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Show BORAH DRAWS I BRIGHT PICTURE I Glowing Forecast of Reunited H Republicans and Progres- HE sives Made at Detroit. HI PARTY COMING BACK H Duty to Build Up Great Mili- R tant Progressive Party as It Kf Was in Old Days. Bp Deiroit Mich.. May 26 -A glowing picture of the future of the Republl- can pny reunited with the Progres- Hlb iive element which left It In 191 2 ffjr was painted here todav bv Senator 0' William K. Borah of Idaho, speaking at state-wide "conference' of Re- Jfbf' publicans. "The Republican party, said the ME' senator, 'is coming back into power. mxLZ The proof of it Is on everv hand. The mW' trend ic- unmistakable I said a year Bh.; ago that the amalgamation which would take place would be an amalga- K'' matton- of the voters, not the assuni- ffi.' ed leaders. I said furthermore, that ff-C that was the only amalgamation that - was .vorth while. The men who vot- Mr ed th third party ticket to the num- mL ber of 4,000,000 for reasons entirely ffl?f satisfactory to them can neither be Ki questioned as to their integrity of K purpose or their patriotism. But that K:. . it was a protest and not a manifes wM' . tatlon of purpose to permanent I v W leave the party is now established bv W' facts and figures which cannot be JB "' doubteo Ms "Nov. in view of this pronounced MS-' and unmistakable purpose of those E&. who voted the third party ticket to Ef all tliemselves with the Republican parts, In view of the determination to support its principles and its pol- Mfc icies, what Is the task before us? W It is unquestionably to make our Is' party equal to the tremendous prob- :K lems which now concern us. It Is W' to build up in this country, out of the fe traditions, the achievements and pres- l? tige of the past, the duties and ob- iigattoni of the present, and tho R, hopes and aspirations of the future. w; an organization efficient, militant jbtj and progressive worthy of its old jb days and equal to the obligations K which now rest upon us, It is our R ; duty, in othex wordH, in unmistak- IP' abltr icniih nuive it cita: that the iff Republ'can party is to be as it was 1 In it; best days, a thoroughly pro- gressive party. p Will Be No Compromise. J We ought not to assume for a mo- fT ment or concede for a moment, that T uecause the party bids fair to go r back Into power there la going to be I any compromise with the forces H which brought it near its ruin. Thero H is in this country a powerful influ- ence for the bad in politics and it will take possession of any party in the world, if it can, which is enjov- f ing power This kind of an influ- I ence does not light a party in the f' open. It holds itself in readiness to direct the course of any party w-hlch r happens to be in power With such I Influences there can be no compro- 1 mise if we are to have a party which ! is going to meet and solve the great I probl' ins which a new industrial life I and a new social condition have im- I posed upon us. I "Nj man living In this splendid age, .-mid these exhillrating environ ff ments. can afford to permit the cor- I roding poison of pessimism to enter I Ins -cul But on the other hand, the curse of our age Is that cold, cruel. . selfish conservatism, which, living In I its ease and comfort, enjoying wealth and all It brings, refuses to 6ee or I sympathize with the conditions of I thOBi who, in the midst of a world I of plenty, are bordering on the line of hunger and misery, who refuse to I see the new conditions or the new I probh-ms which must be met and dealt with in the same spirit and with the same courage and progres- I BivenesjB that our- father met the I problems of their age. This grat and almost superhuman task, my frlpnds, is not the gathering of MM wealth but its fair and equitable dis trilijtion. ' What we want in this country is 8 paitv which will do the simph- but profound thing which Lincoln did. that s. gather up the common snsp. 1 the lommon honesty the commo.i 1 patriotism, the common courage and I the common righteousness of th I commoi people of this countryi an' 1 organic l lnto a militant, progres-sive progres-sive disciplined force for legal and social justice, and do it all under th constitution and laws of this blessed old republic." I |
