Evening star., 1936-08-16
Nebraska Republicans to Take
First Squirt in Landon Visit
COP. Nominee to Make Only Informal
Talks En- Route to Pennsylvania
Home for First address.

talks through Nebraska. The Union
Pacific route which he will travel is
long established political thorough
fare for candidates, taking in terri
tory once strongly Republican, which
in recent elections has voted for
Roosevelt. Gov. Landons crowds will
give a fair estimate of Republican
enthusiasm in the State.
Celebration Honors Burke.
Democrats in Omaha picked this
week for a celebration to honor Sena-
tor Edward R. Burke and Representa-
tive Charles F. McLaukhlin, both off
Omaha. but recently returned from the
East. Six hundred persons attended
dinner in their honor here. including
Gov. R. L. Cochran and a large dele
cation of Lincoln Democrats. Among
speakers was Miss Harriet Elliott, study
director for Democratic women. repre-
senting the Democratic National
Committee.
There was touch of the dramatic
at the dinner because Senator Burke
last week. in addressing the South
Dakota Bar Association at Sioux
Falls, had taken sharp issue with
Secretary of Agriculture Henry A.
Wallace and Senator George w. Nor
ris on the Supreme Courts veto
power.
Secretary Wallace. speaking at the
Council Bluffs Iowa centennial last
/ Tuesday declined any comment on the
Burke address.
Warned Against Fascism.
The Nebraska junior Senator had
warned against the danger of fascism
in a government of unlimited powers
He suggested three ways for the sin
cere reformers to bring about an i'm
proved economic and social order:
A wider use of the powers actually
granted to the Federal Government.
which he said were by no means ex-
hausted; and State legislation.
The State Democratic Committee
meeting at Grand Island early in the
week ordered compaign headquarters
established at Omaha and Lincoln.
Under the old guard management
of National Committeeman Arthur
Mullen. now on vacation in Europe,
a cloSe-knit Democratic organization
obtained. He has told his friends
he does not expect to have much to
do in this campaign. He was an on
locker at Philadelphia
However, it was largely through
efforts of Mullen and his friends
that Burke was nominated and elected
Senator two years ago. Burke, now
! national committeeman in Mullens
place, is cold to the prevailing party
trend, though insisting on his basic
| democracy.
While Burke now is also national
committeeman and ordinarily would
have much to say about party ap-
pointments, the flood of such selec-
tions through the w. P. A. and P.
w. A is coming through channels
more friendly to Senator Norris. Most
of the principal State appointments
in ordinary Government agencies had
been made before the present di-
vision became apparent.
Norris Remains Enigma.
Senator Norris still remains an
enigma. While deporting himself as
usual before a campaign, awaiting
pressure to run. he recently sent a
letter to officials of the group trying
to form a farmer Labor party saying:
In my judgment the one greatest
evil of government is partisanship.
When men are bound with party
prejudices, and follow blindly alleged
party leaders, they are too often mis-
led and find, in the end, that it was
their own partisanship which did all
the damage"
The big question in the State situ-
alton is whether Robert G. Simmons,
defeated for Senator in 1884 and now
opposing Terry Carpenter, Democrat
and Townsendite, and probably Sena-
tor Norris, can win the three-cornered
fight. There is almost as much in
terest in this as in the States choice
on President.
Carpenter is issuing weekly news
paper the Nebraska Senator, in
which he expects to make play for
support from every direction.