The New York herald., 1922-02-01
NEBRASKA FACING
| PROGRESSIVE FIGHT
New Party, Distinct From
Roosevelt Group, to
Name Ticket.
INVITE DISSATISFIED
High Taxes and Rail Rates
With Low Farm Prices
Are Stressed.
WAR FORTUNES ASSAILED
WAR FORTUNES ASSAILED
Should Go for Soldier Bonus.
Says PlatfOrm-Townley
Is Repudiated.

Special Dispatch to THE NEW York HERALD
OMAHA, Jan. 31.-The Nebraska
third political group, calling itself the
Progressive party, but not affiliating
with the old Roosevelt progressives.
has decided to go it alone this year, to
have full ticket Of candidates in the
field and not to align itself with the
party being formed by the Committee
of Forty-eight. 1t will hold a State
wide primary as provided by law for
all State parties.
The third Nebraska party starts Off
with some strong support. 1t is not
an outgrowth Of the Partisan
League, although it has practically
swallowed the league. which has be-
come part of the new party. 1t has
swallowed a large part of the most
progressive end Of the Republican
party and has attached strong por-
tion Of the Bryan end Of the Demo-
cratic party.
There is small possibility of the Ne
braska progressive movement spreading
into adjoining States or of going into a
national movement for a third party.
Local Aims Emphasized.
J. A. H. Hopkins. representing the
Committee Of Forty-eight. attended the
convention OF the Progressives last
month. He met the leaders and tried
to get them to come into the national
party. They refused Hopkins asked
permission to address the convention on
national issues and was informed the
Nebraska Progressive party was local,
not national, and that 1t was fighting
over local issues, not national issues
The convention refused permission to
Hopkins to address it.
The Nebraska Progressive party's
leader is Judge A. G. Wray OF York,
who was Roosevelt Progressive. In
the gubernatorial election in 1920. when
the national fight was so hot that small
attention was paid to local issues Judge
Wray was a candidate by petition for
Governor and polled $4,000 of 100000
votes cast. He viii be the candidate
again this year. In 1920 he was the
Non-Partisan League candidate without
the Non-Partisan League brand.
But this year, in addition to the Nom
Partisan League vote. the candidate of
the Progressives is expected to have
the vote of the dissatisfied The appeal
Is MADE to those dissatisfied with high
taxes. with high railroad rates, with
the low price of farm products. with
the state administration. with the ma
tional Administration, and those dis
satisfied on general principles. The Pro-
gressives almost surely will be the Sec
ond party in size of vote at the Novern-
Der election and there is a fair proba-
bility that 1t will be first
Demand Many Reforms.
The principle upon which the Me-
braska Progressives are asking support.
as outlined in their convention declara-
ton, are as follows:
Reduced taxation and termination
OF the insane orgy of public extrays-
gance, both State and national Gov
ernment to be freed from control of
wall Street; profteering to be
crushed; unreasonable profits pre-
vented; prices of farm products not
to be permitted to fall below cost of
production. plus reasonable profit:
wages not to be permitted to fall be-
low American standards of living:
railroads and all carriers to be oper-
ated at cost by Government agencies
for the benefit of the people credits
TO be taken over by Government:
Government ownership OF railroads
Presidential primary: referendum on
declaration of war: initiative and
referendum of national legislative
questions; recall OF public officials OF
both State and nation immediate
and drastic cuts in taxation con-
scription of war fortunes for a SOL
dier bonus taking over the Federal
Reserve banking system: municipal
ownership, and right OF collective bar
gaining.
Old party politicians believe that with
any sort OF a crop this summer Ne
braska farmers will he far better off
than now and that much of their dissat-
isfaction will have disappeared. Even
should farm products not advance ma
tcrially in price. the 1ee2 crop wifi not
cost TO produce what last years crop
did, and can be sold at a profit. A crop
failure this summer, 1t is declared, will
virtually insure the election OF the third
party candidates, State and national.