Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-03-27
issues NOT BROUGHT OUT
PERSONAL ALLUSIONS AND RICK
ERINGS REPRESENT CHIEF
STOCK IN TRADE.
CONVENTIONS DISCRACEFUL
Politics Not Definite or Clcar-.As
Long As Party Has Message
1t VIII Get Attention.

WASHINGTON, March 26.--Sena-
tor Borah, OF Idaho, one of the pro-
gressive republican leaders of the SEN
ate, speaking in that body today,
charged both of the great political
parties with utter failure in their
campaigns to give the people clear and
distinct issues as of old. He contrast
ed present issues with those discussed
| by Lincoln and Douglass.
I'VE awake each morning to a sat
urnalia of personal driVel, TO bick-
erings and quarrelings which have all
| the flavor Of discussions carried on
In the political groggeries of the low
est dives in the most rotten districts
OF our great cities" said Senator Bor-
ah "One week our great dailies are
teeming with the difference between
Wilson and Harvey, the next week of
what Colonel Roosevelt said to some
personal friend in Oyster Bay, the
next week how the president failed
to appreciate the worth Of some rough
rider and thereby change the current
of history.
The People Don't Like Ii.
III we could only know the wither-
ing contempt and bitter scorn which
the earnest and industrious people OF
this country really have for this cow
ardly abandonment of the great is
sues for this betrayal Of the destin-
les of a great party, some heroic ef-
fort would certainly be made to get
away from the most shameless and
disgraceful contention that ever en-
barrassed great cause. Turn back
and read the great debates of Lincoln
and Douglass when those intellectual
giants fought for supremacy-scarce
ly personal allusion from beginning
to end. They were leaders worthy
of great parties and they held the
cinfidenfe of men as few men have
done"
Both Parties Drifting.
Senator Borah said that both par
ties are drifting. He declared that
the political party will win which Civ /
es to the people the clear and definite /
policy in It's platform in the next cam I.
paign and puts upon the platform
man whose character is q guarantee
that the pledge Will be kept. 1t is
immateral, he said, under what name
or under what banner the announce
ment is made.
Senator Borah was speaking in de-
tense of the primary system which had
been assailed by many senators in
heir discussion of the investigation of
-he case of Senator Stephenson of
Wisconsin. Defending the primary
system he said no one had ever cor
ended it would make all candidates
lecent and all men honest. You had
ust as well declaim against the whole
moral law of Sinai and the statutes
which define and punish crime, be-
,ause after three thousand years, not
the statutes. men still
ommit crimes" he said. q
Strong for Primary System.
Corruption cannot live under the
SYSTEM" said Senator Borah,
IL men have the courage, as they
will have, to punish those who stand
xposed. a primary system accom-
anied with corrupt practice act ,
'ill make ii impossible to control our ,
lections by the use of money. Sem
tor Stephenson could have put a
lillion into a caucus and brought hts ,
urchased parchment of election here ,
nd the chances would have been one Y
l ten thousand that ii would ever
ave been known. But he put in a r
undred thousand dollars and even {
lthout a corrupt practice act and [
lth an attempt to destroy original G
.omoranda, the exposure is never. c
ieless complete and the only thing y
ow left to be determined is the judg- q
cnt of the senate" $
Bank Account As Platform.
1t was argued by Serator Borah i
lat If a rich man has no qualifica-
On for Office other than his money
will cost him money to run. But 4
the candidate represents some ques-
5n of great moment, the senator said
{ he deals In ideas and issues. in
cad Of patronage and checks, he
III win over all the money you can I
1t into the fight. one of the very "
ings for which | hold Senator Ste II
lenson responsible In his campaign III
that he entered the race with his 81
nix account for his PLATFORM" "
Senator Borah denied that prmar-
; have disOrganized parties. lie te
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