St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-24
HIS RECORD SHOWN WITHOUT
THE AID OF AN X r.se
RAY.
NARROW IN ALL THAT HE DOES
TION AND EXERCISING PER-
SONAL SPITE.
HE v1L1FIED SCHOOL TEACHERS
ar That Attends SchOO1-What
Vote for Him Means.


election to the assembly. For two terms he
has sat in that body and made holy show of
himself on nearly every question that has
come up. He has time and time again given
exhibitions Of his savage spite, his nasty tenn
per, his narrow ideas. his slanderous tongue,
his absolute disregard to the citys interest.
His Republican colleagues have blushed at his
harangues and hung their heads at his verbal
assaults on innocent women, and then excused
1t by saying, "Oh, nobody pays any attention
to Tim Reardon." He has been coarse and
vindictive. selfish and thoughtless, and has
made record without a parallel in the his
tory Of the city council of st. Paul. On top of
all this he asks the sensible voters of St. Paul
to tolerate him two years more.
1t doesn't matter at what point or upon
what issue the record of Reardon is investi-
gated 1t is vulnerable at all points. He has
been known, 1t is true, to vote upon the right
side of question, but his associates in the as
sembly and others who are accustomed to at
tend the meetings will recall the loud and SOL
itary noes which he shouts in response to
the roll call on measures that meet with the
approval of all his associates and all sensi-
ble fair-minded men. But before pointing out
the more fragrant instances Of his obstructive
tactics 1t is interesting to note far more
serious and reprehensive trait of character
which rendered this man so obnoxious to his
associates, and so conspicuously unfit to sit
in the common council. Reardon is nothing, if
not vilifer of his fellow men. AS a COM
mon slanderer he has placed himself on record.
1t is question if he stops at his fellow man.
Witness his wholesale charges against the
morality Of the public schools of st. Paul,
which charges not only included the pupils
but were also leveled at the teachers He ut
tered these charges publicly shortly after his
reelection two years ago. They were scat
tered broadcast, and, false though they were,
who can estimate the injury they worked upon
the institution dearest to the heart of the
people? mere private citizen guilty of so
gross and heinous a slander would deserve the
severest punishment. What should be done
with public official, representative of the
people, who, speaking in that capacity, pro-
claims that he public schools are hotbeds of
immortality, and seeks to blacken the char
acters Of the women teachers and their pupils /?
Should such a man be elected to office
again?
Is such man worthy of the confidence of
the people? ~
Is he loyal citizen?
Is he a man?
From the beginning Of Reardon's second
term of office he has continued his slander-
Gus assaults upon the city's servants and in
stitutions. He finally grew bold that he
began to impugn the motives of his fellow
assemblymen, when they differed with him,
but he overstepped the limit upon one oc>
casion when he intimated that some of them
were interested in a brick manufacturing
concern, and was sharply called down by his
Republican colleagues, as we'll as the Demo-
cratic members. Whenever Reardon is call
ed upon to make good" one of his sweeping
charges he always retracts behind some such
excuse as this:
"Well, I don't know anything Of my own
knowledge, but that's what I've been told -
or That's what I've heard, on pretty good
authority
But occasionally the defamer is caught and
his own infamy exposed. This occurred to
Reardon when both bodies of the common
council met jointly at the close of the past
year for the purpose of electing a building
inspector. Upon that occasion Reardon dem
onstrated the difference between his method
Of securing an affidavit and the usual prac-
tice followed. AS an afidavit-getter Reardon
is an expert. In the hope of defeating the
Democratic candidate for building inspector,
William Kingsley, who is the present in
cumbent of that Office, Reardon handed up to
the clerk, a document purporting to be an
affidavit OF woman, in which the affiant
charged Mr.. Kingsley with defrauding her
out of small sum of money. The document
bore the signature of notary public to the
usual acknowledgment clause. Aid. Brady
asked Reardon If he was prepared to say that
the notary was not half mile away from
the woman who signed the document, when
he took her acknowledgment. In reply Mr..
Reardon retorted that the question was i'm
pertinent Aid. Brady thereupon informed
the council that If Reardon was not prepared
to answer the question, he laid. Brady was,
and that he could prove that the notary was
more than a mile away from the afiant (0
when he affixed his signature to the &C
acknowledgement. This statement was never
disproyed, for it could not be. 1t further
appeared that prior to the day the council
meeting took place, Reardon had fourished
his affidavit" in one of the principal sa-
looms of the city and had displayed it in
other public places, with the boast he would
Elk that man Kingsley"
Reardon's record in the council reveals an
other of his amiable and statesmanlike quail
ties. His vote Is dictated entirely by his
personal feelings in all matters in any way
likely to involve them. If the employees of
the police department and the city engineers
Office could be deprived of their salaries for
twelve months year, Reardon would be
happy. Why? Because he hates and fears
Chief Of Police John Clark, and cannot abide
City Engineer Rundlett.
His hatred Of Mr.. Rundlett was the cause