Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-07
Nebraskan Making Gains in
Attack on Those Who
Backed Grocer Rival.
HITCHCOCK HELD READY
TO DEFEND OWN RECORD
Former Member to Hit Back if
Incumbent Becomes Personal
in Campaign.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN,

LINCOLN, Nebr., october 7.-Senator
George W. Norris, Republican nominee
to succeed himself, is making the most
he can in this senatorial campaign out
Of the now celebrated grocer George w.
Norris, of Broken Bow, case.
He is appealing for votes on the
ground that certain interests undertook
to play trick on him and on the
voters in the Republican senatorial pri-
mary by putting Grocer Norris up to
run against him and thereby making
it impossible for the voters to distin-
guish in their balloting between the
grocer and the Senator himself.
His plea for sympathy is having some
effect, it is said, more particularly out
in the State than here in Lincoln. In
this city there are plenty of Repub-
licans and Democrats who say that the
Nye Committee came into Nebraska
after Grocer Norris had been denied a
place on the ballot merely to aid SEN
ator Norris in his campaign for re-
election.
Grocer Out of Picture.
The grocer, they say, was already out
OF the picture. There was no possible
way in which he could have BECOME a
candidate for the Senate or been elected
to the Senate. They admit that the
effort to file Grocer Norris in the Re
publican senatorial primary was
stupid" politics as things have turned
out. They do not condone the attempt
to play tricky politics, but they do say
1T ought to have no real bearing in a
contest between Norris and former SEN
ator Hitchcock, the Democratic nominee
who had nothing to do whatever with
the attempted filing of the 3I-year-old
grocer.
1t looks now as though the Nye COM
mittee, which is seeking to ascertain
who financed Victor Seymour. the
angel" back of the grocer in. his ESSAY
into senatorial politics, will have tc
subpoena the banks and their official:
to learn who purchased the bank drafts
which were sent to Seymour while ht
was In Lincoln attempting to make II
impossible for Senator Norris to be NOM
mated again by the Republicans for the
Senate.
The Senate investigating committee
has learned that Seymour received Al
least $1,000 a month through Chicago
and New York banks while he was
maintaining an Office here from Janu-
airy 10 July. IL is still seeking to learn
just where that money came from, who
purchased the drafts and who furnished
the cash for their purchase According
to information here, the banks will have
to be subpoenaed before they will give
up that information.
Suspect Power Interests.
Supporters of Senator Norris have de-
clared their suspicious that the money
used in the effort to sidetrack Norris
came from power interests" either in
this State or outside. Norris had a
record for fighting the power companies.
The charge Is made that they have
sought to get him." If it could be de-
veloped that such interests had sup
piled the money to Seymour, it would
be grist to the Norris min. So far,
however, definite information connect
ing up power interests and the Seymour
funds has not been developed. The
Senate committee investigators are at
work now, trying to find the source of
this money.
The United States attorney in Omaha,
to whom Senator Nye, chairman of the
Slush Fund Committee, has appealed
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