The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-12-14
BORAH OF IDAHO AND HIS
TENDENCIES
AS VIEWED BY A WRITER IN MA
TloNAL MINING MAGAZINE
OF WASHINGTON.

The Mining Congress journal FOR
December makes Senator W. H.. Borah
the subject OF a page feature. EN-
bodying a picture OF the senator anu
this clever conception of the man up
on whom national attention is riveted
by Ira L. smith, OF the Journal starr
independence and Sincerity.
"Mohammed had just finished eating
a club sandwich at Chnds in Mecca
late one winter night back in 625
when he tossed his whiskers back over
his shoulder in a philosophical way
and told the fellow sitting across the
table from him that to every dos
comes his day. There was almost
tanatical CLEAN in the old boys eye
as he said "All fellow has to do
is park around long enough and keep
hitting the ball and things will come
his way" He knew his stuff
Getting down to brass tacks and
more modern day, Bill Borah Idaho's
irrepressible individualist has been
sliding down his own cellar door for
many years with only an occasional
playmate. Being as unusual in politi-
cal circles as a three legged calf in a |
barn yard, he has had to buck along |
with hardly more than smattering
of company.
Nov has come the day when pro-
gressiVes are as stylish as long skirts.
Now has come William r. Borah's
chance to duck old party mandates in
hot water with a zeal that has been
brewing since much farther back than
day before yesterday
Public opinion rather likes to lab
pins and needles into itself by hang
ing on to the hoakum that success in
politics demands that individuality
and independence be tossed into the
ditch. Mr. Borah has managed to
prove that at least one dent can be
put in this idea.
Perhaps II IS only because he man
aged to tie his wagon to some sort of
political comet which yanked him out
If an Idaho law office into the senate
without stopping at way stations,
where he might have lost some of his
ervor for the untrammeled
Mr.. Borah's independence fights
many battles for him. 1t is his big
punch. But it also proves to be
of a ball around the leg of
lis political self.
He has else than mere independ-
nee, though. Words love to frolic
within his mind, where they are mar
.bolIad into fo,.r,,o +iore 4bo+ or,o1o tla
,ar when they pour out on the breast &
If a speaking voice that could give
ards and spades and still win on
luality. i
Although he already has spent Q
lecade in the senate, Mr.. Borah not
ret has passed the peak of his career.
Holding a position aloof from the gem
raj scurrying, he stands available to
axe the lead in move of vast
cope. The very consistency of the :
of his political activities, ]
s they hook up with first one clan !
nd then another might allow him to :
lick up lines that others would not 2
are to touch. q
PERSONALLY, he seems to have sub
consciously soused himself in his ten
ency toward the hermit role. He has Il
ew intimates, rarely mixes socially, !
nd would appear to be a member of a
ONE thought Juggling clan far re- v
loved from legislative activities. With T.,
tile play or flare, he just goes along il
eing Borah.
"And out of the natural leaps the u
ncere. To remark that Mr.. Borah is N
ncere is as bromide as to make the s;
artling declaration that the normal
ian has ten toes. In his sincerity
,sts his stability, for if ever he should 81
in his detached position-take insin-
Gritty by the arm he would expose
mself to attacks aimed against his n