The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1924-10-09
B0RAH SEES BEST
OPPORTUNITY FOR
SERVICE In PARTY
Will Continue Fight for
Reforms Within Old
Party Lines

At Idaho Falls on Tuesday eve
ming, Senator Borah had a full
house and spoke for an hour and q
half on national and international
questions. He had an audience
that was at once friendly and critic
al. Some of them applauded when
he thanked the Progressives for en-
dorsing his candidacy, and all OF
them applauded when he showed
how the courts and especially the
higher courts form the mainstay of
the liberties OF the common people.
Some Of them applauded when he
said that In 1912, as In 1924, he
thought 1t better for men to work
for progressive principles within
the Republican party than to work
for them in a new party, but all of
them applauded when he spoke OF
the effort to authorize congress to
4 override decisions of the supreme
court Of the United States, and said
ut is charged that courts are some
times Influenced with money, but
does anyone suppose that congress
is never so Influenced or corrupt
ed?"
When he said that it might be
wiser to recognize Russia and do
business with its government even
though it did not suit US as gov
eminent, part of his audience ap-
plauded, but when he said that the
Turkish government had conducted
wholesale massacres of Christians
for the past five hundred years and
that regardless of our constant alb
horrence of the terrible Turk we
had always recognized Turkey, all
of the audience responded. When
he admitted that the Soviet govern
ment had not paid the cars debts, !
neither had France nor Mexico and
some others paid theirs, part of the
house applauded, but when he said
the Turkish government had never
been known to pay debt, and we
had always done business with |
them and tolerated their methods, !
he had the whole house with him.
When the speaker said that some
people don't like him as senator |
because he is interested in inter-
national and foreign relations, he
hit right home to part of his audi
ence, but when he said that we con-
sumo only about eighty per cent of
our farm products and that when
the other twenty per cent Is not
sold abroad it stays at home as a
surplus and kills the price of the
rest of it, thus running all markets,
and that consequently a study OF
foreign affairs seemed worthy of
attention, the dart went
home to them.
The audience seemed to be more
than half progressive with a large
sprinkling of farmers and laborers,
and with singular Indifference to
the feelings of Progressives, he
walked all over them in his analy-
sis of the folly of the proposed re-
call of judges and suspension of the
and showed them that
Of all men on earth who need those
safeguards and who grasp for them ]
often, the Progressives grasp their g
protection the oftenest IL
II the old line Republicans found t
,cant comfort in his courteous 8
thanks to the Progressives for their a
support of his own candidacy, the c
WINGED at the way he d
knocked the bark Off of their pet b
blanks of recent years. It
Only once did he flip any dust at '
my other candidates, and then he F
merely said that 1t is a very popular a
practice just now to be expressing C
for the farmers, and he
the hope that there would
,e substantial evidence of continued
Election for them after the 4th OF
November.
He said there is western state ="
whose senator Is not considered
cry good party man, and then ex- y
ressed the belief that the most ef- II
ective way to keep a party clean :,
vas to frankly condemn whatever y
ne considered wrong within his y
wn party, and point out the cor
ect practice. =
His address throughout was cold, q .,