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...pick up the "Socialist" challenge. Speaking in Boston, he "called the roll" of eminent Republicans past and present whom, he said, would have to be classed as "Social ists" if he was one - the late Theodore Roosevelt, Mr. Hughes, Vice President Dawes, Nominee Curtis, Frank Orren Lowden, Senator Borah, etc., etc. Nominee Smith nailed the deceptive use of the Gompers quotation and kept his whole reply on that political level. Instead of elaborating a politico-economic theory, he simply said: "There is a very wide differ ence between public ownership and public control of water power sites, which...
...Senator Borah had been the biggest Republican gun up to the entry of Campaigner Hughes and he was second on the list in the effort to save Missouri. He arrived from Texas, where he had talked about Tammany and Prohibition, and made an automobile tour of the lead and zinc mining section near Joplin in the southwestern corner of the State. Prohibition and Prosperity were the subjects of his Joplin speech, but he also took occasion to answer critics who accuse him of abandoning his principles to support Nominee Hoover. Said...
Observers have said that the "unspeak able hardships" undergone by Senator Borah will place Mr. Hoover deeply in his debt. If the Republicans should win, he would be the Senate's commanding figure and his commands would have to be listened to at the White House. When Sena tor Borah left Missouri it was to go to Washington to suggest that a special ses sion of Congress be promised for next spring to act on the farm problem, if necessary...
This was a subject which Nominee Hoover had already discussed with Governor McMullen of Nebraska. The latter had announced that a special session was promised, but had been promptly contradicted by Hoover headquarters. After receiving Senator Borah, Nominee Hoover was still reluctant bui the Borah pressure was great. Senator Norris had "bolted." The northwest looked dangerous. Nomi nee Hoover finally issued a guarded prom ise for the special session...
James Middleton Cox, the Democratic nominee of eight years ago, went to the Border to counteract the big Republican push there. At Nashville, Tenn., he flayed the inconsistencies of loud-spoken Senator Borah and read long passages from Borah speeches in the Senate flaying Hoover in 1919. He described the Hon. Mr. Borah as a "political adventurer who, in some fashion or other has been under every political flag that has flown in the breeze from the days of free silver until...