NORRIS VICTORY JARS HOOVER CROWD
NORRIS VICTORY JARS HOOVER CROWD NEBRASKAN HAS HUGE LEAD IN SENATE BATTLE Overcomes Power Trust And Privileged Interests In Great Campaign GORE AND MIRRA Y WIN IN OKLAHOMA Robinson Wins In...
...wealthy Tulsa oil man...
...Ohio, and Alabama—brought disconcerting news to Hoover administration leaders here, with the overwhelming victory of Senator George W. Norris, progressive, over William M. Stebbins, regular Republican candidate, in the race for the senatorial nomination In Nebraska the most distressing result of all to the Old Guard chiefs...
...Governor Myers Y. Cooper and Senator Roscoe C. McCulloch, both Drys...
...the present Governor Arthur J. Weaver won the nomination by a substantial margin over his opponent...
...In Arkansas the running mate oi Alfred E. Smith in the 1928 presidential election...
...Late returns gave Buckley a plurality of over 80,000 over a field of five candidates, and White's lead had increased to about 50,000 over Stephen M. Young...
...Every effort, during the nomination campaign was made to "get" Senator Norris for his consistent opposition to the Old Guard administration and his support, of Alfred E. Smith in the last presidential campaign...
...In the Democratic primary, former governcr Charles W. Bryan, Democratic vice presidential candidate in 1928 arte— brother of the late William Jennings Bryan, was nominated as candidate for the governorship...
...Campbell was the first opp>: ticn Senator Robinson had enccun...
...The Result in Dhio The results of the Democratic primary in Ohio indicated that the Wet-Dry question had been largely ignored Robert J. Buckley of Cleveland, a We...
...Many Democrats who bolted their party in the 1928 campaign were barred from the primary, it is reported...
...Hitchcock will whereby be the opponent of Senator Norris in the fall election...
...of Mr...
...Late compilations give Murray 187,470 and his millionaire opponent, Frank But-tram, 110,884, while Gore had a lead of nearly 50 000 over C. J. Wrtghtsmar...
...The two Republican candidates...
...were unopposed for renomlna tion...
...In Alabama the regular Democrats nominated John H. Bankhead of Jasper as their senatorial candidate...
...Senator Norris' victory against the "stand pat" Republican machine and the power trust of Nebraska cam...
...A last minute attempt to confuse voters by placing the name of an obscure chain-store grocer, which happened to be the same as Senator Norris', on the ballot and thus secure the election of the machine candidate...
...The candki...
...was chosen as the gubernatorial candidate, and George W. White, a Dry, was named as the senatorial nominee...
...The large majority piled up by Senator Norris is regarded as a d!rect blow at the policies of the Old Guard and the Hoover administration by the people of the state...
...Senator Heflin will make tlie race as an "independent" candidate...
...Returns from all but 565 of th-_- 2.030 precincts in Nebraska gave Senator Norris a lead of nearly 23,000 votes, Norris having 80,133 to Stebbins' 57.-673...
...Harry O. Palmer of Omaha...
...Senator Norris' nomination as Republican candidate for the Nebraska senatorship, in the face of a powerful state Conservative machine and a great, array of corporate wealth, comes as a shock to administration leaders...
...Senator Joseph T. Robinson, won a three to one victory over Tom W. Campbell...
...ed for the last 12 years in the p mary Governor Harvey Parnell, sec ing renomination, was conceded v:« -tory over Brooks Hays, a candidate :\ the gubernatorial nomination in 1927 Late returns gave him 46,780 votes ' 32,032 for Hays...
...Bryan Is Nominated - In the Republican gubernatorial run-on...
...Two millionaire candidates were defeated in the Oklahoma Democratic run-off when William H. (Alfalfa .Bill) Murray, for years a figure in state politics and an active opponent of the Oklahoma money interests, and the blind former Senator Thomas P. Gore, who lost his Senate seat in the Harding landslide of 1920, piled up big majorities against their wealthy opponents in the gubernatorial and senatorial nomination races, respectively...
...Omaha publisher, was conceded the senatorial nomination with late returns still coming in...
...NORRIS VICTORY JARS HOOVER CROWD NEBRASKAN HAS HUGE LEAD IN SENATE BATTLE Overcomes Power Trust And Privileged Interests In Great Campaign GORE AND MIRRA Y WIN IN OKLAHOMA Robinson Wins In Arkansas And Bankhead Leads In Alabama (Special to The Progressive) WASHINGTON, D. C—Late return from the five states holding primary run-off elections this week—Nebraska, Oklahoma, Arkansas...
...after a strenuous campaign in which the forces opposing Norris resorted to every possible means to defeat him...
...Gilbert M. Hitchcock...
...Stebbins, was frustrated by the courts...
...He will oppose the present Senator J Thomas Heflin, who was barred from the Democratic party for bolting Alfred E. Smith in 1926...
...The general interpretation here of the primary results makes it apparent that progressive and anti-admlnlstra-tlon forces are rapidly gaining power away from the "stand-pat" or conservative forces in the Republican party, and that solidarity among Democrats, which the Old Guard leaders hoped had been premanently broken by the Smith presidential candidacy, is again assured...
Vol. 1 • August 1930 • No. 37
