The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-05-26
Senator BOrah Says Progress
ives and Republicans Will
Get Together
MUST MAKE PARTY
EQUAL TO OCCASION
No Compromise With Forces Which
Brought About Ruin of G. o. P. =
Pair and Equitable Distribution of
Wealth an Important Task.

DETROIT, Mich, May %. A glow
ing picture of the future of the Re
publican party reunited with the Pro
gressive element which left it in 1912 II
was painted here today by Senator
William z. Borah, of idaho. spea king I
ut a statewide conference of Re /
pubicans.
''The Republican party said the I
senator, is coming back into power. |
The proof of it is on every hand. The I
trend is unmistakable. / said a year
ago that the amalgamation which would |
take place would be an malgamation
| of the voters, not the assumed leaders
| said furthermore that that was the
| only amalgamation that was worth
| while. The men who voted the third
party ticket to the number Of four
million for reasons entirely satisfactory
to them can neither be questioned as to-
| 5heir integrity of purpose or their pat
| riotism. But that it was a protest and
not a manifestation of purpose to per
manently leave the party is now estab
lished by facts and figures which can
not he doubted.
- Now in view Of this pronounced
and unmistakable purpose of those who
voted the third party ticket 10 ally
themselves with the Republican party
in view of the determination TO sup
port its principles aud ITS policies
what is the task before rs! 1t is un-
lqnestionablv 10 IKE our party equal
To the tremendous problems which now
concern as. 1t is to build up in this
country. out of the traditions, the
achievements and prestige Of the past.
the duties and obligations Of the pres
ent, and the hopes and aspirations OF
the future, an organization efficient,
: militant and progressive worthy Of
its old days and equal to the obliga-
! tions which now rest upon us. 1t is
our duty, i'm other words, in unmistaka-
ble terms to make il clear that the Re
4 publican party is TO be as il was in its
E best days, a thoroughly progressive
e party. We ought not to assume for
: a moment or concede for a moment
G that because the party bids fair to z
back into power, there is going to b,
any compromise with the forces which
8 brought it near its ruin.
There is in this country a powerful
I influence for the bad in politics an;
Il it viii take possession of any part,
q in the world, if il can, which is en-
c Toying power. This kind Of an influence
does not fight a party in the open l
@ holds itself in readiness to direct tn
e course of any party which happens t
10 he IN power. With such influence
le there can be no compromise il We ar
a to have party which is going to nee
TX and solve the great problems which
~ new industrial life and new socia
IN condition have imposed upon us.
IT 4" No man living in this splendid az,
nc 1 amid aNhffTratfnf, af+,
~ can afford to permit the corrodin
poison of pessimism to enter his sou
q But on the other hand, the curse c
lis our age is that cold, cruel, selfish coI
Sc servatism which, living in its ease an
re comfort, enjoying wealth and all
10 brings, refuses to see or sympathi2
III with the conditions of those, who
'r- the midst of world of plenty, al
bordering in the line of hunger N
misery, who refuse 10 see the new co
ditOns or the new problems which mu
be met and dealt with in the san
spirit and with the same courage m
ad prOgressiyeness that our fathers m
the problems of their age. The gre
and almost supcrhuman task. II
ert friends, is not the gathering of veal
tie but its fair and equitable distribute
rn ''What we want in this country
his 4 party which viii do the simple b
RS. profound thing which Lincoln did, tn
ng is, gather up the common sense, +
raj common honesty, the common patriC
lte ism, the common courage and the col
he mon righteousness of the common pc
pie Of this country, and organize it
'ph to militant, progressive, disciplin
force for legal and social Justice, a
ae- do it all under the constitution a
list laws of this blessed old republic.
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