The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-03-18
AN EASTERN VIEW
Of IDAHO AND B0RAH
OUR STATE AND OUR SENIOR SEN
ATOR GET MUCH MENTION
IN EASTERN PAPER

Idaho and her senior senator are
getting much free advertising in the
press of the east. The last issue of
the weekly edition of the Springfield
(Mass) Republican, one of the lead
ing newspapers of New England, re-
publican in politics, contained four
items in which Idaho and Senator
Borah are the topic. They should be
read with interest by Idaho people,
for they give fairly good view of
how our state and senior senator are
viewed, by one of the leading news
papers of the United States They fol-
low:
That Republican Memorial.
The vote of AZ to 16 by which the
Idaho house has adopted a memo
rial attacking President Wilson for
his defiant and dictatorial attitude"
and condemning the present charter
for league of nations suggests the
desire of Senator Borahs particular
little corner of the country to honor
him. But will he be quite pleased?
Women to Trail BOrah.
1t has long been wondered why the
suffrage militants did not poster op-
position United States senators as
amendment found it's one obstacle in
the senate, not in the house of rep
resentatives nor the White House
The report that the militants are now
to trail Senator Borah over the coun-
try, while he stumps against the
league of nations, indicates a new pol
icy. Mr.. Borah is a pretty good mark
for militant antics because his state.
Idaho, has for many years been
woman suffrage state. His stubborn
opposition to the federal amendment
has been deep disappointment to the
suffrage leaders.
Our New Primary Law.
Not sufficiently noticed during last
weeks sensations has been Idahos re-
turn to the old convention system OF
making party nominations, Possibly
a political reaction has started which
will spread far before it is stopped.
Conservative politicians in other
states are not likely to ignore what
has happened in Idaho after 10 years
of experience with the direct nomina-
tion primary system. The Republican
is inclined to anticipate a similar re-
action here in the east for the rea-
son that the direct nominations sys-
TEN can be worked to the best ad-
only with a short ballot, but
a short ballot, desirable as it is,
seems unattainable for the present, at
least, in this state and also in New
York. Reaction means machine and
boss rule again, but reforms must be
made reasonably workable in order to
endure.
Hands BOrah a Hot One.
In his New York speech Senator
Borah attacked the constitution of the
league of nations because countries
like Norway Sweden and Denmark
would each have as many delegates
as the United States, ignoring the
fact that the house of delegates under
the proposed constitution would not
be a body in which much power
would be vested But the senator's
criticism becomes amusing when con-
sidered in the light of the fact that he
Idaho in the United States
senate Now Idaho, in 1918, had
about 461000 inhabitants, or less than
the population of fair-sized eastern
or middle western city. Isn't it an
that New York or Pennsyl-
eania or Massachusetts has no more
voting power in the senate than
Idaho? 1t is safe to say that the
United States suffers enormously more
from Idaho's equal representation N
the senate with Ohio than it possibly
could from the equal representation
of Denmark with this country in
the house of delegates in the league
of nations.