St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-24
GOV. CLOUGH's LATEST sTIRs UP
COMPLICATIONS IN THE Tenn
PERANCE PLATFORM
OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
RECALLS AN INTERESTING MEET
ING OF THE MINNEAPOLIS
UNION LEAGUE.
WHERE IS THE GOVERNOR AT NOV
Will the Party Have to Name a Man
and Let Him Make Il Plank
for the PIatform2


Some interesting complications in the
temperance platform of the Repub-
hcan party have recently arisen, es-
pecially in connection with Gov. Clough's
highly moral order in which he threw
MS protecting arm about the sacred
precincts of the state house. Not a
HepupHcan newspaper in. either city
dared to refer to the governors orders,
out the facts Of the episode have be-
come generally known just the same.
the governor, it is believed, was making
bid for the temperance vote, even
at the risk Of snubbing every man
present.
1t was only four or five years ago
next month that there was a meet
ing of that silk-stocking Republican
organization, the Minneapolis Union
league, at which there were present
two men who are now prominent can
d1dates for governor of the state They
were David NJ. Clough and William
Henry Eustis. The subject under dis
cussion that night was an ordinance
known as the Rand ordinance, regulat-
lng,or rather modestly refraining from
regulating, the liquor traffic in Mime
apolis. 1t was a very liberal ordinance,
and the Republicans were very general
against it, as it was fathered by a
Democrat. William Henry was par
tlcularly emphatic in its denunciation,
and he was having things pretty much
his own way unit a still, small voice
piped from beneath a bunch of black
whiskers, afterwards identified as the
lieutenant governors, that it might be
we'll to let the supreme court decide
the legality of the ordinance. He ac-
tually questioned the jurisdiction of
the union league. William Henry was
real cross. Bachelor as he is, ne
leaped to his feet, and, with eyes in
hne frenzy rolling, he turned his face
partly at the chairman. Ell Torrance,
partly at Mr.. Clo6gh,S and between the
two, shouted: z
Must we wait then, till our children
have gone to drunkards' graves?"
1t was not very long, perhaps two
years, not more, when William Henry
was mayor of Minneapolis, that Joe
Mannix and he had in operation plan
of regulating the liquor traffic almost
as gentle in its benevolent methods as
the Rand ordinance that Gov. Clough
had pleaded eveno for decent burial
for rs Fs----4,c,-,,.,.
SO far as known, Gov. Clough re-
Trained from sitting in the mayors Of
fee and asking William Henry how the
spirit came to move him, but some of
the children Of the house of David,
among them John Goodnow whose
candidate for chief Gofl police was
Shelved, were wont to- assemble them
selves on the house tops or the street
corners, If there was a corner that
Mannix was not using. and remark
O GOT ION, Of he,
strange and sudden.
Mr.. Clough, However was supposed
to sympathiZe with the mayor in his
efforts to maintain just equilibrium
between the Hquor'otraffic and the
David G. Bell element, until his latest
manifesto, which places him entirely
without the pale of the saloons, or any
other radical temperance measure.
To that while William Henry has
gone from Puritanism to practicalism
or policyism, as he calls it; Mr. Clough
has gone from liberalism to narrow
ness, and the Republican party is
wondering where its leaders are
1t now becomes much the same cues
ton that confronted the last state Pop
,ulist- convention when it was one of
two alternatives: either nominate Mr..
Owen and LET him make platform he can
stand on, or make a. platform and then
a pas seul or faux pas, or even flip
flop.
The Republican party won't know
whether to go at the platform or the
nomination first, for if the platform is
selected first, it viii certainly throw
either E,ustis or Clough out of the race,
and if the nomination is made first, the
delegates may want to know just how
far in either direction the temperance
views of the nominees have progressed
for it is conceded that Inconsistency
is progress.
It is threatened, by the way, in the
northern part of the state. that another
issue than that of temperance is to be
thrown into the campaign. Rural can
didates are to be made to declare them
selves previous toSthe nominating con-
ventions as to whether, they are for or
against the present game laws. which
the ruralist insiststaresa gross discrim-
ination against him and in the interest
of the metropolitan. or dude sports
man, as he is affectfonately termed
Protection to the settler and a tariff
on city sports is the Watchword of the