One evening last week William Edgar Borah stood on the platform in the "million-dollar ballroom" of the Eagles Lodge in Milwaukee with 1.200 Wisconsin voters ranged on chairs before him. From their standpoint the occasion was significant because the Idaho Senator was the one candidate for President who had seen fit to show himself in the flesh in their State. From his standpoint the occasion meant: 1) an expenditure of about $10, the cost of a round-trip ticket from Chicago and a night's lodging at Milwaukee's Republican Hotel; 2) a one-night campaign to capture a State's support; 3) the...
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