St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-02
Parties That Are Fishing in
the Vicinity Of the Post
al Game.
A Fight Over the Liquor
Question in the James,
town District.
Judge Rose Would Make q
Popular Senator From the
North.
Special to the Globe.

JAMESTOWN, OAK. March IA good
deal of talk has been going on here in a
quiet way during the last week, over
the question whether any change is
likely to be made by the new admins
tration in the management of the local
postoffice. MI. Klaus, the present in
cumbent, has still fifteen months to
serve before his commission expires,
and the general sentiment among the
business men is, that he has made a
good official and should be allowed to
serve out his term. He is one of the
heaviest property holders in the city,
and no reason could be given for his
removal, except his staunch Democracy.
In view of the strong professions of at
tachment to the principles of civil serv-
ice reform expressed by Gen. Harrison
during the campaign, it does not seem
likely that he would remove an officer
who has discharged the duties of his Of
flee so well as Mr.. Klaus for purely po-
litical reasons.
Most Of the talking appears to have
been started by person by the name
of J.-W. Goodrich, who made strong
canvass for the Office when Cleveland
first came into power, but without sue
cess. This gentleman is one of the
principal stockholders in the James
town Capital, and while there may be
no connection between the circum-
stances, it is curious coincidence that
very soon
AFTER HIS FAILURE
to secure the postofiice. the Capital be-
gan course of virulent abuse of Gov.
Church. AS the claims of these gen.
tlemen were still ignored, this fusilade
has been kept up ever since. although
the paper still continued at every OPP
portunity to loudly proclaim the Den
ocracy of the proprietors. At the be-
ginning of the campaign this fall the
Democratic central committee refused
to accede to the demands of the paper,
it demanding the whole amount of the
campaign fund as the price of it's sup
port, and campaign sheet was started
which, aided by the sterling good quail
ity of the nominees, enabled the party
to carry the county by a good majority.
Seeing that its treachery could never
be condoned, ana that it could neither
'rule nor ruin" the Democratic party,
the prOprietors of the Capital dropped
the mask on the day before election,
and announced their conversion to the
principles" of Republicanism. Since
then the sheet has been loudly advocat-
ing the doctrine that 'to the victors be-
long the SpOils, and some of the Demo-
Gratis in town have expressed the hope
that the proprietors of the sheet would
be rewarded for their well-timed
apostacy with some office, however
small, in order to keep them in the Re-
publican party. 49,
jamestown over the probable result of
the liquor legislation now before the
house. The city voted last fall
$3.50 FOR HIGH LICENSE.
by large majority, and the more con-
Servatlve of the temperance voters are
of opinion that it is much better suited
to our present needs than prohibition
either under local option or state law.
They recognize that public sentiment is
not yet sufficiently advanced to support
the enforcement of penalties necessary
to totally suppress the sale of liquor,
and that if liquor is to be sold at all it
had better be under the restrictions and
regulations of high license law, than
under so-cailed prohibitOry law which
would not prohibit. They recognize
us, not theory" and they believe that
the passage of a prohibitory law at this
time would do the cause far more harm
than good, through the contempt which
an unavoidable law would be sure to
cause for all temperance legislation.
Nevertheless the fanatical wing of
the temperance party are preparing to
make lively campaign this summer,
and the frs gun was fired this weekly
Miss Barker, the president of the terri
torial w. c. L. o., who delivered all adj
dress on the subject TO a crowded audi
ence at the court house. Mrs. Barker
is all entertaining speaker and handled
her subject to the best advantage, high
license. of course, being held up to
obloQuy as equivalent to
RECEIVING STOLEN GOODS.
The speaker was opposed to high Ii
cenSe because it welded out the low
dives and tended to make saloons re-
spectacle; it did not reduce the amount
of liquor sold, and if it did she would
oppose it just the same. With truly
feminine inconsistency, Mrs. Barker
New York that their high license was
only $3.50, she replied that Dakota was
far in advance of them, as we required
$1,000. Coming right on the heels of
her abuse of high license and all its adj
vOcateS, this encomium of high license
in Dakota was charmingIy inconsistent.
Speaking of personal liberty, the lee
tUrer made good point by saying that
"She had right to gestlculate on that
platform as much as she liked, but if
she flung her hand into the chairman's
face her personal liberty ended where
his nose began" In this connection it
may be noted that at the last election
the Prohibition candidate for congress
received four votes IN this county.
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