Ohio primary wrote finis to Sen. Borah's White House hopes (Washington Daily News, May 14, 1936, p. 5)

Ohio Primary Wrote Finis to Sen. Borah's White House Hopes 'Lion of Idaho' Waited Too Long, and He Admits as Much; Bolt Now Would Carry Little Weight By THOMAS L. STOKES Sen. Borah of Idaho symbolizes today The Man Who Waited Too Long. Perhaps the 70-year-old leader looks back across the years to a younger man who could arouse the masses, to the time when Borah was a name to conjure with, and to lost opportunities. Whether he really wanted the presidential nomination, or whether he was interested chiefly in liberal izing the Republican Party, his fail ure to rouse the rank and file in Ohio seems to demonstrate finally that the prize is not within his reach and that he can do little at Cleveland about party principles and policies. ADMITS HIS DEFEAT He admitted as much, himself, when he delivered an attack here on "the men who are in control of the party, who will likely be in control of the convention, and will write its platform and name its candidate." Those words carry the germ of revolt. They lend support to fore casts that the Senator will at last bolt his party. That seems to be a good bet. But no one ever has been able to predict Borah with great success. Once a bolt by the Senator might have meant something to him per sonally. But a bolt now would produce no earthquake. BEATEN TO PUNCH Others have beaten the Idaho Sen There are the ator to this step. elder statesmen. Sens. Norris and Johnson, and the youngster La Fol lette, who long ago came over to the New Deal. There are elements of raw tragedy in the fizzling of the Borah crusade. For years he has talked about the need for reorganizing the Republican Party, for wresting control from the eastern G. O. P. oligarchy. Out of season, between elections, he has In season, warred upon his party. around election time, he always has remained regular. Finally, this year, he decided to do something about it--and the most effective way, he figured, was to go into preferential primaries, rally the rank and file behind him, and col lect enough delegates to back up his demands. HALTED BY OLD GUARD In New York, Illinois and Ohio, populous states which are always powerful in national conventions, he bumped his head against entrenched Republican organizations. He won preferential primaries, as the single candidate, in Nebraska. Pennsylvania and West Virginia, but someone else will get the delegates, with the lion's share probably going to Gov. Alf M. Landon. He won Wisconsin and will have 22 of its 24 delegates, but he lost in South Dakota to Gov. Lan don. A clue to the Borah tragedy lies in the much larger vote President Roosevelt has polled wherever the Senator has been entered, which seems to mean-and the Idaho Sen +17111711 1 V--1111 ator so interprets it--that the type of voters he would attract now are largely New Dealers. He never has been popular with regular organization Republicans. STUNG BY OHIO UPSET What probably stings him most in the Ohio defeat is the fact that it was accomplished by a remnant of the old Ohio gang largely em bodied in National Committeeman Walter F. Brown. Brown, who helped nominate Herbert Hoover, is reported He is closely to be still for him. allied with the eastern G. O P. Old Guard, and thus will get a toe-hold in the Cleveland convention. On top of the Hoover California victory, Brown's success will tend to add to the former President's influ i ence. And that is not good news to Borah. SEN. BORAH Ohio Democrats Poll Majority and Set Record Sen. Borah Salvages Only Five Delegates in Republican Fight Roosevelt Gets 489,000 Votes as Compared With 29,000 for Henry C. Breckinridge By United Press COLUMBUS, O.--A sweep ing victory for the "favorite son" slate of delegates over Sen. William E. Borah was in dicated today as almost com plete returns from the Ohio primaries gave the Democratic Party its first majority in a generation in this politically important state. Borah, veteran Idaho liberal, ap parently had salvaged five of Ohio's 52 delegates to the Republican Na tional Convention at Cleveland. His opponent, Robert A. Taft, son of the late President Taft, won the eight delegates-at-large and probably 39 district delegates. The Taft delegation will be vir tually unpledged since it will vote for its "favorite son" only on the first ballot. It had the backing of the state Republican organization. Borah, who made a determined cam paign, lost all seven of his delegates at-large with his nominees running an average of almost 80,000 behind when three-fourths of the precincts had reported. MORE THAN G. O. P. Democratic candidates, meanwhile, polled approximately 500,000 votes, nearly 100,000 more than the Repub licans with 7580 of 8579 precincts tabulated. The Democratic gains in a state that has been Republican for many years was emphasized in the vote given President Roosevelt against Col. Henry Breckinridge, anti-New Deal candidate, in the Democratic preference primary. With 8074 precincts counted the President had 489.631 votes com pared with 29,919 for Breckinridge. Roosevelt was unopposed for Demo cratic delegates since Breckinridge entered the preference primary merely to give New Deal opposition a chance to register. Hitler's Guards Jailed, British Paper Reports LONDON--More than 200 members of Fuehrer Adolf Hitler's personal bodyguard the crack black-uni formed SS storm troops--have been arrested and put in concentration camps on suspicion of plotting against Hitler and the Nazi state, The Daily Herald. Labor Party organ, asserted today. Heinrich Himmler, storm troop leader, was officially in charge of the interrogation of the men arrested, the newspaper said, but was himself being shadowed by agents of the se cret police. Keys Quads Call on Garner to Invite Him to Big Fete Vice President Garner's routine was pleasantly disturbed this morning when the Keys quadruplets (Roberta, Mona. Mary and Leota) called and invited him to attend the Texas Centennial Exposition. The quads, who have just visited the Dionne quins, are juniors at Baylor University, Waco, Tex. They'll be 21 June 4, two days before the exposition opens. President Roosevelt next November will have the votes of Roberta. Mona, Mary and Leota Keys, pretty 20 year old quadruplets. The girls stopped off in Washington today to invite everybody to attend the Texas Centennial Exposition. "We'll be 21 on June 4," smiled Roberta, "and we're going to vote next fall. It'll be for Mr. Roosevelt." The quads won't visit the White House, but they popped in on Vice President Garner this morning. "They're the finest girls in the world," confided Pat M. Neff, gray haired Baylor University president and their chaperon. Garner winked at the girls and agreed. The girls, juniors at Baylor Uni I versity, Waco, are among the few living quadruplets. All except Leota have brown eyes--hers are blue. They lunched with Texas senators, and House members today. At 4:30 they were to sing and play their saxophones over WRC. The quads visited the Dionne quins this week. "They're such cute little things." said Mary. "And we feel a sort of kinship to them." I They were accorded the special favor of entering the Dafoe Hospital, while the quins sang "Savez-vous i plantez les choux?" (Do you know how to plant cabbages?) Treasury Officials Answer Tax Charges by Sen. Byrd By United Press Treasury statisticians are working on almost a 24-hour basis, it was learned today, preparing estimates for the Senate Finance Committee in de fense of the new tax bill. Treasury officials, smarting from the rough handling by the committee, feel that only half of the real tax picture has been presented at the hearings. Answering the contention of Sen. Byrd (D., Va.) that under the present bill many large corporations would escape taxation entirely, Treasury of ficials said such corporations might escape direct taxation by distributing all their net profits in dividends, but the taxes would be paid upon these profits by those who received the dividend checks. The tax would take the form of personal income taxes paid by the stockholder. Treasury officials denied conten tions of the bill's critics that it would i favor large corporations and penalize i small ones. They admitted that the new basis I of tax levies would put a damper on i small corporations which sought to1 grow big by "plowing back" the ma jor portion of their earnings for ex pansion of the business. I Under the new bill, officials said, i corporations would be compelled to pay a higher tax rate on profits 1 turned back into the business than that paid formerly, but the smaller i corporations would pay no higher rate than the big ones under the new tax bill. Treasury officials apparently were ruffled by Byrd's announcement that the testimony of Treasury experts had merely "proved the contention" that strong corporations would evade k taxes under the 4ew bill Inflationist Bloc to Make Lemke Bill Issue in Campaign Defeat of Measure in House, by 235 to 142 Vote, Elates Administration Chieftains By United Press House inflationists came back from a stunning defeat on the Frazier Lemke bill to lay plans today to carry the issue into the approaching elec tion campaign. Reps. William Lemke (R., N. D.) and Wright Patman (D., Tex.) pre dicted the big fight in the next Con gress would be currency expansion, and that inflationist ranks would be increased in the November election. Congressional Democratic leaders, jubilant over their 235 to 142 victory over the inflationary farm mortgage bill, said they considered that yes terday's vote demonstrated definitely that the House is opposed to infla tion. TO AID BUSINESS? "It is the most reassuring message that has gone out to the country dur ing this Administration," said Rules Committee Chairman O'Connor. "The vote proves definitely that there is no possibility of inflation, and if business has been waiting for a demonstration to restore confidence, this is one big evidence of the stable attitude of the Administration." Lemke, leader of the Farm-Currency Bloc, said: "The fight has just begun. The issue will figure in the campaign. There will be eliminations from the ranks of the opposition. Organized labor is with us. despite the letter from President William Green." THANKS TO GREEN' Lemke referred to a letter from the American Federation of Labor head to Speaker Byrns, opposing the bill. The letter, read to the House yes terday by the Speaker, was credited by some members with aiding in swinging doubtful votes to the Ad ministration side. Lemke disagreed as to its effect, but Rep. Paul Kvale iF.-L.. Minn.) asserted the measure "thanks to Bill Green." was defeated MAY RECESS Defeat of the bill killed the last hance of currency expansionists to force House action on legislation this session. Some of the onus of infla tion was removed from the bill by the bloc before it was voted on. But the revision, requiring the po tential $3,000,000,000 in new Federal Reserve notes for farm mortgage re financing purposes, to have the same backing as present reserve notes, made no difference. Dr. Francis E. Townsend today de manded that the House investigation into old age pensions be brought to a speedy conclusion. l Dr. Townsend is to appear next Tuesday to discuss his $200-a-month pension plan for persons over 60. He appeared before the committee 10 days ago but the investigators were not prepared to begin questioning him because of a delay in data from the West Coast. Revenue Estimates Under Compromise Given Senate Group Morgenthau Presents Data on Modified Plan for Tax on Un divided Corporate Profits Treasury By United Press Secretary Morgenthau today submitted estimates to the Senate Finance Committee showing that $623.000000 annually could be raised by the proposed "compro mise" corporate profits tax in the $803,000,000 revenue bill. Chairman Pat Harrison <D., Miss.) declined to make public the pro posed schedules. The plan is based upon the imposition of a flat 15 per cent tax on all corporate net income and graduated surtaxes on that part of net income over 20 per cent which is retained for reserves. The Treasury data showed that 75 corporations having net incomes of $1,000,000 in 1934 distributed no dividends and paid the Government only $27.000 000 in taxes. Under the pending act these corporations would have paid the Government $96,000,000. Eighty-nine corporations which dis tributed less than 45 per cent of their earnings in dividends paid $35. 000,000 in Federal taxes and under the proposed House bill would pay the Government $78,000,000. The Treasury was asked to supply additional information concerning the income of wealthy owners of closely held corporations. This information was sought by Sen. Hugo Black (D., Ala.) with a view to determining the tax burden of these individuals under the present and proposed laws. Chairman James M Landis of the Securities and Exchange Commission appeared to reply to charges that small corporations would be unable to obtain new capital because of SEC restrictions and the cost of issuance of new securities He said corpora tions with net income of $100,000 would not be seriously affected by the SEC provisions and that the cost of issuing securities is small Landis was summoned after Sen. James Couzens <R. Mich had pro tested that one manufacturer was compelled to pay $15,000 to obtain $100.00 thru the sale of stocks. "We are getting to the point now where we can sit down and work out policy matters," Harrison said. Home Buying To Be Discussed Waverly Taylor, President of Waverly Taylor, Inc, will talk from Station WRC tonight on the Advantages of Owning a Home. This is the fourth and last of a series of talks spon sored by The News on this im portant subject. A complete telection of hornet it offered today in the Claused Sec* tion of thit neujepaper.