The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-26
BORAH DENIES
HIS VOTE SURE
FOR HOOVER
Position Obscure After He
Is Quoted as Giving Pres
dent Support.
BIZ United Press

BOISE, Idaho, Oct. 26.-The posi-
ton of Senator william E. Borah
(RepO toward supporting and in
dorsing or rejecting President Her
bert Hoover as head of his party's
ticket was covered with some OBJ
security today after Borah had been
quoted Tuesday night as saying he
would be a Hoover voter.
Borah today declared he had as
yet made no decision as to whom
he would support for the presi-
dency, though after his Nampa
speech Tuesday night attacking
former Governor AL Smith, he was
asked by a United Press CORE
spondent if this attack meant he
would be Hoover voter.
yes" the correspondent quoted
him as replying. He also said Borah
refused to amplify the statement,
but indicated he had no plans for
actively supporting the Presidents
campaign.
Still Keeps Freedom"
Borah told the United Press to-
day when the statement was chal-
lenged:
"If that subject was mentioned,
cannot recall it, but am sure
your correspondent did. not in
tentionally misrepresent me-
(The correspondent, man of in
tegrity, reported he approached
Borah at the conclusion of his at
tack on Smiths anti-prohibition
views, presented the question and
received a yes" answer
Today Borah said he intended to
deal with questions of campaign
issues as they arise, with entire
freedom as 1 have been doing" He
held he had not decided whom he
would support and indorse.
All the oratorical fury the vet
eran senator could muster was
directed at Smith. He characterized
the 1928 Democratic nominees adj
dress as the most effective talk for
President Hoover in this campaign"
"AlI Doubt Removed"
Admitting there was an honest
difference of opinion on the prohi-
bition question, Borah continued:
But when man says that those
opposing the throwing down of all
barriers to the liquor traffic are
cranks and intellectual crooks, he
leaves no doubt as to where re-
spectacle people ought to go.
Many men and women have been
in doubt in this campaign owing
to the attitude of both parties on
the liquor question. But Governor
Smith removed that doubt with a
vast number of people. He de-
nounced as bigotS all those who are
against the return of liquor traffic.
Indignant Over Label
"He says to them in so many
words: There is no place for you
III the Democratic party
''The millions of sincere and pa
triotic men and women, who would
control liquor traffic, who fear the
return of the saloon, who believe in
protecting the American home
these people he denounced in most
unmeasured terms as a bunch of
cranks and should belong in the
Hoover camp.
He says, in effect, if you have
been in any doubt we now invite
you to get out. Your presence and
your influence are not wanted
Return to Old Evils
I'm this remarkable speech, all
other questions were subordinated
to the one question, give us beer,
give us something to drink
What magnificent political
creed"
Borah said Smith mentioned
nothing about protecting dry states
and took it for granted that the
former Governor would leave them
where they were in 1914.
"He does not present to the coun-
try the question of how to deal with
the liquor traffic, how to protect the
dry states, how to prevent the re-
turn of the saloon. He presents the
naked proposition of a return to the
evils beyond the power of human
language to describe"