Evening star., 1935-09-01

ttics must take account of what Is.
At conference of young Republicans
of the Northwest last week, at Yellow
stone Park, a poll gave the following
result:
First. Second
Choice. Chocie.
Borah - 50 13
Knox ------------- 10 II
Vandenburg
That poll was very informal. Those
voting ON it were from the Northwest
and therefore sectionally sympathetic
to Borah. But there is abundant in
formation that Senator Borah Is de-
sired by much of the country gen.
orally. I have rarely been so surprised
at anything in politics as by being
told, as I have been recently, by ortho-
dox old-time Republican leaders, "old
guard and "stand-patters," men who
in the past have always regarded Sem
ator Borah as so unorthodox as to be
impossible, that they now desire him
to be the Republican candidate. The
extent of the desire for Mr. Borah
is undeniable. The spontaneity of 1t
Is convincing.
Times Make the Man.
The turning toward Mr.. Borah Is
clear fact of the times. Much Of
the meaning of it lies in the fact
that it comedies with logic-not the
mere political logic of expediency, but
logic in the deeper sense of a true
relation between the man and the
sentiment that arises in support of
him.
The broad reason for turning toward
Mr.. Borah, felt instinctively by the
people. is that the Idaho Senator is
a true liberal. That word has been
stolen lately by New Dealers who
wanted a word which at once would
p appeal to the public and conceal the
designs Of the New Dealers. To call
the New Deal liberal" is as fantastic
as calling railroad train a steamship.
The New Deal does contain some
liberalism, but essentially the New
Deal Is as reactionary as a proposal
to 60 back to the time before Magma
Charta, when all power was in the
state. none in the individual, when
''the King could do no wrong" Sena-
tor Borah is liberal in the sense in
which liberal" goes with individual
"liberty" Mr. Borah Is liberal and
an individualist.
This is instinctively felt by people
who recognize that there must be
changes, but who want those changes
made in the forward direction, the
hof ant hoc o1yrJo
taken America, and not in the back
ward direction, the direction of limita-
tion Of individual liberty, in which
the New Deal is taking America.
A few of the direct reasons Senator
Borah is favored can be stated briefly.
He is desired by Eastern Republican
leaders because he stands squarely by
the Constitution and because he is
the ablest man in America for de-
tending it, making clear and simple
to the people the reasons why they
need the Constitution. The Eastern
Republicans recognize that the issue
next year Is the Constitution and
the freedom which the Constitution
guarantees. Recognizing that, East
ern Republicans, leaders and rank and
file, are willing to ignore those things
in Mr.. Borah's record which ordinarily
would cause them to oppose him.
They are willing even to forget what
they regard as Mr.. Borah's unortho-
doxy about fiscal matters.
Borah Held Solid in West.
In the West Republican local lead
erS and party workers want Senator
Borah because the people there like
him. The Western leaders know that
with Senator Borah they can carry
the West. About that there seems
no doubt. One of the two or three
most outstanding New Deal Demo-
Gratis, himself Senator from a West
ern State, says that Senator Borah
running against President Roosevelt
can carry every Western State.
Much Of the South wants Senator
Borah. I am not speaking of Southern
Republicans. am speaking of South
ern Democrats, who are profoundly
shocked by what Mr.. Roosevelt has
done to their party, who want to
vote against him, but who don't like
to vote for Republican of the
ordinary type. For such Democrats,
not only in the South but every
where-and there are millions Of
them-Senator Borah is ideal. The
same is true of independent voters
everywhere.
II the only mechanism for oppos-
ing the New Deal is to be the Repub-
lican party-if there is not to be a
coalition party nor third party made
up of conservative Democrats-in
that event Senator Borah as the Re-
publican candidate would have re-
markable elements of Appropriateness.
Ways Of Opposing New Deal.
Up to last week or a little before
there was one way Of averting the
New Deal that has now disappeared.
Up to the close of Congress the Demo-
Gratis in that body could have stopped
1t. In their hearts they wished TO-.
Out Of 322 Democrats in the Lower
House it is quite safe to say $50 do
not like the New Deal and would
have hurried to follow any Demo-
cratic leadership against it. Out Of
SO Democrats in the Senate, fully
so do not like the New Deal and
would gladly have followed leadership
against it provided the leadership
were provided by Democrats. These
estimates include many Of the Demo-
cratic leaders in both chambers; they
include the ctairmen Of most Of the
important committees. Most of these
leaders privately have the same feel
ing about the New Deal that Demo-
cratic Senator Carter Glass has. They
xiIsnecf the inevitable final form of