Abstract

Davis the Double-Edged

The chief psychological and political puzzle growing out of the recent Democratic National Convention in New York can be explained possibly by going back to the excesses which marked the beginning of the convention. Among these excesses was a fervent and sincere but quite exaggerated McAdoo denunciation of Tammany and Al Smith and reaction and the money devil all lumped rhetorically into one lump and damned harmoniously and unitedly as the characteristic and essential outstanding product of the side-walks of New York. Inquiry, however, regarding New York soon indicated to the delegates that Al Smith, instead of being the tool of big business and the recognized enemy of progress in New York, had promoted numerous pieces of humanitarian and progressive legislation at Albany against much determined corporate opposition to them and was loved by the common people of New York with a personal affection for which there is no parallel anywhere else in all America in the case of any other champion of the common people's feelings and wishes.