Evening star., 1926-10-25
NORRIS TO INVADE
VARE'S HOME TOWN
Nebraskan Greeted by Large
Crowds in Attacking Pri-
mary in Pennsylvania.
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LANCASTER, Pa, October 25.-
Senator George w. Norris of Ne
braska is in the thick Of the kind of
campaign that gave st. Patrick i'm
mortality in Ireland. The rugged
Republican progressive from the
Platte country is trying to drive the
political snakes out of machine
bossed Pennsylvania.
He has been at the self lf-appointed
job. paying his own expenses every
inch of the way, for a week, speaking
day and night. He will continue at
it until the eve of election. This
week Norris will emerge from up
State Pennsylvania and beard the
Republican organization lions in
their dens-PittsburGh and Phila-
dephia. The regions in which, re-
spectively, the MELONS and bill"
Ware are monarchs are in for a siege
of plain speaking, such as Pennsyl-
vania politics has not often expert
enced. Meantime Norris will appear
at Johnstown, Mauch Chunk and
Harrisburg.
NAUSC 1OuA
Senator Norris crusade will wind
up with a Sunday meeting at Leba-
non on October 81. He will have ad-
dressed more than a score of Key
stone audiences by that time, from
one end of the State to the other.
Norris has become conscious, since
entering Pennsylvania, that he en-
barked upon a herculean task, not
unlike the Augean stables. Yet he is
not without faith that results will
ensue. He does not believe Wares
defeat for the United States senator
ship is accomplished, but he believes
it within the range of possibilities
that it can be done. Norris is able
only to judge the effects of his drive
by the size and reaction of his au-
diences.
Tos date he has spoken in seven
cities-Altoona, Scranton, Wellsboro,
Williamsport, Wilkes Barre, Pottsville
and Lancaster. They are typical Mid
state communities. Town and farm
are represented on each occasion. In
variably the meetings are big. Some
OF them are crowded. No one ever
leaves until Norris speech is finished.
The attention of audiences is held
undoubtedly. Almost everywhere they
are largely Republican in their nor
NAL political sympathies-in few
cases as much as rs per cent Repub-
lican.
Audiences With Him.
But by the time the Nebraskan
warns to the attack on machine
ruled Pennsylvania in general and on
the slush-fund primaries in particu-
1nx, l,oIa it~t~n no nf
it's bipartisan character, is with him,
applauding frequently and cheering
his onslaughts on the things "Bill'
Ware typifies in public life. Women
turn out to hear Norris in impressive
numbers. They vie with menfolk
in the view that he is diffusing
Though organization-poluted PENIS
woods a needed knd healthy blast OF
fresh air.
This writer Joined the Norris expe-
dition at Lancaster during the week
end for the purpose Of observing the
Nebra ska cyclone in action in PennS
banner agricultural county-"the gar
den spot of the Union" Lancasters
biggest public hall, Fulton Opera
House, was packed from pit to dome
in the Westerner's honor. 1t found
him in fighting trim after week of
furious fitting at the powers of politi-
cal evil.
Probably never in all his quarter of
a century of battling for the rank
and file has Norris risen to greater
heights than those he is now scaling
in Pennsylvania. Unmistakably his
heart and soul are in the single
handed effort to awaken Pennsyl.
vanians to duty which, he contends,
they owe not only to themselves but
to the Nation, which has it's eye on
the cradle Of American independence
at this critical juncture.
Attacks G. o. p. Regulars.
Norris is at the top of his form
when he pours the shot and shell of
his invective at the Republican "regu-
lars" who resent his intrusion" into
a purely domestic affair.
Mr. Mellon. Senator David A. Reed
and Mr.. Ware tell me-" Norris says,
that I have no right to be here. They
tell me this election is Pennsylvania
business, and not the business Of an
outsider from Nebraska. SiXty-odd
years ago this Union of ours was en-
gagged in a fierce struggle for preserva.
ton. On this self-same soil in Penn.
sylvania there was fought a battle
destined to be of decisive effect upon
that struggle.
To-day the Union is engaged in an
other struggle-a struggle for the
preservation of the ballot. And once
again a decisive engagement is about
to be fought within the borders of
Pennsylvania. If Mr.. Mellon and
Senator Reed and certain Republican
newspapers could have made them
selves heard SO years ago, I wonder
if4they would have said that the 10O,-
600 men from all parts of the United
States who fought at Gettysburg
alongside sons of Pennsylvania had
no business being in the State.
I'VE have as much business here
now as men from all over the country
had in Pennsylvania then. A cause no