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Show Senator William E. Borah I WILUAM E. BORAH Is dead. It Is hard to realize that the grand old man of Idaho is gone that the nation will no longer hear his trenchant utterances on affairs of state; that the halls of congress will no more ring with his forceful oratory; that the government's govern-ment's council tables will not again have the benefit of his wisdom, experience and great intellect. in-tellect. Senator Borah Is dead. It teems not so much the passing of a man, a the end of a tradition, an Institution In government. gov-ernment. To us of the Intermountaln country, who lived In Idaho or states bordering .on Senator Borah typified all that was fine In politics, poli-tics, In government and in citizenship. He WAS . the senate. It Is almost Impossible for most of us to conceive of that body without Borah. He was a fixture there, surviving political landslides land-slides and popular vagaries. Death alone could remove him from office. As far back as most of us In the Intermountaln Intermoun-taln west can remember as voting citizens, there was always Borah In the senate. Almost 34 years of service. Why, a man would have to be well Into his 508 to remember a time when there wasn't a Senator Borah. Now the shaggy-haired "Lion of Idaho" Is Just a memory but what a memory. His nam will take Its rank In history along with those of Calhoun, Clay, Webster and many ethers whose great statesmanship won fame, not only for themselves, but for, the United States senate. Borah was in truth a senator of the United States. A politician, but above poll-tics; poll-tics; a representative of his state, but above provincialism; a legislative strategist, but above subterfuge and chicanery. Had he come from another state, he might easily have been president yet it may be that the nation profited more from his long service ! as an unclrcumscribed and unshackled senator ! than it would have had he been chief executive. I His courage, his wisdom, his Intellectual hon esty were a guiding light to America through difficult decades. We will miss his counsel in the troubled days that lie ahead. Surely Idaho and the Intermountaln west have lost a great champion America a great dtlxen. |