The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-28
W. 4. WILLIAMS AS
A LID CANDIDATE.
M. o. ASPIRANT FOR MAYORALTY
RIDICULES SALOON MEN.
Declares Sunday Closing Is q Perma-
nent Fixture in Minneapolis Munich
pal Government and Taunts Liquor
Men as Cats Paws of Corporations
Out for Law Enforcement.


against former Mayors Haynes and
Ames, has declared for law enforcement
as part Of his platform. At demo-
cratic and municipal ownership mass
meeting in Union Temple last night
Williams came out fat-footed for his
policy in a way that will add a new in
terest to the local mayoralty contest.
closed incident in Minneapolis de-
Haynes, DR.. Williams nor even "Doc"
Ames can open the saloons Of this city
on Sunday, and you saloonkeepers that
are here can take that from me and 20
am running on law enforcement plat
form. You have been played for suck
ers and bought with hue and cry Of
'anything to beat Jones and open the
saloons on Sunday 1t can't be done.
Any body of citizens in this city can
close the saloons after the first attempt
to open them, and by following it up
can keep them closed. There are
enough people in Minneapolis who will
insist on it and fight for it, to force any
man elected mayor, into keeping things
! shut tight, and it can be done. If l
am nominated and elected, as l expect
to be, T shall enforce, not part of the
law, but all of it, and I want every sa-
loonkeeper in Minneapolis to know it.
Used as Cats Paw.
"All this noise about beating. the
Sunday closing administration is stirred
up for another purpose. The sa!oon-
keepers and saloon interests OF Mime,
apolis have been made the cat to pull
corporation chestnuts from the fire: The
real issue in Minneapolis is municipal
ownership and public service corpora,
ton control. The gas company and
the street railway com pany are
alarmed. They have offered the open
town bait to the saloon interests OF the
city, and the saloon people have sWal-
lowed it, bait, hook, sinker and half the
line.
"You can mark my words, Sunday
closing is here to stay in Minneapolis.
No mayor can step into the chair Jan.
l and say the saloons can stay open on
Sunday, for the people will not stand
for it, and as long as the present laws
win e Ree sbe the sseohs Of Enneapos
closed. All this talk is stirred up by
public service corporations to pull the
wool over the eyes Of the public and to
secure the aid Of lot Of hort-sighted
saloonkeepers who are tied hand and
foot but don't know it. They are
raising Fslush fund to fight some
thing that money will not stop and are
planning to spend it for the benefit OF OF
the coTRoaat4lSSns. Mhen 1T comes ito to
town have got the saloonkeepers beat
II mile. out the saloonkeepers don It
know it.
Where williams Stands.
"There has been some question as
to where I stood on this subject May
or Jones has been placed on one side.
Haynes DR.. Williams and Doc Ames
have been placed in another place. For
their representatives here I want te
place myself, and here is where l
stand. am for law enforcement ctc
the letter, and for municipal owner.
ship and control. I will fight with the
people Of this city for reduction in
streetcar fares, and we will get it
Other cities have eight fares for 9
has absolutely no franchise and thu
council can run it. If it is impossible
to elect thirteen honest men to the
council who will do it Of themselves
> as mayor I will hold mass meetings II
every ward in this city, and with tbs
public behind me we can force thu
council, think. This can be done
anyway if the people Of this city viii
simply organize and go into the coun
Gil and demand their rights.
II am for the purchase of thu
plant of the gas company when thu
present franchise expires. It can b,
done and must be done. Previous
speakers have covered this ground, ant
I stand for the purchase Of that plan
in 1902
Speakers for I'M. o.
The meeting was not large, but the
fact made no difference with the quail
ity or quantity of the speeches. J. w
Bennett, writer on municipal owner
ship, gave an exhaustive address OF
that subject, dealing particularly will
municipal gas plants and taking W
the management Of the local plant
He closed with an appeal for organiza
ton for the purpose of taking owe
corporation properties. =.
Other speakers were Frank D. Lar
rabee, candidate for congress, who con
fined himself to national politics.. ant
S. A. Stockwell, president of the Min
neapolis Municipal Ownership league
who spoke earnestly in. favor Of tax
ing over corporation properties. TIL
speakers urged the voters to. stick il
publican ticket at the primaries.
t nicipal ownership mass meeting to b
held in the Auditorium Monday eve
= ming, Sept. TO- Mayor Dunno of Chi
y y cago. Governor Johnson, Judge Can
8 Of Duluth and other prominent me
9 will speak. Prominent women, it
said, will speak in favor of munic
: pal gas plant furnishing cheaper fue
gas for the housewives of. Minneapoli.