St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-28
AND APPOINT TOM c0NRoY.
They Do This to Rid Them
selves of the Hungry
Horde
WHICH HAS HARASSED THEM
Beyond the Limit Of Human
EnduPanee--Politieal Shys-
tering Sublime.

| Jim Ahern, for many years clerk
| of the municipal court, will shortly
| be removed and either Tom Conroy
or Charlie F'airchild appointed to
| succeed him. The step has finally
| been determined upon by Judges
| Twohy and Orr, although they did
| not intend that the fact should be-
| come public property at this time.
| After several conferences it was
| agreed that Ahern should be request
| ed to step out and a man selected
| who would be satisfactory to all con-
| cerned. 1t is a well known fact that
Ahern, like many other Democrats
| in Office, has political enemies who,
having more or less influence, have
made things unpleasant for him, as
we'll as for those who hold the ap-
pointing power. So, in order to har-
| monte all factions, this course was
decided upon. Just how. Tom Con-
roy will harmonic both sides or
anything else is a mystery, but it
seems his chances of appointment
are better than Fairchild's. Conroy
has been a chronic political hanger
on, and for several years has done
nothing but apply for every office in
sight. The only thing he has ever re-
ce1ved was the election as justice of
the peace, and since leaving that he
has been on the lookout for every
thing else. He may suffer by reason
of being misunderstood, but as he
appears to be the only one who is
satisfactory to both sides, he will in
all probability step into Ahern's
shoes. The reasons for his selection
ARE PURELY POLITICAL.
In making a clerk of the municipal
court, eminent qualifications and
business capacity" are never taken
into account, though they entered
into Ahern's administration of af-
fairs. He happened to be possessed
of both.
1t is well-known fact that for the
past six months tremendous pressure
mas been brought to bear on Judge
EWohy to force him to agree to the APP
| po1ntment of a Republican clerk. I'm
prlnc1pled politicians who by freak of
I tate reached the offices of senator and
| representative have gone so far as to
| draw up a bill to abolish the municipal
| court, and threatened to pass it if
| Judge TWohy refused to. bow to their
| demands. These So-called Legislators
forgot the principle, and decency of
| their own profession by drafting this
| Dill designed against a brother lawyer
at the demand of the political scum
! ana ofnce-Seektng element, and Judge
| lWohy ana Judge, Orr wisely and
| promptly eScorned the idea of Welding
TO the pressure. They We're not. men of
that stripe. Since they have been har-
raised and pestered to such an extent
that life has been turned into a howl
ing bedlam for them, and they have
peen stopped and buttonholed. ca
| Joled, careSsed and threatened at every
| turn They have been rudely disturb
ed IN their offices, at their homes. and
even on the BENCH Sitting In the trial
OF case their eyes have, been glad
oened by the sight Of a horde of hun
| cry ofhce-seekers waiting like sharks
10 spring on their prey as soon as the
latter strayed beyond the protecting
dignity of their position.
They have been followed wherever
they have gone, and their lives have
taken on the Semblance of hollow
mockeries. In order to free them
selves from the agony and torture
above described, so that they might
nave time to attend to the business
before them, they have determined to
stop the cries of the vultures by ap-
pointing one of the number. It is
tough on Ahern, for he has been an
excellent clerk, accommodating and
efhclent at all times, but he is the
smallest Of the trio and must bear the
burden.