eugene Y. Debs, the Socialist and pacifist; "Mothtr" Jones, the union organizer and numerous labor unions. The letter which he wrote to one of his friends when it was suggested to him that he might have a better chance to be nominated if he gave up his Morgan connections, is credited with having played a considerable part in his nomination. He declined to give up his corporation business. His letter concluded: "I have betn called upon to serve a great many different kinds of men —some of them good, some of them indifferently .good, and others over whose character we will drop the veil of charity. Indeed, some of my clients, thanks perhaps to their failure to secure a better lawyer, have become the involuntary guests for fixed terms of the nation and the State. "Since the law, however, is a profession and not a trade, I conceive it to be the duty of the lawyer, just as it is the duty of the priest or the sur geon, to serve those who call upon him, unless, indeed, there is some insuperable obstacle in the way. "No one in all this list of clients has ever controlled, or fancies that he could control, my personal or my political conscience. I am vain enough to imagine no one ever will. "The only limitation upon a right-thinking lawyer's independence is in the duty he owes to his 2lients, once elected, to serve them without the slightest thought of the effect such a service may have upon their own personal or political fortunes. Any lawyer who surrenders this independence or shades this duty by trimming his protessional course to fit the gusts of public opinion, in my judgment not only dishonors him self but degrades the profession of which he should be proud to belong. "What is life worth, after all, if one has no pholosophy of his own to live it by? If one surrenders this to win an office, what will he live by after the office is won? Tell me that!" Mr. Davis is a trustee of the Carnegie Endowment Fund for International Peace, a member of the American Society of International Law, and belongs to the Metropolitan, University, Chevy Chase, Lawyers' and National Press Clubs of Washington, and the Century, University, Recess and Piping Rock Country Clubs of New York. He is a member of the Phi Kappa Psi and Phi Betta Kappa fraternities, and is a thirty-second degree Mason. He received an honor seldom given to Americans when he was made Honorary Bencher oi the Middle Temple, London. ACTIVITY REIGNS Through Met. Sanitary Dept. County Is Undertaking Big Job. (Continued from Page 1) hands of Albert E. Waldman, an engineer of note. Chief Engineer Waldman, for that is his official title, is well known not only in the county, but outside, as one of the best sanitary and water engineers. In many localities in the county sanitary conditions, due tc lack of sewers, are quite bad. In some sections the land is in the shape of a plateaau with very little fall, and there are no large streams of any size into which sewerage could be discharged and disposed of by dilution; then again a number of private sewers have been built up with no general plan to fit the needs of the Community. As a whole the main object of the builders of these private sewers was to remove sewage from their own property and dump it promisciously upen the property of others, with little or no regard for the owners upon whose property the sewage was discharged. Conditions in various localities became so bad that at the last session of the Legislature the Metropolitan Sanitary District bill was introduced and passed. 12 BUSHELS AVERAGE Nearly Entire Wheat Crop Of County Has Been Threshed. (Continued from Page 1) The reason for this great jump Is that one half of thf; wheat crop in Canada has been ruined this year by the excessive heat and lack of moisture. Reports have been pouring in from all sections of that country stating that the farmers each day are plowing under hundreds of acres of this crop. The price paid last year in Baltimore county was about 89 cents and never went over the dollar mark. 'MAYOR" OF WHITE HALL BUCKS ROAD DEPT. Members of Village "Executive Council" Take Law Into Own Hands, Ripping Down Barricade On Highway Under Construction. (Continued from Page 1) White Hall road, which is under construction by the Roads Engineer's Department. Soon the news was "broadcasted" concerning the outrage perpetrated by the Roads Engineer's Department, and several members of "The Mayor's" executive council responded, ready and willing to do or die. Following a brief consultation on the roadside, action—quick, determined and defiant action, was agreed upon and forthwith the men took off their coats, rolled up their sleeves gritted their teeth and jumped in. Railroad ties and other heavy timber, used in the barricade were hurled into the falls and the red lantern hurled heavenward, descending upon the ground with a thud, smashing into a thousand pieces. Their task done "the faithful straightened themselves, took a deep breath of the pure night air and with jubilant hearts wended their way homeward. The next morning the Roads Engineer's Department barricaded the highway again and that night stationed a watchman on the scene. Just as the last glow of the hot July day was sinking on the western horizon "the faithful" appeared again, introducing themselves by threatening to chuck the watchman into the falls, and from all accounts they intended to do it just as the villians do in the movies, but before they had time en enact their feat, a patrolman and an inspector, concealed under the bridge where the road is barricaded, stepped out, and needless to say, saved the watchman from the terrible experience of being hurled over the cliff and into the stream below. "The Mayor" of White Hall, indignant at it all, called on the County Commissioners and in strenous terms protested the closing of the road, demanding it be immediately opened. "The Mayor" cared little whether the concrete just recently laid was hard enough or not for travel—he wanted the road opened and opened quick. However, he was piomptly told that the road would be kept closed in accordance with the contractor's agreement. Not satisfied with this, "The Mayor" interviewed the State's Attorney, where he found out "What was what," and after a lecture glided out of the county seat as insigni-ficently as he came. TWO OFFSPRINGS OF HENRY FORD HAVE ENCOUNTER. Two Fords, one of the vintage of 1917 and one of the vintage of 1923 had a bad encounter on the York Road near Secinary Avenue early Friday morning, and from the dented tin in their wretched bodies the mangled steering contrapshun and other noticeable disabilities one received about as much damage as the other. Who the occupants were neither the police nor the Court Garage at Towson, where they now repose in tangled masses of wreckage, know. Motorcycle Patrolman Kelley happened to pass the scene and seeing the distressing condition of the two offsprings of Henry Ford, sent an S. O. S. to the garage for the trouble wagon. ----------o---------- SEVERAL SNAKES KILLED. Several copper-head snakes have been killed at the Little Falls, near Laurel Brook. COUNTY "GAS" DEALERS TO HAVE CHECK-UP PUT ON THEM. Purpose Is To Set State Gasoline Tax—Receipts From Wholesalers And Sales To Consumer To Be Guaged By Inspectors. SUSPENDED FROM SHIPPING MILK. Joseph Costa, of Phoenix, and Wheeler Barry and Raymond W. Ayres, of White Hall, have had their shipments of milk to Baltimore city suspended by the health authorities. I (Continued from Page 1) the tax. Only by check of the filling stations can the identity of the wholesalers be ascertained, it was pointed out. The survey will include not only the name of the wholesaler furnishing the filling stations, but also the amount purchased and sold by the stations. This will allow a double check when sales of the wholesalers are examined. John N. Marckall, chairman of the Maryland State Roads Commission, said several cases of the failure of wholesalers to pay the State tax had been brought to the commission's attention during the last year. On investigation the commission learned the wholesalers in question had not endeavored to evade the law, but were ignorant of their liability under the law. In each case, Mr. Mackall said the situation had been adjusted satisfactorily. Both Wm. S. Gordy, Comptroller, and Mr. Mackall insisted the survey was not for the purpose of prosecution, but to find leaks in taxes. RITCHIE GETS DRESSING FOR OPERATION WOUND. • Governor Ritchie, who had a slight operation performed on his nose recently by Dr. R. H. Follis, went to Baltimore from Annapolis to have the wound dressed. The Governor said he was experiencing no trouble from the operation. TIRE SALE! We are offering to our trade Firestone Tires and Tubes at a great reduction, Get our prices before you buy. SPECIAL: 30x31 Clin. 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