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...latter quotation is from a telegram which Candidate LaFollette despatched to Senator William E. Borah of Idaho. Also the telegram said: "I demand immediate action to halt this outrageous conspiracy...
...Senator Borah opened his campaign for reëlection. The Republicans had been praying him to give them strong support. LaFollette had asked him to follow Brookhart into the Progressive fold. The reason both wanted Borah was because, with the possible exception of LaFollette, politically he is the strongest man west of the Mississippi. And it is a good guess that the reason for his strength is that he does not do the kind of thing they asked...
...Borah has the strength of isolation. In ordinary men, isolation is a weakness. It is always a limitation. But coupled with a certain moral grandeur it is also a power. Senator Borah has that power. It is that rather than rhetoric which makes him the only orator of the Senate who can pack the galleries with people who come for the sheer glory of hearing him. Washington -cynical, politically overfed Capital -hangs, not on his words, but on the power of his convictions. In the Senate, Borah weighs, not because he is the leader of an insurgent group lake LaFollette...
...opening speech of his campaign at Idaho Falls was typical of his attitude-prepared to give everyone (devil, fool or solon) his due, and to take his constitutents' votes-for Borah...
...Frank Martin W. E. Borah...