New Britain herald., 1922-10-02
B0RAH OPENS DRIVE
 ION HARDING'S WORK
Asks That Party Lines Be Disre.
 garded in Voting

Chicago, Oct. 2.-Vigorously de
 nouncink the Harding administration
 for the continued imprisonment of Il
 politicsl prisoners and for its failure
 to recognize the Russian Soviet gov
 ernment, Senator William E. Boraf
 of Idaho yesterday urged 1000 Chi
 cago liberals to disregard party lines in the fall elections and to cast theil votes on the basis of a candidate stand on Americanism and free speech.
 Americanism Emphasized.
 Don't ask a man whether he's 8 republican or a democrat" Borat said, ask If he's an American and believes in free speech" a.
 Borah addressed mass meeting held under, auspices of the national emergency committee. which will ar range similar meetings in behalf ol political prisoners throughout the country during the fall campaigns.
 The Idaho senator's advice to dis regard party lines was the only thing he said which might in any way be construed as a yelled reference to a possible third party such as it had been predicted he would make Borah has been suggested as a leader for such party. .n
 Borah advanced lengthy argu- ment for the Immediate release of the political prisoners, declaring con- gress had violated the constitutional guarantees of free speech and that the government was holding the 76 in prison possibly because they ar" poor and without influence"
 In assailing the administration s Russian policy. he asserted that peace or disarmament in Europe is impos- sible so long as the United States "blocks settlement of the Russian question by ignoring the firmest rep rescntative government created in the world by the war"
 "Of recent years vicious doctrine, reasonable to the American consti- tuition, has obtained foothold in this country" Borah declared. This doc- Urine says that during war the Con- stitution is suspended"
 Tt should be remembered that this government and the constitution by which 1t lives. were founded on rev. olution and free speech. Eugene Debs was not a bit stronger in his condemnation of the great war than were Abraham Lincoln, or Daniel Webster in condemning the Mexican war" The constitutional rights of free speech protected them, as Debs and others who opposed the war should have been protected during the last war The rights guaranteed to all citizens under the Constitution were provided for just such emer- gencies. when public opinion is in- famed and it is difficult to get jus tice through ordinary channels.
 Every day that our political pris- oners remain in prison we are deny ing the principle on which this re- public is founded-the right of free speech, free press and free assem- blaze. Great Britain, France. Bel Rium. Canada and every other coup- try engaged in the late war freed their political prisoners long ago.
 Shall the great republic of the west that purchased the right of free speech with. so much blood, loiter years and years behind freeing those who suffered for their political opinions?
 @6 Congressional Elections.
 We are just now entering into a biennial election, Your congressman are coming home to see you No man ought to be returned to the congress of the United States who will not work for the immediate release of these prisoners.
 While we may disregard the con- stitution in Washington, we have a profound respect for public opinion"
 In recommending immediate rec ognition of the Soviet government, Borah declared that it was the de facto government of Russia, that was no more firmly established than at any time since the 1917 revolution, and that the United States by refus- ing recognition was false to prece dents set for 1t by Monroe, Hamilton, Adams and Washington. The prompt recognition by Washington of the Danton government which sprang from the French revolution, he said, | was given because Washington was clear visioned enough to see that France could achieve political free dom along the bloody road of revolu- ton.
 T am not in favor of having the bankers of this world | dictate the foreign policy of the United States by telling us that we can recognize Russian after Russia promises to pay her debts" he said | ''The Russian people are our friends and despite the hardships they have suffered through the cruel blockade | of the allies since 1917, they will live and evolve a government
 The national emergency commit tees mass meeting adopted resolu- ton demanding immediate release of all political prisoners by President Harding.
 All political prisoners of wealth and social influence, as we'll as Ger man spies. have been released" the resolution declares, while 75 poor men, most of them members of the Industrial Workers of the World, are still held in Federal prisons, arrested under wartime Legislation now re- pealed."
 The resolution declared that the prolonged punishment of these men is now the source of deep unrest" and has become a national scandal which is discreditng American Ideals throughout the world"
 AUTOIST EXONERATED.
 New Haven, Oct. "A nolle was