Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-09-26
Birthday Calendar
II rh;. I. Your Birthday

" This 10 Your Birthday
Be especially considerate Of those
above you In position. giving them mol
excuse for using their power against
you. You will make journey or make
some change which will benefit you.
Those born today will be quick and
alert and will start out In life with
bright prospects. To great a scatter
ing Of forces will sometimes cause
their failure
some alarmists on either side. it Is not
explicit enough for their present po-
litical party name. But to the great
mass of sober, independent voters. who
want MAN and not dancing puppet
work ed by a string, it is one of the
strongest, most satisfactory, most help
fully revolutionary political docu-
ments since Lincoln wrote the emansi-
patton proclamation.
Pretty strong praise?
Yes. but true. For 40 years, both the
great political parties have been largely
what a few powerful leaders declared
them to be. To follow their lead. was
regular" to declare ones own rights
after the leaders had spoken. was
treason. There Is not on record any
where else, the inevitable protest Of
any really great man against this in
tellectual slavery within ones party.
No man. though he steal a thousand
delegates and make it unanimous, has
a right to say that he Is the party. The
Recorder has vehemently challenged
the snobbish belief that in the will or
the favor of a few powerful political
leaders. lies the real wish Of the Re-
publican--or the Democratic--party;
both of them made up OF sovereign
American citizens, without king or
serf among them. But the Recorder
wasn't a United S ties senator. going
before the people on partisan cleo
ton. There have been many who re-
volt, by going to other parties; none
who go directly to the people for APP
proval. There have been broken
hearted cutters: there have been SOL
emn, sepulchral oysters who sal moth
ing, whatever they may lave thought
But there have been no Martin Luthers,
defying the sellers OF papal indClgences
though revering the church; no po-
liticai John Wesleys, standing out
alone against q ioTIu-iiuucH Aluoi
hateful to the individual conscience.
Borahs speech is tho plain American
citizens first war or against privilege
masquerading as patriotism, against
personal arrogance that steals the peo-
pies rule.
What would you have-an intellec-
! tual slave? The senate has been
cursed with the Clarks and Guggen-
helms and the Standard Oil Baileys and
| the Burtons and an unutterable list OF
| 'regulars"-so regular" that perfect
rectangle would look wabbly and zig
gag in comparison; men to whom a
| theft or betrayal was Il virtue. did IT
but bear the party name put there by
one powerful boss. Would you have a
| moral leper, Haunting the shameful
badge of a man whom he in his heart
knew was wearing stolen honors? Or
a mental derelict, doubling the evil
dence of his own eyes and sayin.. that
what he thought crime was after
all a credit, and shifting the matter Of
conscience over on to 1.-The party, as
| plate shifted his respo visibility on to
the Jew bosses? Or do the other side
expect him to leave the party of his
youth, of his splendid manhood, as a
play william would force maiden to
desert home or lover to save life or
honor? He does not wish to leave the
Republican party where he has done all
his great wordsworth you have him
forswear himself to another party!
Would you have a senator who would
sit I'D like a trained bear with brass
collar around his neck, and beg for an
office at the hands OF few political
peanut vendors?
NO! The people Of Idaho want a
imam. not slave. not a parrot, not a
criminal, not a hyprocrite, to represent
them. A man to whom theft Is repug-
nant. whether 1t be stealing the 1daho
farmers market through reciprocity. or
the Idaho homestcader's life through
| harsh laws, or the Idaho state lands
through ill-applied conservation, or
presidential nomination by the beng
ficiaries Of a thousand thefts. Senator
Borah has q right to his opinion on the
presidency; when he says that the
Chicago convention was stolen for
Taft, he can never again be an honest
man and support the theft. "The man
who steals for you. will steal from
you;" and no honest friend could wish
him to prove SO mean a theft as to beg
for office at the price OF honor.
| The Rec order does not know. or care,
who Borah supports TO- president. 1t
| is enough to know that he is a national
figure for his senatorial ability, integ-
rity. and sanity; that he got his power
from the people. and that he Ii the
strongest peoples advocate the west
has ever sent: that he will neither
steal, nor lie. nor beg nor turn traitor
for office; that he has the courage to
refuse to wear any mans badge; that.
disbelicving in a score Of the principal
acts and In the honesty OF the nominal
ton OF the president. he is able to see
that to indorse the man Is to dishon-
orably indorse his acts: that he has
made more good legislation than any
Imam ever sent from the west; and that
the people KNOW 1t. The effort to
make him wear a servile livery will
fail: for he viii welcome defeat rather
THAN degradation.