Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-05-29

It Is with much pleasure we quote
an article from Golfers Weekly on
the growing demand on United States
Senator William E. Borah for the
Republican candidate for president
In 1916, which follows:
"The most remarkable aspect Of the
situation among the Republican presi-
Dental possibilities is the heightened
position of Senator Borah of Idaho
There has been no political talk i'm any
newspaper more interesting or accu-
rate than this from the Boston Trans.
cript." Persons who live outside New
England may need to be told that
the Transcript" Is the sober three
cent evening paper of Boston, and is
supposed to express the views of
about the most cautious and careful
conservative i'm the country
"'What does this call for Borah
mean? 1t is coming from all parts
OF the country. 1t is apparently spon-
taneousl. Here Is a senator who
has neither an organization nor abun-
dant wealth. He has not announced
his candidacy for the presidency;
many doubt whether he will Yet
hundreds of Republicans and Pro
gressives are discussing Borah and
many of them are writing to- him or
to the newspapers about him. Neither
Mr.. Taft nor Mr.. Roosevelt are back
ing Borah, yet both say they will taks
the stump for him gladly il he is
nominated. West of the Mississippi
river he is looked upon by many as
the favomte SON OF that whole sec
tion. Republican leaders In Maine
have been trying for two months to
get him to make a trip with them
through that state. The radical Sem
ator Norris of Nebraska declares him
to be the 'ablest man available for
the Republican nomination. Elihu
Root and Henry Cabot Lodge are not
yet ready to say that Borah with be
nominated, yet both are his hearty
admirers and neither will be surprised
at his nomination.
How comes it that within a few
months and without the semblance of
an effort ON his own part or that of
his friends, Senator Borah looms up
from out OF the west with strength
as a presidential possibility greater
than any two of the avowed or re-
ceptive candidates for the Republican
nominationtion? Are the people do
ing their own thinking about the mat
ter? Is the call for Borah significant
of widespread party sentiment In
favor OF presidential nomination
forced upon the leaders by the rank
and file? 1t Is perhaps too early to
say, but the Borah boom must receive
a swift and certain check if the next
national convention is to be-
the favorite-son gathering which
powerful party leaders are diligently
working for today in the hope of
keeping the nomination DIN their own
hands to be disposed of at the psy-
Geological moment to the candidate
Of their own choice. Meantime the dis
position In New England to regard
Borah as q very desirable second
,hoice throughout this section, if not
the first of several states,
s growing" |
Senator Borah, of course, profits !
much by the announcement of Justice
Hughes that he will under no circum- \
tances accept the nomination. Both I
hese men represent the liberal wing v
# the Progressive party. Those Re- t
'ublicans who are so standpat as to t
egand Senator Borah as too pro- q
ressive, so far as they are centering ?
N anyone, may be said to be disposed :
o look with favor on Senator Burton =
{ Ohio. q