Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-08
A BIG WOODBRIDGE"

Il Rdcy IRtercielc With HIS Honor the
Mayor, Respecting the Manner IN WhicE,
the PorI; System scas Carried oar the
ScItensers to be Financially Benefited Gy
the MeG8are-Hosc a LoUc Liquor License
Compact Wds Entered Into and HOtc a
High License Ordinance Nay Result.
Last evening a GLOBE reporter cornered
Mayor Ames and succeeded in drawing
him out upon the liquor license and the
park questions. The interview will be
found particularly interesting just at this
stage of affairs, and it is as follows:
Mayor Ames-The friends of the park
scheme seeing the hoplessness of their
cause, just before election, entered into a
combination with politicians among the
liquor dealers of Minneapolis, whereby
the latter were to, and did, receive moneys
for the purpose of carrying the scheme at
the polls. Four of the Republican
candidates for aldermen were made par
ties to this compact, the conditions being,
that if the liquor dealers would vote and
use their influence toward their election,
and in favor of the park system scheme,
they, the candidates, would vote
for fixing low license
for the sale of liquors during the ensuing
year, at the meeting OF. the council when
the measure should bstbrought up.
The conditions of this compact were
religiously adhered to by the liquor dealers,
but the elected aldermen find themselves
in sad predicament, as their party organs
and the leaders of the Republican party
are now pledged for high license. To ex-
tricate themselves from this dilemma
these aldermen have concluded to go with
their party for high license on
the superstition that will
veto any such measure. They
also agree that in case do veto the pro-
posed high license ordinance, they (the
aldermen referred to- will make no at
tempt to get the measure passed over such
veto.
But wish to add that this system of
swapping jack knives out of other peoples
pockets may possibly have ludicrous
termination.
The parties, to me well known, who fur
nished large sums of money to carry the
park scheme on election day, have perfec-
ted their syndicate, appointed their pur-
chasing agents, and from present indica-
tons the question as to where the parks
will be located and how much they will cost
will probably be settled long before the
dear people" will know anything about it.
The sudden appearance of mushroom
capitalists in our midst and their pur-
chases of certain tracts of land
and adjacent property, fully indicate
the working of the scheme. If Bill King
and the other "reformers," who engineered
the carrying of the scheme at the election,
desire that the people should know how it
was done, now stand ready to give the
names of the liquor dealers and thugs
who were paid their prices for influencing
men of their classes to work and vote for
the measure.
The day following election, the park
syndicate, to whom have referred, met in
convention at "Reformer" Nettleton's
house, and perhaps, at some time in the
near future, shall make
public some of the peculiar
arrangements there entered into. If there
are any more EUeaing Journal "mud
holes'' and "eyesores" filled with manure
and filth, which are to be made the "breath-
ing places for our wives and children" let
them be trotted out, for apparently the
highest market prices will be paid for
them.