The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1915-09-16
5pRAH NOT CHASING PREsIpEN.
TlAL Bee

Senator Borah at luncheon given in
his honor last. week by the Boise Com
mercial Club, delivered speech which
the Lewiston Tribunes correspondent
at the state capital pronounces sig
nNicanf." This writer says sit Is sig
nificant for the reason that 1t practical
iy takes him out OF the presidential
race Senator Borah. so far as his
utterances or attitude ON any public
question goes has clearly not been maxi
Ing bids at any time for presidential
honors. All of the publicity and prom
infnce dn connection with the presiden-
tiAl nomination has been forced upon
him by the leading eastern papers and
the papers and his friends at home
He has announced a time or two that
he Is. not a candidate for the presiden-
fial nomination. and he has made speech
es and given interviews on what might
be considered the unpopular side OF
public questions But all Of this ap-
parently only brings him into greater
prominence and increases the demand
Tor his nomination, for 1t shows that
he has that independence and oronounc-
ed conviction on public questions which
tie people demand in men whom they
wish to exalt to prominent places Of
sails to catch the breeze OF temporary
popularity which not infrequently watts
the trimmer's craft into a desirable
political harbor.
The above mentioned writer says the
senator's speech was significant also
BECAUSE II outlined the fight he pro
poses to make In the next congress on
the question OF conservation, one Of
IN OF A
other things of interest the writer says:
Without mentioning the efforts that
have been made in the past year both
at home and abroad to boom him for
the presidency, but abiding to 1t so
directly that there could be no mis-
take, Senator Borah said he had no
other hope, no other ambition. than
TO serve Idaho In the senate OF the
United States in the next three years
with as much earnest effort as he had
put forth In the years he had been
theTe. II he had any other plan or
any other expectation, he said, he
would make 1t known In that gather
Ding above all Others. His highest adm,
he said, was to place Idaho on the
political map OF the nation and In that
way repay dn some measure the con-
didence and support the people OF Idaho
had given him regardless OF party.
Those who heard the senator were
convinced that he was sincere In what
he said. that he meant every word of
It, and that II he were in the. list OF
candidates In the next republican ma
tionAl convention It would be due to no
efforts on hds part.
Speaking Of the program for the next
session OF congress Senator Borah took
strong grounds against the proposal to
beasa power sites and to charge toll,
the returns to go into the treasury
not bf the state In which the power site
ts located. but into the federal treas
ury. He ridiculed the idea that the
toll would be merely nominal and In
sisted that after 1t was once establish
ed Il would soon become ''all the traf-
tic will bear
He regards this as a sectional ques-
tion, as one In which the east Is ar
rayef against the northwest The |
east, he said, has dissipated its ma
tural resources and now wishes to prof |
1t al the expense OF the west. He
insisted that II this toll were establish
ed 1t would act as a leaden blanket and |
retard the development of this section. |
It was tax. TOO. he said. that once
established could never be shaken off.
All the people of the west would ask |
in the matter he said. would be to be |
accorded the same control over the ma |
tural resources that the people OF the |
east and south exercised over theirs |
He called upon the people to back up |
their representatives In the fight to |
be made and gave warning that moth
ing could be accomplished in Congress |
unless the people OF the northwest were
up ard doing. He made 1t plain that he |
proposed to lead the fight In the SEN
ate against the proposed leasing sys-
tenn. II was not party question. he |
said
The club was crowded in honor OF the |
senator and the meeting was an en-
thusiAstic one