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Show ELECTION REMINISCENCES, Was Sopjrlntenileot o Walervjorks Ryan a Victim of Jobbery? A a'roiiilneiit liberal l-nllllrlaii an mates uiul Telia lion II us tloue. A well known Liberal politician ' who lias corralel many Totes for his party In years that are pulsed but who claims to have been Ignored by those whom he hat assisted loolllce, said to a Nk3 reporter this mornlngi "I , iiollcuthst the paper you represent Is having n good doil if fuu nt the ex. psnso of tho city waterworks department. depart-ment. That Is all right; the publio laughs with you Jllut this should also bo romemberoJ that thu fellows who draw full pay for the small nmountof work they do are also laughing laughing at Ihu soft snap they have got. I havo to give) ou some pointers as to h w things aro run lu tnal department, rue city council should su to It at oncu that the hialtli commissioner, sanitary Inaiwctor and some good detectives weru turned loose on It with-out with-out delay with n lull ttock'ot dlslnfec-lanla dlslnfec-lanla and Hull laiitirnr. "I have remained quiet for a long time-," roulliiuod urn gentleman, "because I have taiou aihamed to acknowledge the rottenness that existed ex-isted lu my aily, hut things have atilvtd at that stage when I don't feel like ro iiatnlug silent auy longer. Drunkenness und kindred evils exist to nu alarming extent and tho city lays thu bill. It's a sliamoend should bu toj ;ed. "Now, I am going lottllyou something some-thing you don't know, something the 1 ublla has Hover heard. It It Hut! A slnglo man whose name It la not necessary to urn Hon and who docs husluss in thu western part of the city aud who Is kuowu by ever) hobo In Ills district has got n 'pull' and bslnt, more than ordinarily ilrver ho pulls very hard and well. Ho keeps a bonding houso and saloon, v. Itt stdo Issues lu dlirereut ails o, Iho city, "'hen ho Indicate, tnal a certain Individual Indi-vidual bo tlvon employment, hla wish Is nt once acceded to. The result would bedlsailrouslf It were otherwise "1 Ills gentleman wolked his wires well rtor to and at tho last city election. You will remember that Mr. Ityan was n candidate for city marshal. To guarantto success It wst absolutely necessary to havu the assist-nncuof assist-nncuof hla Irlcnd in the western part uf town. This friend pledged himself to ltynn but covertly did all in his pow er to defeat htm and he succeeded, too. "Now I will tell you why ho did not waul 11) an to I u elected marshal. As tongas the latter was superintendent of waterworks thu friend was suru tu gethlseniloyesat his hiarJIng houso aud saloons. It was money In his pocket. Had Ityan been elected marshal some other iersiu would havo been chosoo to fill the olllceof waterworks superintendent aud It wai evident that a rusn could not be found for that rosltl u to clearly In harmony with tho rnanho lulled Ihu strings. Yes, this man wanted Ityan as superintendent of water-tioika, water-tioika, and hu wanted hint badly, but bo did not want him tor marshal; set? "Aiiothcrthlnil would like to any, and that Is, that 1 will bet a thousand dollars to ouu there are uot six tsxpsy-irt tsxpsy-irt ulwotk for Ityan, and they aru retty nearly all single men, too.I havu recommended men lor work mon with families, but they don't get.lt, and that It why 1 am around." |