The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1914-04-16
EASTERN OPINION OF BORAH
AS A MAN AND A CANDIDATE
Ablest of Debaters With Gift for Winning His Opponents
Therefore Is a Great Legislator and
Harmonizer.

u the theft of the nomination. They
could hardly go further"
1T was Senator Borah who steered
the income tax through the senate.
1t was he who had charge of the bill
for the direct election of senators. He
has sort of genius for supporting
certain course in way that endears
him to those hostile to that course. He
prosecuted Meyer and Haywood for
the Steunenberg murder and at the end
of the had the admiration and per-
sonal regard of the miners of Idaho, as
well as of the conservatives of the state.
He was in the inner circle of the
Roosevelt adherents at the Chicago
convention and yet was denouncing
their course to their faces and keeping
his allegiance to the republican party.
One OF the strongest arguments he
gave for that progressive measure, the
| direct election of senators, was based
upon a plea for perpetuating the rights
of the states, in apparently direct op-
position to the new nationalism as
| set forth at Osawatomie by Mr.. Roose-
velt And in supporting the bill for
| admission of Arizona he made one OF
| The strongest pleas against the recall
/ of judges and for clinging to the prin-
| ciple of an Independent judiciary as of
old they chung to the horns of the
altar" 1t is not that he straddles OF
| sidesteps in these cases, for he does
not He is positive and direct and
emphatic But he is fair, tho his contro
versy with Mr.. Perkins does not seem t.
have been altogether And while he
is an "insurgent," he holds fast to the
constitution and says; "Our fathers
understood the science of government
as no other single group of men has
ever understood it. 1t is altogether
proba bic that If the plan upon which
shey built fails, with 1t will pass th'
| nope of a democratic republican form
# government"
"You will see a disposition in news
paper correspondents even those mos
closely attached to the insurgent cause
to treat the insurgent leaders wit
good -natured raillery. But of Boral
|. they speak with unfailing respect
: even that highly flippant writer-Sar
Blythe, we suppose-who gives us tn
sketches of who's Who and Why,
! in the Saturday Evening Post, is seri
Jus when he writes up Borah. Fl
;peaks of him as zone of the most abl
senators of these United States an
| )ne of the most useful" zone of tn
:. sanest of the republican progressive
: in the senate" "a man of great legs
ability" lone of the big orators of tn
senate" lone of the great debaters
: the senate and one of the few mem
:. pers of that body who have not bee
y oluffed out by the brawny bailey
. The able correspondent of the Bosto
:, Transcript gives a list of adjective
= that are commonly used In Washingto
. in describing Borah: "One of them
:, able; another Is solid; another is ind'
- pendent; another is conservative; al
- other is quiet; another is patient. +
is all of these-a remarkable combine
:, tion for an insurgent." And Alfrt
: Henry Lewis has spoken of him
broad, self-centered as the pyramid
:. :. of positive dignity. with genius f.
the taciturn."
10 Orator tho he is, Borah never Civ
l. one the impression of gabbiness.
J. speaks in the senate for the most pa
Is With no gesticuation, no raising of h
r. voice above the conversational ton
E. with deliberation but with no hesit
E. ton. taking interruptions with an u
IN ruffled good nature, standing as solid