The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-01-20

scan the preSi- creased taxes.
rangement for the American sys-
TEN of government.
Senator Borah took no part in
the campaign against Franklin D.
Roosevelt.
Unlike some other Republican
Independents, who carried their
bolt from Hoover to the point of
public support of Roosevelt's cam
paign and of advocacy of his 1888
emergency recovery program, Bor-
ah went his uniquely independent
way.
Opposes "NRA"
He voted for. several of Roose-
velt's emergency measures, but
strongly opposed. others on eco
nomic and constitutional grounds.
He also disliked the way in which
Congress delegated !, broad powers
! to the. chief executive. -.
! He was particularly bitter against
the national industrial, recovery act
which suspended arti-trust laws
to permit competitors in an indus
try to- agree on wages and hours
Of labor in the, interest of in
creased employment and a, conse-
quent higher buying power that
!. would raise prices. Borah aclassed
this as Fan advance. step toward
the. ultra concentration of wealth
and the first, step to end all anti
trust laws 4.
I Satisfied to be Senator
+ After he become Senator, Borat
never sought any other office. II
1896 he was an unsuccessful can
didate for the House of Represen-
tatives as a free silver Republican
Bryanite. Then In 1903 he ran fol
the Senatorship, receiving % o.
/. the necessary 20 Idaho Legislative
votes for that office. 1t was re-
lated that he refused trade
at that time which might have
given him the needed margin. Foul
years later he won the post anc
the Legislature reelected him il
I January. 1918 He won popular
ma orities in the November elec-
lions of 1918, 1924, 1880, and 1886
He virtually declined the vice
presidential nomination with Coo.
lidge in 1924 and turned dowr
earlier an opportunity to becoms
Republican Leader Of the Senate
under Harding.
Lawyer by Profession
| Senator Borah was a lawyer b,
profession. He was born at Fair
field, Ill, on June 20, 1865, wen
through Southern Illinois Academ.
and studied law at the Universit!
of Kansas. He was admitted t.
the bar in 1859, began practice a
Lyons, Kans., moved to Boise, Ida
no, in 1891 and won broad plaudit
as an advocate a few years late
when he was special prosecutor IL
the celebrated trial of Haywood
Pettibone and Meyer. They wer'
officials OF the western Fedora
ton of Miners, accused OF havin,
caused the assassination of Franl
Steuenberg, former Governor o
| Idaho. ~ ...~ss > s''
When he went to the Senate HI
already had reputation as al
orator, but it was years later be
fore, the country was to see thu
full scope of his forensic powers
During the historic fight over thu
League OF Nations, he attracte'
wide attention by the clarity o
his arguments and the force o
his delivery.
! Shuns Society Affairs
I. In the National Capital, ne tool
little part in the social life. pre-
Herring to spend his leisure hour
with a book or on solitary horse
back rides in Rock Creek Park
He was a total abstainer from al
coholic drinks, tobaccos coffee ant
tea.
At 80 he married Miss Mamie
Mcconnell, daughter Of a forme'
Governor of Idaho. Mrs. Borah wa
frequently in the society head
lines. entertaining foreign digni
taries who never missed seeing he
husband on visits to washington.
The Senator was greatly movet
by and grateful for the efforts 0
the public health service in 1892 il
rushing serum to save the life 0
Mrs. Borah who became Ill witt
lparrot fever In Boise.