Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-24
NEW NORRIS STORY.
DUPLICATING c. O.P..
STIRS POLITICIANS
Broken Bow Grocer Repudi-
ateS First Statement,
Admits Backing.
SEYMOUR, MOSES AIDE.
MENTIONED AS ALLY
Amusement, With Some Amuse-
ment, Reflected in Statements
Commenting on Incident.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

Political Washington was amazed,
amused and here and there disgruntled
over reports from Nebraska that Victor
Seymour of Lincoln, now connected with
the Republican Senatorial Campaign
Committee, had been at the bottom of
the effort to place George W. Norris
of Broken Bow in the race for the Re-
publican senatorial nomination against
Senator George w. Norris.
New Story Unfolded.
The story unfolded before the Nye
SluSh Fund Committee, at its hearing
yesterday afternoon in Lincoln, Nebr.,
showed that Norris, the 31-year-old
grocer, whose papers were filed in the
race for Republican senatorial nominal
ton, and his attorney, Paul johnson,
had sought to shield Victor Seymour in
their earlier testimony before the Nye
committee and perhaps others.
AT Republican senatorial headquar-
ters here it was said that Seymour is
now connected with the headquarters
OF the committee in Denver. where
Senator Steiwer of Oregon, as vice
chairman, is in charge. How long
Seymour has been with the senatorial
committee, however, was not known
exactly.
Chairman Tess of the Republican Ma
tional Committee denied that he had
any knowledge of the activities of Mr.
Seymour in the interest of Norris, the
grocer, as q candidate for the Repuhli-
can Senatorial Committee He declined
to make any comment on the report
from Nebraska.
Tess Not in Sympathy.
1t is clear. however, the Republican
national chairman is not in sympathy
with the tactics which were pursued
by Seymour and the opponents of Sem
ator Norris in the Nebraska pre-primary
fight.
Senator Norris, Progressive RepubI-
can, INSTRUMENTATION and pro-Smith
In the last presidential campaign, was
one of the most prominent of the
sons of the wild jackass" at whom
Senator George Moses of New Hamp-
shire, chairman OF the Republican Sem
atorial Committee, aimed his barbed
remark early last Spring. That It
should now develop that an agent of
the Republican Senatorial Committee
has been connected with the effort to
place Senator Norris grocer namesake
In the field against the Senator is par
ticularly amusing to other members of
the senatorial group.
the progressive group in the Senate
from the West to whom Senator Moses
referred in his sons of the wild jack
ass" remark, said today that he was
glad the Nye Committee had at last
dug down into the Nebraska situation
and found out who was really response
bic for trying to embarrass Senator
Norris by placing his namesake in the
held against him.
Glad Trickery Is Exposed.
cit shows the kind of politics which
Senator Norris opponents have tried to
play against him." said Senator Brook
hart. The Iowa Senator did not en-
deavor to tie the trick up with the Re-
publican Senatorial Committee, for, he
said, he had no knowledge about the
activities of Seymour or of the COM
mittee: He did say, however, that it
was time such trickery was brought
into the open.
The comment in regular Republican
circles was that the effort to place
Norris, the grocer, in the field against
Senator Norris in the primary fight was
smart alec" politics and the kind that
In the long run could only defeat it
self.
Effect Yet to Be Seen.
What effect, if any, the disclosures
regarding the Norris affair will have on
the continued connection of Victor
Seymour with the Republican Senatorial
Committee remains to be seen. Sem
ator Moses, the chairman of the COM
mittee. is supposed to be still in the
West, where he went recently to observe
The situation In Montana, Oklahoma and
other States where senatorial cam
paignS are now being fought out.
According to dispatches received here
from Nebraska, Paul johnson, attorney
for Norris, the grocer, told the Sena-
torial Investigating Committee yester-
day that Norris had said to him last
June friends of w. B. Stebbins, oppo-
nent of Senator Norris for the Repub-
lican senatorial nomination this year,
had approached him last June and
urged him. Norris, to file for the sena-
torial nomination. Johnson said he
told Grocer Norris be would be foolish
30 be drawn into such an affair
Johnson told the committee that Sey-
mour had subsequently urged him to
get Grocer Norris TO run, and had given
him. johnson, $50 tor pay Grocer Norris
filing fee and later had sent him a
$500 Government bond which he gave
to Grocer Norris.
In the end. after the Senate commit
tee had been called into Nebraska,
Grocer Norris Withdrew his papers and
vanished from the State. Senator Nor
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