St. Paul daily globe., 1891-06-09
BUTRICK ROUNDED UP.
Pastor Of the First Baptist
Church to Be Given All
the Rope Needed.
City Officials to a Man Deny
Sensational and Vague
Charges,
And Call Upon the Reverend
And Call Upon the Reverend
Gentleman to Face the
Grand Jury.
1t Is a Case Of Stand by Your
Guns or Promptly Eat
Crow.

The sensational sermon preached Sun
day evening by Rev. Wallace Fl. But
rick. pastor of the First Baptist church,
in which he made most violent attack
upon the mayor, chief of police and the
city government in general, did not
cause any of the officials to tremble
and weep, as the divine hoped they
would do. The sermon was based upon
the recent arrest of Israel Davy, book
keeper of the Drake company, for
forgery, and his arrest in the saloon of
Charles Waterman, whose place of
business was denounced as gambling
hell and the cause of ruin to many
young men.
Mayor Asks for Proofs:
Mayor Smith was first interviewed.
and he unboSomed himself in these
words:
I'm relation to the uncalled-for assault
made by one Wallace Ii. Butrick, pastor
of the First Baptist church, as reported
in the DAILY GLOBE, they are unquali-
fiedly false and malicious. He refers to
the officers of this city 'as corrupt
city hall gang A minister of the gos-
pei has perfect right to criticise the
manner of the government of the city;
but when he denounces the officers as
dishonest and corrupt, ana when he
makes a statement of this character, he
ought to be prepared with the proofs of
his position, or stand convicted as a
malicious falsifier and slanderer.
The question as to the incapacity of
the chief officer of the city, L don't care
to discuss.
''The people have seen proper to Sc
lect me for the position, majority of
whom are satisfied with the manage
ment of city affairs.
81 want to say one word in relation to
saloons. No matter how disorderly
they may be, the mayor has no power TO
revoke license under the law. A judg-
ment must be first obtained in the court
against the disorderly house. and a
transcript of that judgment flied with
the power granting the licenSe-the
common council-and they may, in their
discretion, revoke the license.
Il desire, further, to inform the rev.
erend gentleman that no public gam
bling houses exist in this city. If clubs
or private families play game OF cards
for small stake. socially, have no
legal right to interfere with them, nor
will LIN the language of the reverend
gentleman-permit the police to nose
around and find out the fact.
'In relation to Mr.. Waterman, never
met the gentleman until to-day; he i'm
pressed me as an intelligent, honest,
well-meaning man; he informed me he
had been railroad conductor for twenty
eight years, and for the honest discharge
of his duties some of the foremost busi-
ness men in the Northwest had fur
nished his bonds; and it does seem to
me that this attack on Mr.. Waterman
by the reverend gentleman was entirely
uncalled for, and not in accordance with
the facts given me by the officer making
the arrest.
Tine minister says that he Is spoil
ing to go before the grand jury and
wishes he could be called before that
body. He has every opportunity as
citizen to appear before the jury on
Wednesday. The grand jury meets at
10 in the court house, and Mr. Butrick
can appear before it and make his state
ments; ;.that is,if he has any to make.
perhaps later on l may make some
statements which will interest certain
parties who have made this preacher
their mouthpiece."
Waterman's Say.
Mr.. Waterman was found yesterday
in the Office of Chief Clark, and in reply
to questions, made the following state
ment:
II have been q conductor for over
twenty-five years for the Northern Pa
ciic, Chicago, Milwaukee & ST. Paul
and Chicago & Northwestern roads, and
left the railroad business about a year
ago and went into the wholesale
and retail liquor business in st.
Paul. Last December l sold out
my interest i'll two saloons and
purchased the saloon | now have at 147
East Third street, which has been re-
ferred to by the preacher of Yesterday.
l have known Davy about four months,
and he frequently came to my place to
get drink, as many of the most promi-
nent business men in the city do"
''Is it true that gambling was carried
on in your place, and that Davy lost his
money there?"
mo, have never allowed gambling
in my place, and Davy never lost dol
lar when in my saloon. at one time
gentlemen were allowed to play cinch
or seven-up for the drinks, but | put a
stop to it in very short order, and have
not allowed card to be used in the
place for any purpose whatever.
This preacher has been filled up
with a lot of falsehoods, and when
he says Dayy admitted losing money in
my saloon he lies, for Davy never
money in my place. No complaint has
ever been made against me, and | will
give you some facts now which will
show the reason of the attack upon me.
This man Drake was very anxious to get
back the money he was defrauded
out of, and he sent for me, thinking
1 was relative Of Davy's. went to
see shim. and he said: 4 understand
you have complete gambling outfit i'll
your place. l answered that it was
false; that l conducted a respectable
business and offered right there to
show him through my place, so that he
could judge for himself. He then re-
piled: i am a liberal man myself.
/ smoke and drink little,
and l don't want you to think / am in
terfering with your business. / under
stand you are a relative of DaYy;' and
from his remarks he limited that should
make good the loss. He then went
away. l often told Davy not to go to
Minneapolis when he said he felt
lucky and knew he could win. He
often asked me to go over to Min
'neapolis to play, but / told him
l did not gamble. AS to the
reputation | bear. and the character of
my place Of business. can refer to
prominent citizens who know me and
to Chief Clark, who knows my place of
business"
Chief Clark Indignant.
Chief Clark was very indignant at the
attack made upon him by the minister,
and, referring to the Drake-Dayy af-
fair, said:
'Drake came to me last Tuesday at