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...will face Gilbert Monell Hitchcock, Wet conservative Democrat, once (1911-23) potent Senator from Nebraska who vainly led the Wilson fight for Senate ratification of the Treaty of Versailles. Would the national G.O. P. organization in Washington support Senator Norris as the party nominee? Senator Simeon Davison Fess, Republican National Committee chairman, said it would. The White House, in a well-muffled voice, said it would not, spoke of Senator Norris as a "traitor." To oppose Republican Governor Arthur J. Weaver, renominated. Democrats chose Charles Wayland ("Brother") Bryan, onetime (1923-25) Governor of Nebraska, a man who once upon...
Senator Simeon Davison Fess of Ohio, brand-new chairman of the Republican National Committee, last week tied the G. O. P. up tight to Prohibition. Meanwhile the Democratic party seemed to grow wetter and wetter...
...Chairman Fess was once a Wet himself. He went Dry politically only when Ohio did. When President Hoover picked him, a staid Anti-Saloon Leaguer, to head the national committee, many an observer concluded that the President was preparing to seek re-election in 1932 as a thoroughgoing Dry, was already consolidating the Dry forces in command of the national machine. It was even suspected that this move was designed to block the rising power and prestige of that potent Wet presidential possibility, Dwight Whitney Morrow, Republican Senatorial nominee in New Jersey. The Grand Old Party might, it seemed, become...
When he took office as chairman Senator Fess could not proclaim the party bone-Dry because too many Republican candidates are running as Wets. Therefore, last week, he weaseled conventionally: "I don't see how Prohibition can be made a party issue in this campaign. We will, however, take a decided stand on law enforcement...
...committee cast about for a title for Robert Henry Lucas, now Commissioner of Internal Revenue, a Kentuckian of whom the Hooverites expect much. The title "executive assistant to the national chairman" was proposed. Senator Fess complained it was not sufficiently "illuminating and dignified" for Mr. Lucas. Finally chosen was the phrase: "Executive Director of the Executive Committee of the Republican National Committee." The executive committee failed to fix Executive Director Lucas' salary at $25,000 as prearranged, left the matter to Chairman Fess and National Treasurer Joseph Nutt (also of Ohio...