Evening star., 1936-02-27

debating the issues and can arouse
the Nation to an appreciation of the
gravity of the situation that confronts
us.
Senator Borah voted against N. r.
A., A. A. A., the Guffey coal and
other New Deal measures that sought
to concentrate in Washington power
and control over our individual lives,
industries and agriculture, destroy
free enterprise and lead us further on
the road to dictatorship.
IF the Republicans will nominate
Senator Borah he will be elected and
the America we love will be saved" J"
Uncertainty of Others.
With the Borah slate filled for the
delegate fight in Ohio, it remains to
be seen whether Knox and Landon
or some others file. Col. Knox has
been strongly urged to get into the
race by some of his friends. Both
have been invited by Ed Schorr, chair
man of the Republican State Commit
tee, to permit their names to be en-
tered for the primary. Within short
time it Is expected that Schorr will
release the results of a Statewide poll
he has conducted among the Repub-
licans, showing the relative strength
of the various aspirants for the presi-
dental nomination. The candidates,
If they are going into the Ohio pri-
mary, must file within the next two
weeks.
When former President Hoover en-
tered the Ohio primary, seeking dele
gates to the Republican National Con-
vention, which later nominated him
in 1928, James r. Garfield, Secretary
of the Interior under President Theo-
dore Roosevelt. was named as second
choice" by the Hoover delegate can
didates.
Already the Democrats in Ohio have
put forward President Roosevelt as
their first choice in the presidential
primary and Vice President Garner as
second choice
Reply to Ex-senator Edge.
AS was expected, Senator Borah has
replied to former Senator Walter E.
Edges suggestion that he enter the
New Jersey primary with statement
he will do so if Landon and other Re-
publican candidates also enter, and
their friends agree to abide by the
decision Of the primary. Borah took
occasion again to call on all aspirants
for the nomination to get into the open.
He said in part:
II am greatly pleased that Ambas-
sador Edge recognizes that the favor
ite son fraud Is no longer to be de-
Tended and that he counts it as a
blessing in disguise that it is so. There
is another blessing in disguise which
will be along later.
Long before we get to the conven-
ton hall all these uninstructed dele
gates will be as well placed as to their
as If they had received in
This is not good year
for political secrets. These unin-
structed delegates will be like one of
Edgar Allen Poe's heroes who was
haunted by a terrible secret. He
imagined every man, woman and
child whom he met was looking into
his tortured soul and there reading
his secret. At last, to avoid a mad
house, he published it to the world,
only to find the world already knew it..
These gentlemen who profess to be
uninstructed are the most active sup
porters of candidates there is any
where about. And before the first of
May they will be as completely in the
open as the favorite son is in the dis
card.
1.-THE man who will be nominated
at Cleveland will be nominated in
fact before the convention actually
meets, and that will be another bless
ing in disguise"