St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-02-17

conduct for public servants. This point
came out on discussion of The attitude
Of Aid. Hunter on the liquor ordinance.
Mr.. Lowell believes this, according to
his own statement. Suppose he were
elected on platform pledging him to
use his influence in the council to
fur Their the project of building a rail
road to the moon, it being expected that
that question would arise. Three
satisfied. beyond doubt, that three
fourths of the people in his ward had
changed their minds and did not want
railroad to the moon. He would still
feel called upon to work and vote for
the lunar trunk line. In other words,
he would feel bound to represent, not
the opinion of his constituents on the
question at the time of its presentation
for action. but the opinion of his con-
stituents at prior time before the
question had been thoroughly dis
cuSSed.
The GLOBE has, through misinforma-
ton, done Aid. Fred BarrowS an injuS-
tice in connection with this discussion
OF the liquor ordinance. 1t has been
said that Aid. Barrows supported all of
the amendments until the time came
for the adoption of the ordinance and
that he then left the council cham
Der to avoid voting. Mr.. BarrOws said
yesterday:
1.-The only time l voted with the ma
jOrity on the liquor ordinance last Fri
day night was when it was moved to
take it from the table. L voted in the
affirmative that time, but after that l
voted against the amendments right
straight through. l voted as l did. not
entirely because L was absolutely OPP
posed to the spirit of the amendment.
Last Friday Dave Clough came to me
and told me that this amendment was
coming up. He asked me if l would
support it. l told him no. l said was
in sympathy with the spirit of the
coming from that source. told Clough
that l would be glad to support
such an amendment if it could he
brought In from the other side of the
house and in the regular way. He said
1t was too late to do anything of that
sort. then told him that l would vote
to take it off the table and to refer 1t to
the committee on ordinances. | have
not seen Dave Clough since that time,
but believe he will vouch for what
say. That was my position, as l told
him. and stood by that in the city
council from first to last. am not
I'll oiO " huNO oiiN OOoy hIOW uOW L
stand on this matter. If anything can
be done under heaven to stop this spy
system, want to see it done. l am
against it every time. l never liked
Dave Clough so we'll in my life as did
after he declared himself on this Ques-
ton. 1t makes me tired to hear lot of
these fellows talk so much about the sa-
loon evil. Some of them who have been
talking the most the past few days are
the fellows who go around and get their
drink as often as anybody, and enjoy 1t
as much as anybody. Then they get up
and shout about the wicked saloon.
themselves? They won't do that, but
they will hire men to do what they do
not dare do themselves.
II have been in every city of conSe-
Quence i'll this country, with the eXcep-
ton of those on the Pacific coast, and |
unhesltatingly declare that | think it is
the best governed city of it's size, with
reference to the saloons, that exists in
the whole country. What reason had
Bradish for getting up and talking
about the lawleSsness prevailing in this
city? He knew that he was talking
nonsense"
Speaking Of Dave Clough: It is not
at all certain that he made any mistake
in announcing himself as he did at the
Union league Monday night He has
made more friends by his course than
perhaps even he knows. AS Aid. Bar
rows points out, the majority of those
who combatted him at that meeting and
shouted in appliance of w. H. Eustis
thought just as CIOugh did about the
matter under discussion, but they had
not the requisite amount of courage TO
admit it. The GLOBE states positively
that some of those men at the Union
league meeting who shouted in opposi-
ton to the liquor ordinance amendment
expressed, several weeks ago, the fear
that they might be forced by their party
papers to take this stand on the saloon
question, although they were at heart
in sympathy with the effort to put stop
to the spy system.