The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1912-11-01
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Edited BY the Democratic
Club Of Kendrick, Latah
County, Idaho
DEMOCRATIC VISION
OF SENATOR B0RAH

iltical developments at the day must
necessarily be profoundly impressed
by the various comments on the ca
reer Of Senator Borah. the erstwhile
idol of Idaho. That he in a man of
brains and great versatility no one
for a moment denies; that he is a
paragon of virtue no one for a mo-
ment Believes. That he has made a
brilliant senator cannot be refuted;
that he has used his attachments in
the best interests of the people is
open to serious question.
But from the standpoint of party
expectancy his political acts of ennis
sion and commission could readily
be condoled and his political party
could i'll afford not to send him back
to the senate of the United States.
His political party''-aye, there is
the rub! Where does he belong?
He refused to leave the republican
party that he might be returned to
the senate. Yet no man in Idaho
has done more to discredit the regu-
lar presidential nominee than this
same senator Borah. He travelled
from Boise to Caldwell to meet the
Bull Moose Special that had in
tow the only ex-president. He
travelled with him back to Boise and
that evening introduced the greatest
vilifier of President Taft and the Re-
publican party as the greatest man
in the world to-day That incident
alone caused the writer to remove a
"Borah Button from the lapel of
his coat. That the Senator had the
undoubted right to do as he pleased
as an individual is conceded, but to
do so and at the same time ask the
suffrage o. the Republican party is
an act of hypocrisy that cannot be
passed by. His party naturally de-
manded an explanation and in his
first public address a short time af-
forwards at Meridian, that he stood
on the record he had made, posing
as one greater than the party that
gave him his only opportunity to
make his boosted record"
His record has been carefully ma
lized, and it is found to be nothing
worth Boosting about. Doubtless at
this day he would himself not be
willing to have epitaph written" he
was the father of the three-year
homestead BILL" the terms of which
are admittedly vicious: He repre-
sents himself as a modern Esau
working in the interests of the peo-
pie but his record is the record of
the ancient Jacob. A few days ago
a Moscow man stepped off the train
at Kendrick. He removed his Borah
button and offered it to each of four
representative men of Kendrick but
each in turn refused, and why? The
answer is easy. Senator Borah has
been a traitor to his party and yet
asks their suffrage. After his de-
feat at Chicago, had he made the
declaration, as he did, that he would
not leave the Republican party, and
then rolled up his sleeves and work.
ed for the head of the ticket, as a
Democrat, our W vote would have
cast where it would accomplish the
most for the senator. 1t will be in
teresting. on election day. to watch
the old time republicans march up
to the ballot box and vote for astate
representative pledged to support
Borah. Our money says they can't
do it without gagging.
Now a word as to the legislative
ticket. 1t would seem the best of
political wisdom to send men to the
State Legislature who ha We been tried
and found 10 meet e1erz ren,,;re