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Professing to serve party before self, Candidate Reed last week stormed afresh at the G. O. P. in speeches through the South. At the university town of Chapel Hill, N. C., he cried: "Senator Borah and the insurgents are all that are left of the soul of the Republican Party in Washington! Have you ever heard from Coolidge or from any member of the Cabinet any protest against the present iniquities? The entire crowd is tainted...
...other so much of the time that the few humorists among them find it easy to raise a laugh, once they put their minds to it. Last week, Matthew Mansfield Neely, the handsome senior Senator from West Virginia, put his mind on Candidate Hoover's reply to Senator Borah's questionnaire on Prohibition (TIME, March 5) and spoke for the space of four columns in the Congressional Record. So successfully did this speech go off that, afterwards, Senator Neely felt justified in editing the parenthesis [Laughter] into the Congressional Record no less than 13 times...
...feat was undertaken to justify the party. But according to the "Nation", such an act as Mr. Borah has made might very possibly give him such a start on the rocky road to the presidency as the famous "Cross of Gold" speech so nearely gave William Jennings Bryan...
...Senator Borah with his characteristic "set the world on fire" spirit has undertaken more than he can finish. His great campaign to redeem the fair name of the Republican Party has netted a mere twentieth of the sum necessary to repay Mr. Sinclair for his donation to the "Keep Cool with Coolidge" camgaign...
Superficially the repaying of the sum to Sinclair could do no lasting good. The money actually was not rightfully his in the first place. Then such a repayment would not effectively wash the stain from the Republican robe of state. Now, with the suggestion that Mr. Borah donate the sum already gathered to the needy miners of Pennsylvania, the original purpose of the scheme has come to naught. The secondary result which the "Nation" hints at still remains nevertheless. Mr. Borah, though the possibility of his ever attaining to the Presidency through such a stroke is most improbable...