St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-02-14
POLITICAL POINTERS.
Several Grow Out of the Councils
Fight Friday Night.


The campaign of '92 opened at the
council meeting Friday night auspicI-
ously. The keynote. ''Shall the adj
ministration or the fanatics run the
city," was sounded amidst the great
est excitement. The liquor ordinance
that was the talk of the town two
months ago was eXhumed, and after
hot wrangle was brought to life and put
III an operative condition by vote Of Is
10 g. There are sixteen Republican
and ten Democratic members of the
council. The latter, as might be eX-
pected, voted to set the enforcement of
the liquor ordinance into the hands of
the police, the administration itself.
There were five Republicans, Aids.
Woodland, Farnsworth, Hunter, Blick-
felt and Durham, that mustered
courage enough to desert their party and
vOte with the Democrats. Aid. Barrows
supported the amendments. but he mys-
terlously departed before the vote for its
final passage had been taken. The Re-
publicans that opposed the measure
made bitter fight and denounced the
Republicans that supported the ordi-
nance as traitors to their party and cow
ards unworthy of recognition.
The nine Republicans who voted in
the negative held caucus yesterday
afternoon, and Aid. Woodland. Farms
worth and Durham were handled with
out gloves. Woodlands connection with
the fire department irregularities was
discussed. and it is quite likely that the
majority will insist upon having the
little fat-faced alderman from the Sew
enth ward pass in his resignation. 1t is
very well known that Chief Runge is
of hot <,t,o
poi nted.
1t is generally believed that the street
commissioner that was appointed for
the Thirteenth ward Friday night Will
be Ousted at the neat meeting. Presi-
dent Potter is reported as saying that
the commissioner was appointed at the
request of Aid. FarnSwOrth, who is
seeking a denomination, but that the
"Republicans will do all in their power
to have him discharged. as they do not
intend to act in the interests of q tailor"
Aid. Gray feels iubilant, and hints that
ingalls, Will resign.
Dave Clough was electioneering yes
teraay. and. as usual, was irving to ride
the mule both ways.
The administration should have the
control of the Saloons" he remarked,
''but have got no time for the Repub-
HcanS that supported the ordinance"
No doubt Dawes declarat ion will
greatly aid him in securing the nomina-
| ton for mayor.
Aid. Barrows was informed by several
Republicans yesterday that the Second
ward people would have to lay him on
the shelf OH account of his action at the
council meeting. He insists that he
did not know what he was voting for
when he supported the amendments,
but as he is understood to have told
several members of the council before
the meeting that he was in sympathy
with and would support the measure. it
is not likely that his statement will
have any effect with the delegates to
the nominating convention.
Aid. Parry was not present Friday
night. and whether it was sickness.
the ordinance that kept him away, is
not known. However, there is one
thing certain, j. e., he is feeling highly
elated to think that his colleague. Aid.
Woodland, went wrong" Parry is
| now satisfied that Woodland is out of the
race, and that he will have clear sailing
| to secure denomination.
Whether they meant 1t or not, the
action that was forced on that liquor
amendment Friday night was shrewd
political move on the part of the Demo-
cratic aldermen. All along it has been
safe to bet that the Democrats would
elect enough aldermen next fall to give
| them majority in the city council.
The action Of the five Republican alder
men Friday makes the bet ''cinch."
| 1t is scarcely possible that ally one of
| the five can be reelected. Their terms
all expire next year. They will lie sat
upon for party treachery. That
they voted their convictions will
cut little figure with the party
at large. The Republican party locally
has been afraid of this crusade move
ment for some time, as has been pointed
| out in the GLOBE. but its members dared
not openly avow opposition to it. Now
they will be forced to denounce the
amendment, and, anyhow, to score the
five who deserted the party, as D. Nj.
Clough did yesterday. 1t is a curious
fact, although an old matter to refer to,
that all of the Republican aldermen de-
feated year ago last fall were among
those who voted against the famous
Anderson & Douglas street railway
franchise. The matter will come up
again, and with 1t, in the case of these
five who were also with the anti-Ander-
son & Douglas crowd, the charge that
they are party traitors.
Yesterday the South Minneapolis Tel
egram trotted out nice little boOmIet
for Col. William McCory for mayor. 1t
is little early IN the season, colonel.
Remember, the ground hog saw his
shadow on the I'd of February, and the
killing frosts of winter have not all
passed away yet. The colonel will go
into the mayoralty fight with the pres
tige of having been one of the del
| egation that went to Washington
to look on while Tom Lowry and Gov.