The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1935-09-05

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certain subject for well-known
magazine an opportunity which few
senator's would decline, and which VAN
denberg would not decline If he were
not rigidly holding himself to eau
tious line of procedure.
Then Take Borah
On the other hand, Senator Borah,
who probably has been talked about
for President longer than any living
man, and gotten less close to the nom
nation at convention time than any
body who ever aspired-if the roll calls
of the conventions are accepted as de-
cisive on thls-acts just as though he
were not Interested. Right after his
present boom started he proceeded to
cast votes and make speeches Whieh
were calculated to ALLEVIATE the con-
sentative wing of the party. And this
came at moment when he was being
considered as an excellent connecting
link to weld together the two wIngs
| OF the party.
Perhaps the explanation Is that
| Borah has been talked about for Presi-
dent SO long that he no longer takes 1t
seriously, save In complimentary
way. Nobody knows the answer to
that. People do know that he Is ire
mendously interested In the talk. That
story Is true about his putting the slip
! x,.tt Drngfdnnf y
which a colleague put on his desk as a
! Joke Into a drawer, and then taking It
out and looking at 1t half q dozen
/ times within an hour. And 1t wasn't
to figure out whose handwriting 1t was.
either. His face, according to those
who watched him, showed distinct sat
/ isfacti0n.
But 1t was not long afterward that
i he insurged all over the lot, casting
ballots and making remarks calculated
to cause cold chElls down New York
and New England and New Jersey
spines.
Maybe he thinks they have got to
be for him, and he wants the wild boys
too--so his election will be unanimous
said q cynical commentator. He re-
called the story of Hoover's asking
prominent North Carolina Repub-
lican, after the 1923 election, If he
| would not have carried the Tar Heel
state even without the religious Issue.
Gets What He Wanted
Very few times San history has a
President obtained greater measure
OF what he wanted from his second
congress thnn has President Roosevelt.
lie actually suffered no important re-
verses except a few having funda-
mentally nothing to do with his pro-
gram and policies.
Critics point TO the World court vote.
Every President since Wilson has been
for the World court, and every one
Harding, Coolidge and Hooyer-failed
to get anywhere with 1T. Due to a
combination OF racial groups Opposing
United States adherence to TUE court.
and to widespread and firmly frozen
Isolationlst sentiment. many senator's
simply do not dare to vote for It.
Critics also point to the st. Law
renee seaway treaty, which Mr. Roose-
welt strongly fayors, and which does
impInge slightly on his program and
policies in that there Is power angle
But the power angle had nothing tc
do with the defeat Of that treaty, non
the attitude In the senate that made II
futile to attempt to bring 1t up again
1t Is purely the seaway angle that op
} crates against ratification. Oppos
] ton comes soidly from the At
lantlc coast and Gulf states, whose
ports would be hurt by the diversion
OF deep-sea traffic to that route. There
Is nothing partisan about 1t.
I Some critics also point to the votes
, on the death sentence OF the utility
holding company bill. This Is not Il
be discounted for the President fstakeC
, his whole fight on the death sentence
: clause-and so did the utilities In theil
: tremendous letter and telegram writ
J Ing campaign.
t Where Fight Conferred
! The most interesting point here
however. Is that the utilities did no
. dare attempt to draw their battle linz
I more to their own advantage. If the,
I had dared make a fiat fight to elm
e mate any possibility of the holdns
t companies being forced out Of exist
, ence for example, that might hay'
: meant something The whole figh
r between senate and house, and be
Y tween the President and the house
i was over whether fiat day for execu
ton should be named, or whether dis
T erection to commute the sentence Nigh
L be vested in commissioner commits
Z sion named by the President.
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