Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-15
Nebraska
County Option
Advocates Meet
to Form Plans
State Meeting of Those Favorable to
This Policy Held at Lincoln
Bid for Endorsement.

LINCOLN. March 1L-(specisl)-The
state meeting Of county option advocates
was held this afternoon and tonight at 81
Pauls church. about 500 attending the
afternoon meeting. Ex-Governor HanIy OF
Indiana was the principal speaker at both
meetings
Two typical representative Of the demo-
cratic party. speaking for the party. in
sisted that county option should and would
be adopted by the state OF Nebraska. These
typical representatives were Lvsle Abbott
Of Omaha, late defeated democratic candl-
date for attorney general, and w. b. Price,
late defeated democratic candidate for state
auditor. Two speakers. credited to the re-
publican party spoke OF The Republican
Party ard County option" They were c.
II. hldrich, late defeated candidate for the
republican nomination for congress in the
Fourth district, who voted against county
option in the legislature OF 1907, and f. T.
Brown Of Lancaster county.
Josper L. McBrien called the meeting to
order and introduced T. NJ wimberly.
head OF the Temperance Uunion OF Ne
braska, who inturn introduced c. b. Ander-
son OF Crete who presided. Mr. Anderson
had just returned this afternoon from
Oklahoma, and he came back full
fledged believer in the policy Of county
option and 80 announced upon taking the
chair. The Rev. Mr.. Rogers prayed and
Miss Kendall sang.
Lysle Abbott Of Omaha was the first
speaker and he said he had been selected
as the pace maker for the other speakers
to follow, because he had come from
Omaha and anyone from Douglas county.
VINO has anything to do with temperance.
has to 90 some Mr. Abbott explained
that he was for county option because
the country = the unit for taxation and
the county has to pay the costs in the
prosecution of cases growing out OF the
sale Of liquor. For these reasons and
others, he said, the entire county should
decide whether there should be any saloons
In a county.
w. B. Price said he was for county option
because he was a democrat" and 1T is
as natural for democrat to be against a
monopoly and trust It is for a duck to
take to water The liquor trust" he
said was the biggest trust of them all and
for that reason all democrats should be for
county option.
Senator Aldich, who Is candidate for
the republican nomination for governor,
followed in behalf OF county option and
told how David City, his home, had
prospered financially under the dry town
system
Then came r. P. Brown, Mayor Nc
Conaughy OF Holdrege, who brought down
a delegation of fifteen men, A G. wolfen-
berger, Superintendent Elliott, Prof. Car
son, Mrs. Claflin and the Rev. Mr.. Shep-
herd.
All this occurred before the coming of
Governor Hanly, who did not reach the
city until $3.50 o'clock.
Senator Cain of Richardson county was
unable to be present owing to the recent
death of his 5-year-old son. Instead he
sent a letter endorsing the movement for
county option. Mr.. McBrien proposed res
olutions of sympathy which were adopted
unanimously.
At the afternoon session a resolution
was adopted demanding that all political
parties in Nebraska endorse county option
and insert a plank to that effect in their
platforms. 1t was also decided to hold
another meeting tomorrow