LA FOLLETTE'S COMMENT
Follette, Sen. Robert M. La Jr.
La Follete's Comment By Sen. Robert La Follette, Jr. Sweeping Victory of Se, o^r/ill Bring Re nerved Hope to Milliouty sites in the Country THE sweeping victory of George W. Norns in Nebraska...
...Progressives should not be over confident as the result of Senator Norris' big majority...
...It required an order by the supreme court of Nebraska to prevent the consummation of this dirty political trick...
...F.very Progressive in Nebraska should redouble their efforts on behalf of Senator Norris during the election campaign...
...Sooner or later they will be revealed and if it is found that any of the office holders in Nebraska were a party to this shady deal, no doubt the people of that state will retire them to private life...
...The power monopoly had marked George W. Norris for slaughter, but in spite of their great resources and in spite of the political trick which was attempted, the people of Nebraska went to the polls on Aug...
...12th and by a great majority renominated George W. Norris for the United States senate...
...The lengths to which the special interests were willing to go in their effort to beat Senator Norris was shown by the despicable trick which they attempted to perpetrate in the filing of the name of a Broken Bow chain-grocery store clerk by the name of George W. Norris, as a candidate for the senate against Senator Norris...
...It was Senator Norris who introduced the resolution which prevented Frank L. Smith from taking a scat in the senate from Illinois after Insull and other public utility interests had furnished the hulk of his enormous campaign fund...
...The victory of Senator Norris will give renewed hope to Progressive candidates in other states who are facing the same kind of opposition...
...Sweeping Victory of Se, o^r/ill Bring Re nerved Hope to Milliouty sites in the Country THE sweeping victory of George W. Norns in Nebraska last Tuesday will be of great encour.igcment to millions of Progressive men and women all over the United States...
...These interests were determined to defeat Senator Norris at the Republican primary...
...It will give new courage to the Progressives in Wisconsin where the same economic forces that fought Norris are trying desperately to stem the tide which has set in for Philip La Follette in his fight to redeem Wisconsin from the control of the chain banks and the power interests...
...The combined work of the farmers, workers and independent business men will assure the return to the United States senate of the recognized leader of the Progressive movement—George W. Norris of Nebraska...
...These powerful economic groups will not surrender...
...He has been the outstanding leader in the senate in the exposure of the vicious practices and exorbitant rates by which the power monopoly is bilking the American consumer out of untold millions each year...
...They will endeavor to defeat him in the election by throwing their support to former Senator Hitchcock, who won the Democratic nomination...
...Senator Norris has been fighting the battle of the rank and file of the people during 3 0 years of public service...
...The senate investigating committee could not find the Broken Bow Norris when Senator Nye was endeavoring to uncover the people who were responsible for the plot, and as yet the facts are not known...
...In his lifetime of effort for the average citizen he has incurred the bitter enmity of the great economic interests who are ever seeking special privilege at the hands of government and at the expense of mankind...
...Norris, almost single handed and alone, has prevented the power monopoly from grabbing Muscle Shoals, the great "power plant on the Tennessee river in Alabama, built with the tax-payers' money...
Vol. 1 • August 1930 • No. 37
