Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-08-24

Senator Borah's place in the current
political situation attracts much at
tention throughout the country. He is
rated as a supporter of some phases
of the new deal, but as he questions
the value of crop managing, and at
tackS other features of the recovery
plan, it is found by few papers that
he may be considered available for
the Republican nomination in the
next presidential campaign.
He is criticising parts Of Presi-
dent Roosevelt's program" according
to the Long Beach (Calif) Press
Telegram, lust as he criticized the
Hoover, Coolidge and other admins
trations on occasions" That paper
assigns to him "the role of chief
national critic, for which nature made
him and experience has trained him, I"
doubts that he would accept a presi-
Dental nomination, and adds: IF he
should become the leader of a political
party and then be elected to the
presidency, he would find for the first
time in his life that absolute freedom
of speech was impossible for him. A
leader must make some concessions to
hold together his following; the head
of the Nation may not speak every
doubt and criticism that come to his
mind"
Members of the Old Guard" says
the Atlanta Constitution, however,
fear party split, and that is where
the patient Senator from Idaho comes
into the picture. A progressive Re-
publican, yet one who has always been
a regular party man when the big
moment came, 1t is urged that he, as
party nominee for the presidency,
can hold the progressive element from
splitting the G. o. P. in the 1886 cam
paign, and that he will be an accept
able candidate to the Middle and Far
West. while reactionary Eastern
candidate, representative of the Old
Guard stand-pat principles, would
stand no chance in that territory"
THE contention of some supposed
wiseacres." declares the Charleston
IS. c. Evening Post, that the Sena-
tor will be the Republican candidate
in 1886 is more vaporing. Senator
Borah is not the man to lead a forlorn
hope nor has he any taste for retire.
ment from public life. If he should
run for President against Franklin
Roosevelt two years hence he would
be beaten as badly as was Herbert
Hoover two years ago and be out of
the Senate besides, and that would
not look so good to Borah. Moreover
the Senator says he is a supporter of
the new deal, for all that he takes pot
shots at N. r. A. as who, in point of
fact, does not?"
Referring to the Senator's Crusade
against pending amendments to the
agricultural adjustment act" the
Rochester Times Union records that
the Senator regards the theory that
there was overproduction as false and
misleading resulting in catastrophe"
That paper also recalls: He pointed
out in a speech to farmers in Idaho
the other evening that If these amend
ments are passed they will give the
Secretary of Agriculture power to pre-
scribe what farmer may sow or
plant, what chickens and turkeys he |
may raise and to manage in detail the
entire farm operation. Each farmer
must obtain license to farm his own |
land and the terms of the license may |
be dictated. Failure to observe the |
terms would be punishable by fines"
THE manner in which Senator |
Borah is putting his objections to the
administrations farm program will
have an effect throughout the West"
thinks the Jamestown IN. " Post, |