Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-11
Drys and Vets Each Confident Of
Winning By Big Figures.
CAMPAIGN HAS BEEN LIVELY ONE
Prominent Men Take Sides and Feel
ing Has Been Warm.
RULE TWELVE PLAYS BIG
ReEuIatIaa ReEardfHg DeIive
LfaasF 90 Prfvats E&esideH
Repealed Saturday ~
Excise Beard.
lFrom a slaff correspondeatJ

LINCOLN Aurl l-tepeciaA l-'Jne
the nost bitterly waEsd fights IN the hia.
tory of the city VIII come 20 a decision
tomorrow. when the question Of prohibi-
ton IS voted upon in Lincria. The fight
has been marked by ni0ss ia-snss feeling
and BY the prdu,inence Of the ulan VINO
have been here % sreas on aue side or
the other The finish tomorrow viii se
marked By the unusual educational quallfl-
cation far voters
City Attorney FiansbgrE has ruled rhzt
whenever a voter is challenged the cues
tions must be put 70 him in the English
language and the answers urnst be tn Eng
uah. The object u the ruling is 10 prevent
a large number % foreign bnru citizens
VITO have NOT yet mastered the language
af their adopted country from voting az
IL is generally conceded that majority
of them viii vote against prohibition.
Something over 700 OF these men have
taken out their first papers AMI have
registered IN order to be eligible 20 vote
tomorrux should the opinion of the city
attorney be adopted BY the election boards
IL il very probable that a suit at law viii
mark the heginning q the day.
Rash sides scent vIetory.
Both the prohibitionisis and those Op-
posed are claiming the city. Whns persons
who are not overly zsHi1us Tor either side
have expressed the opinion that the city
is liable to 60 several hundred either way
The action of the Excise board yesterday
IN officially repealing rule twelve may have
considerable 10 do with the outcome of
the election. ard IL VII cut both waTs.
THAT rule prohibited caEnrnon carriers from
delivering isguor 70 private residences. The
rule provided that common carriers must
have a casfrai depot and nlake deliveries
70 that place ara then tne purchaser was
forced - 70 10 this dCsot and sign fer thr
shlprnenr himself. II made usliaWf'1i
fsrs hirn e sst AZ asenr p reesiPe Tor me
shlpmenf
sss-rhe apponanfs OF prohibition say the re-
peal III this rule s an acknowledgment Of
the Weakness Of the cause Of the prohibi-
raouists ana &c their insineerity. For tnev
alleEs that the Drshibirouists are willing
that every boarding house. every home
every cellar ana everv dive may ship in
intnxicanfs without hindrance tIst SC il
car be said prohibition has won a victory
in Lincoln
On the ether hand the prohibitionists say
they are MOI IN favor Of prohibition but
are simply opposed 70 the saloon They do
not object. they say. 20 any person shipping
IN usuor 20 his hsEne and using K 20 suis
hiu,seif. and that their fight Il solely
against the public saloon
FIEhe for RuIes.
tn answer 10 this statement from the pro-
hlhieiouists. she opponents say that II the
town goes dry more stringent rules VIII be
made. and that the repeal of Rule u was
simply a fornl % deception As evidence Of
this they point to the enactment u Rule Z
when the saloous we're voted eur before.
They ancEe the shipment OF beer from
HavelDcS could have been stopped without
prohi biting persons from sniBDing in their
ineoxieamus by express.
Tha Excise board has given L. 0ut that
II the own goes wet the delivery 0f beer %
the homes ls g0ing To come under the ban.
ard that al drinking must be done in the
sal0ons.
And 50 ths haftis RACES. Charges and
eountar-charEes are =zata hourly and the
cfty is torn up with dizssnsion and strife
seldom beard q Before
Tha prohIbtnonists closed their camps ign
tontgnt with q big meeting at the Audi
t1rthm. following large gathering there
IN the afternoon Miss Sena Hartzel Wa
lace Of Eansas City. Kan. and John Len
non Iabcr man. were Tile Imported speak
ers During the afternoon a boys mass
meeting was held Al which Prof C0ndra q
the seass university rresided-
Teesdav vii be a big day at the state
house. Ths Normal board wiz meet n the
afternoon a. 9 eioek. and probably select
a Successor r. Principal CraStree Of the
Peru Normal as well as select heads for
the Nurnals az wayne and Chadr0n- And
Il Is possible there wtl be other bushes
Transacted % some imDorrance.
II the rovcrnors office the execuave
wll hear c.inress against the mayor ard
pofira luasa 81 Nvrnore and she county at
torney of Gage esunty fer failure 70 prop-
eriv enforce the inE relating 90 the sale
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