The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-08-06

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it adopted, and it was subsequent!
enacted into law. The miners saw
what senate leaders failed to see, thai
Borah is in sympathy with the cause
of labor, but against violence. In
his. first race for the senate he carried
two of the strongest union-labol
counties in his state, at the very time
he was prosecuting labor leaders
He led fight in the senate for an in.
vestigation of conditions in West Vir.
ginia, when military courts-martial
were imprisoning miners and depriv-
ing them of the right of trial by
jury.
He believes in agitation, not in con-
flagration. At the time of Mrs. Pank-
bursts visit to this country the
women of New Jersey invited him
to speak in Newark. Borah came,
but he announced beforehand that If
anyone advocated militancy from the
same platform he would feel COM
PEELED to denounce it.
He is firm believer in the theory
that practically everything that needs
to be done in the way of bringing
about better condition of industrial
and social affairs can be done under
our present constitution and frame
work of government. He doesn't be-
lieve the first thing to do is to change
the constitution every time something
is wrong. He feels that the consti-
tuition, much as it is, will stand the
test of efficiency. 1t Is temple, not
circus tent to be moved after every
performance. It's seasoned timbers
withstood the deluge of civil wer.
Malefactors can be reached and legis-
lators can remodel under the roof
that has stood for so many genera
lions.
Every monopoly can be throttled
without changing the constitution if
we have the courage to do it.
Borah is Honest
He began the advocacy of pri-
mary law in his state Ia years before
it was finally adopted. When he first
ran for the senate there were four
other candidates in the field. Borah
had Is votes on the first ballot, and
the other candidates together had "a.
Borah was defeated by the others
combining. He told the legislature
then that that was the end of the
caucus system in Idaho; that the next
fight he made for the United tSates
senate would be made from the cross
roads up; that he would go before
the people direct, whether Idaho had
a primary law or not.
Some four years later, in 1906,
Borah delegates were named to the !
precinct caucuses, and delegates were
elected from the county conventions
pledged to Borahs nomination by the !
state convention. He was |
by the state convention, |
and resolution was passed pledging i
all republican members of the legisla- !
ture to vote for him. He received !
the unanimous vote of the republic
cans in the legislature and was elect
ed When he got to Washington he i
began at once to advocate the amend
ment to the constitution providing
for the election of senators by popu- !
lar vote. He had charge of that reso-
luton each time j, was before the
senate and when it was passed.
Senator Borah has been for %
years an advocate of woman suffer
age. Neither expediency nor false
view of her sphere will be able" he |
says, ''to keep woman from that coun- Z
I'll board where more and more are
to be considered the interests of the I
child, the integrity of the home, the +
moral and physical well-being Of the !.
citizen; where more and more are to I
be discussed and determined all those
which reach down and
lake hold of those things upon which /
her sympathy, her intuition, her Wis
on, and, above all, her optimism are
1t least equal in worth to the expert ]
ence and the reasoning of men" But
he refused to support the proposed
amendment for suffer-
age, on the ground that it was mat
Ter that belonged exclusively to the
states, and on the further ground
hat it was a waste of time and effort
o attempt to secure support for it
IN southern states, where the race
question is uppermost. K
Senator Borah tells of an incident
hat occurred at one of the state con- ;
,entions in Idaho in the early days
If woman suffrage in that state. A L
blank was proposed for adoption in <