Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-04-06
Brown or Norris
Letter Addressed by Editor of
Aurora Republican 60 Com
gresham from Fifth District

| am In receipt OF letter from you
soliciting support IN your campaign for
United States senator. am compelled
to inform you that know Of no good
reason why Senator Brown should be
denied a reelection, and until am con-
WINGED that / am mistaken shall do
what | can for him. There is certainly
nothing In your recent communication to
lead me TO change my mind.
You speak OF your experience and faith
full service in the house. all OF which IL
undisputed. But may not the same thing
be said OF Senator Brown? You have
represented your district ably and have
no doubt accomplished much that is good
but the senator's friends are inclined to
believe that he has made something OF
a record along that line himself. As
many republicans out here In Nebraska
view II. there is no radical difference
between you and Senator Brown; while
you may differ on some matters OF de-
tail, both OF you appear to be working
toward the same general purpose. II Is,
therefore, not clear to US why you should
rellnquish your claim TO an almost GER
tain reelection in the Fifth district and
by opposing Brown place both Of your
seats In jeopardy. II there has been any
marked disagreement between you and
Brown, except possibly on the dead issue
of reciprocity and the support OF the
Taft administration. 1t has escaped my
notice. And speaking of the admInistra-
tion, which is now the only live issue
between you. whom are you supporting
for president at the present time? We
who depend upon the daily newspapers
for our Information concerning public
men understood that you were strong for
La Toilette, but recent advices from
Washington Indicate that you have gone
over to Roosevelt. How about IL? And
IL so. why?
You say the interests" have marked
you for political extinction. II may be
that you are doing a 81. Georgia nd the
dragon or Ajax-defying- the-lightnlng act
In Washington, but We search your record
In this state in vain for evidence that
you were ever particularly dangerous OF
obnoxious to what Mr.. Bryan calls preda-
tory wealth. have just read your speech
advocating the payment OF a bounty to
beet sugar manufacturers. in which, you
stated that the removal OF the tariff
meant destruction OF the home Industry
and the monopolization of the market by
the sugar trust. which speech was fol-
lowed by the overwhelming defeat Of
your bounty amendment and the passage
of the democratic free sugar bill, with
your vote recorded in the affirmative!
Is this a sample OF the work. Mr..
Norris. which has antagonized the In
tsnests" to such an extent that they are
moving heaven and earth to encompass
your defeat?
On the other hand | happen to know
something Of the work done by Senator
Brown in Nebraska before going to
Washington, and have found nothing in
his subsequent record inconsistent there
with. He was the first attorney general
Nebraska ever had who showed his teeth
to the railroads and compelled them to
bear a fair proportion Of taxation. He
prosecuted the grain trusts and put them
out Of business. and today cooperative
lumber yards and grain elevators organ
lied by farmers. made possible as a re-
suit OF his efforts. can be found in al
most every hamlet of the state. He was
bitterly opposed BY these interests in the
campaign Of 1905. and probably will be