The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-10-25
AN OPEN LETTER.
Hon Alexander Moore,


and cuts loose therefrom on that account
as seems to be your case as manifested in
your proclamation of selfnomination for
the important office of member of the leg
islature, in which you declare:
81 have decided not to seek a nomina-
ton from any convention, for the reason
that conventions are nowadays oftener
the expression of politicians having per-
sonal interests than of the people,
it is pertinent and reasonable that such
candidate be requested to publicly reply
to such enquiries as shall satisfy the vot-
ers to whom he appeals PREDICTION, that
his claims to such superiority are well
grounded. AS one of your constituents
who has twice given you active support
when you were candidate for the legis-
lature, l desire to ask for information
relative to certain of your official and
personal acts upon questions of vital inn
portance to myself, my fellow taxpayers
and voters in this district and the state
of Minnesota at large; and l doubt not
that the same courtesy will be extended
you by the HERALD in reply that has
been given me in this open letter Of en-
quiry; and l can assure you that such re-
ply will be awaited by the entire district
with that interest which always attach
es to questions affecting ones o"u vel
fare.
FRsT.-Did you, Or did you not vote
aye OH the so-callcd temperance Or pro
hibition bill of the session Of 1881, which
excited so much interest during that ses-
sion; and have your views upoa that
question changed very materially since
that time?
SEcoND.-Did you, Or did you not vote
to practically check and defeat the invcs-
tigation into the so-callel fraudulent
state-prison labor contract, at the time
in the proceedings where the special com
mittee attempted to enforce its authority
by appealing to the house for power to
arrest an important witness who de-
clined to testify? There we're nineteen
votes cast against granting the power to
arrest this witness for contempt-was
yours one of them2
THIRD--Relative to the passage of the
Little Falls and Dakota railroad bill,
did you enter into specific agreement
with the president OF the St. Paul, Min
nea polls and Manitoba road that you
w uld not attempt to get the bill
through the senate providing he would
withdraw his opposition to its passing
the house, in order that you might have
the credit of pushing it there, and after
he had left the city did you disregard
that agreement and threaten the Henre-
pin deleg alton in the senate that you
would defeat the state university appro-
priation bill if they did not give you
votes enough to pass the Little Falls and
Dakota bill? Was it not by this means
that your bill passed the senate? If so,
do you think, as a member of the house
again, your district could expec to meet
with anything but active opposition
fro m the friends of the Manitoba rail
road, and also from the entire Hennepin
delegation, and friends of the University?
FoURTH.-Did you, Or did you not vote
to indefinitely postpone senate File 251,
relating to lowering the legal rate of in
terest and imposing penalties for usury:
FIFTH.-During the extra session of
1881, did you, or did you not vote to i II
definitely postpone House File 80, which
provided for the taxation of railroad
lands?
SIxTH.-Prior to your reelection did
yon not specifically pledge yourself to
several persons to vote for William VIM
dom for the United States senate and
then cast your vote for {. F. Kindred,
who had just been most emphatically re
pudiated at the polls by an overwhelm-
ing adverse majority for the lesser office
of member of the house of representa-
tlves? And in recognition of such vote
did not Mr.. Kindred present you with
gold-hended cane? Do you believe you
could have been elected then if your con-
stitueits could have foreseen your action
in this matter? H..
SEFENTH.-Were you not one of TWEEN
ty-one members who voted against the
passage of House File s, which provided
for the taxation of certain railroad lands?
EIGHTH:-Did younot record your vote
against the passage OF House File 16,
which provided for reducing the legal
rate OF interest and furnishing usury?
NNTH.-Did you not vote against a
joint resolution providing for forfeiture
to the state of certain swamp lands?
TENTH.-Did you not vote against in
definitely postponing House File No. IS,
a bill proposing a prohibitory amend
ment to the constitution; and do YOU
still entertain the same prohibition views?
In this connection let it be distinctly TN
derstood that approve of that vote, but
have heard you are now attempting to
explain it away to a portion of your con-
stituents on the ground that it was neces-
sary for you to SO vote in order to get
your Little Falls railroad bill passed,
whereas that bill had passed two years
prior to this vote.
ELEvENTH.-Did you, or did you not
vote to indefinitely postpone number of |
bills to regulate rates; providing against
unjust discrimination in railroad rates;
for decreased fares, etc? And |
when two such bills, House Files Nos. %
and 413, were taken up on test vote,
we're you not one OF about forty-fye
members who voted TOXIN them by in
definite postponement!
There are other acts to which ] should