The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-05-26
Reunited Party Has Impor-
tant Mission, Says
Sen. Borah
IN MAKING APPEAL AT
PARTY CONFERENCE
Declares Republican Party
Is Coming Back into
It's Own

Detroit, Mich, May pa glowing
picture of the future of the Republican
party reunited with the Progressive ele-
ment which left it in 1912 was painted
here to-day by Senator William f. Bo-
rah, of Idaho, speaking at statewide
conference" Of Republicans.
"The Republican party" said the sem
ator, "is coming back into power. The
proof of it is on every hand. The trend
is unmistakable. | said year ago that
the amalgamation which would take
place would be an amalgamation of the
voters, not the assumed leaders. / said
furthermore that that was the only
The men who voted the third party tick
ct to the number of 100000, for reasons
entirely satisfactory to them can neith
er be questioned as to their integrity of
purpose or their patriotism. But that
it was protest and not manifesto
tion of purpose to permanently leave the
party is now established by facts and
figures which cannot be doubted.
"Now in view of this pronounced and
unmistakable purpose of those who vot-
ed the third party ticket to ally them
selves with the Republican party, in
view OF the determination to support its
principles and its policies, what is the
task before us? 1t is unguestionably
to make our party equal to the tre-
mendous problems which now concern us.
1t is to build up in this country, out
of traditions, the achievements and pres
tige of the past, the duties and obliga
tions OF the future, an organization eff
cient, militant and progressive worthy
Of its old days and equal to the obliga-
tions which now rest upon us. 1t is our
duty, in other words, in unmistakable
termsto make it clear that the Republi
can party is to be as it was in its best
days, thoroughly progressive party.
We ought not to assume for moment
or coneede for moment, that because
the party bids fair TO go back into pow
er, there is going to be any compromise
with the forces which brought it near
its ruin.
"There is in this country powerful
Influence for the bad in politics and
it will take possession of any party in
the world. if it can, which is enjoying
power. This kind of an influence does
not fight a party in the open. It holds
itself in readiness to direct the course of
any party which happens to be in pow
er. With such influences there can be
no compromise il we are to have party
which is going to meet and solve the
great ,problems which new industrial
life and new social condition have inn
posed upon us.
mo man living in this splendid age,
amid these exhilirating environments,
can afford to permit the corroding pois-
on of pessimism to enter his soul. But
on the other hand, the curse of our age
s that cold cruel. selfish conservatism.
which, living in its ease and comfort,
ENJOYING wealth and all it brings, re-
fuses to see or sympathize with the con-
ditions of those, who in the midst of
world of plenty, are bordering on the
line of hunger and misery, who refuse
to see the new conditions or the new
problems which must be met and dealt
with in the same spirit and with the
same courage and progressiveness that
our fathers met the problems of their
age. The great and almost superlmman
task, my friends, is not the gathering
of wealth but its fair and equitable dis
tribution.
"What we want in this country is a
party which will do the simple but pro-
found thing which Lincoln did, that is,
gather up the common sense, the COM
mon honesty, the common patriotism.
the common courage and the common
Righteousness of the common people of
this country, and organize it into mill
tant, progressive, disciplined force for le-
gal and social justice, and do it all un-
der the constitution and laws of this
blessed old republic"