Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-28
Nebraskan LaudS Roosevelt
Attitude, But Declines to
Commit Himself.
SENATOR AGAIN TAKES
RAP AT ROBERT LUCAS
Declares Committees Funds Mis-
used if $4,000 Loan Was
Personal.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

Senator George w. Norris of Nebraska
about whose head has revolved politi-
cal battle of major proportions during
the last week, yesterday indicated that
he would continue to make the water
power issue principal issue in deciding
whom he would support for President
In the election of 1882.
In this connection Senator Norris said
that he believed that Gov. Franklin D.
Roosevelt, New York's Democratic Gov
ernor, was nearest the right position
ON the greatest issue In America today,
the power trust"
The Nebraska Senator did not, how
ever, commit himself 70 vote for Gov.
Roosevelt should he be the Democratic
nominee for President and President
Herbert Hoover, with whose ideas on
water power Senator Norris has dis
agreed. should be the Republican nomi-
nee. In 1928 Senator Norris declined to
support Mr.. Hoover in the presidential
election, and came out strengthen the
election of Alfred E. Smith, with whose
views on water power and farm relief
he found himself more In harmony tnan
with those of Mr.. Hoover.
May Bolt Again in 1882.
Senator Norris has recently been un-
der fire from regular Republicans be-
cause he abandoned the G. o. F. ma
tional ticket in 1928 and supported the
Democratic ticket. In an interview with
the press, in which he made it clear he
would decline the proposal OF Prof. John
Dewey of Columbia University to head
. new Iiberay party, Senator Norris said
that he was prepared to do again what
he did in 1928 If he found the Demo-
cratic candidate for President IN 1857
more acceptable than the Republican on
the issues which ne CONSIDERED OF eA-
treme Importance.
Gov. Roosevelt's views on prohibition
do not jibe with those OF Senator
Norris, the latter said, admitting that
he was a greet admirer Of Roosevelt.
st do not apologies for the state-
rnent that Gov. Roosevelt is near the
right position on the water power trust
because he happens TO be Democrat"
said the Nebraska Senator.
While Senator Norris left the mat
ter open to future determination by
himself. there are plenty who believe
he would support Roosevelt II he were
nominated by the Democrats against
President Hoover If the President were
Yenominated by the Republicans. 1t
was recalled that Al Smiths views on
the prohibition question were as wet
4 not wetter than those Of Gov. Roose-
Welt and yet Norris cast in his lot with
Smith in the last presidential election.
Too Far in Advance.
When Senator Norris was asked the
direct question as to whether he would
vote for Roosevelt against President
Hoover in 1882 If they were the presi-
Dental nominees, he replied that it was
too far in advance to make definite
statement about what he would do.
II could go lot farther and do
lot worse" Senator Norris added, how
ever, in discussing the possibility of
the Roosevelt candidacy. IT don't
make a secret of the fact that I am
q great admirer of Gov Roosevelt.
The only thing / disagree with him
on Is prohibition. think he is the
nearest right on what is becoming, II
It has not already become, the great
est issue, namely power. Of any man
IN public life"
Senator Norris attention was called
to the fact that Joseph r. Mutt, treas
urer of the Republican National Com
mittee, had denied that a special ac-
count Of $4,000, placed in the Com
mercial National Bank of Washington
last October, was "slush fund" to be
used against progressive Republican
Senators, as Senator Nye, chairman of
the Senate Campaign Investigating
Committee, had charged. Mr.. Mutt in
his statement issued yesterday by the
National Committee demanding an
apology from Nye, declared that $32,-
900 Of this fund had been expended
and that a report Of all the expendi-
lures from it had already been made
to the clerk of the House and was on
file in the Capitol at the time Nye
was making his charge.
Slaps at Lucas.
Senator Norris said that the special
fund might have been a "slush fund as
well as political fund" The Nebraska
Senator also again sharply criticised
Robert H. Lucas, executive director of
the Republican National Committee,
who pledged part Of this special account
as guarantee for a personal loan to
himself Of $4,000, part of which he used
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