St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-29
TOPICS TALKED ABOUT.
Prohibition IF, when our fall
election is held, there
in Dakota. are any voters outside

Prohibition IF, when our fall
election is held, there
in Dakota. are any voters outside
the pepitentiary, the
Democrats will probably elect their
ticket" Thus spoke Martin Ryan, of
Fargo, n. D., as he stretched himself on
the lounge in his room at the Palmer
house, says the Chicago Post, and hung
his head down over the back to permit
the cool breeze from the window to
strike him full in the face and glide
down under his shirt. Mr.. Ryan is the
eX-chairman of the Democratic state
central committee of North Dakota, and
is here as one of the worlds fair COM
miSsiOners. He is a man of great force
of character, of sturdy appearance, and
speaks slowly and impreSSively.
my reason for limiting that the peni-
Tertiary may be so filled is that so strict
are the prohibition laws that if man
give guest at dinner, and in his own
house, glass of beer or wine the act is
penitentiary offense. And there are
other clauses equally severe. The act
will go into force July l, and as two
successive legislatures are required to
vote favorably on the question of resub-
mission of the prohibition clause in the
constitution. North Dakota may be said
to be doomed for five years at the least.
Now you know that nearly every saloon
keeper and farmer has heretofore been
with the Republican party, which. in
consequence, has enjoyed majority of
$1,000 in total vote of $4,000. In other
words. the Republican party has
two-thirds of the vote of the
state. 1t is entirely responsible for
the passage of the prohibitory laws,
and the saloon interest and those men,
berS of liberal minds will not support
the party. And as the Farmers ALI
ances are out strong against the McKln-
ley bill, they will coalesce with the
Democrats. So say, If there are any
voters outside the penitentiary next
fall, the Democratic ticket is very likely
to be successful
s'How about the lottery company
electing a majority in the legislature?'
1.-The lottery scheme is a Republican
measure; that is, it was favored entirely
by part of the Republican party. The
other part doesn't want to and neither
do the Democrats. A split among the
ton should be submitted to the people
it would unquestionably be defeated,
particularly this year when the crops
are so promising and everybody feeling
good. But if the lottery company put
million, yes, five hundred thousand
dollars, into the field, why, it would
turn the whole state upside down.
Whether it will do so can't tell. we
hear nothing about it in Dakota, and If
any electioneering is being done by the
lottery people it is on the quiet"
Hauser's Sill | had chat on the
subject of silver with
yer Views. ex-Gov. S. L. Hauser,
of Montana, which was
full of significance. The governor is
sturdy Democrat, whose opinions are
always freely expressed, and he has
large silver producing properties. He
had just come from Washington, and
this was the tenor of his talk: "Ihe
real friends of silver Go not want it to
be tossed about like a political foot
ball. The silver question is too grave
and important to the country to be
handled in that manner. l believe in
free coinage. l would like to see it. l
believe it would be good thing for the
country. But | would be satisfied to
see coinage bill passed, say 4,5O0,0OQ
ounces per month, legal tender, and
think this is the middle ground on
which diverse opinions can be recon-
clled. If it works ill. the law can be re-
pealed. Ii it works well, it will lead up
to free coinage. l believe it will work
well, but others believe contrary. We
can only tell by testing it. But, above
all things, political football playing