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Face to Dawn. For nearly three decades Senator Borah was the noble insurgent tail of the great conservative dog of the Republican Party. Then came 1932 and the great dog was soundly whipped. At last, the Idaho statesman figured, the hour had arrived when the whipped dog must answer to its tail. Two months ago the Senator publicly proclaimed the fact: "Nothing much is going to be taken for granted in this campaign. Everything will have to be tested and approved, from platform to candidate...
...Senator Borah's mouth this proclamation meant only one thing: The Republican platform must be written, the nominee must be picked, with due consideration for the liberal principles which he for a generation had espoused. Said Candidate Borah last week in Youngstown: "It is a question of the performance of the highest duty offered Republican citizens and you may forget me, if you desire, but not certain men, whose faces are toward the dawn, who believe in progress, who believe in liberalism and who want to return their Republican party to power...
...Senator Borah became a candidate because he could not detect a reflection of his liberal dawn on the faces of such men as Herbert Hoover, Kansas' Governor Alfred Mossman Landon or Publisher William Franklin Knox of the Chicago Daily News as they turned toward the Republican convention in Cleveland on June...
...even with one another. If primaries selected only uninstructed delegates or delegates pledged to hopeless favorite sons, the Republican candidate would certainly be picked by political horse-trading at the convention. Sure that no dawn-lit face would emerge from a smoke-filled hotel room after midnight, Senator Borah set out to force the issue...
...enter Ohio after his announcement. He was left facing a favorite son. highly respectable Robert Alphonso Taft, son of the late Chief Justice, shrewdly picked by Ohio's Boss Walter Folger Brown to head the regular Republican ticket. With their candidate strongest in the Cleveland-Akron-Youngstown area, Borah managers will consider themselves lucky to win half of Ohio's 52 convention delegates. Not more than ten are conceded to him by the opposition. Last week before the Senator arrived in town the Youngstown Vindicator took a straw vote. Result: Landon, 542; Borah, 322; Hoover, 175; [Roosevelt...