Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-10-15
bORAH SHOUTS
INDEPENDENCE;
SCORES COP.
Demands Gubernatorial
Candidate Drop Plat
form in Idaho Race.
Special Meeting of Re-
publicans Called to
Iron Out Difficulty.

Boise, Idaho, Oct. 14.-In the face
of Senator Borah's demand that
Charles G. Moore, present lieutenant
governor of Idaho and republican
nominee for governor, reject in toto
his party platform at Wallace, /. Fl.
Nash, state chairman, has called a spe-
cial meeting of the central committee
which will convene Sunday to meet the
party emergency created by Borah's
action.
A preliminary poll of the state com
mite showed that only eight of the
a counties tended TO support Senator
Borah who, championing the direct
primary in his campaign keynote
speech at Meridian last Monday night,
had characterized the platform with its
convention plank as a painted glass"
affair and cried: IF | was in Charley
Moore's place, would kick that plat
form into the dust heap and | would
tell the people of this state, regardless
of the platform, what it was going to
do. | don't think there is a particle
of relief in the platform. There was
no need to write it. A blank piece of
paper would serve just well. Charley
Moore ought to break away from that
platform and make his own platform.
RidIcuIes Platform Idea
II don't care two cents about
platform. Nobody knows tonight what
the platform was upon which Hard
ing was elected. Who pays any at
tention to a platform in the congress
of the United States? All this is rot
about meeting and writing a plat
form! 1t is forgotten before you get
home.
II realize the course I am pursuing
in this state is just as hazardous to
me as to anybody else. i realize per-
which will be arrayed against me for
all time to come. | don't care two
cents about that. The next two years
belong to me-nobody but God AL
mighty can take them away from me
and during that period | am going to
say precisely what / think and advo
cate the policies in which | believe,
regardless of the political consequences
to me or to the republican party
either"
Wall May BE Ignored
State Chairman Nash said he was
confident the state committee would
vote to disregard Senator Borah and
proceed with campaign as planned.
I'VE will, however, leave the door .
open and welcome Borah back to the .
republican fold" he said.
Party leaders in various parts of .
Idaho have notified state headquarters |
that, since Borah's speech in Chicago .
government and amnesty for political
prisoners, they do not care to have !
him billed for speeches in their COM
munities. State headquarters is not,
however, arranging for any Borah
speeches at all. He is not on the list
of party spokesman.
SORRY" SAYS STATE LEADER
Boise, Ida, Oct. 14.-"If the time
1as come when Senator Borah must
definitely cut loose from the repub
ican party we shall see him so with
'egret," said I. H. Nash, state char
nan. Saturday night, in discussing the
situation created by the senator in his
address ct Weiser Friday night.
Senator Borah is reported TO have
aid at Weiser that he has returned
o Idaho to fight for his political ex-
stence, and has attributed to the state
entral committee an intention to read
i'm out of the republican party.
''The committee has never contem-
lzlcu uoE ucslItu SuCu SltudlIoH. Al I
exists, 1t is entirely of the senator's
wn making.
''T'he republican party has furnished
nd never denied Senator Borah the
pportunity to work out splendid
chievements. Is it too much to ex- =:
ect that Senator Borah should now !
e willing to work with and through
he republican party for whatever he
nay believe to be for the best good !.
the people of this state? If the time !
as come when he considers that he :
lust definitely cut loose from the re- ,
ublican party. we shall see him go !
18th regret; but we expect the re- i;
ublican party to be great instru- +
lent for the welfare of this republic !
ing after Senator Borah and those q
us who are his contemporaries have ;
assed beyond.
whatever the outcome. we choose T
, stand by the historic principles of v
le republican party as first enunciated "
Y Abraham Lincoln, and as carried I
,rward by Mckinley, Roosevelt and "
thar rapuhIiaaDa Of nuy TINA -