Omaha daily bee., 1915-08-25
STATE SHOULD SETTLE FIRST
Bryan Believes National Prohibit
ton Should Not Be an Issue
in Year 1915.
MUST FIGHT IT OUT LOCALLY
tFrom a staff Correspondent

interview here today. IL snOulu not pe
a national issue until enough states have
adopted II individually to warrant be
lief that three-fourths OF them would
ratify a constitutional amendment
The prohibition fight today should be
made in states. Otherwise the cause Of
national prohibition would he endangered
as well as injury result to several eco
nomic reforms already secured.
War Horses Headquarters.
Buyers of horses for the allies are ne
gotiating for tract of land near Des
Moines. where horses will be assembled
preparatory to shipping them for ex-
port. An option has been secured on a
tract Of 400 acres OF unimproved land
near Des Moines, and other locations are
being considered for keeping the horses.
A. r. Cunard. representing the British
government has been in Des Moines re-
Gently looking after the arrangements.
ST. Louis has heretofore been one of the
important shipping points. The horses
were exported via New Orleans. It may
be that an eastern route will be selected
for shipping If Des Moines is determined
on as a center for the buyers. The repre-
sentatives of the allies are buying horses
and mules all through this part of the
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adjoining states has more horses than
any other part of the country. Iowa,
however, is a state of heavy horses, and
it is the lighter horses which are in de-
mand. The buying OF horses for war
purposes is cleaning up the lighter grades
, of horses through here.
Georgian on Frank Case.
Senator Joseph G.. Camp of Atlanta,
Ga, who Is in Iowa on the chautsuqus
lecture platform, pointed out some facts
, in the Frank case In an interview re-
Gently not heretofore published. He
stated that Governor Slaton was a men,
her of the law firm OF Rosser, Slaton
and Phillips, and this firm was counsel
for Frank from the very beginning of his
trouble. He said also that there were
four members OF the Jewish race on the
jury which convicted Frank, which would
indicate that race prejudice did not az
feet the case. He said the people OF
Georgia were especially indignant over
the attempt of people all over the coun-
try to secure reprieve for Frank and
thus render without effect the verdict
of the Georgia courts, which had at the
time been passed upon by the highest
courts of the United States. He said
Governor Slaton's term of office ex-
pired two weeks after he exercised his
power to commute Franks sentence, and
many Georgians believed he could have
left that matter to be settled by his sue
cessor.
Election Costs shown.
Statistics have been comp lied by A. J.
Small, state law librarian, showing the
cost of the election and primaries in the
counties of Iowa for the years 1910. 1912
and 1914 The information is being pub
| lished IN the official red book, gotten
out by the secretary of state. The av-
erage county spends 5000 to 50, 500 in the
primary election. Some OF the counties,
which have the cities, spend much more
than this. Polk county spends the most,
the cost being over slSUOO for the pri-
mary and the election in 1914. OF this
amount, 5000 was spent on the primary
and 5000 on the election. Scott county
spent the next largest sum, the election
and primary costing STATES. Woodbury.
spent IS, 666.51. Hancock county spent only
1850, being the smallest amount re-
ported from any county Worth county
spent S1,6OO; Emmett, 1890; Audubon, ST.
77.46, and Dickinson, $1,000
No Franchise Yet.
The Des Moines City Railway company
has not yet secured a franchise for
operating its cars in the city, although
the time for doing so as granted by the
supreme court, expired Saturday. A
committee of business men from the
Chamber of Commerce and the Greater
Des Moines committee is still negotiating
with the city council with reference to
the franchise. The company has no fran
chise or mo other legal right to the
streets as matters now stand.
Many Get Certificates.
In the teachers examinations conducted
in July, 1850 wrote for state certificates
and only 4S9 failed to pass the examina-
ton. These were the first examination
under the law which requires teachers
to have training in agriculture. manual
training or domestic science. All were
required to write an examination in ag-
riculture and they could make a choice
between taking the examination in do
nestle science or manual training OF
those who took the examination, 1,eA
wrote the domestic science examination
and 241 the manual training
Auto Dealers 10 Meet.
More than 200 dealers are expected to
attend the convention of the Iowa Retail
Auto Dealers association to be held here
August 81 to September /. during the
state fair. While the organization is COM
paratively young. it already has more
than 700 members, according to s. l.
Seeman, secretary. The dealers will dis
cuss the question of asking the next
legislature TO pass law which will give
garage man lien on an automobile
I'M
Another important matter which the
dealers will discuss is that OF model
changes by the factories in tho middle OF
the year. This demoralizes trade, the
dealers say, Dealers want models Of all
factories changed at approximately the
same time and before the beginning OF
the sailing