Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-08
WOULD OUSTMAYOR DAHLNAN
Temperance Forces Ask Governor to
Proceed Against Omaha Official.
JUDGE FAwCETT Is ENDORSED
Former Governor sheldon Makes
Brief Address, in Which He
Endorses Statewide Pro-
hibition.
(From a staff Correspondent

speaker at the Epworth assembly this aft
ernoon. the assembly adopted a motion to
request Governor Shallenberger to remind
the attorney general to begin proceedings
to Gust the mayor OF Omaha and the mem
bers OF the Board Of Fire and Police Com
mlssioners from office, because they have
failed 20 revoke the license Of an Omaha
saloon-keeper who was convicted of selling
liquor after s o'clock at night.
The motion to adopt the resolution was
made by Senator Patrick at the conclusion
Of a speech in which he said the brewers
and corporations had admitted they spent
$4,000 to defeat him for election to the state
senate and that on the day of election they
had twenty-five paid workers at the polls
in his home precinct working against him.
Senator Patrick was defeated by Alex Law
erty of Saunders county.
Judge Fawcett Endorsed.
Just before his resolution was adopted,
Mr.. Patrick announced that the executive
Of the Nebraska Temperance
union had passed a resolution endorsing the
candidacy Of Judge Jacob Fawcett for su-
preme Judge. The assembly then promptly
voted unanimously to adopt that report.
When the motion was put to request the
governor to take action against the Omaha
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commissioners Chairman Metcslfe askeu
for a rising vote, and the great majority
Of the audience stood, including ex
Governor Sheldon, who had experience with
requests to discharge police commissioners
In his talk preliminary to the introduce
ton Of the notions Senator Patrick said
he had been working for ten or twelve
years against the liquor interests and he
was glad now to see so many others get
ting into the fight with him. He had al
ways been successful, he said. against
the brewers until they tied up with all the
corporations In Omaha and had caused
hts defeat by the expenditure Of $50. 900.
The remainder of the speech consisted of
a denunciation Of the city of Omaha,
Mayor Dahlman, and a charge that the
press OF the state does not attempt to
SHOW up the magnitude of the influence
Of the liquor interests.
sheldon for Resolution.
In a short speech Ex-Governor Sheldon re-
peated his stand for statewide prohibition
with a proviso that when three-fifths Of
a community voted in favor of saloons,
that community should have its saloons.
Make the state dry" he said, all
over. and then let the saloons break in.
II is easier to get out when you are In
than It is to get in when you are out" The
ex-governor created some applause when
he announced that he was in favor of tenn
perance, and when the temperance forces
decided what they wanted to do, he would
fight with them.
Rev. Fellman of Omaha, Mrs Frances B.
Head and others talked. Richard L. Met
calfe presided.
Previous to the temperance meeting SEN
ator Burkett delivered his lecture on gov
,,,aa n,pnnrghfn INha attIfNnEK,,N, upa0
comfortably filled during the afternoon,
there being probably 200 men in the audi
ence.
More Trouble About Ballots.
Notwithstanding the law is plain in the
matter. and the secretary OF state has
sent out letters Of instruction with his
sample ballots, he is having all kinds of
trouble with the county clerks over the
printing OF the primary election ballots.
The secretary instructed the county clerks
to have as many changes IN the ballots
as there are voting precincts in the county
That is, the names should be rotated that
many times, He also Instructed the clerks
that the names Of candidates for state
offices should be rotated.
Some OF the clerks have paid no atten-
ton to the basis of rotation as fixed by
the legislature, but have divided the num-
Der OF ballots by the number Of candidates,
and placed each name at the top of the
ballot as many times as the figure given
by the division. The law provides, as in
terpreted by the secretary OF state, that
John Smiths name shall be at the top
OF the ballot in precinct No. l; John
Jones name at the top in precinct No. Z,
and so on. shoNld there be sixteen pre-
cincts in the county. every candidate for
supreme judge on the republican ticket
Will have his name at the head Of the
ballot in two precincts In that county,
1t will frequently happen that one can
didate may have his name at the top Of
the ballot in three precincts, while the
other candidates will be at the top in only
two precincts, but the secretary OF state
says that is the plain law.
The county clerk of Johnson county was
here today TO see the secretary OF state
to get Strengthened out in the matter.
He brought his ballots TO Lincoln to get
them printed.
One or two county clerks have Insisted
to the secretary OF state that the names
Of the state candidates should not be ro-
tated, and II Is possible som Of the coun-
ties Will have ballots upon which the
names Of state candidates are not rotated.
VIII Hear County Officials.
The State Board Of Equalization will
listen Monday to county officials who OBJ
ject to increases on certain classes of prop
erty in their counties. 1t that meeting
of the board there will be present Land
Commissioner Cowles, Secretary of State
Junkin and possibly Governor shalien-
berger, should he happen to be here on
that date.
The levy cannot be made probably for
some time after that because the governor
goes away August II to Seattle, the state
treasurer will not return until the middle
Of the week and the auditor the latter
part Of the week.
In the meantime the state board has
discovered a proposition in a law enacted
by the late aggregation Of nonpartisan
democrats in which It can see little good
or bad for that matter. II is found in
5. F. q, by Fuller Of Seward. This gentle
man attempted to get passed a law which
would prevent the state board from RAISING
' sluations reported by the county assessors.
but the legislators finally lost their nerve
and changed the law to provide that in
1911 and every two years thereafter the
county boards. shall equsliEe the value OF
real estate. Under the old law, which Is
not changed, real estate is assessed in