St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-02-16
But Republican Leaders
Coached the Five to Do
Just as They Did.
Mayor Winston Will Undoubt-
eddy Sign the Ordinance :.
as Amended.
Tim Byrnes Given Another
Day--Clough Defying the
Union League.

| town. There is no cessation of the i'll
tereSt in ii, and, as there was on Satur-
day. there are two sides TO the question.
| AS was pointed out by the GLOBE. the
Republicans are doing their best to
make it appear that the Democrats, and
| The Democrats alone. are responsible
for the passage of the amendment to
the ordinance. The Republican papers.
too, are trying to make it appear that
the reSul: of the council meeting last
| Friday night was a democratic vic
tory" They should know:better. Not
that the Democrats are opposed TO
ShOuldering all the responsibility for
the action of the council-not bit of
| it. They simply want to be fair. what
| the Republicans have shown no DISPOSE
ton of being. The saloon ordinance
came up and was passed by a nom
partisan vote. While it is true that
every Democratic member of the coun-
Gil voted to place the enforcement of the
| LIQUOR law under the supervision of the
police department it is not necessarily
democratic victory" The amend
ment adopted, commonly known as the
Rand amendment" is not the original
idea of Aid. Rand. but was first sug-
gcSted as remedy against the prOsecu-
| ton of saloons by the crusaders" by
one David Clough, a leading Republican
politician, who is aspiring for the nomi-
nation of mayor. Now that the Repub-
| llcan members of the cOurcil that sup
ported the ordinance have been de-
nounced as TRAITORS" and ''renegades."
| MIR. Clough is keeping very close to his
! hole; III fact, he has not even had the
moral courage to defend his position
publicly. If the Republicans that are
so emphatic in their denunciations of
Aid. Rand and the Democrats that sup
ported the measure will look around a
little they will discover that some of the
leading Republicans first suggested and
favored in caucus the amendment that
has furnished pulpit material for the
clergymen.
Aid. Woodward will say this much if
approached. He is not at all afraid of
admitting that he was jnStigated to take
the course he did OH this saloon ques-
| ton. He has no apologies to offer for
his errors, either. He boldly declares
that he took the course he did because
he believed that to be the proper course
to take. He denies that it was in any
| measure party or political measure
until the Republican papers made it
one. But he is willing to stand on his
action along with the heads Of the party
in Minneapolis who encouraged MIN in
his course.
When it comes to talking facts, with
out any admiXture of partisan bun
combe, the saloon question resolves
itself into thoroughly non-partlsan
| question. There have been saloons
under Republican administrations as
| there have been under Democratic adj
| miniStrationS, and there will, in all
| probability, be saloons when both parties
| have been lost. The saloons have en-
| joyed as many privileges from the Re
publican administrations as they have
from the Democratic administrations.
Some of the saloons have enjoyed more,
for it is a notorious fact that discrimina-
ton was rampant during the admins
tratiOn of the pure and holy Babb. AS
G. r. Cameron said yesterday:
''Why do not some Of these people
who are saying so much about the sa-
| looms he fair and honest i'm their express
sions of opinion? There is no use in
holding the Democrats responsible for
he-saloons. Everybody who gives the
matter moment of thought knows that
1t is not party question at all. The
Republican party has been as much on
the side of the saloon man as the Demo
cratic party ever has. That is shown
| Nv lllG dttlluut VI tIlc AtpuUtlCdI gov
ernor of the state. The records of the
district court show that almost-and
think would be safe in saying every
! one-every man who has been coll
victed OF selling liquor illegally in this
county since W. r. Merriam became
governor has been pardOned by the eX-
ecutiye before the ink was dry OH the
sentence of the judge. When it comes
to discussing the saloon question III the
abstract. it is as much of crime to sell
liquor on week day as it is on Sun
day."
When all this hullabaloo has blown
doubtedlY see that the saloons can be
controlled and will be controlled as well
by the police department as by hand
full of crusaders with their Sneaking
methods. Before the crusaders began
operations there was no complaint about
the saloons. They were as well man
aged then as they ever have been in the
history of the city. They will be as well
managed now. And the newspapers
will not be filled every Gay with long
accounts of the work of the crusaders
and editorials which have tendency Il
teach the growing generation that it il
something noble to be sneak and q
spy.
1t is not very often that the head OF
the city departments take occasion t.
censure the officials that elect them
Three at least = Rinker, Kelley anc
HsZen-have finally given vent to theil
feelings in order to make tliemselve:
solid with the Republican party. though
they have done SO guardedly. They
have conceded with the ''indignants'
and are now full-fedged reformers
They think the Republicans that votet
| in favor nf thsa amendment
and renegades that are unfit 20 associate
with the good people of Minneapolis
Building Inspector HaZen has for som,
time had Il feeling of enmity towar(
Aid. Woodward. but he has never before
had an opportunity to roast the chubby
faced representative of the Seventh
ward. He is reported as saying tina
Woodward's connection with the fire
| department irregularities was enough
to sicken the alderman's best friend
hut that his action Friday night capped
highly of Aids. Hunter, Blichfelt, Dur
nam and Farnsworth, but he does not
class them in the same category with
Woodward. Engineer Rinker and
Health Commissioner Kelley are both
pretty cute politicians, and what they
have to say is always given out as con
fidential. However. they are reported
as thinking that the hye Republicans
are politically dead. Rinker is especi
j ally pleased to think that few of his
enemies are getting it II the meek, u
and that they-Rinker and Kelley-may
he in office when Aids. Woodward
Farnsworth, Hunter. Blichfelt and Bur
nam are numbered among the silent
majority. Rlnker is quoted as saying
that 1t will be gOdsend to the Repub-
lican party and the city at large, as not
one of the five renegades will receive q
>, denomination.
The Republican press is also trying
TO shield an old cOmrade from disgrace
(?) simply because he had the courage
to run when his colleagues told him
there was danger. The GLOBE is the
only paper that has shown the position
that Aid. Barrows took. 1t is under
stood that he repented and was assured
that he would be given no publicity il
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