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Show APPROVING SENATOR BORAH. Wo aro glad lo print the following indor3omeut of our position respecting Senator Borah: Salt Laky City, Sept. 17. Editor Tribune: With deep Interest' and pleasure I road your editorial this morning- commenting on the position and declaration of Senator Borah in his Meridian speech last, week J most heartily Indorses overy word of it. If this country coun-try had a few more men of the independent independ-ent thought and speech of Senator Borah there would not today ba the oxtremoly disturbed feeling there is in tho affairs of this Nation. As a representative of the peoplo In the most important legislative legis-lative branch of the country ho stands out In great contrast when compared to our Senators from Utah, (he apparent servile tools of t)ic powers that be, cither in polities or commerce. As a Nation we need men who have tho fear of God in their souls and who regard re-gard a political crime just as much a crlmo ns when committed In the business busi-ness world; men who havo the independence independ-ence of thought and sterling manhood to declare thoir principles and their position posi-tion on the Important issues of the day without Hint consulting tho powers thut be or without walling to see how these i.ssues aro accepted by tho people whether they are popular or otherwise. The people need men who think and who are not afraid to .speak their thoughts. 1 reward Senator Borah as one of the very few strong men before tho people today, and believe his strength lies In his honesty, his fairness and his frankness. frank-ness. But now, Mr. Editor, why could not The Tribune have emulated Senator Borah's frankness, and also commended one other statement ho made in his speech at Meridian, when he said ho could not support air. Taft because his nomination nomi-nation was made by counting for him 52 votes that honestly belonged lo Theodore Roosevelt? I am suro tho wholo truth and nothing but the truth In this campaign cam-paign will make better Amerloans of us all, and I would liko to see The Tribune consistent and honest editorially as well as in its news columns. Tho writer never nev-er voted for any but a Republican for President, but he never will vote for a Republican candidate for President whose nomination was stolen, and I believe T speak the sentiments of the prcat mass of voters. ED. S. BROOKE. 1221 South Ninth East Replying to tho question, wo cousidcr the discussion of tho "fraud" in tho nomination of President Taffc, to bo entirely closed. There was no fraud. Even Senator Borah does not claim that tho 52 votes he objects to would have Tiominated Roosevelt. But the whole matter has boon gone ovor repeatedly, re-peatedly, and no useful purposo could bo served by reopening tho question, since it would not bo possiblo to arrive at any other result than has alroady been reached. Besidos, it is useless to dispute with a man who claims that the only honest result is his result, as Roosevelt man are apt to do, forgetting forget-ting that the great attempted fraud in Chicago was in Roosevelt's interest, in presenting 150 delegates from tho South who had no possible claim to seats and whom Senntor Borah and other Roosevelt Roose-velt m.embers of tho committee voted against, saying their claims had no merit. |