The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-06-16
FARMERS GET
DIRECT SLAP,
HE DECLARES
Nebraska Senator Flays Con.
yention Action As Domi-
mated by Interests
LENROOT CALLED LACKEY
Rank and File Of Party Dis.
gusted and Humiliated,
Says Progressive

satisfied with the Republican plat
form and with the party nominee,
Senator Norris, Republican, Nebras-
ka, in statement today declared
that the action of the Republican
convention at Kansas City twill be
q sad disappointment to every pro-
gressive citizen in the United
States"
"A direct slap" had been given
the farmers at Kansas City, he said,
at the same time deploring silence
on the activities of the power in
terests, disregard of the disclosures
made by the investigation Of the
naval oil leases, and silence as to
Boulder Dam, Muscle Shoals, and
the ''lame duck" constitutional
amendment.
Beginning with Senator Fess,
Ohio, Senator Norris made attacks
on Mabel Walker Willebrandt, as
sistant attorney general; Senator
Smoot, Of Utah, chairman of the
platform committee: William Z.
Ware, Bascom Slemp and Irvine L.
Lenroot, former senator from Wis
consin.
Senator Fess, the keynoter, Of
the convention, defended Daugherty
on the floor of the senate" he said,
and opposed the investigation.
Woman Lawyer Criticized
"Mabel Walker Willebrandt.
chairman Of the important commit
tee on credentials-the committee
that was careful to seat all the
Hoover delegates from the solid
south-while she was assistant at
torney general Of the United States,
went to New York to testify in be-
half Of Daugherty.
Senator Smoot, who was chair
man of the platform committee, and
was one of Hoover's lieutenant
was disclosed in the oil investiga
tion to have gone secretly to +
apartments to advise with him a.
his defense.
"When the psychological mo
came, it was no other .erson a.l.
Boss Ware, the leader of the l'Nl.
adelphia political machine-the ~
who, on account Of the disgra aila
proceedings in the Pennsylvan., /,
primary, was excluded from the
United States senate-it was this
same Ware who compelled the Penn
sylvania delegation to 60 solid for
Hoover.
"Then there was Bascom Slemp,
famous for his handling Of presi-
Dental appointments in the solid
south and one of the principal cogs
in the southern political machine,
using his influence, his power, and
his knowledge to secure Hoover
delegates through the instrumental
ity Of the disgraceful, office-hold-
ing, political combinations in the
southern states.
Lenroot Called Lackey
Ex-senator Lenroot was selected
to 60 to Kansas City and represent
him (Hoover) in the contests that
came before the convention. He was
part Of the big Hoover steam ROLL
er, and when he went there and
while he was engaged in putting
the Hoover delegates across, his
pockets were lined with . $4,000
fee that he had received from the
Water Power Trust to lobby before
senate committee"
"The rank and file Of the great
Republican party will be disguised
and humiliated," he said, "but the
power trust, as well as the Hoovers,
Daughertys, the Sinclairs, the DOH
enys, the Falls, the Smoots, the
Hayses, the Lenroots, the Fesses,
the Moseses and the machine politi-
clans everywhere, will be happy and
delighted.
Senate Must Apologize
IF this program is endorsed at
the polls, it will be the duty Of the
senate when it reconvenes in De-
cember, to apologize to Power
Trust insult and his man from Illi.
nois, for whose election he contrib
uted more than 100000; to seat
Boss Ware, the representative Of the
Philadelphia political machine: to
reinstate Daugherty; to apologize to
Sinclair and Doheny and to pass .
law returning to them the property
which the supreme court Of the Unit
ed States said they had fraudulentlY
obtained; to give . certificate of
NS0A 0NGSA ~ CAe0CSICt0Iy 8xI1 10
ask for the pardon Of Miller, who
had been sentenced to the peniten-
tiary; to destroy the discriminating
evidence which investigation
brought forth Of the fraudulent
profits Of O'Neal and Stewart; t.
invite Blackmer to return from ~
hiding place in Europe and to 4.
ceive him in good society with O..
arms; to condemn the suprca
court Of the United States for d.
claring the Fall-Sinclair- Dohsr
deals were disgraceful and fraudui-
ent; to call upon the Federal Trade
Commission to cease its investiga-
tion wherein it il disclosing the sim
lister attacks upon our government
by the Power Trust: and to ak
forgiveness for al it, activities in
disclosing fraud and dishonesty 81
high official places"