The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-10-16
BORAH SENSATION
idaho CAMPAIGN
SENIOR SENATOR MAKING DIRECT
PRIMARY FIGHT-LONE-
HANDED

Boise, Idaho.-The plunge made by
! United States Senator William e. Bo-
rah when he issued a def to the
republican party platform adopted at
Wallace, declaring it to be nothing
more less than a blank piece of pa
per, and the launching of his fight
, to write into the statutes of this
{ state direct primary law, apply
| ing to all party candidates from I'm
tied States Senator down to the con-
stable, is so far the sensation of the
campaign.
Running His Own Campaign
For 25 years, or ever since he has
been active politically, Senator Bo-
rah has opened his campaigns in the
little town of Meridian nine miles
from Boise. He is not speaking un-
der the auspices of the republican
state committee, but is following and
making his own itinerary. He is ral-
lying about him the liberal element
within the republican party who be-
lieve in the direct primary and di-
rect legislation.
Borah is violently opposed to the
state platform because it declares
that the republican party in Idaho
wants the convention system instead
Of the primary. He declares that 80
per cent of the republicans in this
state are for the primary, but have
been given no opportunity to express
themselves because of the machine
manipu1ators. He proposes to prove
this is true by taking the issue di-
rectly to the people during the pres
ent campaign.
Puts Issue Up to Moore
He wants c.. G. Moore, the repub-
lican candidate for governor, his per-
sonal friend, to refuse to be bound
by the convention declaration and op-
emily to support a direct primary
plank He will not support Moore
unless he does. If Moore openly will
support the primary issue Borah will
campaign the state for him. He wants
to see Moore elected and his party
successful, but as he explains it him.
self in his addresses, he wants both
Moore and his party right first.
At Meridian in his keynote address
Borah said:
'I have been a republican in the
republican senate for 16 years. My
critics in this state say I am inter
ested in the primary because that is
the only way I can get reelected. I
consider that very great compli
ment. If, after the past 16 years of
service, WduL 10 report DdCk "
the people, I consider that a great
commitment But I realizee the
the course that I am pursuing in this
state is just as hazardous to me as
to anyone else.
Issues Def to Standpatters
II don't care two cents about 1t. If
they will lift this burden off the peo
pie of this state; if they will reform
the fiscal policy of this state; if
they will gve the people of this state
what they want, they can take away
the senatorship of the United States,
f they can get it, and give it to any
body on earth they want to, but, so
far as I am concerned, the next two
years belong to me. Nobody but God /
can take them away from
me, and during that period I am go
ing to say precisely what | think and
advocate the policies in which 7 be-
lieve, regardless of the political con-
sequences to me or to the republi-
can party, either
Summons State Committee
In the face of the demand of Sem I
ator Borah, republican of Idaho, that
Charles G. Moore, present lieutenant
governor of Idaho and republican
for governor, reject in total
MS party platform prepared by a con-
vention at Wallace, I. H. Nash, state