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Coolidge, Kellogg, Mellon, Hughes, Borah, Houghton...
...invade and win the South, the conventional Mark Hanna Republican of the brewery and bloody shirt will not do. There must be some disguise. The window dressing, this stalking horse, this bearer southward of the Judas kiss, seems to have been acquired in the person of Senator William E. Borah of Idaho." He described Senator Borah as a "peddler of political wares which he himself did not believe in when they were being made...
...Prohibition, he said: "I cannot speak for Tennessee, but in our State [Ohio] every man or woman who wants a drink can get it, and I am willing to ... assert that whoever wants liquor anywhere in any State can easily procure it. Senator Borah knows that. Mr. Hoover knows it. Mr. Coolidge knows it. And so does Governor Smith. The difference is that Governor Smith frankly tells the truth about it. ... Now why can't we be perfectly honest and candid and frank with each other on this subject? . . . It's not a new thing for public...
...said: "You cannot preach one doctrine in Europe and practice another in Latin America." He flayed the G. O. P. for failure to reorganize the Government as promised, both in 1920 and in 1924. He ridiculed Mr. Hughes for saying that "prohibition" is a sham battle, while Senator Borah pronounces it the paramount issue of the campaign...
...honest Senator." He sits on the Republican side; he is chairman of the Judiciary Committee, but only because the Republicans have sought him, have courted his influence. Actually he is and has always been totally independent, quieter than his late friend Senator LaFollette, firmer than his ponderous friend Senator Borah. Something unbending, something chilled by logic, leads him to conclusions whither not even political hotheads will follow, such as the abolition of the "lame duck" sessions of Congress and direct popular election of the President without benefit of politics...