St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-03-21
CLOSED HIS PLACE
AID. MURPHY LOCKED THE
DOORS OF HIS SALOON YES
TERDAY.
NO OPPORTUNITY TO SELL
MITTEE. SO THIS COURSE
WAS TAKEN.
A CHILLY GAME OF FREEZE-OUT
Which VIII Have Grand Effect ON
the Fair Voters of the Ninth
Ward.

Aid. Murphy closed his saloon yester-
day. He did SO voluntarily. The ac-
ton of the assembly Thursday night, in
refusing to grant a license to Patrick
O'Brien, who was to purchase the sa-
loon, Indicated disposition not to issue
license for the place even for few
days to come.
Aid. Murphy was not at all surprised
at the attitude Of the assembly. He
was crossing Sixth street, when a.
q e reporter met him and put this
question:
What effect will your trial in the
municipal court have upon your politi-
cal future in the Ninth ward 2"
AID. Murphy smiled. What effect?
A good effect, if any. The people in
the Ninth ward know me. l have lived
there twenty-eight years. When my
rather and mother settled there. north
OF the railroad tracks, there was not
more than one dwelling there besides
thelr own. L have been in the saloon
business for twelve years. NV constit-
uents know that also. The refusal of
the assembly to postpone action on
TINS matter for week or so seems I'm
just. Many of my friends have said
that 1t was only fair to allow me q.
reasonable time in which to find a pur-
CHASER For that reason 1 would have
preferred to keep the place open for a
week or ten days longer, but, am sat-
lsned as 1t is, for [ can ultimately Sc
cure a purchaser After I have sold
the saloon, L expect eventually. to pur-
chase place down town.
mo matter what people may think
ABOUT that trial, l am sure that every
cltlzen believes in fair treatment !"
continued, Aid. Murphy. ST know that
a large number of residents of the
Ninth ward consider that the assem-
Oily mas acted unfairly in this matter
In not giving me time to find a pur-
chaser, but, instead, choking me off
without days notice hardly. AS for
my license being overdue that is an
everyday occurrence with other sa-
looms. My old license did not expire
until Feb. II, so that 1 am not vet
month in arrears. This is a common
occurrence with number of saloons,
many proprietors being granted as
much as sixty days in which to take
out their new licenses. Custom has al
ways allowed them thirty DAYS.
Take the case. of that man Erick-
son, who used to run the saloon on
East Seventh street now conducted by
Mrs Munson. The place had a bad
reputation, yet it ran for month and
half without license, and nothing
was issued. Such sudden action as the
assembly committee on license has TAX
en- in refusing to grant even a weeks
poStponement, is unprecedented, as the
people must know. AS Mr.. Hamm told
the committee, it's refusal to defer the
matter week amounted practically
to a confiscation of my property. Still
l propose to sell out my entire interest
in the saloon, and to open new place
down town.
Mr. Reardon, I understand says he
will oppose granting license to any
body to conduct the saloon on st. Peter
and Tenth streets, as he wants to see
it remain closed for twelve months,
but he will find that he can't do any
thing of the kind.
mo, sir" concluded Aid Murphy st
am confident that those citizens of the
Ninth ward who voted for me two
years ago, and who know me, will con-
tinue to stand by me, especially as
they realize how unjustly L have been
treated"