Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-07-30
Nebraska
SHALLENBERGER GETS BUSY
Governor is Running Literary Bureau
from Executive Mansion.
SAVING A WET" LEGISLATURE
pDry" Democrats withdraw Filing.
and Leave the Field Open TO
Those Opposed TO County
Option,
SAVING A WET" LEGISLATURE

LINCOLN, July 29.-(Special.) 1.-The exec
utlve mansion has been turned into a po-
Htical headquarters for Governor Shallen-
berger, and no is having sent therefrom
every day quantities OF literature in his
own behalf Besides a stenographer. en-
ployed from down town, who reports at
$50 each morning, the stenographers from
the offices of the oil inspector and the fire
warden reported at the mansion today.
Arthur Mullen, the governors oil inspector
and legal adviser. devoted several hours to
political work at the mansion yesterday
and today.
The governor does not want a county
option legislature elected, and he is getting
busy urging the nomination OF candidates.
who are opposed to county option, and 1t
is reported that he is anxious to have in
dependent candidates put in the field where
all the candidates are pledged to county
option.
During the day Rod Smith, candidate
for state senator In the district comprising
Buffalo and Sherman counties, asked the
secretary OF state 10 withdraw his name.
This leaves Senator Bodlnson. democrat,
without opposition. Rev. Mr. Ketchem,
senator from Thayer and jefferson coun-
ties. has withdrawn from the race, leaving
Yves Pickens wet" candidate, without
opposition In his own party.
MetcaIfe's Suppressed Plank.
The efforts OF the Shallenberger-H Hitchcock
combination to place the blame for the
suppression of the Metcalfe liquor plank on
the shoulders OF Mr.. Bryan is resented by
friends of the peerless leader. Mr. Bryan
made himself clear on that resolution at
Grand Island.
ut was impossible for me to report Mr..
Metcalfe's plank" said Mr.. Bryan, "for 1
had my own plank endorsing county option
20 report back az a minority platform. 1
Mould not bring in one plank for county
I optioiI and at the. same time bring in a
second one which provided for compro-
mise. The committee knew the position in
which l was placed"
The fact that DR.. Babcock, who was to
have received and introduced the Metcalfe
plank, said he had never heard of It, still
leaves a difference of opinion as to whether
the matter was brought up at the COM
mittee meeting. Incidentally many demo-
Gratis down here are Of the opinion that
the resolution was suppressed more In the
interest Of Mr.. Hitchcock than in the in
terest OF the governor, for he practically
stands on that Metcalfe platform now. He
agreed to sign the county option bill.
Suit Not Yet Filled.
Attorney General Thompson has not yet
filed that custer suit against the repub-
1ican members of the Omaha Board of Fire
and Police Commissioners which he was
instructed TO do by the governor. Mr..
Thompson is looking into the complaint
filed with him. but before he goes into
ooGrt he will ask Mr.. Karbach to. swear to
Ehe things he set out in the complaint
Brief In stock Yards Case.
Frank Ransom attorney for the Stock
Yards company. filed brief with the State
Railway commission today in support of
his application for permission to Increase
rates. The attorney sets out that the plainl
tiff has proven that the valuation OF the
stock yards is $2,5 $1,000, and that the
charges they desire to make are just and
reasonable compared with the charges
made for the same service by the railroad
companies in switching. The brief sets out
the valuation of the real estate as fol-
lows: Estimated by Harry d. Reed. former
county assessor, $4,000 an acre, or 81. $50, OOO
w. II. Shriver county assessor, the same
II. ]. orSeill, s27.5OO an acre; Mr.. Griffin
of the Union Pacific land department, $780,.
600 an acre. or si,5OO,OOO. and Engineer
Rohlbough, $1.27S,00O w. @. Ure estimated
the value at 1880 an acre. The brief set.
out that when Mr.. IRE was a member OF
the Board of County Commissioners o.
Douglas county the valuation for taxation
purposes was fixed at S17.7H an acre