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George William Norris has been a Senator from Nebraska for 15 years. Before that he served ten years in the House. So cynical an observer as Frank R. Kent of the Baltimore Sun calls him "the most honest Senator." He sits on the Republican side; he is chairman of the...
For one of his years-old proposals Senator Norris last year finally did get sup port. Congress passed his bill to have the United States retain and operate its power and nitrate plants at Muscle Shoals, Ala. President Coolidge killed the bill by pocket-veto. Nominee Hoover embraced the Coolidge...
For Senator Norris, to whom water power was the dominant issue, there was only one course. Last week, from the same platform in Omaha where Nominee Smith was first introduced to the mid lands, he declared himself a Smith man and made the power trust a campaign monster.
Other Norris reasons were farm relief and the oil scandals. He disagreed on prohibition, but defended the likelihood of honest enforcement by Nominee Smith.
There are only eight electoral votes in Nebraska. But farmers went from many states around to hear the speech. Radio carried it still further. Republicans in the Dakotas, Iowa and Minnesota followed Norris "out of camp." President H. G. Keeney of the Nebraska Farmers Union, oldtime Republican, presided at the...