Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-22
New Mexico Senator De-
mandS Reputation of At
tack on Norris.
e. o. P. PARTY DIRECTOR
CHARGED "DISLOYALTY"
Nebraskan Expected to Reply to
Accusation-White House
Is Silent.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

Responsibility for the actions of Rob-
ert H. Lucas, executive director of the
Republican National Committee, who
opposed Senator Norris in the last cam
pain and has now issued a statement
attempting to read Norris out of the
Republican party, lilies higher up"
Senator Cutting of New Mexico, Re-
publican Progressive, declared in
statement issued today.
Considerably higher up" added Mr..
Cutting.
The Senator from New Mexico at
tackled vigorously the statement issued
last night by Mr.. Lucas, in which Lucas
asserted that leaders of the Republican
party must give their active opposition
to men like Norris"
G. o. p. Leaders Stirred.
Mr.. Cuttings statement was the lat
est contribution to the intraparty row
which was developed since the Nye
Senate campaign investigating commit
tee developed the fact last week that
Lucas had sent literature to Nebraska
in an effort to defeat Senator Norris
for reelection last Fall
Republicans in the Senate, regular
and progressive alike, were stirred to the
core today over the statement issued by
Mr.. Lucas last night. They interpreted
1t as an attempt to read Senator Nor
ris and other progressive Republicans
out of the party.
The verdict of those who would ex-
press opinions was that Mr.. Lucas
would have to CO." Failing that, they
said, the Republican party would be in
for row of such proportions that might
cause political upheaval.
One Republican Senator who is not
identified with the Progressive group,
but with the regular organization of the
Senate, insisted that Mr.. Lucas resigna-
ton should be demanded without delay.
Cutting Issues Attack.
Senator Cutting, in his statement at
lacking Mr.. Lucas and those Repub-
licans who support Lucas, said:
Mr.. Lucas is not a personal issue.
He Is merely an employe Of the Nation
al Republican Committee. The re-
sponsibility for his actions lies higher
up. Considerably higher up.
THE trouble with the gentlemen
whom Mr.. Lucas represents Is that they
fail to remember that the Republican
party does not belong to the President
of the United States, the national
chairman and a few dozen members Of
the National Committee. It belongs to
the Republican voters. It is not part
Of Mr.. Lucas official functions to de-
termine whether the Republican voters
are right or wrong.
THE Republicans OF Nebraska de-
cided in the primaries that Senator
Norris was a good enough Republican
for them. He thereby became the regu-
lar Republican nominee, and was en-
titled to the same undivided support
from the National Committee which
Mr.. Hoover received in 1928. OF course,
Mr.. Lucas as an individual had a right,
even after the nomination, to oppose
the election of Senator Norris. But he
had no right to do so while remaining
on the payroll Of the Republican party.
Pamphlets Denounced.
1.-THE pamphlets which were circulated
in Nebraska were scurrilouS, false on
their face, and unworthy of the mean
est ward heller in the land. If Mr..
Lucas had not been entirely aware of
the indefenSibility of his conduct, he
would have acted in the open, instead
of resorting to subterfuge and chicanery
in order to conceal his own identity.
Here, again, the responsibility Is not
that of Mr.. Lucas alone.
THE statement signed by Mr.. Lucas
called on Republicans, in the name of
Lincoln to throw out of their party the
man whose attitude toward national
problems is probably more closely akin
to Lincoln's than that of any other man
in public life today"
Senator Cutting referred to an edi-
torial of Edward B. Mclean, publisher
of the Washington Post, which said
that Senator Norris has "endeavored to
make the Republican platform of 1928
a lie and a fraud" Senator Cutting
denied that Senator Norris had done
any such thing. He said that the Re-
publican platform in 1928 promised to
place agriculture on an equal basis with
other industries, and that Senator
Norris had done everything in his power
to live up to this pledge.
Senator Cutting said, too. that the
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