Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-05-09
WILL GO TO BURLINGTON CON.
vENTioN AND WhooP IT UP
FOR NEsRAskAN.
SAY PEERLESS ONE HAS
NOT REFUSED TO RUN
Bryan Forces May Prevent instruction
Of Delegates Al. Large for Any One
Prison Sensations Fads-stats Board
Of Parole Up Against Difficult Prob.
Ism-Last Word on vassetomy Law.
Special to Times-Republican.

Des Moines. May o. The Bryan
league" is active and is going to Bur-
lington next week to whoop it up for
| the Nebraska man. 1t is composed
mostly of those who have been shouting
for Champ Clark but who are beginning
| to see that more positive candidate
is needed because Of the now almost
certainty that either Roosevelt or the
Roosevelt kind of a man is to be NOM
mated for president by the republicans
H. G.. Cue, secretary of the league,
is out in brief address to his fellow
democrats. in which he raises a que's-
ton about whether or not w. j. Bryan
would accept a nomination II rendered
him. He says the idea that Bryan
would refuse has been "cunningly and
persistently kept before the people by
the republican papers and by the demo-
cratic politicians who are booming
other men for the nomination.. he
adds:
"Altho he has wisely refused to enter
a contest for the nomination, our great
leader has never refused and Will not
then refuse, if we again insist that ne
again lead us against the enemies OF
the people. On the eve Of~the great
victory for true democracy and for the
commo. people shall we divide ana
weaken our forces and discourage new
recruits by dismissing the great leader
who was the saviour of our party, ana
promote to be commander in chle1,
even the best Of his lieutenants? we
all saw no. The only ones VINO are
against Mr. Bryan are the politicians
and the only ones who are for him are
the people, and the voice of the people
should decide We hereby challenge
the politicians who are manufacturing
sentiment for various candidates u
name a county in Iowa where Mr. BY
an is not the first choice of IS per cent
of the democrats"
It is understood that the Bryan
league is going to show up at Burning
ton strongly organized and that It's IN
fluence will at least be sufhclent 10
prevent any instructions OF the -FOUR
delegates at large.
The ease with which prison sensa-
tons fade away was shown to the
board of control recently. The Doaro
received a resolution transmitted oy
the clerk of the city council OF Fort
Madison, which resolution was passed
by the council,s condemning the board
OF control or the warden Tor hiesai
use of prison labor and protesting
against use of such labor in competl-
ton with free labor The matter was
also given some newspaper publicity
at the time. The board called upon
Warden Sanders for an explanation
and he was unable to report what 1t
referred to- Then the board wrote to
the city clerk stating that the board
would gladly act If it was informed OF
anything wrong and asking for a more
specific statement of the trouble. NO
answer has ever been received. 1t is
supposed that the resolution was part
of some municipal political play to
help somebody get office and having
done its duty was forgotten.
The court decision to the effect
that one man may not hold the office
Of mayor and that of justice of the
peace in Iowa at the same time is
quite victory for -Nels j. Lee who re-
Gently resigned as special counsel for
the attorney general. He handled this
case from the start. He rendered a
decision when the matter first came to
his attention in conformity with the
decision of the supreme court and de-
clared that the two offices were in
compatible. The mayor Of Forest City
refused to accept this as final, and the
county attorney went into court to
have a test made. The lower court
ruled that Lee was dead wrong in the
matter and the man with two offices
held on. But the last laugh Is best and
now the supreme court says 1t will not
do to have these offices accumulated
in the hands of one man. The law
contemplates that in cities and towns
there shall be three courts of concur
rent Jurisdiction and when one man
gobbles up two it defeats the intent Of
the law. Mr.. Lees position Is fully
sustained.
After the bringing Of the test suit
in Winnebago county it was found
there were quite number of similar
cases in the state where mayors had
been elected justice of the peace. In
all cases they will have to give up the
office to which they were first elected.
The state board Of parole has come
up against the most difficult and DELI
cate problem in its history and the
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