GROCER NORRIS GIVEN $500 IN PRIMARY PLOT
GROCER NORRIS GIVEN $500 IN PRIMARY PLOT Attorney Filing Nomination Papers Tells of Bond Sent by Seymour, Stalwart Boss STORY OF GROCER IS CONTRADICTED Sen. Nye of Senate Investigating Committee...
...Nebr.—George W. Norris, chain store grocer of Broken Bow, ebr., whose name is the same as that the senior Senator from Nebraska, en...
...The 240 vote for La Follette was the highest polled In any of the towns or villages in that county larger than the town of Harrison...
...Other Gives Phil Highest County Vote High up in the ranks of Wisconsin's banner Progressive communities 'hat gave their united support to Philip F. La Follette In the recent state primary are the little towns of Erin and Harrison...
...Chairman Nye of the Senate Investigating committee will continue hearings in Nebraska in an attempt to discover the sources and size of the campaign funds used in the Nebraska and to throw more light on the plot to retire Senator Norris...
...I assumed it came from Mr...
...Erin, perhaps,' tops the list with a record of 100 per cent for La Follette...
...Norris in the August primary...
...Senator Norris' total vote would have been split in half, as the Nebraska law forbids the use of any designating marks with any candidate's name on the ballot...
...Had the name of the second George W. Norris been allowed on the ballot...
...Seymour had paid Norris' filing fee of S50 for the Senate and S10 when he de-cided to run for the railway commls-slon...
...Miss Alden testified at the hearing that she recalled typewriting a statement for Seymour concerning the filing of grocer Norris' candidacy...
...Such a division of Sen...
...Progressives all over the country were indignant' ft what was apparently a plot on the part of the Nebraska reactionary machine and the power trust to retire Senator Norris...
...Norris' vote would have resulted in the nomination of Stebbins...
...Erin, Harrison Are La Follette Banner Towns One Gives Progressive Candidate Entire Vote...
...La Follette and only 11 for Kohler...
...Seymour," testified Johnson, "It bore a Lincoln postmark and I knew that...
...George W. Norris, received S500 for filing his candidacy to oppose Sen...
...Subsequently, Senator Norris was nominated in the primary by a large majority over the Republican machine candidate, William M. Stebbins...
...A. Paul Johnson, an attorney of Broken Bow, the place where Norris resides, stated at the hearing that he had handled the filing for the grocer and told about receiving a $500 bond bear-ing a Lincoln, Nebr...
...which was called a "dirty political trick" was expressed and proceedings were immediately begun to keep the name of the second George W. Norris off the ballot...
...Another witness appearing before Chairman Nye in the Nebraska investigation was Esther Alden, a former stenographer for Seymour...
...La Follette, however, carried the county by nearly 2,000...
...the Broken Bow grocer, filed as candidate against Sen...
...Nye of Senate Investigating Committee Probes Nebraska Nomination Campaigns LINCOLN...
...Johnson told about the bond sent to, Norris...
...Final returns, "checked and double checked,' gave La Follette 139, Kohler 0. In Harrison, one of the three smallest towns In Waupaca county, a total vote of 240 was cast for Mr...
...both these banner Progressive nltles it is reported that Kohler expended considerable money literature, placards, banners, button.;, tire covers, and other costly campaign propaganda in an effort to turn votes away from the La Follette candidacy...
...Widespread popular condemnation of the act...
...The case was carried to the Nebraska supreme court by Attorney-General C. A. Sorensen and a ruling was handed down that held the filing of the second Norris' candidacy was irregular and that the grocer's name must not appear on the ballot...
...Contradicting previous testimony giv-en by grocer Norris to the effect that he had received nothing for filing his name as a candidate for the Senate...
...Norris in the recent primary, according testimony given before Chairman rald P. Nye of the Senate eommit-investigating campaign expendi-tures last week...
...When Norris...
...postmark which he presumed came from Victor Seymour, prominent Republican leader who is now in Denver directing campaigns in several Western states...
Vol. 1 • September 1930 • No. 43
