American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1915-12-30
BORAH CONTINUES TO LOOM LARGE.

1t was Senator Borah of Idaho, says a Washington dis
patch, who carried the Republicans to their feet at the
banquet of the National Republican state clubs in Wash
ington on the night of Monday, December Ia. His dec
laration that 81 would rather see my party defeated than
to see it compromise with questions of national honor
was received with an outburst of widespread approval.
The senator declared that it remained for the Republican
party to restore America to the place of honor it held
among the nations of the earth before the Democratic
party came into power. Our ~professed neutrality, said
Senator Borah, appears to the nations abroad, tlnctured
with the desire for gain. We cannot afford to play the
merchant with the miseries of the human race.
When Senator Borah rose to speak he was greeted with
prolonged applause. At the outset he sounded a note of
warning to the Republicans, declaring that while it was
easy enough to win battles in banquet halls, they were
not so easily won in the open.
Things are not so serene outside" he said, "and the
enemy is strongly entrenched. The people do not want only
to win, but to win with the program based on principles.
Let personal politics be laid aside and let us have a cam
paign based on principles. Let us have a political creed
commensurate with our hopes"
Turning to the foreign policy of the administration,
which he bitterly criticized, Senator Borah said: "We
must place our nation in a proper light again with other
nations. Today the United States is the most hated ma
ton. We are held in contempt, according to reports, in
the country which helped us to gain our freedom. Our
professed neutrality seems to be tinctured with a desire
for gain, in the opinion of Europe. Already we are be-
ginning to reap the effects of this bitterness abroad"
w. Y. Morgan, a director of the Associated press, the
great news-gathering agency which supplies the leading
papers of the Omitted States with their news, and editor
of the News at Hutchinson, Kansas, who has just COM
pleted a tour of the east, is out with a statement that if
the west wants to nominate the next Republican candidate
for president it should get behind Senator Borah, for the
east looks to the west for a solution of the presidential sit
uation. After reviewing the prospects of the several can
didates he says in the leading editorial in his paper:
Zone of the abest and shrewdest of New York Repub-
lican leaders said to me that New York would go stronger
for an outsider than for a home man. | had said l was
for Senator Borah, although | feared that a western can
didate would have prejudices to overcome. This leader
said: Senator Borah would carry New York by a bigger
majority than any New Yorker could Others told me
the same story without dissent.
ut seems to me that never before has there been a better
chance to nominate a candidate from west of the Missis-
sippi river. | came back with the firm conviction that
Senator Borah is not only able and fit for the place, but in
many respects is the most available. He stands high in
the east as a man who measures up to the job, and his To-
cation is an asset and not a liability when viewed from the
calm standpoint of vote-getting.
when the west has the best man and the east has no To-
cal favorite and comedies that a western candidate would
be stronger, | think more than ever that Kansas ought to
give its support to the best man, the former Kansan, Will
liam Borah.