NORRIS CALLS FOR DEFEAT OF HOOVER IN 1932
Record of President Said to Be One of Continuous Betrayal Of The People
BY RODNEY DUTCHER

WASHINGTON, April 4--The welfare of both the country and the Republican Party demand that President Hoover should be neither renominated nor re-elected. This is the conviction of Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska.

Says "Superman" Failed.
"Hoover came into office because the American people had been made to believe he was a superman," said Norris, in explaining his opposition to a second term for the president. "He promised relief for agriculture and the people were made to believe that he could bring relief. He had his own way and congress passed the bill he wanted, giving him the authority he had requested. He has made a complete failure and agriculture is in a much worse condition than when he took office.

"He has done almost nothing to meet the economic depression and the vast unemployment which it created. Not content with minimizing the situation and failing to act upon it, he vetoed the Wagner bill, which would have established a co-ordinated national system of employment exchanges.

"Through equivocation and lack of stability, the Hoover Administration is a disappointment to all who believe in an honest and fair enforcement of the prohibition law.
FLAYS PARTISAN ATTITUDE.

"By partisan influence and control of the house, he blocked relief for millions of starving or distressed American citizens and his unmerciful and arbitrary attitude has indicated that partisan considerations have more weight with him than the alleviation of human misery. Throughout his administration he has shown that he is moved by a narrow-minded partisanship never equaled by any other president.

"After assuring agriculture that he would put it on an equality with other lines of business by proper tariff revision, he took no step to redeem that promise, but signed a tariff bill which has further increased the burdens of agriculture and has also earned us the enmity of all the nations of the world because of its unreasonable and discriminatory rates.

"Under Hoover's direct leadership, this administration has done everything possible to carry out the wishes and demands of the power trust. His appointments of new power commissioners to office, along with other appointments, show his complete and absolute sympathy with the power people in their efforts to enrich their great monopoly from our natural resources at the expense of millions of consumers of electricity.

"Under his leadership and with his approval, his appointees have arbitrarily and without notice or hearing removed faithful servants of the people who hade [sic] stood for enforcing the law against the encroachments of the dishonest manipulations of the power monopoly.

Cites Muscle Shoals Veto.
"Using his power of veto, he destroyed the Muscle Shoals bill--a measure designated to utilize the great government property at Muscle Shoals for the cheapening of fertilizer for American agriculture and utilization of the surplus power for the benefit of people without transmission distance of the development. The power people want no yardstick which would expose their extortionate rates so Hoover killed the bill after it had been passed by both houses of congress.

"The president stands in the way of a national system of flood control for the great Mississippi Valley by the building of storage dams on the tributaries of the Mississippi River. He promised immediate development of navigation from the Great Lakes to the sea through the St. Lawrence River, but he has made no effort to redeem that promise.

"Under his leadership and influence, income taxes of the wealthy have been reduced without a corresponding reduction for the smaller incomes.

BLOCKED "LAME DUCK" BILL.
"His leaders and legislative slaves have blocked that badly-needed reform known as the 'lame duck' amendment to the constitution and he benefited by lame duck' votes when they proved sufficient to defeat in the house the senate amendment to provide $25,000,000 for food relief to our drought-stricken fellow citizens.

"Instead of being a superman, recent history has demonstrated that Hoover is only an ordinary individual and that the welfare of the party as well as the welfare of the country demands that he should neither be re-nominated nor reelected."