The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-06-02
BOOh!

BOOh!
 Senator Borah also has no silly ideas about the destruction of our type of government, destruction to which the President, his coun- sellors in the administration and his supporters in the Congress have been 50 constantly pictured as being committed. with any. thing like economic justice in this country, he insists, "thc gOvern- ment and the great principles upon which 1t rests arc not In the slightest danger of fundamental change" Nor will 1t be of any avail in the coming campaign for the Republicans Republican, oppo. sition to scream about the viola ton of the Constitution which various laws passed by the Con- gress are supposed to have per. petrated. Speaking of Big Business which for years has, known to all the world", occupied a dominant position in shaping the policies of his party MT. Borah expressed himself in unequivocal terms:
 'Ie we are in this respect pre- pared to disregard the supreme interests of the people, it will be vain during the campaign to dis- cVtss constitutional questions and the validity of constitutional government or to offer direct in. suit to the peoples understand ing by telling them we are not able to protect them"
 And in the same strain, although not in the same connection, in his utterance that:
 ''No intelligent and effective presentation of the problems of maintaining our free institutions can be presented in this cam- paign or. in my opinion, at any time, unaccOmpanied by an ef- fective proposal which will re- llcve the citizen of his personal problems.
 ''In the modern world social and economic problems are incx- trlcabIy inteFtwined with all questions of government If it was ever true in the world--and it has always been true--that economic and political freedom go hand i'm hand, It's true now"
 It is precisely this recognition by President Roosevelt of the eS- sential relationship between gov- ernment and the solution of tho economic and social problems of the individual citizen which has brought about his head the storm of vituperation from quarters which hold MT. Borah's political creed to be the last word in treason.
 It All Depends
 It must have been unpleasant information to those Republican editors (Soine of whom are in our midst), who have been shouting that the Citizenry is returning by the millions to the party fold, to be told by MT. Borah that no such condition exists:
 "Milllons of men and women who have heretofore believed In and supported the party have registered their votes elsewhere. and, at this time, propose to cast them elsewhere.
 "The combined vote, or show. ing, of all the candidates dis. closes but Q remnant of that strength which the party has In previous campaigns displayed. The voters will tell you, and they do tell you, wherever you go throughout the country, to on extent as depressing as ft iS alarming, that they no longer accept, or believe In, the pOlit- lCal views or the economic the. Orics of the dominating influ- enCes of the party. The regls- tratiOn books, even in hitherto Republican strongholds. confirm these private statements"
 While the Senator admits that an effort is being made to con- vince the people that to vote for the Republican party does not mean that we are going back, "it all depends on one thing"
 
 No Place to Go
 Talking to varied cross sections of the nation, farmers, business men and workers, has made 1t cer- tain to him that whatever other