The Indianapolis times., 1936-05-14
Senator Comedies Group
Opposed to Him Will
Rule Convention.
C0UGHLIN FORCES GAIN
Half of Candidates Backed
by Radio Priest Are
Nominated.
BY LYLE c. WILSON
United Press STAFF Correspondent

WASHINGTON, May IA
Senator William E. Borah had
his foot in the air today to-
ward the first step of a walk
out on his party.
The Borah bolt became at
least a possibility as tabula-
tion of West Virginia and
Ohio presidential primary re-
turns piled up a big regular
Republican victory.
Mr.. Borah won five or six of 50
Republican national convention
delegates in Ohio. His slate of dele
gates-at-large was swamped. Robert
A. Taft, blessed by an official coali-
ton of other Republican aspirants,
got the rest of the delegation.
1t was Mr.. Borah against the field
in Ohio with Taft as the "favorite-
son" candidate representing all anti
Borah factions. After one ballot the
Taft delegates may go where they
will and according to their leaders
Judgment. Mr.. Taft entered a full
slate of So delegates. Senator Borah
was shy II candidates. Originally
his managers intended to enter only
candidates for delegates II
they had maintained that strategy
Tuesdays reverse would have been
more striking disaster.
AS returns rolled in Mr.. Borah
struck at the Republican leadership
in language forecasting bolt if the
regulars control the convention. Mr..
Borah practically conceded that the
party leaders he has been fighting
will dominate the Cleveland meet
ing and select the c.. o. P. candi-
date.
Coughlin Candidates Win
While the Borah boom shriveled
for practical purposes in Ohio,
Father Charles E. Coughlin's Ma
tional Union for Social Justice hit
a new high. Half of the 80 various
candidates indorsed by Coughlin
were nominated. Two or three
Democratic members of the House
were shunted out of next Novem-
ber's pay-off race by Coughlinites.
Politicians are acutely aware of the
priest in the Midwest.
Col. Henry G. Breckinridge, New
York Lawyer, went down u to
in Ohio in his presidential primary
contest with President Roosevelt.
Although Gov. Alf NJ. Landon has
counted Ohio in his political parade,
the primary returns showed the
state director of Frank Knox
presidential campaign leading the
list of successful Taft delegates
at-large. Mr.. Borah's next real
contest is scheduled for New Jersey
May 19 where the regular Repub-
lican organization backing Gov.
Landon promises to crush the
Borah boom once and for all.
Observers Are Startled
In West Virginia, where Mr..
Borah was opposed by a political
nonentity, he got moderately en-
couraging but merely complimentary
preferential ballot Endorsement. But
the state appears to have elected a
delegation controlled by regular G..
o. P. leaders and favorable to the
aspirations of Gov. Landon.
AS close to final returns reached
the capital, Mr.. Borah lashed at the
Old Guard party organization. His
language startled observers, who
believed Mr.. Borah's lifetime habit
of presidential year party regularity
would prevail this time.
In blistering words the Senator
denounced "the men VINO are in
control of the party, who will likely
be in control Of the convention and
who will write its platform and
name it's candidate"
Slams Anti-Lynching Bill
Mr.. Borah charged that party
regulars in New York, Illinois and
Ohio had supported a pending Fed
eral anti-lynching bill which the
Senator contends is unconstitu-
tional. Mr.. Borah opposed the bill
and alienated Negro voters. He ar
gued that the Constitution and
states rights would be no safer in
the hands of persons controlling the
Republican Party than "in the
hands of those who openly advocate
change in our form of govern
ment."
The Negro vote has been well or.
ganized against Mr.. Borah and his
Senate opposition to the anti
lynching bill placed him on the de-
fensive during stumping tours OF
Ohio, Illinois and New York. Mr..
Borah previously charged the G. o.
P. regulars with seeking to disen-
franchise voters by the device OF
sending uninstructed or favorite-son
delegations to the national conven-
ton.
He said the principle underlying
the disputed anti-lynching bill
struck at the foundations Of states
rights, and our system of govern
ment.
Mr.. Borah ridiculed the probable
planks in the Republican platform
in defense of the Constitution and
upholding the rights of the states
against such outlawed New Deal
experiments as the National Indus
trial Recovery Act and the Agri-
cultural AdffStrne7t Art