Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-06-01
HOME RUlEPLANk
IN PLATFORM IS
NACBETH'S plan
Custer County Senator
Would Have Democrats
Advocate City Units for
Local Option.

home rule plank in the Idaho
Democratic party platform is favored
by Senator Ravenel Macbeth. who has
been busy in north Idaho urging Demo-
Gratis there to vote for delegates to the
platform convention to be held in
Boise in June who will favor such a
plank in order that the cities of the
state may handle the liquor question
as they deem best for the interests of
their cities.
While Senator Macbeth was in Lew
aston the Lewiston Tribune had the
following to say concerning his views
on the home rule plank:
Senator Macbeth, who for many
sessions in the state senate has stood
for home rule for incorporated cities
on the liquor question, stated that he
had given much time and thought to
a solution of this much debated ques-
ton and that the more he saw of the
practical working of the present local
option law the more he was convinced
in favor of home rule. He called at
tenuon to the fact that in this county
the city of Lewiston stood practically
alone, as the surrounding territory
being on the reservation continually
voted dry and controlled the city of
Lewiston. which, in his opinion, was
most decidedly unjust that with home
rule the city OF Lewiston could man
age its own affairs. The result of the
operations of the present local option
law was continual strife and agitation,
and II the state should go for prohibi-
tion at the next session of the legisla-
ture the fight to repeal the law would
then commence; but under home rule
Lewiston and the other incorporated
towns in the state would naturally go
wet and the rural sections of the sew
eral counties would go dry, thus end
tng the liquor question; for those adj
vocating prohibition would vote the
rural sections dry and would recog-
nize the futility of attempting to vote
Hhe cities dry. Bannock county has
had a number of local option cleo
fions, resulting always in the victory
OF the drys, and Immediately after the
last election some of the members of
the commercial club of that town de-
string to ascertain the exact reasons
for the towns outside Of Pocatello yot-
ing dry, visited these towns and were
advised by the people residing there
that they did not object to Pocs tello
being wet, but most decidedly objected
20 saloons being placed in their COM
munities, and which in their opinion
would be the result under the present
law IL they should vote Bannock county
wet, but they said they had no objec-
ton to law which would permit Po-
catello to remain wet, provided the law
would permit them to keep saloons out
of their communities; and this would
be possible under q statute providing
Cor home rule for Incorporated cities.
organized efforts are being made to
Commit the state Democratic party to
this policy. as business men and other
substantial interests throughout the
state are earnestly seeking some such
relief and are pledging their fullest
support to any party that will give
that issue prominence"
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