New-York daily tribune., 1845-05-28
On this Mr. George Wilkes charac'erlshcaiiI
City Politics.

That Justice Rober! Taylor was 10 be rejected a:
chief of the Police, was thing settled Is soon a:
the groggeries mad 80 resolved, but there was nc
need Of aad no excuse for, adding insult 10 injury
The speech of Mr.. Geo. II. Purser n the Board Of
Assistants on Monday evening was medley O.
Ioathsome hypocrisy and wanton caumny. Hr
preliminary prc,ence that hlsyo;e was dictated sole
" by considerations Of intrinsic fitness andwas un
infueRced by party, must have broughta blush ever
to the most intensely rubcund of the faces crowd
ed around him to yell appreciation of the act where
of he asput forth as the apoogist.
His talk of Justice Taylor as a political m3unte
bank and as one who had addressed 'tnttamma
tory ha,ungn.s to political factions is hardly re-
levedfrom contempt by its useie,s malignlty. JUS
tlce Taylor has two or three times read at Political
Meetings a ,critten essay on The CONSTITUTIONS O H'
United States, not at all 'irf1ammatory, and we
are assured scarcely partisan, md yet MI PufSef
induges in the meanness Of representing MIN as
"hot with the excitement Of political haransue,
denouncing in the customary tefnper Oh MS iac-
ton. the political and religious rsnts oil one OF inc
nor,ies." &c. &c. 1t takes boosted Lloeral 10
indulge in such language as we have quoted ron
Mr. Purser-TuE PEorLE will avense the Insult TO
Mr. Tavlor in their own time and manner.
Ars. The Loco.Focos OF our City have JUS. gone
through the farce of hold ng Ward Meetings 10 al-
proye the call of Constitutional Convention which
they scarcely lifted finger 10 promote, and which
their chosen representatives the State Senate did
their utmost to defeat Now they go for Conven-
lion all hollow, and in the Third Ward they re-
solved that "no inputatlcn OF bad motives, nor
ridicp!c, shall deter us from advocating Conven-
tom Glad to hear it, and hco- they will uote for
il as well.
of course the Tammany adheretns Of our City
20 TO the death for Wrigh's Veto and stopping the
Canals. This is one of the few principles which
they hold unchanged since lSl6-N. When they
were the most thorough in their support OF Pro-
tective Tariff and raised not whisper of objection
TO chartering National Bank, shey were deadly
in, their hostility 10 the pauper Canals and sent
Delegations 10 the Legislature 10 vote for filling up
: 'Clin,ons big ditch when about half dug. 1t Is
well that they hold on some'nhee, 20 show that they
arc the same people.
GJ> The Morning INt,os may "a we'll haul oil
about the Canal Business Nobody car doubt thai
it FIST mistook our extract from the Canal Board
Report of 1910 for passage from the Rugges Re-
port-that of 1888, with which alone Mr. Ruggles's
name has ever been specially identified. Now il
appears TO be thrpstng in still another Rcport-the
Board Report of lS39-to cover its retreat. Labor
lost
Let us say, once more, that even allowing the
Canal Tolls Of the last five years to have fallen
nine per cent below the Wing estimate Of 1888 OF
that of lS4o they prove the substantial soundness
of those estimates, which were based upon the ex-
pendiure of Five Millions of Dollars in each yeal
10 prosecute and bring into use ;he Erie Enlarge.
ment and Lateral Canals. Had this large amount
been expended on the Public Works throughout
there cannot be rational doubt that the Toll
would have been considerably Increased.