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Show uu i i MnlM VUlti i Ten Thousand Street Car , I Men Cast Ballots ' I In Chicago t Chicago, Aug. 29. Ten thousand 1 union street car men 'legan voting today to decide whether to accept the I , ? 500, OHO annual Increase in wages I contained in the agreement reached f between their officers and officials ( of the employing companies. Ballot- t ing will continue until 4 o clock to- t , morrow morning. 1 Asked concerning the statement of I David V. Mulvane. director of tho ,Tnft campaign in the west that be . would lake the stump for President Taft.ln Idaho and probably in other states, Sonator Borah said: "Any such statement was entirely unauthorized. I double If the speeches 1 propose to make would be acceptable accept-able to the Republican national committee. com-mittee. "I stated before tho bolt In Chicago Chica-go and after the bolt and I state now, that I am not going to follow te third party movement. But 1 assert with equal positlveness that T am go-i go-i In? to advocate progressive principles princi-ples as I have been advocating them ,for years. I shall not permit myself to feel any restraint In continuing to fight for those things because I am not leaving the Republican party. There is no reason why T should feel restraint "I expect, however, to spend my time in Idaho until election. I feel that the people of my state, who will elect 33 niy successor either myself or another, are entitled to my time and to know my views, and I expected expect-ed to give them mv lime and explain mv views In detail." Senator Borah stopped in Spokane todav on his wav home from Wash-Incton. Wash-Incton. He declined an invitation to address the Spokane county Republican Repub-lican committee, which was in session ses-sion today. |