The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-04-28
ST, Louis WILL Be
SHUT Yet TIGHTER
Brewers and Race Track Men
Propose to Stop Operation
of the Street Cars.
HAVE TO WALK SUNDAY
Move Is Proposed in Order to Make
Governor Folks Crusade as Un-
popular as Possible with All
Glasses of People.

Jefferson City, Mo, April 2l.-A It
port of a conference held in st. Louis
TO Governor Folk today, tells of an
attempt to be made to stop street cars
in st. Louis either next Sunday or the
Sunday following. H. S. Hadley att
torney general, has been expecting to
see the hand of the st. Louis race track
interests in the Sunday closing fight
and if the report received by the gov
ernor is correct the race tracks are into
1t deep.
The race track mems common inter-
est with the breWerieS now is to break
the power of the governor as much as
possible for the fight to come, and di-
vide his forces in the city by giving
them multiplicity of things to attend
TO- Whatever they can contribute to-
wards making the enforcement of moral
laws unpopular will be as much to their
advantage as to the advantages Of the
breWeries, probably more so.
To Pinch the Public.
Shutting down street cars, if the pub
lie is not fully informed Of the mo-
tves and the methods. will go further
towards arousng hostility to Governor
Folk and his policies than anything
else they may do. Even church peo-
pie who have TO walk three miles to
their places of worship will not be in
sympathy With shutting down street
cars. All this and much more is
planned for st. Louis because the gov
ernor dared to say that the great brew
cries must obey the law.
1t seems that the brewers and the
race tracks together own a majority of
the stock in the ST. Louis Transit COM
pany. The race track owners have said
they Will run races in st. Louis county
after the new law goes into effect
whether Governor Folk likes it or not.
, and their representatives are reported
no of i've. t11N G1y$ O(sE.
of the brewers yesterday and last
night The Transit company controls
all except one of the street railways Of
st. Louis and is reputed to own 50 per
cent of the stock of the Suburban COM
pany. which is the one line renuted to
he independent. The scheme. as outlined
from St. Louis over the telephone, is
to ask for an Injunction against the
Transit company to prevent it running
cars Sunday, then for the Transit COM
-pany to come into court and make a
weak defense but in that defense con-
TESS that it violates the law when 1t
runs cars Sundays.
Know No Limit.
Injunction ordinarily will not do
when there is an adequate remedy for
the injured party at law and it is an
unusual method of enforcing n criminal
statute, but when the defendant is in
sympathy it may be that a way can
De lOunG TO Sel an order restraining
the running of street cars. If such an
order is granted the Transit company
will obey and st. Louis people Will
walk on Sunday The same report says
sunday newspapers will come in for
like treatment the Sunday following.
There has been q tremendous effort in
st. Louis TO combine every interest
that can he reached in this fight of
the brewelies. The street car company
can be made a ready and useful tool
and the brewers, in their wrath, have
shown a determination TO go to the
limit in their fight for what they are
pleased to call their rights in the face
of specific decisions OF the supreme
court that saloons have no rights in
Missouri and can run only because the
law gives them certain privileges when
they comply and observe the restric-
lions.
Hadley in Close Touch.
The attorney general has been keep
ing III pretty close touch with the ST
Louis situation himself. So far he has
taken no actual part in anything. but
he is pretty sure to be called upon tf
act if st. Louis county officials refuse
to enforce the law, and for that rea-
son he has not overlooked any oppor-
tunity to keep himself posted.
MI Hadley received the information
few days ago that the race track
people in st. Louis would try to ru1
IN spite OF llle INV III 81. l-oulS touiltS
if not in the city. Under the Breeders
law, so called. races could be run only
ninety days in q year on one track
To have racing the year around. fOu1
tracks were established. two in the
city and two in the county. Afte
June 20 they can run only in violation
of law but the information that thu
attorney general has received goes t
show that they will try racing in thu
county and if things get too hot there
they will attempt to run some races il
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