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sentiment of one sort or another in the State; but the

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main point here is that George W. Norris was for these,

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and a very interesting thing happened in connection with

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the campaign.

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In late September, just about a month before

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the election, Mr. Norris was in his office on Capitol

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Hill and got a telephone call from one of his people back

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home and he asked him first, Senator, are you really very

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much interested in this proposal, and the Senator said,

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you know I am. Well, this political lieutenant said, well,

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in that case, I would recommend that you come back home

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as soon as you can because this proposition is in trouble,

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in deep trouble and, unless we do something about it, we

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are going to lose.

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So, that night or the next morning, Mr. Norris,

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who was then seventy-five years of age, went back to his

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home State and I was told that he traveled up and down,

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back and forth across the State to every hamlet and, as

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he drove through the country, he saw a farmer in the field

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and he stopped and talked to him. He stopped in the little

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stores and the towns and villages and put on a perfectly