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Nevertheless, they are un-pledged; nor is it by any means certain that the genial Kansan will be the national Republican choice next June. Borah is a definite possibility, as is Knox, and there is always that man named Hoover. Support of the President by his party, on the other hand, if casual, was at least certain, and if this is not the case at the Philadelphia convention, it will be most unusual. The obvious inference is that Massachusetts Republicans voted for Landon because he is the most in the limelight at the present moment, an uncertain reason at best...
...Senators drifted in & out of the Senate Chamber, word went around that the division was going to be close, that a bitter debate was in progress. Senator Borah was credited with making a vigorous speech in favor of conviction. There was a highly involved constitutional debate. Judge Ritter of Florida was a Republican appointed by Calvin Coolidge. Republican Senator Austin of Vermont pointed out that the Constitution says, ". . . all civil officers of the United States shall be removed from office on impeachment for and conviction of treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors." These offenses, he claimed...
Apparently most Progressives favored the latter choice, for President Roosevelt polled more than two votes for every one polled by Senator Borah in the preference primary. The Borah vote did not represent the full Republican strength because the regular Republicans opposed to the Senator presumably did not vote at all in this popularity contest. Not well educated in their own primary laws, only 70 voters out of 100 who went to the polls bothered to ballot for delegates, the only thing that counted. In that vote the Roosevelt delegates won easily. The four Borah delegates-at-large won over uninstructed...
Encouraged by gathering these first delegates in his collection for Cleveland, Senator Borah returned to Chicago, spent the rest of the week stumping Illinois-in preparation for this week's primary there. Meanwhile Carl Bachmann, his national manager, optimistically entered him in West Virginia's primary...
Ponderous Senator Smith has sat in his well-whittled seat longer than any other man in the Senate except William Edgar Borah. He keeps a quid of tobacco in his ample cheek, spits into his Senatorial cuspidor with regularity and precision, speaks for cotton as a cotton grower, heads...