Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-19
Nebraska
BUREETT TALKS IN FIFTH
Begins Weeks Campaigning in Home
City Of Norris.
PRAISES HIM FOR HIS sTANI
neOpIe OF District Have Much 90
Thank Him for in His Fight for
Progressive Measures in
Congress.

MCOOK, Neb Ocb 1S-(special)-
! Senator Burkett began here tonight
weeks campaigning tour in the
/ Fifth district that will include halt
| a dozen counties and about twenty
towns Tomorrow he will speak at Red
I Willow, Indianola. BARLEY, Cambridge
and Arapahoe, and the next day he will
/ join Congressman Norris at Franklin
where the two are to speak together at a
| big rally. The attempt on the part OF
| some meddlesome people to make 1t APP
] pear that the senator and our Congress
man Norris were not in harmony was
| given a cold dash tonight, for the senator
did not mince words in his Endorsement OF
Congressman Norris Those who had been
trying to create the impression that the
| senator was standpatter were a sorry
lol after hearing his speech. lie said that
republican who was always hanging
back and refusing to respond to the peo-
pies will In matters of government duty
was no better than a democrat who never
did an"thing for fear he would do some
thing wrong.
Compliments Norris.
The senator expressed himself as glad
to come to McCook and speak in the home
/ town OF Congressman Norris, who the
senator said, had achieved a national rep
utation and had won the affection of nine
tenths Of the American people by his sue
cessful attack on standpaItism and reac-
tionarism as II was embodied in the
speaker Of the house of representatives.
1.-The American people are progressive -
said the senator. They believe in a strong
virile government one that helps men, one
that keeps step with the industrial and
| commercial development, one that keeps
up with the growing ideals and standards
of the people, and when men in public life
get in the way of progress the people run
over them and put them out of the way.
1t is because your distinguished fellow
citizen lod the crusade in behalf Of legis-
lative liberty and against an oligarchy of
standpatism that he is so much beloved.
If there is such thing as gratitude,
George W. Norris should receive the votes
of all the people in this district this FAM
ROOseveItIsm Involved.
The senator declared that Rooseveltsm
was involved IN the fight this fau, and
that If Norris and the other Nebraska
congressman, who had always stood 10y
ally by Theodore Roosevelt were defeated,
it would weaken those policies, because
the country at large viii take a democratic
victory in Nebraska TO mean protest
against the Roosevelt policies that the
Nebraska senators and congressman have
been so constantly supporting. The SEN
ator also spoke for the republican state
and legislative ticket; and while the speech
was of course confined more largely to
national affairs, nevertheless the senator
paid some attention to the important ques-
lions in state matters
Norris Speaks at Funk.
TOTnREGE Neb Oct lg-(SpecialO-
In spite Of threatening weather and dust
storm of no mean proportions Congress-
man George w. Norris last night addressed
a large crowd at the opera house at Funk.
In addition to the many country people
there were many who drove to the little
village from Axtell and from this city.