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...campaign manager was needed, reluctant as Senator Borah might be to accept assistance. Mr. Fish found onetime (1925-33) Representative Carl George Bachmann of West Virginia, dragged him back from his law practice in Wheeling. Manager Bachmann, blue-eyed, husky, bald, collects the small change which falls in a scanty shower from admirers of the aging statesman from Idaho. Biggest receipt so far has been $500 from an anonymous donor. This rivulet of cash Mr. Bachmann diverts to Borah posters, Borah buttons, rent, telegrams, petty cash...
Grey of Years. A long public career also works in Senator Borah's favor. He is the only colorful contender for the Republican nomination. Part of this color, however, is too greyed over by the years to be of use in 1936. Forgotten is the picture of the young politician who in 1894 helped elect William John McConnell Governor of Idaho and promptly married the Governor's daughter Mamie. Forgotten is the young attorney who in 1907 prosecuted William ("Big Bill") Haywood and two others of the Western Federation of Miners for instigating the fatal bombing...
...Borah of today has not even a home in Idaho. When he goes West he is obliged to rent office quarters and live at the homes of his friends or at a hotel. Nor is he any longer the Westerner on Horseback who used to canter through Washington's Rock Creek Park. He has not ridden since he had an operation on his prostate gland at Johns Hopkins in 1933. His home is nine rooms in a large apartment building on Connecticut Avenue. Unless he borrows his wife's 1931 La Salle, he strolls to his office about...
Fame & Force. If the Republicans at Cleveland should nominate Idaho's Borah, the G. O. P. would be putting into the field the most famed Senator of this century. Yet in that fame many a voter would doubtless find something old and outmoded, a far-away-&-long-ago quality ill-suited to an up-to-date campaign against the most up-to-date campaigner in Democratic history. For a generation Borah was the great Moral Force of the Senate, the one member who could arise and deal with Right & Wrong in an electric way. Now the conscience...
Significance. Senator Borah may not succeed in testing the strength of his rival candidates. But one test he has made certain. The primaries he has entered will test to the full the popular strength of William Edgar Borah and his brand of liberalism. If he cannot make a handsome showing in such states as Illinois and Ohio, even his friends admit that he may as well start for Idaho to begin his Senatorial campaigning for certain reelection...