Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 November 1936 — Page 11
NORRIS VICTORY SETS PRECEDENT [8 IN U.S, HISTORY
Veteran Nebraskan Returns to Senate Over Strong Opposition.
BY RUTH FINNEY “ Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.—One 1936 victory beside the President's probably will become legendary— the triumphant return to the Senate of George W. Norris of Nebraska over the opposition of two political machines. It was an event without precedent in American history. Probably no one elise in public life could have been re-elected under the same circumstances. Running as an independent, Senator Norris was fought by a Republican and a Democratic opponent. He entered the race at the last possible moment, reluctantly. He had no party organization and little money. He made no spectacular campaign. Nebraskans knew him and knew his record and he left the decision to them. Appropriate Tribute
Their decision was an appropriate tribute to a man who has devoted many years to freeing American | democracy from slavish partisan rule. His first big fight in the national arena was a fight to free the House from the dictatorial grasp of Speaker Joe Cannon. Cannon was a Republican, so was Norris. But Norris believed that Cannon was making a mockery of popular government. In those early House days Norris became convinced that democracy could not function properly while lame-duck Congresses sat in Washington and newly elected Senators and Representatives were denied their seats until 14 months after election, It took years of toil and an amendment to the Constitution to end this evil but Norris finally did it. He watched conference committees in secret session rewrite legislation passed by majorities of House and Senate, and he began another crusade in behalf of the democratic process. The result was the one-chamber, non - partisan Legislature with which Nebraska has replaced its old system of upper and lower House.
Would Limit Court Power
He is working now to substitute a popular presidential vote for the present electoral system and to limit the power of the Supreme Court to annul legislation. When that is done he believes the major obstacles that stand between the people and a free expression of their desires will have been removed. The re-election of Senator Norris was a tribute, also, to his unwaver- | ing courage and devotion to principle. He has been in Congress — House or Senate — for 33 years. Never in that time has he failed to vote his convictions, no matter what | the personal sacrifice involved. He voted against the World War, and when his friends warned him that he dare not return te Nebusska | because the temper of the people was ugly, he went back any way, announced a public meeting, excused | the friends who were afraid to introduce him, and walked alone to the platform. When he had finished explaining to them why he had voted as he did he had no further cause to be afraid. The story of his 10-year fight to | save Muscle Shoals for the public, | of his persistence year after year when two Republican Presidents wiped away with vetoes the hardfouktht triumphs he had won in Senate and House, is too well known for repetition. He was largely res~~nsible for labor's new right to| picket without fear of unjust Fed- | eral injunctions; for the new iree- | dom enjoyed by state-regulationg commissions, released from the fear of Federal Court obstruction; for the plan by which electricity is being brought to hundreds of farin homes. Senator Norris is 75, and he] thought it was time to retire. Presi- | dent Roosevelt and people in nearly | every state in the Union joined his | Nebraska friends in protesting, and that, too, was without precedent. The vote returning him to the Senate may go down in history as im- | perishable evidence that integrity in | public life is appreciated by a na- | tion inclined to be cynical about | politics.
GEN. HARDING DIES, | RITES AT ARLINGTON
By United Press WHITINSVILLE, Mass, Nov. 12. —Burial Friday in Washington's Arlington National Cemetery was planned today for Brigadier General Chester Harding, 69, U. 8. A. retired, former governor of the Canal Zone. Harding died of thrombosis yesterday at the home of relatives. Harding's survivors include his widow, the former Flora Krum of St. Louis, Mo, whom he married in 1895.
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P. O. Bowers of the Ben Hur Life Association, Crawfordsville, is to preside at the thirtyeighth annual session of the Indiana Fraternal Congress to be held here Monday and Tuesday. He is state congress president.
PLAYS TO BE GIVEN The North Methodist Episcopal Church children’s and high school drama clubs are to present two oneact plays tonight following a “family night” dinner in the church. Dr.
C. A. McPheeter, churc to preside. h pastor, is
SESSION. OF FRATERNAL CONGRESS SET
250 Delegates Expected at Parley Here Monday and Tuesday.
The thirty-eighth annual session of the Indiana Fraternal Congress is to be held Monday and Tuesday in the Claypool. “ P. O. Bowers, congress presiden. and Ben-Hur Life Association representative from Crawfordsville, announced today that approximately 250 delegates from 37 afifiliated societies are to attend. Mayor Kern and Governor-Elect M. Clifford Townsend are to speak at the opening session at 10 a. m. Others to speak are The Rev. Guy C. Carpenter, Central Methodist Episcopal Church pastor: Martin H. Miller, congress vice president and Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen representative; W. J. Henshaw of the Indiana Insurance Federation; S. H. Hadley, Sharon, Pa. national congress president, and John C. Snyder, Ben-Hur Life Association president. Those scheduled to address the
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road Trainmen; Edwin M. Mason, Ben-Hur Life Association national secretary; Ethel Snider, Royal Neighbors of America state superintendent; Frank W. Hough, Fidelity Life Association national secretary; Harry E. McClain, state insurance commissioner; Judge Frank P. Baker and Robert McCain of the national congress press section. Drill teams in both the adult and juvenile classes are to compete in the evening. The final business sesgion is to be held at 1:30 p. m. Tuesday, and is to include election of officers.
FIND BODY IN HUNT FOR FISHING BOAT
GLOUCESTER, Mass., Nov. 12.— Coast guards searched by plane and boat today for trace of the Gloucester fishboat Virgina and Joan 2d. believed to have foundered with all hands under the weight of a prize catch. The body of one of her crew of six has been recovered and hope was abandoned for survival of the others. The dead man was Harold Fairweather, 36, the cook, and father of three children.
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