Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-10-20
BORAh SPEAKS
TO A FULL HOUSE
MORE THAN 100 UNABLE TO
GAIN ADMITTANCE
TO HALL.

tonwood was there such q crowd
gathered together, from all
points of the county to hear a
political speech as there was
Tue.day evening when more
than 700 people came to hear
United States Senator William
E. Borah discuss the political
issues of the day. Some 100
people were unable to gain ad-
mittance to the Orpheum thea
tie, where Borah addressed some
600 people which crowded the
hall to its utmost capacity, stand
ing room being at a premium.
People began to gather at $50
ard by 7:15, three-quarters Of
an hour before the schedule time
the hall was packed.
Senator Borah was introduced
by NJ. NJ. Belknap, chairman and
was received amid cheers and
handclapping. The senior sena-
tor was at his best and he flayed
certain governmental policies,
told of his fight for the restora-
ton of the Idaho primary for the
nomination of state officers,
this being the one big issue with,
Senator Borah in the present
campaign, recited facts and
figures that startled his autit-
tors, and in almost every line of
his speech defined his position
as relating to affairs concerning
the government and the states.
Speaking on the primary law
that he hopes to see again put in
effect in Idaho, Senator Borah
said it was up to the people to
send to the legislature men who
favored the restoration of this
and that the manner of nominat-
ing officers for state positions
should not be left to ten OF more
men. He laid particular stress
on the fact that he considered it
a bounden duty of the voters of
Idaho to ascertain how their
candidates for senators and rep
rezentatives stood in this re-
Spect.
He declared that the old pri-
mary law was far better than
the one repealed, and that the re-
peal of this law came about
without the people being con-
suited; that the legislature took
into its own hands to do away
with the law that gave the peo-
pie some power to place in office
men whom they considered fit
to fill these offices. The senator
said that the common interests
must take hold of politics that
there was more democracy and
more interest in political ques-
tions today than ever before.
Speaking on the federal debt
Senator Borah said it now
amounted TO % billion dollars,
and that the interest on the
staggering sum amounted to one
billion annually. He told that
at the rate the civil war debt was
paid off it would require LOO
years to pay the debt now con-
fronting this government. He
furnished figures showing the
debt before the entrance of this
country in the world war and
that accumulated within the last
four or five years. He dwelt on
the per capita tax paid in diff
ferent states.
"One-third of the officers at
Boise and at Washington should
be sent to their homes and then
We would he better governed.
Washington, District of Colum-
bia, with its ten square miles is
not able to give room to the
boards and bureaus there" the
senator advised, and in this con-
nection he stated that he was in
strumental in reducing the
standing army of the United
States to 125, 900 men. but that
$4,000 officers were still engag-
ed. These $4,000 officers are
needed for Washington's social
functions, however, and should a
foreign foe ever take that city
they would capture two-thirds of
the officers of the United
States" he stated.
Senator Borah declared him
self in favor of the restoration
of the excess profit tax, and cit
ed the case of the Standard Oil
company declaring a 400 percent
cash dividend on its stock. He