The daily gazette., 1882-05-09
THE OLD RINGS HAND.
THE ITCHING PALM PLAINLY
REVEALED ALREADY.
BOOM FOR AGALLAGHER COUNCIL
Wales Republicans Offer no Cancellation
and Try to Pack the COuncilnanic
Ticket-A Significant Move.

| Ilckog-A Slgninchnt mOVOs
/ -
1t is the old City Ring sure enough. The
GAzETTR's charge that DIR. Wales election
would mean the return of city affairs into
the hands of the old Ring has been amply
| substantiated. There was enough proof of
this for the most skeptical doubter even
before the Republican nomination had been
held. The same element which champiOned
| the high-handed msmanagers, who were in
the hey-day of their proud reign of extyava-
gance q decade ago, championed DIR. Wales.
The same people, with few exceptions
where politics had made strange bedfellows,
nominated him--the same familiar means
were employed to win him the prize. This
was ample proof before.
There Is more now.
| 1t will please u good many Democrats
and make good many Republicans mad.
1t VIII surprise people generally, too.
| A well-knOwn Republican spoke of 1t q
day or two ago. The gentleman in question
belongs to neither faction, but he knows
what Is going on. Said he "The Wales
people are playing deep game, and l am
sorry TO see it. If they go on they will bury
the ticket SO deep that the local Republi-
cans viii never be able to dig 1t out. Captain
Gallagher Is running things, and some
peculiar Councilmanic nominations will be
made or ! am much mistaken"
"The captain's at work, is he I" ihnocently
| quefied the GAZETTE man to whom this was
said in q spirit of candor
"At work with laughl l should say
so. Wll you tell me the time he hasn't been
at work here in Wllmington2 The captain
went out of politics when the other faction
either failed TO vote or backed Almond,
about as much as Levi Bird or Harry Pickles
go out Of politics every time they say they
do. He went to Washington soon after his
defeat and the other side thought they had
gotten rid of the Sampson who had been
pltted against them. But they hadn't. He
was as big man in city politics as ever, and
every time the Higgins men set up job
Gallagher knocked 1t over, even If he had
TO come up here and hit the blows in person.
| All this time, bOtween then and now he has
been acting the part of a sort of grim
political avenger, but he has stopped that
now. Having knocked the Higgins men
out Of time he is looking around for some
thing of advantage to himself"
"After an Office ~
"Yes IN prospective. The captain has an
ambition, and strange to say 1t is no higher
than his ambition carried him once before.
He wants to be chief engineer of the Water
| Department, and wires are being laid so
nicely now that If the Republican council
manic ticket is successful, chief engineer he
| will be-"
| CAPTAIN GALLAGHER's AMBITION.
This will be news TO good many people.
| That Captain Gallagher should again
become potent factor I'm local politics is
not so surprising In itself. His great influ-
ence Is well-knOwn, and his qualities as a
politician, and his ability TO organize his
own side has been admitted, even by his
bitterest foes. That he has taken a hand
again, then, will not of itself create sur
prise, and whatever else it may indicate, 1t
augurs well for the success of the Wales
faction, as a faction, If not so well for the
party whose standard-bearer DR.. Wales is,
as q party. CDR. Wales" said frank
Hastings committee man, "would never
have been nominated but for Captain Gala
CHER. No one else could have marshalled
the Wales ranks as he did, and the credit
largely belongs to his ingenuity and faculty
for organization.
And this is a fact. Some people now say
they can see the objects of the eX-Chief
Engineer of the Water Department and
declare that that object is to be Chief En-
gineer McIntire's successor. They may be
right and and they may be wrong, but II the
element baking DIR. Wales gets into power
It must stand to reason that in view of what
he has recently done and Is calculated to do
In the future, he will not be forgotten in
making up the slate for the city government.
On the heels of this suspicion that Captain
Gallagher is down for his old place at the
Water Departments head, comes a number
of significant moves in several wards tC
arrange the Republican councilmanic ticket
These indicate that If possible, men, accord
ing in sentiment with Captain GallaSher's
friends, will be nominated and put in Coun.
ell II possible. Without mentioning names
suffice 1t to say that such plans are under
way In several wards, most noticeable IN the
Third, Sixth and Eighth. zz.-l.
WALES UPHILL FIGHT.
The city campaign is now fairly open and
aside from little ward issues such as those
Just mentioned there seems to be neither
} activity nor enthusiasm among the Republi-
} caps. "The "bOys" do not rally around the
candidate for mayor any more than they
did at the last mayorality election and there
, is no denying the fact of disposition among
large portion of the party, leaders as well
| as workers, to permit the faction which
nominated DIR. Wales to have the proud and
, exclusive distinction of electing him. Money
Is needed and where the money is ia
l came from is question. The wing of th'
party which generally contributes liberalll
show no more disposition to supply thu
5 funds for the canvass than to lend thei
9 personal endeavor to helping 1t along. 1
!; was stated that the Dover junta would fur
! nish all the money Then it was stated tina
the Dover men had tried and failed. Nov
t the latest rumor is that they haven't tried a
s all and won't. Money will be needed Il
elect DIR. Wales, but the vexed question o
where It will come from still remains un
| settled.