The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-06-21
PARTY PLATFORMIS
PLACED UNDER FIRE
OF MAN FROM IDAHO.
Rejects Document as Inade-
quate and Unresponsive
to Will Of People
1923 CAMPAIGN RECALLED
Borah Was Then Credited With
Being One Of Big Guns in
Hoover Drive
1923 CAMPAIGN RECALLED

Washington, June 21--(P)-A furore
OF political questioning rang GU:
Tuesday in the wake OF Senator
Borah's dramatic announcement tina.
President Hoover will not have his
support for reelection If he stands on
the Republican conventions plat.
form.
Before the senate chamber this
leading dry spokesman Monday de-
nounced the prohibition resubmission
plank. rejected the entire platform as
inadequate and unresponsive to the
demands of the people. and then, ask
ed If he would support the president
on that platform. delivered his bomb
shell:
II will not"
The Importance of the utteranct
lay in the fact that BorahS driving
campaign for Hoover in 1928 has been
regarded as one of the greatest in
dividual contributions to the presi-
dents election. A split between the
two has been in evidence for som !.
time. magnified by the senator's re-
fusal to attend the party convention
when the party trend on prohibition
showed itself running counter to
Borah's views.
Seen As Invitation
Yet, in the belief of many. the sem
ator's utterance Monday bore an un-
spoken invitation to the president to
write his own platform, with stroi.g
personal prohibition stand. in the ad-
dress accepting the nomination which
Hoover Is to deliver later IN the sum-
mer.
Newspapermen who sought mole
explicit statements after the senate
speech drew information Borah had
no intention Of going into a third
party movement. The idea developed
that his thought was to ignore tn:
presidential campaign and limit him.
self to stumping for dry members OF
congress.
The full fury of his attack was
turned on the iesubmission plank.
which he kicked aside. announcing he
would not be bound by it for "a single
moment" But he was no more kino
to the remainder Of the platform
maintaining that long before the cleo
ton this singular document VII
have been showed aside in the face OF
"the realities of the campaign. the
persistent questioning Of the voters y
Majority For Repeal
Borah said it was evident the great
majority of the Republican conven'
tion was for naked repeal" of thu
eighteenth amendment; that they
voted for the adopted plank out o.
"sheer political expediency
He singled out Postmaster Genera!
Brown and Secretary Mills. the two
"who had most to do with drafting
the platform. as openly and uncom'
promisingly for repeal Later both
cabinet members turned out state
ments denying this.
OF the whole Borah speech. the
els. of which was Immediately con-
veyed to the president. the WHIT,
house had nothing to saw
Borah analysed The resubmissioa
plan sentence by sentence. condemn
ing it as a generality" defying inter-
nretation. but holding that, II any
thing. it declared for repeal ana
would not prevent return OF the sa-
loon. 49,.
The only other Interpretation pos
s,hle he commended. was that each
state would be free to vote itself OUT
from under the 18th amendment II y
saw fit. a proposition ne characterized
as "legalized secession"