The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-29
SENATOR BORAH
 JUMPS INTO RING
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ity of It's 1000 seats, under auspices of the Borah-for President com- mittee headed by Kingsland Macy, former chairman of the state re- publican committee. and William Ziegler, JF, former committee treas- urer. Ills immediate mission was to halk plans of present organization heads to hamper his candidacy by sending an unlnstrueted delegation to the national convention. Macy Zlegler and Congressman Hamilton Fish, Jr, hope to deliver tho delega- ton to Borah.
 He declared his candidacy by in. direction but unmistakably 50 that Q fight might be made to prevent nomination of the republican can- didate behind closed doors with the votcFs excluded and sordid interests pulling the strings"
 With this declaration ho submit- tod c statement of policies, giving greatest stress to constitutionalism, which he construed As being no ob. struetion to economic justice.
 Smith Speech Ills Text
 Ho took the speech of Alfred E, Smith before the American Liberty League last Saturday as Q text on what the republican party should not do in the presidential campaign,
 Last Saturday night listened to the most eloquent and the most pathetic funeral oration that I have ever heard" he said above noisy laughter.
 "ft was your brilliant and distin. guished ex-governor, speaking over the dead body of the Chicago plat. form. Nothing like 1t since Marc An. thony stood over the body of Julius Caesar. And as the adroit orator drew back the shroud from the dead platform and pointed to the numer. ous wounds inflicted by those whom he called traitors, you could hear the anti-R Roosevelt democrats and the regular republicans cheering to the echo. How they do love on in- surgent when he is in the other party.
 No Party Can Chart Course
 When he turned to his ideas of the positive measures the party should take he said that mo man, perhaps no group of men, perhaps no party can chart course or map the de- tail of how they are to deal with all these problems" of depression and of threatened war.
 We are much interested in these days in the question of personal of preserving our civil rights under the constitution" he said, "But in my opinion If we are going to preserve our political liberty we must also be prepared to preserve our economic freedom.
 "If there is Q power In the United States which can prevent c busi- nessman from engaging in any kind of business which he sees fit to en- gage In and may do SC. his political liberty is not worth very much to him after that has been accom- plished.
 We will go into this campaign against regimentation. We are op- posed to controlling production. We are opposed to controlling business. That in all probability will be the position of the party"
 Maintain Authority
 But while the government seeks to improve the lot of its citizens, Borah said, it must maintain unim- paired the authority of the consti- tuition and the authority of the su- preme court to interpret it.
 The authors of the constitution intended land so said," he asserted, that when they gave the supreme court control of judicial questions, that of itself constituted the power and conferred the power upon the court to declare statutes unconsti- tutional"
 Upon that question there ought not to be any compromise in this campaign" he added.