Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-16
C.O.P.FLAYED.
BY NORRIS ON
MEET RESULTS
Platform and Nominee
Are Displeasing To
Nebraska Senator;
Leaders Attacked

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WASHINGTON. June 1s.-R-
Dissatisfied with the republican
platform and with the party nominee,
Senator Norris, republican, Nebras-
ka, IN a statement today declared
that the action Of the republican con
vention At Kansas City "will be a sad
disappointment to every progressive
citizen in the United States"
A direct slap" had been given the
farmers mt Kansas City. he said, al
n same time deploring silence on
the activities Of power interests. dis
regard Of the disclosures made by the
investigation Of the naval oil lease,
\ silence as to Boulder dam, Mus
Gle Shoals, and the elame duck
constitutional amendment.
Beginning with Senator Tess. Ohio.
Senator Norris made attacks on
Mabel Walker Willebrandt, assistant
attorney general. Senator Smoot Of
Utah, chairman Of the platform COM
mittee, William +. Butler. Bascom
Slemp and Irvine l.. Lenroot, former
senator from Wisconsin.
Flags Leaders
Senator Fess, the keynotcr of the
%+~ANAAf 1NAGAMEA ANAkuCIAN OF
the floor Of the senate" he said, and
opposed the investigation.
Mabel Walker Willebrandt, chair
man OF the important committee on
credentials-the committee that was
careful TO seat all the Hoover dele
gates from the solid South-while
\ was assistant attorney general
q the United States, went TO New
York 70 testify in behalf Of Daugh-
erty.
Senator Smoot, who was chairman
OF the platform committee and was
n Of Hoover's ~lieutcnants, was dis
closed In the oil investigation to have
gone secretly to Falls apartments 70
advise with him about his defense.
when the psychological moment
came, u was no other person than
Boss Ware, the leader of the Phila-
delphia political machine-the man
who, on account Of the d~isgraceful
proceedings in the Pennsylvania pri-
mary, was excluded from the United
States senatc-it was this same Ware
who compelled the Pennsylvania
delegation 10 20 solid for Hoover.
Attacks Southerners
Then there was Bascom Slemp.
famous for his handling of presiden-
tial appointments IN the Solid South
and y Of the principal cogs in the
southern political machines. using
his Influence, his power and his
knowledge to secure Hoover dele
gates through the fundamentally or
the d~isgraccful. office-hoiding, DO
iitical combinations in the southern
states.
Ex-senator Lenroot was selected
to 80 70 Kansas City and represent
him tHoover) in the contests that
came before the convention. He was
part Of the big Hoover steam roller
and when he went there and while he
was engaged IN putting the Hoover
delegates across. his pockets were
lined with a $4,000 fee that he had
received from the water power trust
70 lobby before a senate committee.
The rank and file Of the great
republican party will be disguised
and Inundated" he said, "but the
power trust, as well as the Hoovers.
D~aughertys, the Sinclairs. the Do
henys, the Falls. the Shoots. the
Hayeses. the Lenroots. the Fesses.
the Moses and the machine noliti.
clans everywhere will be happy and
delighted.
Would Undo Probe Results
IF this program is endorsed nj
the polls, it will be the duty of the
senate when it in De-
cember, 70 apologize to power trust
insult and his man from Illinois. for
whose election he contributed more
than 500. 900; 70 seat Boss Ware tbs
representative of the PHILADELPHIA
political machine; 20 reinstate
D~augherty; 10 apologize 20 Sinclair
and Doheny and to pass a law return
Ing them the property which the
supreme court Of the United States
said they had fraudulently obtained:
70 give a certificate Of character 70
ex-Secretary Fall: TO ask for the
pardon Of Miller. who had been sen
fenced 70 the ~penitentiary: 70 destroy
the discriminating evidence which in
Ncstigation brought forth Of the