New Britain herald., 1922-10-13
POLITICAL ISSUES DOMINATE NEBRASKA
Many and Varied Questions Be-
 fore Voters in Present Campaign

Omaha, Neb., Oct 13 (By Assocat- ed Press) s)-Many and varied are the issues before' Nebraska voters in the present campaign, according to state ments by candidates for United States senator and others, seeking election November [.
 R. B. Howell of Omaha, republican senatorial candidate, has stressed Americas foreign debt as an issue, declaring we should insist on the payment of interest and ultimately every dollar,' owed by European gov ernments.
 MT Howell is opposed to the pres ont Esch-Cummins railroad law, ;hargng it prevents competition in "ates, favors the farm bloc in con- gross and development of the St. Lawrence waterway project. He has announced his opposition to any modi- dcation of the Volstead act, and would remove Limitations from the cooperative farm land banks Ito the nd that they may compete with private loan agencies on an ever Sasis, that farmers may benefit from better service and lower rates of in terest on farm loans"
 Issues Were Economic.
 L. s. Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcock Mir. Howell's democratic opponent, has asserted that the issues were economic, including over-taxation, talling prices, contraction of curren- cy, dehation of credit, collapse of com merce and what he termed the new "obber tariff, bringing increased cos; of living An attempt had been made, he said, to divert public at tention from the questions of the ampaign by bringing In prohibition, which, he said, was a dead issue.
 Asserting that he would not vote or any modification of the Nolstead tct, the senator declared:
 Nebraska six years ago adopted rohibition and put it in our consti ution. That settled the question az ar as Nebraska is concerned. Later lie constitution of the United State, vas amended to provide for nationa prohibition. l opposed those great ;hanges but I accepted them when hey were triumphant, and I have since supported the laws necessary to onforce them. This l propose to con .nue to do."
 League Takes Exception.
 The Nebraska Anti-Saloon league las taken exception to the senator's statement, asserting that the league does not accept Mir. Hitchcock's eleventh hour profession of conver- sion" adding that I've believe that he is just as wet as he has been in the past"
 Senator Hitchcock, in addressing campaign audiences throughout the state, has attacked the republican ad- ministration for giving relief to the multi millionaires by repeal of DOT tons of the income tax law and the excess profits tax law" adding that wealthy manufacturing organizations whose profits run into the millions of dollars, now pay no more tax than small corporations"
 The Rev. J. l.. Bebee of Omaha, progressive candidate for |. S. sena- tor, has centered his campaign in an attack on the federal reserve system, NlOst ItpSdl ut udS DtCll duNONdllIS, and which he describes as private monopoly which is a menace to the interests of the American people,"
 Organized Last Winter.
 The party Rev. Bebee represents was organized last winter when pro- gressives, dissatisfied with the man agement of government affairs, form cd a political organization of their own, declaring themselves in favor of government ownership of the rail- roads.
 In the gubernatorial campaign charges by the democrats that civil administration code law enacted by republican administration, has proved inefficient, have been denied by the republicans, The law created six de- partments of state government with secretaries for each, appointed by the governor with consent of the state senate The democrats also have charged that the republican state ad- ministration has been responsible for high taxes, which also has met with denial.
 Charles w. Bryan of Lincoln, demo- crat, brother of w. J. Bryan, Charles w. Randall of Randolph. republican, and Harry Parmenter of Yutan, pro- gressive, are the candidates seeking