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Show Borah, Paradox of American Politics I t ) ' Following the recent Chicago ad-dresses ad-dresses of Senator William E. Bora of Idaho It Is evident that he Is the greatest paradox la present-day American Amer-ican politics the old-fashioned, ultra-conservative ultra-conservative defender of the Const! ration, applauded for three solid days by every liberal and radical element la the Windy City. When .the brilliant Idahoaa, reached Chicago he was apparently hanging on to the O. O. P. by his eye lashes. When he departed for the home state to fight far his political life, even the eyelashes had given way, according to the impression he left with his au2enees. The anomaly of Borah Is that if induced to head a new party, it would be by the liberal and in a large degree de-gree the radical forces of the country, whereas fundamentally he la a rock ribbed conservative. He was the prosecutor of the Moyer-Haywood dynamiters in Idaho. Clarence Darrow and other liberals defended the Moyer-Ilnywood Moyer-Ilnywood prisoners, and It was Darrow who applauded with vigor Borah's address. Borah opposed the enfranchisement of women by the federal Constitution Constitu-tion route, and It was Jane Adrlams and her Intimates who applauded. Borah was the late Colonel Roosevelt's floor manager in the 1912 Republican Repub-lican national convention. Yet when the rump convention was called and Roosevelt bolted the G. O. P Borah refused to go with him. And yet Harold L. Ickcs and other "Fridays' of the old Roosevelt regime applauded Borah as the hope of the country In the present crisis. |