Show I I 1 ANTIPROHIBITION Iowa Republicans are Beginning to Hedge SHALL IOWA HAVE LOCAL OPTION The Democrats are In Favor of It The Reasons Rea-sons they Ghe Temperance Crusaders Cru-saders In Missouri DES MOINES la April 2The antipro hibition movement within tho Republican party culminated in a state conference today to-day lUG delegates being present representing repre-senting several thousand Republicans Chairman Collins of Keokuk said he had been a lifelong prohibitionist and done all in his power to enforce the law in his city but had failed faied Other speeches were in a similar vein ExGovernor Kirkwood sent a letter in which among other things he said Personally I favor local Personaly option and high license with stringent regulations regula-tions but some of our prohibition friends say if such a change is made the Republican can party will never carry an election in Iowa again That looks to me very much like bulldozing and the Republicans never took kindly to that mode of argument This policy has been pursued for some years by extreme prohibitionists in Republican Renublcan states that have not adopted prohibition and now it is threatened here I has not won in the past and r think itwill not in the future wi Hon O B Cummins of Des Moines presented the report of the committee on resolutions which was received with great enthusiasm The resolutions declare un cwni tMnrr nllpfrinnpA tn the nrinninloc nf thc Republican party as en ncl tediI the Chicago platform and continue Wo recognize the liquor traffic as one which requires regulation but insist that the object of such regulation snould be to minimize imtemperanco and mitigate its evils Experience in this a well as in other states has conclusively shown that general prohibition genera prohibiton operating upon a communities without respect to hubit1 conditions circumstances or desires de-sires is not adapted either to suppressing intemperance or promoting morals and therefore the experiment should be aban doned and the law so modified that those communities which desire a change shall have the right to determine for themselves whether intoxicating liquors shall be sold as beverages within their limits We I are unalterably opposed to unaltrably t any at tempt t introduce into the at tution a doctrine of state prohibi tion The organic law of the state ought not t be encumbered with police regulations of that character Political I organization has no just right to bring into its declaration principles or new doctrine unless it bo upon which substantially all I al members agree A large number of the Republicans of Iowa are and always have I been opposed to general prohibition and if the Republican party adheres to the present pres-ent position upon this question it is mani lest that by such adherence it t nd to exclude from membership a those who believe the policy fatal to the best interest of the state Inasmuch as I members are not agreed upon the subject there i obviously but one course which the party can honorably pursue and it is to rigorously exclude from the party plat forms every reference to it leaving each Republican member of the legislature full liberty t act with respect toit as his ful ment may direct The experiment of gen oral prohibition has been faithfully faithfuly tried and in many portions of the state it has lamentably failed faied The Republican party can not justify further support as a party measure These members of the party holding our views cannot with favor to tVir mcf lvfia Innfrrn lend their nl1 f A ITTITI t upon many communities all the evils of unlicensed unrestricted and unregulated liquor selling For these lquor selng reasons and in the interest of intrest morality business and social order we ask the general assembly now in session to so amend the prohibi tory liquor law as to give to communities that so desire to act power subject to a minimum license to be fixed by the legis lature l t regulate the sale of intoxicating l iquors through the medium of high license lcense And we insist on such change in the plat form of the Republican party tle plat enable us to stand honestly upon it wi assist in restoring the party to complete I supremacy Local Option In Iowa DES MOINES April 2The prohibition question came up in the lower house of the egislature this afternoon The Democratic caucus license bill was considered Rich man Democrat said in spite of the strin ency of the laws it was plainly to be seen that in some local cities the prohibitory l aw was openly violated while in others it was observed The Democrats wanted to remedy this condition of affairs and in i localities where prohibition is un popular they wanted the liquor traffic regulated Accordingly they had prepared a bill to fit the bi ft whole case a bill that would give localities that wanted bi hibition a chance todo so I provided for settling the matter of license or no license by popular vote Licenses will be granted only by the district court and then only to proper persons Any one could make a remonstrance against a license and if the remonstrance was considered sufficient a license would be refused the license fee is fixed at a minimum of 500 lcense that amount is to go to the county in every case while the municipality could exact as much more as it saw fit and one obtaining a license had to file a 5000 bond for tho full observance of the laws persons violating the law could bo punished by fine punisled fne and imprisonment and anyone convicted twice should forfeit all right tQ obtain a license cense again druggists could keep and properly use liquors under permits Any person not holding a license and convicted of selling liquor could be punished by a fine of not less than S100 After a vigorous debate of four hours the matter went over The Crusaders in Missouri KANSAS CITY April 2A Farmington Mo dispatch This dlspath says morning the crusaders cru-saders headed by Mrs Williams and Mrs Foster opened the campaign Armed with hammers they stopped Thompsons beer wagon and smashed six barrels emptying the beer into tho street The women then took possession of tho wagon and started for Lassusge four miles south where a car load of beer belonging to the Klaus meat Brewery company was sidetracked They intended to destroy all of it The saloons near hero are expecting a visi from tho crusaders |