St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-19
IN THE THIRD WARD.
The Franchise Endorsed and Aid.
Gilman Gets a Scoring.

The men of the Third ward met at
Hunts hall last evening to discuss the
Anderson & Douglas franchise. There
was large attendance, and the meeting
was an animated Endorsement from the
der to the adjournment. J. NJ. Griffith
was chosen chairman and W. G. Nye
secretary. Mr.. Nye at once presented
the following resolutions, which he had
prepared for the occasion:
Whereas, Anderson, Douglas & Co. have
asked for the privilege of constructing and
operating system of cable and electric street
railway lines in this city; and,
Whereas We are of the opinion that the
granting of the privilege asked for would be
for the best interests of the whole city, and
especially of the Third ward of said city;
therefore.
Resolved, That we hereby earnestly request
ward in the city council to support the Or
dinance now before that body granting the
privilege asked for by Anderson & Douglas,
believing that such support would be in con-
best interests Of their constituents
Resolved, further, That while we favor
prudent and wise restrictions respecting the
extent and character of such franchise, we
do most enphatlcally oppose unnecessary
limitations thereof that are burdensOme and
directly tend to lessen its value and discour-
age if not destroy the enterprise.
Resolved, That copy of these resolutions
Eighth ward.
B. S. Pratt, on being called on, an
nOunced that he was friend of Thomas
Lowry, but that he had long lamented
the fact that there was no car line in
the Third ward. He didn't know what
men could be thinking of not to jump at
the chance to accept such proposition
as Anderson IL Douglas offered. He
held that common sense said there was
no constitution in a free country that
permitted the men of one generation
giving an exclusive franchise that would
injure those of the next. He spoke also
on the old question of Mr.. Lowry's hav-
ing only a franchise on horse
He closed by saying: 1.-THE city
council have a right to grant this
franchise, and if they don't do it they
had better move out of the Third
ward.''
Byron Sutherland was called on for a
speech, and Initiated his remarks by
saying that he had heard that some of
the North side councilmen would oppose
the granting of the franchise. 81 did
not think that it was possible" he said.
''that any one outside of the circle of
MI. LOWry'S employees could oppose the
franchise" He showed how the COM
petition between the two lines would
give the city boom. If, as some
claimed, Tom Lowry owned the city
and the aldermen, he thought it time
that the people were finding it out. He
held it to be the duty of the aldermen to
act in accordance with the will of the
people who elected them. In closing,
he said: IL say that every alderman
who votes against that franchise is
traitorous to his constituency and
recreant to his Duty
Secretary Nye at this point thought it
would be well to read the following let
ter, which Aid. Gilman had sentin:
To my Constituents of the Third Ward
Gentlemen: 1 regret to announce to you
that have to attend an important commit
tie meeting tonight which will prevent me
from being present at your meeting called
for tonight to discuss the matter in regard to
the Anderson & Douglas franchise; WILL
however, explain to my constituents, SO that
may not be misunderstood, the reason tina
oppose said franchise. Last fall
I adopted and was elected on the
municipal reform platform, which
opposes the granting Of any franchise to pri-