THE REVELATIONS IN NEBRASKA

...V * * * WHEN IT was announced shortly before the Nebraska primary that a second George W. Norris,—a chain store grocery clerk of Broken Bow, Nebraska,—had filed his candidacy for the Republican nomination, it was apparent that some sinister influence was behind the action of this obscure candidate...

...Bavin is premier...

...AN EXAMPLE FROM AUSTRALIA A LTHOUGH one doesn't have to go to far off Australia for examples of how big anti-labor industrial and business interests are using the present depression to reduce wages, lower the standards of living of the workers, and smash their union organizations, a glance at conditions over there will further illustrate the fact that the tactics of wealth and Big Business the world over are the same...

...The progressive, fair minded people of Idaho who have always rallied behind the Borah candidacy will re-elect him with the usual land-slide majority...

...With present taxes holding the masses down to the subsistence level, they replied to demands for more by electing men violent in their objections to taxes for reparations...

...The committee in its probe met with conflicting testimony and denials, until, now that the facts have been brought out, it is apparent that perjury proceedings will be started against Seymour, grocer Norris, and perhaps others who deliberately lied and misrepresented the facts to the committee...

...In the province of New South Wales, the most populous and largest Australian state, one Mr...

...In the state convention that did the trick, there was but one dissenting vote...

...And aren't the farmers and working men in America carrying the major share of the depression in this country that was...

...THE POLITICAL idealist who believes that the old time political trickery and corruption that characterized elections in the old days of Boss Tweed and Tammany hall are things of the past will suffer some pretty severe jolts if he follows the revelations made in the states where the Nye committee is conducting its investigations...

...Their change of attitude in choosing a candidate to run against him is of little significance...

...But beaten down, oppressed, and enslaved by Reparations payrtients they cannot possibly meet, the German people might turn against their oppressors by adopting the tactics of the most vicious radicalism...

...Whatever faction of these obtains control, it is certain that the German people have been driven to a point where anything might happen...

...Senator Borah's progressiveism has been a thorn in the sides of Old Guard politicians for years, but they fear his popularity with the people and are wise enough to refrain from open attacks upon him...

...When the huge assessments were not enough to meet the reparations payments and the Bruening cabinet sought to levy additional taxes, the congress or Reichstag of the country refused to levy them...

...Then it was realized that if this chain store employee's name, which was identically the same as that of Senator George W. Norris, was to be placed^ on the ballot, the voters of Nebraska would have no way of distinguishing between the two candidates, and it would be impossible to count the votes...

...THE REVELATIONS IN NEBRASKA THE startling- disclosures made by the Nye committee on campaign expenditures which lias just completed for the time being its investigation of the Nebraska primary are illustrative of the lengths to which* the big interests of this country will go in their efforts to defeat those progressive and fearless candidates who have had the courage and temerity to oppose them...

...The result is plainly chaotic, for these two factions bitterly oppose each other on every question and principle except, perhaps, reparations...

...The hearings and investigations made recently have brought out facts indicating that a dirty political plot, financed by the power trust and directed by the Old Guard western senatorial campaigns manager, one Victor Seymour, had been planned against Senator Norris...

...brought on by the wild speculations of Big Business aided and abetted by administrations ready and willing to serve these monopoly interests...

...The committee, which has just closed for the time being its investigation of the events surrounding the nomination of Senator George W. Norris as Republican candidate for the Senate, has brought to light the details of one of the most despicable and contemptible political plots ever engineered against a senatorial candidate...

...ence under a huge tax burden all out of proportion with their* ability to pay...

...It must be galling for the reactionaries to line up with men pledged to represent the public interest and not that of the power trust, the monopoly interests, or the Old Guard bosses...

...He will find ample evidence that the forces of monopoly and great wealth are willing to stoop to almost anything in order to secure the election of their representatives and to defeat those courageous progressives of both parties who dare to stand in the way of their greed and avarice...

...Now, in accordance with the„ wishes of the big employers of Australia, Premier Bavin has called a "conference" of representatives of all Australia to consider economy measures and wage reductions in order to aveyt a "threatened disaster...

...GERMANY IN DANGER THE RECENT German general election which resulted in success for the two radical factions of that country—the Communists and the Fascists—can apparently be interpreted only as the bitter end-of-the-rope protest of a desperate people against the staggering burdens saddled upon them in post war reparations...

...The first decision of Idaho Democrats was not to put up a candidate against Senator Borah and return him to the United States Senate by acclamation...

...They replaced men of judgment., who in many instances had fought fearlessly for the rights of the masses, with men of the extreme Communist or Fascist type...

...There must be a great deal of consternation in the high places of the Old Guard these days with Progressive victories assured or completed such as that of Senator Norris in Nebraska, La Follette in Wisconsin, and Senator Borah in Idaho...

...Crushed and broken by the unreasonable reparations demands of the powers that have reduced her to financial serfdom, Germany is in danger of throwing herself over to the most violent radicalism in order to escape...

...That is a surprising statement, in view of the fact that Senator Borah is not the sort of candidate that machine politicians favor...

...It's about time that the outside world gave note to the grave and threatening condftio'n that has come about during the last decade in Germany...

...The German people, traditionally liberal and progressive in their ideas of social organization and government, yet whose sanity and reason in these matters has shown historical consistency, are a bulwark against the spread of the worst and most dangerous elements of Communism and Red radicalism...

...Fortunately, however, it was •iii*g>yered that the papers of Norris the grocer had been filed toolate, and the Supreme court of Nebraska would not allow his name on the ballot...

...Not in any shape or form are the workers responsible for it...

...With unemployment a growing menace to the workers of Australia, it is proposed to further injure the working class of the country by drastic wage reductions...

...As a result, Senator Norris was re-nominated by an overwhelming majority...

...Here is what a leading New South Wales labor publication has to say about it: "This alleged depression is purely a capitalistic creation...

...Thereupon Bruening dissolved the Reichstag and called a general election...

...Under the lash of economic oppression the German people, perhaps, acted unwisely if not rashly...

...They are the greatest sufferers by it...

...Evidences of corruption surrounding the second Norris candidacy were so abundant that the Senate committee under Chairman Nye decided to investigate...

...Almost the whole weight of its fabricated burden has been piled upon their backs, but no blame for it can be attached to them in even the smallest degree...

...With one accord the German people voiced their refusal to be shackled with any further tax burdens and returned to office men most radically opposed to the Breuning tax policy...

...In fact, it may be safely asserted that the Republican machine organization in Idaho would have liked nothing better than to have thrown Senator Borah down if they were not certain that Senator Borah would run independently and overwhelm any other candidate they might propose so badly that the old machine would never be the same again...

...As a result, the machine candidate, Stebbins, would be declared elected...

...Since the Treaty of Versailles following the World war was consummated and an impossible burden of debt loaded on defeated Germany in the form of reparations, the common people of the German republic have been struggling for exist...

...When the news of the candidacy of the second George W. Norris came out, the people of Nebraska, whose support was overwhelming on the side of Senator Norris, were shunned, and honest political leaders of every faction expressed indignation over this cowardly political trick...

...Labor has played no part' in bringing it to pass...

...This gentleman holds his office by virtue of his servility to the big financial and business interests that have long exploited the country...

...BORAH The Republican machine in Idaho has just re-nominated Senator William E. Borah as the Republican candidate to the United States Senate...

...VICTORY FOR SEN...