New-York tribune., 1922-09-25
RoraIl to Attack
Idaho Bosses
LIN State Tour
0us to Restore Primary Law;
Has Eye ON Next Election
ia Planning 100 Per Cent
insurgency Campaign N
Cold TO Third Party Plea
Will Follow Settled Policy
by Fighting Progressive
Battle Within the Ranks
BY Carter Field


WASHINGTON. Sept. 24.--William
s. Borah, perhaps the most fearless
progressive who ever remained true to
.he Republican party, is going out to
IDAHO with the full intention of spank
ing the Republican. bosses of his state
Incidentally, Mr.. Borah wants to
ampaign up and down the state and
defend some of his recent actions. He
sss irritated the regular Republicans,
ss usual, in many ways. He voted to
rsduce the duty on wool in the present
tariff bill, for example, and to reduce
the duty on sugar, though Idaho is 8
sseat wool-producing state and also is
noted for it's production of beet sugar.
Then he voted against the soldier
bnnas, and even to sustain the Presi-
dents veto OF 1t. This is not exactly
Marty issue, but Mr.. Borah believes
nublic sentiment in the country might
be changed on that issue by intelli-
gent discussion.
His main objective this time, how
ever, is to get the direct primary law
restored to the statute books. Taking
advantage of his absence in Washing
ton and his concentration on beating
she League of Nations, the regular Re-
publieans out in his state quietly had
the Legislature repeal this law. The
regulars had the hearty support, in
edentally, of Senator Gooding, Mr..
Borah's colleague, whose fight for the
highest possible rates on wool and
sugar pleased the state nightly,
even il it did not please the American
consumer quite so much.
Borah Planning Ahead
Borah is not candidate this time.
Indeed, the last time he was a cand-
date he did not bother to go out to
The state at all. This is an off year,
however. and things are too quiet to
sait Mr.. Borah in Washington, so he is
going to take the opportunity to de-
liver the much delayed spanking to
ste state leaders Sf his party. Incl
dentally. he comes up next time, and
he much prefers to have a primary
than a convention which might just
happen to be controlled by these same
tcsses. Despite his apparent careless
ress at times about political conse-
auences, Mr.. Borah Is a forehanded
person.
1t so happens that the Democratic
and Progressive parties in Idaho have
declared for the rs-enactment of the
primary law, but the regular Republi-
cans much pleased at having got the
law repealed, are against it, and Mr..
aorah has received advices from the
ftate that the present prospects lndi-
ste the regulars will have their way
ssiess something unforeseen happens.
ae intends to provide that something.
Fight 100 Per Cent Insurgent
Altogether the fight to be made by
the Idaho Senator will be practically
100 per cent 'insurgent. For example,
he probably will speak at length
against the ship subsidy legislation
50 dear to the Presidents heart. MI
Harding believes that when the mem
bers of Congress return to Washington
after visiting their homes this recess
they will have found their constituents
much less opposed to government aid
for an American merchant marine
than they now believe. This will not
b. the case in Idaho If Mr.. Borah can
prevent it.
So that Mr.. Borah will be found at
tacking the Republican party on it's
tariff record and on ship subsidy, and
While he will support the President on
the bonus veto he will oppose the
great majority of his party on that.
This last does not make much differ
ence. as the Democrats are split in
about the same proportions as the Re-
publicans on the bonus, but it will
leave erySllttie about the record of
the Harding Administration, and par
tlcularly of Congress, which the Idaho
Senator can praise in this unusual
stumping tour.
Mr. Borah does not even give 100
per cent Endorsement of the Presidents
International record. He favored the
naval limitation treaty heartily, but
opposed the four power Pacific treaty.
which supplanted the Anglo-Japanese
alliance
Hundreds of letters urging Mr..
borah to head a third party which
b would light both the old line parties in
tne 1924 alection have been received by
MN IN the last few months from ali
over the country. Admirers of the
position he has taken believe there
should be such third party, and point
70 the evidences of strength such
party might command, for example in
Wisconsin, North Dakota, Nebraska and
Iowa. Even Pennsylvania is some
hmes cited because of the remarkable
victory in the gubernatorial primary
'here OF Clifford Pinchot.
Cold to Third Party Plea
All this leaves Mr. Borah cold, how
ever. He knows, in the first place, that
every such victory in Republican