The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-06
MAY END IN HIGHLICENSE
TaB ATTITUDE OF THE LIQUOR
MEN TOWARD TIE MAYOR.

The Liquor Dealers association Meet
ing-Msyor McConough Reiterates
His Position on the Endorsement of
the Sunday Law-What Prominent
Members Of the Council Say-Alder.
man Carson Stands by the Mayor,
Doesn't Like the Methods of the Pc
lice.
The liquor dealers mass meeting, which
will be held Tuesday night in the Odd Fell
lows hall to protest against the methods
adopted by Mayor McDonough to enforce
the Sunday law, is causing considerable
gossip on the streets. Those not In SYM
PATTY with the liquor trade think the meet.
ing will be most impolitic move on the
part of the saloonkeepers, and that 81 will
tend TO cause an agitation for higher license
and further restriction against the traffic.
The saloonkespers, on the other hand, think
that an expression of disapproval will have
good effect.
There seems TO be little misunderstand-
ing among the saloonkeepers themselves
about the mass meeting. The minutes of
the meeting of the night before last stated.
it is claimed, that the liquor dealers and
their friends were to be invited to attend,
but some of the prominent members hold
that il is to be strictly liquor dealers
meeting, and none but members of the asso-
citation can attend, while others say that
anybody in sympathy With the movement
will be welcome.
MAYOR m'DoNoUGH TALKS.
Mayor McDonough was asked yesterday
what he thought of the mass nesting.
"What do the liquor dealers wait, any
way" he asked. IF it is to DO given
they might as well understand. once
for all, that they won't be allowed TO break
the law, and II they disregard it they will
most certainly be caught and punished. l
am not asking impossible things Of the
saloonkeepers All ask them to do is TO
keep their saloons closed on Sunday. All
their mass meetings and the public express
sions of their opinions they may care to
give will not have any effect whhatever on
my course. / propose to strictly enforce
the law as find it."
MAY PUT UP THE LICENSE.
Alderman Bailey thinks the liquor dealer 5
are taking steps which they may have cause
to regret II they don't ecquiesce agreeobly
in the laws probably the first thing they
know their license will be raised to 81 900 or
maybe higher. Tho conservative element
Of the community, be thinks. will not
quietly submit TO dictRtion from the saloon
keepers, and their protests will be OF no
avail. II they obey law they need have no
fears Of any methods
Alderman Cam expressed an.opinion that
the liquor dealers are moving entirely in
the wrong direction. It would be much
better for them, he thought, to adopt a
course of obedience to the laws an 1 not at
tempt to fight them. Mayor McDonough,
Alderman Cam said, is determined TO en-
force the ordinance and ferret out vioators,
and protesting won't avail anything.
Alderman Haines said it is nonsense to
protest against Mayor McDonoughs en-
torcement of the ordinances He Is simply
doing his sworn duty, andif the ordinances
arc in any way faulty the council, and not
the mayor is responsible.
ALDERMAN CARsoN's POSITION.
"While shall uphold and arm thoroughly
in accord with the mayor in his work Of
enforcing due observance Of the Sabbath, u
| said Alderman Carson, yet l do not en-
tirely approve OF the policy pursued by the
police department in their Efforts to secure
evidence against violators IL kept up it is
apt to engender bad feeling, and may lead
to the commitment of mere eerious
crime than tho violation of the
Sabbath ordinance. think it should take
the same class Of evidence to convict an
offender or violator of an ordinance in the
police court that it would to punish one for
u misdemeanor before the city court Due
regard should be paid to the evidence for
the defendant, and the testimony summed
up and considered in au impartial and I'M
imprisoned way. Council is overburdened
with appeal cases now, aud I for one hope
| we will soon see the end of il.
II venture the opinion, " continued Alder
man Carson, ''that nothing can swerve
Mayor McDonough in his eadeavor
| TO enforce obedience to the Sunday
ordinance, and | think the best thing for
the Liquors Dealers Association TO do
would be to compel the obser rance Of tbs
Sabbath ordinance by it's members. They
can gain nothing by "a protest at this time. y