The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1910-10-13
SEN. BORAH
MAKES RINGER
Large and Enthusiastic Audi
ence Greets Gifted States
man and Orator.

Senator VIM. E. Borah, the popular
S. congress. met the people of
Grangeville and Camas Prairie at the
opera house in this city last Satur-
day evening in one of the largest and
most enthusiastic politic.l meetings
ever held in Idaho county. From
the time the band finished its last
stirring selection until The speaker
made his final peroration and closed
his magnificent plea. the splendid
audience sat spen-bound, under the
magic OF his unexcelled oratory which
was only interrupted by the punctu
alton of vociferous applause as cli-
max after climax was reached in his
fervid defense of the rights of the
people" and the excoriation of the
trusts and constituencies corporations
which in their unsuitable greed would
disrupt the government of their faith
ers and bind in bonds of slavery the
weaker members of our national
brotherhood
( To say that Mr.. Borah 5 an orator
is telling the truth. but only part of
the truth; he is a thinker, and he
lives in the spirit and arogress of
the great and growing nation which
he honors with his maIterly repre-
sentation in the nationa. congress.
/ Mr.. Borah is a westerenzl, an Idaho
an, If you please, emburd with the
ideas, and possessed of the active,
vigorous thought of his Surroundings,
which he so ably and fittiagly clothes
in the expressive but rell chosen
varnacular of his land If adoption.
With these natural and acquired tai
ents, and the addition OF a pleasing
personality, it is but li'tle wonder
that he has won recognition in the
far east as well as on the western
slope as one of the great speakers
and thinkers of the day. and has the
hearts of his own proud people laid
open to him.
That is the solution of the fact
that in the meeting of Saturday
night while he ripped up the demo-
cratic platform, dealt unspe rngly with
many of the shortcomings of Popu-
list, socialist, democrat an republican
and in a most pronounced manner
threw down the gauntlet to the OPP
posers of state wide prohibition
within our borders, exc claiming in a
high-pitched. tragic voice, poised ON
tip-toes and with pointed finger:
you will have to take prohibition
whether you want it or not either
in the form of statutory enactment
or constitional amendment, for the
forces are effectively organized in
the state at this time which will
bring 1t about, and you lad as we'll
accept 1t gracefully. tn y applauded
him alike "wet' and dry" socialist
democrat and republican. and the
next day all claimed him as their
very own and the advocate DEFENDER
of the tenets and principles peculiar
unto themselves.
At the close OF the address. which
lasted an hour and forty-five minutes
the crowd passed down in front oi
the stage and greeted the Senator
and w. l.. Clifford, republican cand
idate for secretary of st ate, who had
accompanied him with friendly hand
clasp and hearty words of commenda
tion and welcome.
Senator Borah honored Grangevillt
with the only address delivered by
him In the north on this trip, coming
all the way from Boise in response
to the urgent request of The citizens
of this community. although his ser
, vices as speaker were sought fol
most earnestly by other and more
populous points. He Went from here
, direct to Portland where Mrs Borat
is receiving medical treatment but
| will return to the north again. speak
/ ing at Lewiston about the 25th