The daily star-mirror., 1923-06-18
BORAH Is NOW
in HOME STATE
SEES HARDING RENOMINATED,
WITH WET AND DRY ISSUE
UPPERMOST

WITH WET AND DRY ISSUE
UPPERMOST
F'rOm Boise Correspondent to Lewis
ton Tribune.)
Senator W. E. Borah of Idaho, ex-
poets to see President Warren G.
Harding renominated by his party to
succeed himself as the nations chief
executive. Senator Borah is not can
dtdate for the republican presidential
nomination, nor will be accept the
nomination for president from third
party. These are facts that have de-
velOped since Senator Borah left
Washington enroute to his home state.
He reached Boise Saturday after CIV
ing Pioneer day address at Rigby in
the southeastern part of the state,
Friday evening Further than that
Senator Borah is a candidate to sue
ceed himself as United States senator
and will seek the nomination from his
party in convention assembled in this
state. None of these statements are
particularly new. at least to his
friends and advisers in Idaho. To
those politically opposed to the senior
senator from this state an effort has
ing on the attitude and the actions
of Senator Borah They have con-
tended that he was flirting with the
third or progressive party, seeking to
become the standard bearer of that
party They have contended they no
longer consider him republican and
he should not expect support from
the leaders and the rank and file of
4 ~ Cto fn
have attacked his stand with regard
to many public questions, particularly
the Russian. They have sought to
ridicule them on the primary issue.
But Senator Borah has not in the
slightest swerved from his attitude
with regard to these issues. Enroute
home he has given a number OF in
terviews. In these he has made it
clear that he does not seek the presi-
dency either from the republican or
the progressive party, nor is he Will
ing to permit his name to be-so used.
He has virtually declared that he
looks to see President Harding re-
nominated, which is taken by many
here to mean that he is in no sense
standing in opposition to renomlna-
tion. Nor has that been intlmated.
Senator Borah, say his friends here,
holds an honest difference of opinion
with the president on the world
court, but this by no means signifies
that there are strained relations be-
tween them. Quite the contrary is
true.
Believes World Court Beaten
Senator Borah does not believe that
the world court will be an issue in
the next campaign because he is
firmly of the opinion that it will be
defeated by the senate next winter and
thus will be ushered into oblivion SO
that no political party will want to
resurrect it, particularly the republi-
can party, the members of which in
the senate will be instrumental in it's
defeat. Senator Borah has not
changed his ideas about the m1lltar-
istic attitude Of France in dealing with
Germany on the reparations question
and contends that Developments that
have taken place in France in the
past few months absolutely verify the
stand that he has taken. In fact,
European developments during that
period have made him more firmly OF
the belief than ever that the United |
States cannot afford to participate in
affairs when some of the
powers there are armed to the teeth
and show no inclination of abandon {
ing their armament policy, particu- t
larly France which is maintaining t
standing army Of great proportions |
and building up an air force unprece-
dented in the history Of the world. t
Senator Borah has also made it ,
LIZ G T., yAf nd C1h1n6f -
becomes an issue where men in pub I
tic life will have to take a stand on I
)ne side of the question or the other, t
ne will stand by the eighteenth s
amendment and with the dry forces /
Senator Borah has held more or less {
liberal views on the prohibition ques- V
ion, although he has favored the b
abolition of LIQUOR Those who know
lin best declare that he is a teeto-
aller himself although even during S
he DAYS of the wideopen saloon ne S
leyer forced his views on others. In n
lis opinion, the wet and dry question n
8 very likely to be the predomlnatlng
campaign issue in the United states Y
Turing the next campaign, and IN t
he event of President Hardfng's re- k
he expects to see MIN a
on dry platform ana 80 G
before the people as a dry eandldate Ii
or rigid enforcement of the Volstead /,
ct. President Harding. he says, has v
made known very positive views on 7
he prohibition question and they are s
ayorable to the drys. On this issue, :
herefore, the president and the senior I
enator from Idaho think alike ana Il
viii stand alike. "
VIII Study State Questions a
Other domestic problems will, Sen II
tor Borah believes. occupy the at
ention Of the people Of the United a
,tates which will far outshadow the q
world court or any other foreign is t.
ue. In this connection he mentions a.
he coal question and the distribution II
f coal to the people at fair and rea- p
enable prices; the railroad question
ghich is likely to become paramount L
nd linked with it; the marketing C
roblem that is now holding the at G.
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