The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-07-04

to this story, which is the most reasonable yet
exploited, senator and president side of
this controversy and senator and a cabinet officer
the other side. The senator who had formed the
strongest partnership won.
The cabinet officer has caused it to be stated that
there was conflict between the executive and the
department of justice this Idaho matter and
Senator Hepburn has stated that there was no diff
ference between himself and Senator Borah over it.
The harmony that reposes between officials and poll
ticans is wonderful until it is turned inside out and
its internal sores exposed
The New York Sum- later in the day. was moved
to edtorially review the Increasing Importance of
Senator Borah" and in of thinly yelled sarcasm
it commended his example to all aspiring ones who
are ambitious to rise in the world with something
like meteoric rapidty. In concluding its editorial
The Sun said:
This is the simple story of the rise in public inn
portance of a far-sghted and presumably capable
lawyer and politician of Idaho. 1t is worth studying
for those who aspire to weight and influence in the
councils of the nation.
In its Simple story" The Sun related that Mr.
Borah aimed directly the bulls eye of presidential
favor shortly after he arrived at the seat of govern
ment by defending Mr.. Roosevelts Brownsville out
rage in speech on the floor of the senate The New
York paper, commenting this stroke of political
genius said
The quality of his rhetoric seems to have been ap-
proved in the white house, for now it is announced
that the United States district attorney and the
United States marshal who were concerned in the
prosecution of the senator have been removed from
office, they being charged with prosecuting him and
with Matching a political conspiracy to njure him.
Senator Borah demanded their removal, and against
the protests of the attorney general the president
moved them.
1t has not been commonly supposed that the
president was easy mark, but must not
forget that he had committed palpabe blunder
in dischargeing the negro soldiers and under
such heavy fire that the reassuring tones of the de-
fender in the forum of the warmed the cookies
of his heart and the suddenly rising from
the illimtabe plains of the boundess taken
to his embrace as dearly loved.
And to think that the junior senator at that
time working the occupant of the white house for the
loan of the big stick that he might successfully way
lay the servants of the government for obeying the
orders Of of the cabinet ministers of the propri
etor of the stick.
The New York Sun could not say, without a
consciousness that its utterances would be accepted
in their ironca that the story of the rise of
the Junior senator was worth studying for those
who aspire to weight and influence in the councils of
the nation"
The Washington correspondence above quoted con-
firms the impression that Attorney General Bona
parte acted in perfect good faith with Mr.. Ruick
and Mr. Rounds He had promised them protection
from the possible consequences of the prosecution of
influential men, had endeavored to shield them from
the wrath of politician, but rendered helpless
by the nterposition of his superior officer, wooed
from the line of duty by the siren voice of the
senator from Idaho with grudge to pay