Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1919 — BORAH AFTER PUSSYFOOTERS [ARTICLE]

BORAH AFTER PUSSYFOOTERS

Senator Declares They Will Not Be Allowed to Write Platform. Washington, Dec. 12. —Senator Borah gave notice in the senate that party pussyfooters would not be allowed to write the platform of the coming presidential campaign. "If they think they will,” said the senator, "they are mistaken. No set o/ men will be permitted to sit behind closed doors In advance of the convention and tell the American people what the Issues are to be. So far as the peace treaty Is concerned, that Issue is now within the jurisdiction of the American people, and there it will remain until it is finally and everlastingly decided in the campaign of 1920. It is the pussyfooters ’n both parties who are doing more to disintegrate party organizations than any other one cause. What the party organizations need more than anything else just now Is moral courage. What they lack In that respect the American people will supply them in their own way when the time comes.”