The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-09-09
system" OF Ruegles, Seward Co. the following sums
money were borrowed by the State


o'ois,'oi w
Grand total Slo,4lV,o7l u
Yet in the face of all these facts, the Journal has the
efronery persstenty charge the misiortunes OF the
canals aud the indebtedness under which tho people will
groan through years Of taxation, to what il ippantly
terms s'he stop law of 1S42 The law OF 1912 did not
stop the canals. Seward extravaganza ana prongacy
stopped them 1S4l, because capitalists would not lend
the 'more speedy impulse" politicians any more money
Pouck Erl Flagg and their compcers had me out, and
Rugglcs Seward CO. had come in and that sensitive
barometer the money market soon noted the change Ia
the financial atmosphere and ioreold the storm which
rapidly 1t must be agreeable TO the ''radcal de-
mocrats, now led into association with the Journal on
single question TO be obliged silently to submit TO this
daily impeachment in that paper OF thor action in 1892
Have they changed their views OF the canal and financial
Of that perodS DO they now endorse Rurrle
and Seward and repudiate Bouck, EARL, Hoffman
FaggS Does the Journal speak the views of the present
republican party questions of State policy, only
those of repudated nanccrs Ruggcs and Sewardf Per-
haIs the Radical democrats will answer the question.
From the Evening Journail
The Alas and Argus, in reply to our demand for the
responsible for the forty million debt" produces
the following
From 1893 ls42 under the more speedy impulse SYSTEM
OF Ruggles Seward Co.. the following sums OF money were
borrowed by the State
1870 ~
Grand total sls,4iO.sN q
A lame enough demonstration In the first place the
democrats had complete control of the State in 1885,
Gov Marcy Governor. Messrs. BOuck, Earl Young
&c, composed democratic Board of Canal Commission
ers and there was democratic majority in the Legisla
ture Although the wings elected their Governor in the
fall Of that year, the democrats retained power the
canals during 1889, and not until February, 1S40
that the wings got control of them When they did they
appropriations and contracts already made by their
democratic predecessors, that the democratic policy
these respects necessarily continued In 1871 the
democrats again carried the election and whatever debt
was contracted in 1912 they solely the authors Of
So that by its own showing the Atlas convicts its
democratic friends of at least twelve of the eighteen
millions it enumerates, and simple reference TO the his
Of those years shows Thorn in fact responsible for the
whole.
To what straits must journal be reduced for arguments
when it can find nothing better than the subterfuge Of
charging acts committed by its party when in power,
upon those who were at the time in the minority If this
is the best showing the Atlas make the less says
about the forty million debt hereafter the better it will
be for itself and for its political friends
from the Atlas August
Just tho friends of the canals gathering in Con-
vention to what they do for themus Messrs
Ruggles Co. contributing their poetical figures Of
speech supply the deficiency in their other figures which
ought make up the exhibit of revenues but which
only show deplorable dcfcits-ust at the moment
when the superior wisdom of the State is about to
bic at Syracuse to proclaim the policy of blocking up all
other Of commerce. in order TO give exclusive
privileges to the canals, the Evening Journal engages
the labor Of proving that the democrats responsible
and alone responsible for the Erie canal enlargement the
Chenango Canal the Gcnesee Valley canal &C. &c Demo
cratic legislatures passed the laws democratic governors
approved them democratic canal boards laid the plans for
all the work. The internal improvement party in this
State was the democratic party and no other.
What to be done with that period Of four years from
1889 to 1S43, in which Governor Seward at the helm
Of Statea period Of immense speculation enterprise,
pendture and debit In France the Bourbons ignore the
period of the revolution and Empire and leave
regnum royal annals between the regns Of Louis XVI
and Louis XVIII, filling it up with the imaginary Louis
XVII and in like manner, the Napoeonists ignore the
restoration and place record the reign Of Napo
leon H. setting aside all the intermediate royalties The
Of the seward era from the political history Of the State
| If democrats did everything, originated everything,
and contaminated everything in the way of internal
provemens, what becomes OF the second CntonS What
did he do? For what his administration known For
the pardon Of criminals and the parade of office?
| That is its history, as the Journal represents it.
THE CANAL CONVENTION.
From the Atlas and Argus Sept 81
The Canal Convention which met at Rochester Thurs
day does not seem to have attained any definite end or
to have taken any that will materially affect public
opinion.
who apparently despair of their party under It's pre-
sent management, and who anxious either give its
policy new direction or to seek out political
ganization
This, however, they must fail to do, so long they
pursue merely reuograde policy, seeking place impe
ment, and to obstruct the channels of trade.
The condition Of Canals is such to call for the
wise counsels of prudent They are great under
akngs, in which the interests Of the State deeply
involved 1t is idle and wicked to get up the false issue
Of sale of the public works, long the constitution
forbids their sale. The real and present problem
before the people is how shall they be administered
to the greatest efficiency at the least expense
them and the taxpayers who are threatened with the
burden Of their support.
This Convention does not to have been composed
of such men. There were doubtless honorable and
sble gentlemen in it, who spoke in the interests of the
canals and of the public but the greater number
politicians seeking TO influence the nominations of the ap
preaching State Conventions, and the emssaries of rail
roads, sent there to rail against the central line the chief
object of vituperaton.
The Ereng Journal ignores the existence of the Con-
venon-a significant course in paper which for scores
OF years has made its political capital in the way
the of this body propose to do the special
and exclusive friends Of the canals.