DAVIS HAS BUT ONE MESSAGE FOR AMERICA: HONEST GOVERNMENT
Columbus, Ohio (JFK+50) On August 26, 1924, in his first address to the people of Ohio, Democratic presidential nominee John W. Davis "had only one message for the American people--that of 'common honesty' in government."
Mr. Davis said he believes that the Democrats can furnish "an honest, candid, and fearless government."
The Democratic nominee was introduced by former Governor James M. Cox. The governor said to the crowd of several thousand...
"Our candidate is not a man of mysterious silence."
JFK+50 NOTE
Calvin Coolidge, the Republican nominee in 1924, was notoriously a man of few words. The joke went that once a woman sitting next to the President at a White House dinner talked his ear off the whole evening until finally she confided to Mr. Coolidge, "I bet my friends I could get you to say more than two words." Silent Cal thought for a brief moment, then said "You lose!"
SOURCE
"Common Honesty Stressed By Davis," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., August 26, 1924, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
