The Washington times., 1920-06-12
FEAR RLURK|NG
: BEHIND VOTES
Delegates Seem Haunted by
Thought That Wood or Lowden
Mean Disaster, Says Borah.
BIZ WILLIAM Il. BoRAB.
ntted States Senator From Idsh,

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CHICAGO, June 12.-The balloting
yesterday disclosed unmistakably no
enthusiasm. but. rather, on the other
hand. great reluctance upon the
part OF the delegates to accept either
Wood or Dowden as their candidate.
Both OF these candidates have been
in the neld for a year. Each has
made a thorough campaign in many
respects
One of them-wood-has made a
thorough canvass OF forty seven
States.
And yet there was no enthusiasm
among the delegates for either Wood
or Lowden-
Today-as the convention II about
10 assemble again - you hear upon
every corner and upon every hand we
suGht 60 name another candidate-we
ought not to nsRe Lowden OF Wood
We ought to nominate MIR. johnson.
whose election, In my Judgment. L. al
ready assured.
Msy BE Inviting Defeat.
The thought seems to haunt the
minds OF the delegates who are vot-
ing either for Wood or Lowden, that
they may be carrying the Republican
party to disaster and defeat in No
vember. 1t does not require much
trouble to find a supporter OF either
Wood or Lowden-I mean a sup
porter in the sense that he Is voting
for one or the other of them at the
present time-who will refuse to say
that he seriously doubts IL either can
be nominated. or II either were nomi-
mated, he could be elected
4 No candidate and no supporter of
Any candidate has q right to demand
unless he desires his loyalty to the
Republican party to be questioned
that his particular candidate be ac-
cepted a. the nominee Of the conven-
ton
But every Republican and every
good citizen has right to demand
that whoever may be the choice of
tho convention for President of these
United States shall be . man whose
integrity and honesty and the manner
In which he secured his nomination
cannot be questioned
Has Right to Clean Msn
Tho Republican party-every good
Republican and every good American
'cttixen--has . right to demand that
whoever the convention names for
President is q man who Is clean
ually clean The method by which he |
secured his nomination must be clean. !
The perfectly brutal and shameless |
use OF money which characterized the |
pre-convention cnmpaign-and which |
d for that matter, still characterfz- |
ing the campaign, Notwithstanding |
the startling disclosures Of the lavish |
use of money before the Senate COM |
1eittce appointed to investigate pre-
convention campaign expenditures |
and contributions-makes 1t impera-
tive that when the convention ends |
the questionable employment OF |
s~sbusho funds shall have been SO con- |
demned once and for all by the char |
acter Of the nominee, that 1t cannot |
be Fatsed again during the campaign |
at least so far as the Republican |
party In concerned.
II either Wood or Jowden were to
to be nominated by the convention
there would be an Interrogation point |
placed opposite either of them i'm the
mind of every voter in the United
ton
Stin Under Investigation
1t is simply inconceivable to me
that with a number of men of high |
standing-either of whom would |
make a clean candidate-from which |
the convention may choose there |
should be a determination apparently |
in certain quarters with which we
are all too familiar to put over men
like Lowden and Wood. who are al
ready under Investigation by Senate
committee and who will still be un-
der investigation when the commit
tee resumes its hearings at Chicago
on July Z.
Z What n pitiabIe. miserable mess It
would be for the Republican party to |
be asked to stand behind n man to
whom has been traced the use of
money to buy the nomination for |
President of the United States.
1t is a condition about which good |
American citizens cannot be too |
much concerned, and to which the |
convention must pay heed unless 1t |
wishes to invite defeat for the Re- |
publican party in November.