The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-08-04
-.nty Option Apostle Delivers
Two Addresses Here
TELLS ALL ABOUT IT
Rev. {. c. Ciemans, Superintendent
OF Duluth District, ExD0ands
Option Doctrine

Rev. Z. c. Gle mans, superintendent
of the Duluth district OF the Meth
odist Episcopal church, for the Anti
Saloon League Of Minnesota. spent
Sunday in Sank Centre and delivered
two addresses. one in the morning at
the Congregational church and the
other at a union service at the Meth
OdiSt church in the evening. Mr.
Clemans is good speaker and placed
| his subject before the two audiences
in an entertaining and forcible man
ner.
Mr.. ClemanS handles the county
option question from different
standpoint than does Elias Racine.
While Mr.. Rachie, according to his
own admission. is out with d club fol
the governor and other state officers,
if they do not line up with him. Mr.
Clemans says he believes in tightine
out the battle along legislati lines
In fact, he states in SO many words
that the Anti-Saloon League is not
after the governor or any other state
officer. The question, says Mr.. Glenn
ans, is d legislative one pure and
simple. No governor, lie AYERS.
would dare to veto county option
bill if the legislature should pass one.
The Anti-Saloon League, says Mr..
ClemanS, is union of all the best
people in the political parties and in
the churches banded together for the
abolition Of the saloon: it is not po-
lltical party, though in order to &C
complish its ends, it mNst get into
politics and elect members of the leg
islature who will stand for the pas
sage of u county option bill. Mr..
ClemanS stated empha tically that, in
his opinion, the only way the liquor
traffic can be abolished is through
county option, which in turn.is mere
~ stepping stone to statewide pro-
hibition. He predicted that in the
next five years every county in Min
nesOta would have adopted county
option regime and that in fifteen
years Minnesota would be a prohibit
ton state.
Mr.. Clemans cOmplimented Sam u.
Gordon. candidate for lieutenant gov
ernor on the republican ticket, for
the manly stand he had taken. The
liquor interests. he said, would not
now dare to defeat Mr. Gordon, for
the nominee on the democratic tick
ct, NJ. G.. Tiff of Long Prairie, held
the same opinions on county option
as does Mr.. Gordon. Instead, the liq-
uOr interests, Mr.. Clemans averred,
are busy raising u fund of $3.50, 900 to
elect to the state senate men who
will oppose county option. Thus, he
said, the liquor interests. will try to
circumvent any possible action by the
lieutenant governor, whether that
gentleman be Mr.. Gordon or Mr..
Tiff.
Mr.. Clemans denounced Billy
Hamm us the political boss of Mime
sofa. He referred to the orders of
the U. 5. government in closing sa-
looms on the Indian reservations. He
said that very few people knew of the
tremendous pressure that had been
brought to bear at Washington to
have Special Agent ii. johnson, who
issued the order, removed. The
only result, said Mr.. Clemans, was an
order to extend the dry" territory:
and that if Billy Hamm would exert
himself a little harder along similar
lines, the result would be that the en-
tire northern part of Minnesota
would soon be dry"
In his morning address Mr.. Glenn
ans dealt in a general way with the
question, enumerating and denounc-
ing the evils of intemperance. In
the evening he handled the county
option proposition, explaining in de-
tail the bill the Anti-Saloon League
desires to have passed.
incidentally, Mr.. Clemans said a
word for the independent voter. His
father, he said, was q strict temper
ance man and a republican. That
worthy gentleman, said Mr.. Clemans,
had voted a split ticket but once, and
then cast his ballot for a democracic
candidate for sheriff and h ad regrett-
ed it all his life. He verify believed
that his good father would have shut
his eyes and voted for His Satanic
Majesty had that parsonage been
placed on the republican ticket.
Things are different now, though,
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