The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-07-15
TOM CONROY TO WIG-WAG
WILL HANDLE HON. TIMOTHY
REARDON'S FLAG
Since He Has Settled w. II. john
son He Has Time to Direct the
Canvas of His Fourth Ward
Friend for the Nomination of
SherifY-BOb Seng and His POlit-
icaI Ambitions Causing Worry.

Now that Tom Conroy feels that he
is safe in his job, he has started in
earnest on the campaign that he fondly
believes is to land Tim Reardon in the
sheriffs office. The doughty Tom will
manage Tim. He will have for his
principal lieutenant Shell Blakeley.
Tim now resides in the Fourth, and it
would never do for a man out in the
Second to manage his campaign with
out a Fourth ward connection, so
Shell has been annexed to the Reardon
Juggernaut, and it will be started at
once.
Tim Reardon moved out of the Ninth
and into the Fourth some time ago.
He moved for two reasons: He had
property interests in the Fourth and
the Ninth is a bad place for Tim to
run for alderman. Ed Murphy would
be likely to interfere with his running
very far or very fast. Hence, the re-
moval. 1t was like going back home
for Timothy, for it is written some
where in the history of this town that
Timothy Reardon once upon time
was an alderman from this same
Fourth ward. Things have changed
though since Tim was young, and he
found that the vacant chair had been
filled, and he was left standing alone
a chieftain without a tribe. SO Man
ager Conroy proceeded to annex a con-
nection within the party. Therefore, is
it that Shell Blakeley will be the local
representative of Tim in his own ward
and will proceed to clean Maj. Libbey
up.
Seng's for the nomination for sher-
iff has got to be made good at
once, one way or the other. 1t appears
that w. L. Ames wants the office of
county assessor. He is not particular
as to whether Mr.. Seng gets the nomi-
nation for sheriff or not, but he is not
going to stand by and see deal made
between Kiefer and Seng. He wants
to know, and he would have the infor-
nation at once: Is Seng going to be
candidate for sheriff or for reelection?
If Seng wants to be assessor
again, then it is likely that Ames will
at once go to work to do him next
March. That will interfere with a COM
bination, for D. Fauntleroy Sullivan
has got to play with Mr.. Seng in order
to get his own irons out Of the fire.
Whereby he will bring down upon his
head the wrath of Ames, and the lat
ter is not to be held lightly in the
councils of the G. o. P. He showed
last spring that he could start some
thing If he wanted to. 1t is all getting
into a beautiful muddle.
Meanwhile, the mayor is having a
bad time for himself. 1t is not enough
that he should be held up on street cor
ners to listen to delegations who have
the interests Of certain candidates at
heart, but that nationality balance
sheet Of his is giving him trouble The
Job that was handed over to Taller
Stadfield, to get the place of nativity
of the parents of all policemen with
Irish names. is not, 1t seems, quite cor
rect. There are people whose memory
goes back to 1890 and the census fight
and who remember the peculiar awk-
wardness of Mr.. Stadfield with fig
ures then. Some of them have been to
the mayor and told him Jake was all
in the air with his figures, investiga-
tion showed this to be true and now 1t
has all got to be done over again. 1t
seems that making two generations of
American birth the standard will tie
up the German end worse than it will
the Irish and the police regeneration
will have to be worked out on some
other basis yet to be discovered.