Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1928-06-22
Senator Norris DenOuuces The
q. o. p. Platform.

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indictment asserting that both the platform
and the candidate, Herbert Hoover. would
bring disappointment to every progress
sive citizen Of the Uuited States"
After recitine that the farmers have
again been cast aside and given only
'slitteriRe eeneralities." Senator Norris
swung into a denunciation of the so-called
leaders OF the convention. from Senator
elect William S. Ware. OF Pennsylvania.
TO former Senator Lenroot. regarded by
Norris as power trust lobbyist
Failure Of the platform TO denounce the
oil scandals, Will H. Hays part therein.
the power trust and other things regarded
by Senator Norris as evil. is bitterly de-
plored in the statement.
simultaneously. a separate attack on the
power trust menace" which he SAYS pre-
sents situation as serious as that which
faced this country in 1850. is made by
Senator Norris in the current issue of Plain
Talk magazine. and advance proofs Of the
Norris article in this publication show that
he considers the alleged public utility trust
as the most gigantic monopoly which has
ever appeared: il dwarfs the Standard Oil
Company in magnitude
Indirectly Senator Norris assaied Presi-
dent Coolidge in his statement by saying
that the men dominating the Republican
convention had. with the aid of Presiden-
tial vetOes Of legislation. frustrated all leg
islative attempts TO afford farm relief.
Getting down to personal mention. Sena-
tor Norris referred to C. Bascom Slemp. of
Virginia former Secretary to the Presi-
dent. as a cog in the Southern political
machine. the disgraceful Office hold
ing. political combination in the Southern
States"
Senator Moses, permanent chairman Of
tile Kansas City convention Senator Fess.
the keynote speaker; Senator Smoot, chief
craftsman Of the platform; Mabel Walker
Willebrandt. chairman Of the credentials
committee, Ware, Slemp and Lenroot, all
came under the fire of Norris.
He charged that Herbert Hoover domi.
mated the convention. before and after il
assembled, and that:
Ex-senator LenrOOt was selected TO 20
to Kansas City and represent him in the
contests that came before the convention.
He LenrOOD was part Of the big Hoover
steam roller. and when he went there and
was engaged in putting Hoover delegates
across, his pockets were lined with $50.
OOO Zee that he had received from the
water power trust TO lObby before Senate
committee"
II such things are TO 60 on, Norris sus-
sests' the present inquiry into the power
trust and lobby by the Federal Trade Com
mission may as well be called Of.
Also Senator Norris thinks that IL the
Republican platform and program are en-
dorsed at the polls. the Senate should seat
Ware. Of Pennsylvania; apologize to Pow
er Trust insult and his men from Illinois -
reinstate Doushery; apologize to Sinclair
and Doheney give certificate Of char
acter to former Secretary Fall; invite Black
mer to return from his hiding place in
Paris; condemn the Supreme Court for its
decision in the Fall Sinclair Doheney lease
cases, and ask pardon for Thomas W.
Miller, former Alien Property Custodian
now In the penitentiary.
In part. Senator Norris statement reads
The platform is silent on the domino.
ton OF our politics, our social activities. our
schools, and our churches, by the secret
diseraceful methods OF the water power
trust, now being disclosed before the Fed.
eral Trade Commission.
ut is likewise silent on the diseracefu
and unPatriotic disclosures made by the
Investigation Of the naval oil leases. MOI
word is said in condemnation Of the steal
ing OF public property valued at many mil.
lions Of dollars by Doheny. Sinclair and
Fall. Neither is any condemnation giver
TO Mr.. Hays, the former chairman of the
Republican National Committee. for accept
ing part Of the loot in behalf Of that com
mittee. This is not surprising, because III,
same men who controlled the convention
have fought, from the very beginning
every step to uncover any Of these dis
graceful and reasonable frauds.
Senator Fess, the keynoter Of the con.
vention. defended Daueherty on the foo,
of the Senate and opposed the investiea
ton. The permanent chairman. Senator
Moses. was always found opposing IN,
making of any investigation OF Of eivinI
publicity to the crimes that have beer
committed by the malefactors against ou
country
Mabel Walker Willebrandt. chairman
of the important committee on creden
tials-the committee that was careful I,
seat all the Hoover delegates from th,
Solid SOuth-while she was Assistant Al
torney General OF the United States. went t.
New York to testify in behalf Of Daueh
erty when he was on trial with Miller fol
defrauding the Government out OF sevsra
hundred thousand dollars of Liberty bonds
Her testimony was not 50 important within
itself. but the transaction was important
as disclosing TO the jury that the Admin
istration was not in sympathy with the
prosecution Of Daugherty.
The platform is silent as to Boulder
Dam. Muscle Shoals and the lame -ducL
constitutional amendment. Il says moth.
ing about the water-power trust. In fact
1t is one hundred per cent perfect q.
judged from the power viewpoint
Senator SmOot, who was chairman Of
the platform committee. and who was one
of HOOver's lieutenants. was disclosed In the
oil investigation to have gone secretly to
Falls apartment to advise with him about
his defense. Fall himself testified under
oath that Smoot was one Of those who
helped him fix up the false story Of bor-
rowing 100000 from Mr.. Mclean, the
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