St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-26
friends had provided a 'side room.'
There the not and
RebelIiOus LIQUORS AbOunded.

RebelI1Ous Liquors AbOunded.
The tip was passed around, and the
guests found the side room. Some OF
them found it SO aSsiduOusiy that they
rolled under the tables. Naturally, DIR.
D. j. Burrell and The other men of cloth
present were shocked. So were Carman
n. Smith and j.. A. WOlvertOn. They
were so shocked that they kicked. Will
lam Henry was vigorously denounced.
The row spread to the sidewalks, and
got into the newspapers. Carman n.
Smith and j. A. WOlverton were so in
dignant and were so S%taunchly sup
ported in their indignation that
disruption of the Union league was
threatened. William Henry was asked
to declare himself" and did so in an
interview in the Tribune of Feb. %, as
follows:
1.-The matter is not for the public to
discuss, and these gentlemen who have
had so much to say ABOUT it have been
talking about things which should
never have gone out of the club rooms.
We furnished wine SO as to make the
occasion successful. These men are
very foolish and are trying to create a
sensation about a small matter. The
club is now in a most thriving and pros
porous condition, and L regard this as a
very cheap sensation for these parties
(Smith and Wolverton) to circulate"
Although 1t was in William Henry'S
mind "a cheap sensation" it nearly
caused a split In the Union League. An
investigation was demanded. The
league met March 10 behind closed
doors and William Henry was white
washed.
That was where William Henry stood
in 1910 Hn rnnardnd 6rrpl-nnnncc DC
an adjunct of a "succeSsful OCCASION"
and did more than any one to make it a
part of the occasion.
The Other Side.
Last spring the Rand ordinance passed
the city council. On the day after the
well-remembered mass meeting in the
Lyceum theater, where j. c. Haynes
was denied the right of free speech in
an open mass meeting, and where Pot
ter, Loye and Lowell sprung their polit-
ical boomlets, alas! too early,
the Rand ordinance was brought
up before the Union league!
John Goodnow. who had abetted it on
the streets, brought up the question. 1t
was discussed thoroughly. Dave
Clough declared himself in favor of it.
Had he been in the city council he
would have voted for the Rand ordi-
II He hated a id spy. =.
William Henry Eustis put himself on
record unequIvocally as in favor of the
spy system. The children would go
down to hell if it were not for these
spies, he melo-dIamatically declared,
and added:
The men that voted for that ordi-
nance betrayed their trust and their
constituents, and they will have to suf-
fer their inst nnnlShmQnt for If in
time"
Parenthetically, it may be remarked
that some of them are suffering their
just punishment for it now. William
Henry EustiS is making speeches for
them-Durnam, Woodward and Beich-
feldt.
AT the same meeting, it may be added,
G. S. Cairns. then the head of the spy
system, now a candidate for the legisla-
ture in the Thirty-first district on the
Republican ticket, romped on Dave
Clough's form, and declared that Clough
was no Republican.
But the career of William Henry
Eustis is of most concern just now. In
1889 William Henry Eustis was a nal
who insisted that a drunk factory was a
necessary adjunct to a successful &C.
casion." In 1892, with a possible public
office in view, he was Mortified at the
thought of a mar getting a drink of
liquor of Sunday. And the same Jekyll
and Hyde tactics are being pursued by
him this campaign. In the morning a
Puritan; in the evening a sport"
No n will quarrel with William
Henry's position that a successful oc-
casion" must be a drinking bout, pro-
vided he really thinks that way.
No one will quarrel with William
Henry's idea that a MAI who drinks, or
a man who sells drink, is a criminal at
all times and places, provided he be-
lieves in that position.
The quarrel all arises from William
Henry's wild attempt to suspend HIM
self in the air between two stools by
the sheer force of of his unctious smile,
his glowing periods about nothing, his
frank, open-hearted assurance to a
minister of the gospel and guardian of
the faro layout and the gin bottle that
"William Henry is all right"