Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1920-06-22
WOOD VICTIM OF
LAVISH FRIENDS
CHOICE OF REPUBLICAN RANK
AND FILE BEFORE BORAH
BLACKENED CAMPAIGN
NORTH IDAHO STOOD PAT"
Delegates Stuck With General Till End
Tribune SwatS Idaho Senator.

Nentlon George r. Barker promised to
SEND to the Herald an article telling
OF ms impressions of the national re-
publican meet. The following was sent
/ from Chicago on June I3:
combination of favorable circum-
stances united to make Senator Hard
ing OF Ohio the standard bearer. His
brother senators wanted him for one
thing-all but the ''irreconcilables. .
General Wood was the victim of too
many rich friends and Colonel Proctor,
well meaning and fine gentleman mis-
took the pulse and heart of the Amer
lean public when he sought to put the
general over as he had Ivory soap. Too
much publicity, too much beating of
drums, too much fuss and feathers
until,in protest, very plain and demo-
cratic citizen with a little newspaper
office down at Marion, Ohio, was a ma
t1onal reflex. A surprise to the Wood
forces, too, was the strength of Low
den who became so formidable in the
closing days of the campaign that he
deadlocked Wood. The lack of under
standing between these opposing
camps led to the lines being so tightly
drawn that neither camp would go to
the other and with Lowden's prefer
ence for Harding over Wood, when the
Lowden slump came, the result was
anticipated with the assembling of the
delegates on Saturday
There is little doubt that General
Wood was the choice of the republi-
can rank and file up to the time that
Senator Borah, for the selfish purpose
of aiding Johnson, made his play for
a senatorial investigation of campaign
expenses, to find that all candidates,
including his own stalking horse, had
spent relatively the same amount of
money in the states they entered in
the preliminary campaigns. Borah was
assisted in his designs by the Hearst
press with which he had easy entree,
consulting Hearst himself who was
here with Brisbane, his editor. The
convention was handled by this source
of public information in a most flip
pant and discourteous manner, but all
ways with the single purpose of de-
feating both Wood and Lowden. The
combined veto power of Borah, john
son and the Hearst press was suffi-
cient to force leaders to hesitate to
put over for either Wood or LOwden
but directed the nomination none the
less to one equally as distasteful to
their plans. Harding favored the
Lodge amendments and in that respect
challenged the forces of the "irrecon-
cilables" as much if not more than
would have Woods selection. Borah
is quoted in the Hearst American this
morning as being displeased with the
result and not all too sure that he and
Hiram will support the nominee. The
"open door" policy adopted in the
platform upon the league of nations
was evidently the fine Indian hand
of those republican members of the
senate who sought from the start to
make choice of a candidate agreeable
to them and, with the league of ma
tions plank meaning the further con-
sideration of the problem from any
and all angles, the choice for presi
dent was the real coup of that issue.
With Harding's record favorable to
the Lodge reservations, while Borah
negatived the reservations as part
of the platform. He had to contem-
plate the candidacy of Harding who
will have most to say in developing
the final outcome of the league of ma
tions fight In the shadow of the
greatest issue Borahs victory" upon
the wording Of the league of nations
plank becomes engulfed.
The Idaho delegation from the north
congressional district "stood pat" for
Wood to the last ballot. The four del
egates from the south were divided,
Guthrie of Twin Falls voting for Wood
until the fifth ballot, while Yeaman
of Idaho Falls chung to Lowden, State
Chairman Thomas casting vote for
Borah and Borah voting for Johnson
by arrangement with his delegation,
Borah being in his seat but once or
twice for a few minutes at time.
Hardings nomination is generally
considered a strong and popular one.
A plain citizen. working himself up
from the case in a country print shop,
master of his trade and profession, he
epitomizes perhaps in as great degree
as any citizen could the possibilities
that lie before the individual IN a dem
ocratic government
That Borah has made no hit in Chi
cago is evident from the following edi
torial in this mornings Chicago Trib
une
after consultation with that sterl
ing republican. William Randolph
Hearst, Senator Borah told gather
ing of delegates Friday night that if
either Lowden or Wood were nominat
ed he would not support the nominee.
Senator Borah seems in threaten
ing mood. We were told that if the
treaty plank were this or that, Borah
would bolt. Borahs temperature re-
mains high on the subject of campaign
expenditure, on which topic he is talk
ing a great deal of unadulterated
bunk, bunk which is the more often
sive in that it is in fact an accusation
that the American electorate can be
bought outright for money.
"Mr Hearst has been talking third
party for months. He has been in
Chicago throughout the republican
vention and his efforts to create dis
sension and TO bring about a bolt are