The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1912-06-06

ly escapes the usual skinning'
passed out to our national law
makers at the hands of the caus
tic writer Of who's Who" il
the Saturday Evening Post, bu
has evidently so impressed him
as he does almost every one who
really gets to know him well
with his manliness, fairness ant
true worth, as to levy heavy tri
butte on editorial boquet garden
thing which few of the public mel
have been able so far to do. The
following from the aforesaid gin.
gerry writer, sounds like it might
have come from the pen of one
of Mr.. Borah' s home editors. 1t
says:
The words would freeze in your
face if you attempted to- call Hen.
ry Cabot Lodge Hank" OF
"Heinie" and if they didn t Hen
ry Cabot would freeze you after
you had spoken thus. And sup
pose you clapped Elihu Root on
the back and shouted: Howdy,
Ellie, old top!" Suppose you
did, There would be no further
need for refrigeration ON your
part for years to come.
When you come to think of
Borah, however, you stutter and
stammer over the William Edgar
part of it and refer to him as
Bill-Bill Borah-not disrespect-
fully or lightly, but because he
is Bill Borah; albeit he is also
one of the most able senators of
these United States and one Of
the most useful. You cant get
away from Bill, and you do not
want to. Thus the ayes have it,
and he is Bill Borah for the pur-
poses Of this story.
Now it would never be suspected
of Bill that he would set a fash
ion in anything unless in illum-
ination of some of the dark cor
ners of the senate-but he did it.
He established one mode. To be
sure, not many have followed it
yet; but that does not detract
from its great value. This was it:
He proved it is far better for a
man to be tried on criminal
charges at the beginning of his
senatorial term than at the end
or in the middle. If you will.
think that over you will see the
great advantages of the proce-
dure.
To explain: Bill Borah was
lawyer in Idaho-and a good one.
He had large retainers and he
was an able counselor, learned in
the law and experienced in it's
practice. Naturally some of his
retainers were from corporations,
including lumber corporations
that operate extensively in his
state and in adjoining states. He
was practicing law when he be-
came a candidate for the senate.
Politics in Idaho is as various
as elsewhere-also, as precarious.
In Idaho politics is involuted, con
voluted, anfractuous and imper-
scrutable-also, elsewhere. Bill
Borah found this out. He was
candidate for the senate. 1t seem
ed to him and to his friends, on
certain afternoon at two of the
clock, that he had the votes in
the legislature to elect him. 1t
seemed sol In reality it was not.
so; for, at eight of the clock on
that same day, some six hours
after all had seemed seemly to
Bill and his frineds, the legisla
ture elected another to the place
Bill had deemed his.
They called in the other, he
being Senator Hepburn, and the
senator made the legislature an
orotund speech of thanks for the
great honor conferred on him.
Then as all was merry and each
man was each other mans brother
they sent for Bill Borah and told
him to pipe few merry harmony
lays. Bill came. He addressed
the legislature, but. never a merry
lay piped he. Instead, he told
the Legislature that at two of the
clock that afternoon the job, so
neatly conferred on another, had
been his; but that he had been
seDarated therefrom in the inter