Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 112, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1920 — SEN. BORAH IS NOT PACIFIED [ARTICLE]

SEN. BORAH IS NOT PACIFIED

ANNOUNCES HIS DETERMINATION TO “CLEAN UP THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.” Washington, May 7.—Announcing a determination to “dean up the republican party,” Senator Borah has set out to compel the serious attention of leaders to his chrages of undue and improper pre-conven-tion campaign expenditures and activities. “If Borah’s plans work out the way he hopes, the republican nomination for president may hinge upon the question of expenditures ofmoney and promises, it seemed evident today. Borah will first concentrate his energy on getting his resolution for a senatorial investigation adopted. The senate elections committee is expected to take it up this week. Borah hopes that Senator Kenyon, lowa, will be named chairman of a subcommittee to investigate. The next move probably will be to gather information concerning a large number of contests in southern states. These contests which are being made in practically every southern state are being paid for from some mysterious source according to Borah’s alleged information. Investigation will show he asserts, that the contests in many cases have been “engineered” by northern politicians for purposes of their own. Borah intends, he said, to have this phase of the investigation conducted in Chicago, while the republican national committee is hearing the contests there in order to bring directly to the attention of the party leaders the charges concerning the contests.