National Affairs: Personal Platform

If John W. Davis had written the Democratic platform, much as Coolidge and LaFollette dictated their respective platforms, there would be no need to tabulate his opinions separately. The following is the platform which Mr. Davis wrote himself, as compiled from many utterances made here and there:

Labels. "We may leave our Republican opponents such terms as conservative and radical, progressive and reactionary, regular and insurgent, to describe or explain the bitter discord that divides their ranks.

"We are content with a nobler adjective. It is the glory of the Democratic Party to be known as the party of liberalism speaking for and...

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