The daily sentinel., 1910-03-24
STRANGE POLITICAL M|XUP
DOWN At PALIShDE---W IS
REAL ANTESALOON TICKET?
Temperance Officials Who Stop Many Bootleg
Now After the Scalp Mayor Reeder
loon Man.-No Danger of Palisade Going Again.
Personal Grievance Feature-What Alder
manic Combine Did
THE ELECTION IS TO OCCUR EARLY IN APRIL

There is certainly Something
doing in the political line in the lit
tie up-valley Peach City.
Politics in Palisade will be seen to
have assumed a very Interesting
phase shen it is understood that the
open advocates of a return to a wide
open town" and the bootleggers have
Joined hands to help elect the "Peo-
pies Ticket" which, it is declared,
is radically an uncompromisingly
temperance.
From what The Sentinel can learn
the reason assigned for this peculiar
state of affairs is the claim made by
the open town" advocates that there
is less danger from an inactive tenn
perance mayor and town board than
from council made up of busine IS
men who are bitterly opposed to the
bootleggers, who have been doing a
thriving business in Palisade ever
since the town went dry, and which
council will be pledged to drive these
and all other bootleggers who may
operate in Palisade, out of business.
The platform of the Business Mems
party declares emphatically against
the evil of bootlegging that has been
a curse to the prosperous little city
for months and 1t also pied ges its
candidates, If elected, not to lend
their influence to the granting of
saloon licenses. The candidates on
this ticket are further pledged to
abide strictly by the desires of the
majority of the people.
Under the local option law the
matter of re-establishing saloons in
Palisade can be resubmitted to a
Vptp nf tbH paOpla m na,;,,1..
fall and it would be difficult for any
set of officers to refuse the request
If properly signed petition were
presented. That such an election
would reaffirm the present position
relating to the saloons by an over
whelming vote against the return of
the saloons. there seems to be but
little question, judging from opin-
ions expressed by a great many Pali-
sade citizens.
The three retiring members of the
present town board of Palisade,
which board was elected two years
ago on strictly temperance plat
form. have, it is declared, kept their
pledges well insofar as temperance,
voting against anything resembling a
saloon license, even to the banishing
OF liquors entirely from the drug
stores for medicinal purposes, barr
ing, of course, Jamaica ginger, Hos
letters Bitters and similar alcoholic
compounds.
At the election held last spring an
element of the people insisted that
He who is not for us, is against u.s."
which meant that those who failed to
swallow the Peoples ticket at that
time were "wets." However. barring
one member of the town board the
so-called "wets" won last spring. The
three hold-over members of the town
board and one new member elected by
the Peoples Party then formed a
combine and served notice on Mayor
John ID, Reeder that they were in the
majority and proposed to run the
affairs of the town to suit themselves.
Mayor Reeder retaliated by giving
the memberships of the principal and
most important committees of the
council to the men elected with him
upon the Citizens ticket a year he
fore. This started a warfare which
lasted for several months and which
naturally resulted in little business
being done for the advancement of
the towns interests.
The big tour" (the aldermanic
combine who had informed Mayor
Reeder that they proposed to run the
town., selected town marshal, one
who would, they said, fearlessly do his
duty and conserve the rights of the
temperance people, one who would
religiously keep tab and check upon
the bootleggers and others of their
ilk. Alas, the temperance marshal
fell by the wayside and was repeated
ly seen on the streets in an intoxicat-
ed condition. Nothing was done,
however, the big four" made no