The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1923-11-24
Gov. Bryan
Is Failure,
Says Norris
Governor Too Intensely Par.
tisan i n Appointments
and Policies to Please
Progressives.
May Run for State Office
BY p. c. POWELL.
Washington Correspondent Of The Omaha
Bee


Washington, Nov. 23.-Telegrams
and letters by the hundreds are pour
ing into the office of Senator George
w. Norris, urging that now, with
renewed health and vigor. he remain
+lh public life. The senator's friends
and admirers are approaching him
from two angles:
One is that he file for the repub-
lican nomination for United States
senator.
The other is that he file for the
republican nomination for governor.
Would Reform Government.
For years the senator has dreamed
of a state which would discard its
house and senate and supplant those
two branches with a compact one
house legislature which would be in
session practically the entire year.
This plan has been agitated publicly
by the senator and 1t has hundreds
of devotees who are urging him to
run as governor on a one-house legis-
lature platform.
Meantime. the senator remains a
quiet, hard working member of the
senate 1t is apparent that he again
is taking an active, aggressive inter-
est in public questions and beyond
doubt he reads Nebraska newspapers
more closely than any representative
of that state in the capital. Every
incident IN Nebraska's public life
portrayed in the newspapers Of that
state Is caught by the senator's eye
and he is not adverse to commenting
upon them.
Disappointed In Bryan.
The senator today discussed two of
ne burning political questions In the
- faslka arena, They are:
I lie administration Of Governor
Charles w. Bryan.
The national third party move
o,ent.
Governor Bryan was described by
sr1e senator as a disappointment.
The senator expressed himself as
opDosed to the third party.
"The Bryan administration has
been bitterly disappointing to me be-
cause of the governors persistent
playing of politics in appointments
of deserving democrats" the senator
said
"I have read of one resignation
after another due to the fact tnat
the man employed by the state was
republican and not a democrat ana
in not one single instance have l read
of the resignation because Of any dis
qualifications or lack OF efficiency.
The removal of head OF a fisn
hatchery who had served one repup-
lican governor after another Ell
ficiently and well for no other pur-
nose than to make way for demo-
crat Is a most striking example OF
the disappointing spoils system In
vogue in Nebraska politics at this
tine.
spoiIs System Wrong.
"In voicing disapproval of the ma
tional third party movement am
not criticising the policies upon
which It Is based. I am merely re-
heating my position that the country
needs less party and not more party
government.
ANY new party organized under
our electoral college law must be
come subservient to the spoils sys-
tenn the same as the present parties
are subservient to that system.
I'VE should arrange first so that
the rank and file of the present par
ties can select the men they desire
sSso head their presidential tickets be-
fore we throw a third party into the
foreground which necessarily under
the existing system would be tied
down with the same spoils system
now Gripping efficiency within the
old parties.
Would Democratise Convention.
"The present system Of choosing
presidential party candidates binds
the rank and file to the work done
bv national conventions nearly as
tight as though this fact were part
of the constitution Of the United
States.
II am not a party man as a party
man is described by the ordinary per-
son. Yet, / believe in parties as |
believe in plows.
II use a plow for what 1t does for
me. Yet, IL find another that will
serve me better / get It. party
should be viewed by the public In
the same manner.
"Our system of presidential nom
nations by parties should be changed
80 in event the nominee is not the
choice of the rank and file OF the
party another candidate can be put
into the field who represents the real
rank and file and thus force conven-
tions to be subservient to the popu.