Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-07-23
Nebraska
SAYS FEE FOR OFFICE ONLY
State Legal Department Gives Position
Upon Primary Suit
JUNKM REFUSED ADDED FEES
Acting with Advice, He Held only
One Payment Necessary-Frank-
lin County People Are
FIOurishinE.
CFrom a staff Correspondent

General Thompson will represent Secretary
OF State Junkln in the suit brought by
Victor Rosewater, republican national com
mitteeman, to prevent placing the names
Of candidates on more than one ballot when
only one filing fee has been paid.
The legal department will argue that the
fee charged for filing refers only to the
office and not to the ballots For instance,
the attorney general says the law Is that a
candidate for United States senator shall
pay filing fee of $50. According to him II
makes no difference on how many ballots
the candidates name appears, just so no
has paid the one $50.
In the office of the governor the hold.
ing It's that the county treasurer has no
right to ask what office the candidate in
teEds TO file for. II he. tenders his $40 to
file for governor It is the duty of the
treasurer to give him a receipt for SO and
the ballot on which he runs need not be
designated. Then the candidate may pre-
sent that receipt to the secretary of state
and have his name placed on as many bal
lots as he chooses.
A receipts was rendered by Mr.. Hitch
cock as a candidate on the peoples indie
pendent party ticket, but 1t was not ac-
oepted, the secretary acting under the
opinion of the attor y general. This is
taken to mean that last Mr.. Hitchcock
believed that the law contemplated the
payment of filing fee for every ticket
upon the name of the candidate was to
appear. Deputy Secretary of State Wait
this morning said that James p. Latta
had also rendered receipt for filing fee
on the populist ticket and It was not &C
cepted.
Mr.. Thompson does not expect to file his
answer until next Wednesday.
Treasures Brian Returns.
l.. @. Brian, state treasurer has returned
a With his family from a trip to Iowa, where
ne visited relatives and pitched little hay
in order to get in condition for the cam
pagn. Very shortly Mr.. Bran VIII go out
TO ALBION and make arrangements for the
construction of a new home on his farm
near that city as he expects to remove back
there when his term of office as tate treas
urer expires netx January.
After Patrick Votes,
Governor shallenberger went to South
Omaha today to visit the Country club this
afternoon and deliver speech to a Shall
lenberger democratic club tonight. Repre-
sentative Krause of Albright has organized
such club and another has been organ
ICED in South Omaha proper.
When suggested that 1t might be con-
sIdered discourteous for the governor to SO
into the territory of w. r. Patrick solicit
ing votes, Dave Rowden, commander Of
the Soldiers home at Milford, spoke right
out in meeting.
Patrick won't get twenty-five votes in
> South Omaha. and I'll bet 500 he won't get
100 votes in Sarpy county" SO
do 1 know Patrick" We'll, should
say do" snorted Colonel Rowden, repeat
Ia m
he don't speak to me since 1 fired him
out of the women's waiting room Of the
Union Pacific depot i was employed by
tho secret service department of the Union
Pacific and was at the Union station. Pat
rick and Judge Sutton went into the wom-
ems waiting room and began to smoke
cigars about foot long. l touched them
on the shoulder and pointed to the sign,
mo Smoking Then l went out, thinking
they would follow me. 1 looked back and
there they We're smoking as big as life.
went back and told them 1t was against
the rules to smoke In there.
the rules to smoke In there"
who are your asked Sutton.
Il told him / was an officer and he said
90 am I. Then said so much the more
reason you should obey the law. Then
said II you are gentlemen you will get
out and II you don't get out will throw
you both out. You bet they got out. SUIT
ton afterwards apologized to me, but Pat
rick amt said nothing since to me- I'd
q throwed EN- out, too"
No Calamity in Franklin.
In the little town of Macon, on Macon
- prairie In Franklin county, a town with
Hperhaps 100 houses and no railroad, Colonel
sEurse, secretary TO Governor Shallenberger,
who went out there 70 sneak at political
meeting, said he counted twenty-seven aut-
pomobiles standing around the corner groc-
cry store.
THE automobiles were not owned by
pleasure-seekers, but belonged to the farm
,Aers who live around the town, and some
of them were driven into town by farm
ers who few years ago settled in Frank
lin county and used oxen with which TO
plow. The oxen soon gave way to horses,
and now the horse has given way to the
fautomobile insofar as travelling is con-
cerned. The land on which these farmers
live Is now worth from S1O0 to $3.50 an acre,
and this year 1t Is producing from fifteen
TO thirty-five bushels an acre of wheat
Corn Is looking fine and around Mason
there is going to be good crop.
Instead of holding a regular delegate
convention, Franklin county democrats met
In mass meeting at Macon. which Is near
the center OF the county, and there dele
gates were selected to the state conven-
ton. The meeting held in the school
house, which is also the town hall, There
Is no railroad within eight or ten miles
but the hall was crowded and many stood
at the windows, unable to get inside
BUFFALO COUNTY WANTS CAPITAL