Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-04-29
MAYOR AMEs RESPONDS.
He Proposes to Regulate Minneapolis
without the Aid of "Lesgue."

To Hon. ". g. King and Gen. Nettleton-
| GENTLEMEN: You address me this morning
| through the columns of the Pioneer Press and
| Tribune upon what purports to be an inter
view published in the Euening Journal the
day previous. Said interview is In substance,
| correct; but still, had known Twas being In
teryewed, my opinions would have been Civ.
en- in such decided language that there would
have been no guessing on your part as to
what was meant.
Now, gentlemen, you made the Issues in the
late local campaign. you told the people what
you wanted done and how You wanted them to
| do IT, you seti,p your "seven by nine' creed
| and demanded that everybody should come
| forward and embrace the faith; You poured out
your Walls of wrath: You then emptied a few
| barrels of oil on the mud hole where you
| thought cyclone had been produced by your
| awe inspiring utterances; you thsn assumed
the
GARD OF 7IETy
and reeorted to prayers which were in turn
followed by language Indicative Of excessive
suppressed profanity; in fact You had every.
thing your own way az far al appeals to vo-
tars were concerned, and now what was tne
results o, nothing much. to be sure. They
only Just s'sat down on you" and your die
tation; they repudiated you and your one Idea
creed, they distorted your eanctsmonious
countenances 30 that they have scarcely, as
vet, recovered even o resemblance OF their
former comliDess; they buried you beneath
an avalanche of public opinion go deep that
II was thought that the nostrils of first
class smelling committee would not be able
to discover the whereabouts Of The cadavers.
But. gentlemen, will not dwell upon dead
Issues further. 1t seems that you have in.
weighed few well meaning gentlemen into
forming "league," the expressed sentiments
Of which are
VAGUE AND UNMEANfre.
This league, backed by the Pioneer Press
ans Tribune, means, to those who annihilaied
You In the late contest, an effort to regain the
earthquaked portion OF your eand lot. 1t
means that the league proposes, under dis.
guiss, 10 assume the executive prerogatives
in St. Paul and Minneapolis. Mayor Rice may
act his pleasure in the matter as far as st.
Paul is concerned. But as was elected
mayor of Minneapolis by decided ma
jority over your ideas, I propose to be
the mayor of Minneapolis. Neither you
nor the newspapers which you repre-
administration. The ''lesgue" tried to steal
my thunder by announcing that it proposed
to prosecute relentless war against saloon
keepers who shall sell liquor to minors and
habitual druukards. Instructed the whole
police force of the city to inaugurate this war
at least week before the "league'. Was inau.
gurated. The iother" laws happen In this
case to be your particular ''nigger in the
fences
Without further preliminaries, but in sort
of informal way, hereby appoint you, the
aforesaid w. s. King and General Nettleton,
SMELLING COMMITTEE,
and you are hereby requested to nose around
into other peoples affairs, and as far as may
seem practicable devote as much time as you
can attending to their business. beg of you
not to let the fact that man became wealthy
in New York by attending 70 his own business
deter 5on from doing your whole duty IN
this important matter. ! only regret that
David Blakely is not here to serve as chair
man of this important committee the duties
OF which nature seems to have endowed him
for. But what is our great loss, 10 in this in
stance. Europe's great gain. Bill, you have
had vast experience.in lining your pockets
from the liquor traffic snd wheel of fortune"
pool selling and other gambling devices at the
fair grounds. and you are therefore pariicu.
larly fitted to smell out these things. You
may explain to the general how the "wheel of
fortune" was to have swindled greenhorps
out Of fifteen or twenty thousand dollars, of
which your "divie" was to have been three
Thousand; and how the cruel order OF Mayor
Rand interfered with your
MOE LITTLE SCHEME.
Yes, take bran new pack OF cards and show
the general everything. The fact that you
have reformed shall not weigh against you.
Then you may explain to him the difference
about the ''bead" Of good whisky, etc. Your
experience with the whisky booths at the fair.
and your former practice at the bar came
pretty near making You an expert in the
"booze " business. Now, Bill, with the best
and purest motives, beseech you to 60 slow.
The people have asked me to be mayor this
term. and if you will, in your we'll known
modest way, keep your peculiar reformed ideas
before them, you will stand good chance to
be the next mayor. In fact, there are now
whisperings In remote and secluded localities
that since you have reformed. you are possible
"white horse" for congress. We are all your
fri nds, and when we see You trying to reform
and TO do right, We feel like lending you a
helping hand.
AS FOR GENERAL NErrLEroN,
as the other member OF the smelling room com.
mittee, can say but little, as he is compare.
lively new conner. He stan IS out well as q
dictator. As commander OF public opinion
and politics, his generalship is Of the third
rate quality, bnt fully up to David BlakeIy's
for merit. He apparently absorbs fanatisal
ideas readily from the gone to seed gang of E.
formers in our midst, aud with fair advantage
he will soon become the peer of Messrs. Bill
Ktog, Scrap Iron Bill, Gso A. BracAelt, Chris.
TOPPER Cox (of sacred memory John De Lait.
tire, D. G. Bell, Richard Chute, ct al.
II you, gentlemen, are honest and really be-
lieve that the mayor needs your valuable {!)
aid in enforcing all the laws, why did you not
confer with HIM and see II you might rot be
mistaken about his needing your service? The
verdict of the people was that your services
we're not wanted. The law is to the effect
that no Work except that of necessity or char
ity shall be done on Sunday; and I have no
idea but what Ishall soon be asked by the
"league'' to use the whole police force to en-
force it equally against self constituted re.
formers as we'll as the deluded masses
Yours truly, A. A. AMEs.
Minneapolis, Mlnn., April 81. 1882.
Ohio Liquor Law Violations.