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the primary for the gubernatorial
nomination, now have ali oppor-
tunity to stick a knife in the Gov
ernor by supporting Senator Butler
Senator Butler is given credit here
for having been a co-framer of the
amended CT Bill of Rights, and for
having sponsored with Senator Byrd
of Virginia, Democrat, the act which
brings under audit by the Con-
troller General of the United States
the various Government corpora
lions which have been set up IN
recent years and which have been
spending billions of dollars of the
taxpayers money. He is also re-
garded as particular friend of the
farmer. He himself has been a sue
cessful dealer in grains, and is &C
counted wealthy man.
Further, Senator Butler is liked by
many of the old line Republicans
because he is a conservative: Re-
publicans who clamor for a con-
sentative not only in the Senate, but
also in the White House; who have
looked askance at the late Wendell
L. Willkie and Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey of New York. the last two
Republican nominees for President
on the ground they have swallowed
too many of the Roosevelt New
Deal policies. and askance at former
Gov. Stassen of Minnesota, a CAN
didate for the presidential nominal
ton in 1913, because he. too, is New
Dealish'
Dislike Stassen Tieup.
BY the same token, these old line
Republicans are of Gov. GrisWoId
because he is aligned with Mr.. Stas-
sen-Mr. Stassen came into the
State recently to campaign for Gov.
Griswold
Gov. Griswolds support of the
British loan does not sit well with
many of these Republicans, and in
deed, with many other Nebraskans.
His stand on the loan has been
made an issue against him, not only
with the ordinary run of the mine
Republican, but particularly with
the voters of German and Irish
descent. Senator Buffers supporters
are going on the air constantly to
discuss this issue, pointing out that
Nebraska's share of the loan would
be approximately s40O00,O0O of the
So, 750,O00,000 proposed to be loaned
to Britain. They ask the voters if
they would be willing to vote such
a sum out of their pockets to make
the loan to the British. Senator
Butler has opposed the loan bv the
Federal Government.
This loan is the issue most dis
cussed, although Gov. Griswold has
been attacked because he has not
provided the farmers in the western
part OF the State with as many
roads as they demanded, and be-
cause he took S1,000,0OO out of the
oid-age benefit fund and transferred
it TO the general fund, to be used
TOR other purposes. German-Amer-
leans IN the State. of whom there
are great number remember. hold
it against Gov. Griswold that, as
member of the Legislature, he spon-
sored bill years ago prohibiting the
teaching of German in the schools
Opposition Piles Up.
All of these things add up, a little
here and little there. to a very
considerable opposition to the Gov
ernor and to support of the Senator.
In the Republican gubernatorial
there are eight entrants
The three foremost are Val Peter
sen, veteran of the recent war and
a publisher at Elgin; Joseph Wish
art OF Lincoln, an attorney and
stockman; Arthur j. Weaver of Lin
coin, an insurance man, son of the
late Gov. Weaver. Mr.. Petersen,
who received the endorsement of the
State convention, ap-
pears to have the inside track and
should win the nomination. He was
Sen. Buffers campaign manager in
1910. Later he served as secretary
to Gov. Griswold for a year and a