User talk:Ungomygo

George Norris
I've reverted your recent edit to George W. Norris, which inserted the statement that the article's subject was convicted of perjury. The statement is factually untrue.

The George Norris who was convicted of perjury was an obscure grocer from Broken Bow, not the politician from McCook. Republican party leaders, trying to keep Senator Norris from winning another term, dug up Grocer Norris and persuaded him to file for the office, hoping that with two George Norrises on the ballot, pro-Norris voters, not knowing which was the right man, would split their votes between the two. Afterward, Grocer Norris was examined by a Senate subcommittee; he stated under oath that he'd received no financial consideration for allowing his name to be used, but subsequently admitted that he'd been paid $500, plus his $50 filing fee. The District Court found him guilty of perjury; the Court of Appeals reversed the conviction; and the Supreme Court reversed the Court of Appeals.

Paragraph 2 of 300 U.S. 564 makes it clear that Senator George W. Norris and the respondent were two different individuals. A Google search turns up several contemporary accounts, e.g. this one; Norris himself describes the episode in Fighting Liberal, beginning on p. 291.

Not to sound reproachful, but this is why we should try to acquire a certain amount of background knowledge on the subject before editing a Wikipedia article. Your mistake was a natural one, but it could have been avoided or corrected with a little cross-checking. — Ammodramus (talk) 05:31, 6 November 2014 (UTC)