Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-12-17
LEE 0|)SS)NS AID
FORMER LEGISLATOR TO TAKE
PLACE AZ ASSISTANT At.
roRNEY GENERAL.
AGGRESSIVE AND ACTIVE
LAWYER AND PROGRESSIVE
Fletcher to Be Retained in the Office
cosson to Continue TO Handle Special
Work Hs Has Undertaken 40 Assist.
ant-Aimest Revolution in HortieuI.
turaI Society.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican
Des Moines, Dec. 1.-THE chief
deputy or assistant in the office Of at
torney general under the administra-
ton which takes charges the first Of the
year will be Hon. Nelson J. Lee, of
Estherville. whose record as leader in
the house Of representatives the last
two sessions has made him we'll known
turnout the state. Lee is one Of the
aggressive and active young republic
cans Of the Tenth district and he is q
lawyer Of unquestioned ability. The
career of Lee Is decidedly interesting.
1t includes start as a Norwegian
farm boy in Emmett county. town
schooling. devil in a newspaper office.
dress goods salesman in Des Moines'
first department store, a course in COM
mercial college, selling groceries in Des
Moines. then into Iowa College and
Drake and into the practice OF law. In
cidentally he organized the Capital
Park Mckinley Club in Des Moines
in 1896 and boosted for the republican
ticket He has been county attorney
and is member Of the State Bar Assoc
citation.
attorney. general will be retained in
his present place. He has proved him.
self to be most capable young iawye.
and Industrious in handling the details
Of the office. He is from Avoca. At
torney General George Cosson has not
yet selected the man for the position
Of special counsel, which he now holds
himself.
1t is entirely probable that the work
Of this most important department Of
state government will be shifted so that
the special work which Mr.. Cosson has
been handling the past three or four
years will continue under his direct
charge. The work Of the office has
grown enormously and the report OF the
attorney general soon to be issued will
show that Attorney General Byers and
his assistants have handled very much
larger volume Of important litigation
than anybody outside of the office could
know about.
A brave but Intellectual insurgent
movement among the members Of the
Iowa state horticultural society came
within notch Of winning out the past
week and effecting revolution in that
somewhat fossilized body Of ancients.
and young blood on the board and
three different names were proposed.
One Of them was Frank Belief, Of At
lantic, a true naturalist and a young
man far ahead of his times. In order
to keep the control within the small
group it became necessary to select
1.-TWO sofficials who live just across the
road ~ one county. Some of the d.
rectors have been officers in the So
ciety for twenty-five years or more.
and it has been found practically i'm
possible to get any new blood into the
association. This was the real cause
for the formation Of three auxiliary
associations, one of florists. another OF
plant breeders and the park and fores-
try association. The "old guard" has
a firm grip on affairs. however.
Superintendent Donahue, of the state
institution for inebriates at Knoxville,
will ask the legislature for some change
in the law relating to paroles. At pres
ent. the graduates" Of that institution
are merely turned loose at the door and
told to get away. He states that q
great majority Of them have to go thru
Des Moines to get to some place and
locate. and a large proportion Of them
fail to resist the temptations OF the
capital city and fall by the wayside.
He would have some provision for TAX
ing these men back to their homes
and friends and putting them temper
arily into the custody of relatives or
guardians.
That Iowa democrats are very much
in earnest in their determination to
organize their party for the campaign
two years hence is shown by the fact
that today a meeting of the county
committee Of Polk county is to be held
to fill vacancies in the committee and
to start the work Of organization. They
expect to do a great deal of work this
winter in organizing and to perfect
q poll of the voters, or at least COM
plete a list Of those who may be re-
lied upon to do work. The fact that
they were able to carry the county this
year has given the democrats some
encouragement. for they believe that
there is a sufficient number Of regular
republican kickers to give them the
balance Of power any time.