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Borah−"The biggest sham of them all is the principle-peddler from Idaho, the Great God Borah...
...anti-treaty gun still to be shot off. Meanwhile Bruce of Maryland, Johnson of California, Robinson of Indiana, Bingham of Connecticut, many another smaller gun popped, snapped, sputtered. The Senator from Idaho began somewhat to resemble an Horatius at the bridge, a Leonidas at Thermopylae. It was a sham battle, inasmuch as there existed an almost universal opinion that the treaty would easily collect its necessary two-thirds vote. Nevertheless, Senator Borah's partners remained silent partners; Senator Borah was sharply badgered, the treaty severely peppered...
...said: "I will assure the distinguished Republican representative that this is no sham battle. This is a real fight ; and it is not a fight upon the merits or the demerits of the Eighteenth Amendment or the sustaining legislation; it is a fight against bribery, corruption, lawlessness, intemperance and disregard and disrespect...
...American people do not fight sham battles when these questions are at issue...
...Republican Foreign Policy he said: "You cannot preach one doctrine in Europe and practice another in Latin America." He flayed the G. O. P. for failure to reorganize the Government as promised, both in 1920 and in 1924. He ridiculed Mr. Hughes for saying that "prohibition" is a sham battle, while Senator Borah pronounces it the paramount issue of the campaign...