Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-07-24
THE CALLED JADE WINCES.
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IaE WALLED JADE W lNCBS.
We clip the following from the CAronicle Of
to-day:
I'VE cannot forbear few words to the Ere.
ni70 Star about Jobs and the lobby in con-
nection with the course Of the Chronicle on
District matters The habit of the city officials
and their hordes OF defenders is to charge in
terested motives upon everybody who inter.
feres with their plans. This habit was born Of
slavery, and has not died with slavery Our
own best defence, If we needed any, would be
In the fact that we have always opposed the
money aking jobbers and operators, and have
always advocated Improvements for the bene-
lit of the public, without having any more in
terest IN them than any one Of the thousands
who pray for their success. ~ We have
never spent shilling in Inequalities, or shared
In the festivities of others, to promote the pas
have favored. C2.) The case is very different
with the Star and its municipal friends. The
whole city government Of Washington is one
great job, enjoyed by the few, to the injury of
the many, and the most conspicuous slobby
agency during the session just closing have
been the Mayor and his associates. (3) We
have proved that the canal has been pretext
for expenditure, and hence for profit only to
them, Tor many years. We have proved that
almost millions of money have been collected
and expended, and never accounted for by
them. a. Lake Mr.. Carrots Baltimore and
Ohio railroad between here and the city of
onuments, there are available franchise and
woe TO the wretch who attempts to reduce these
inroads by competition. Hence the steady hos.
tiIity of Mayor wallach to every northern man
and measure, his hatred of emancipation, his
horror Of negro suffrage. his cold indifference
during the war, and his steady opposition TO
the elevation and education of the colored peo-
pie. (5) The success OF either of these would
be the depreciation of the valuable lob upon
which he and his compatriots have revelled
Tor so many years. 1t Is all fair to raise the
yell of selfish motives against others, but when
the good public knows that all these elegant
gentlemen have very valuable estate in this
same city government, and that they are re-
Enl ferhr hor hafOr
from their rich pastures, the cry of "jobs" and
lobby agents" against the Chronicle sounds
very much like the cry of "stop thief"
(iD Here is virtue for you in solid chunks,
DISTINGUISHED ID. q. F.. Who but the publisher
of the Chronicle has 'salways opposed the
money making jobbers and operators" (oh y
and who but he advocates the corporate
schemes solely for the benefit Of the public"
(oh oh y without any interest In them what.
ever ooh oh oh ~ So the eighty or ninety
more or less-schemes in which the name of
the publisher OF the Chronicle figures as a cor.
porstor, and in which most of the smart specu.
lators Of the country are concerned, were
originated and lobbied for so zealously. solely
and purely for the public good, This bears
Bannagher, We are afraid 1t will not be
credited 1T this end of the town. We doubt
even, If IL will be belle we'd by the proyerbiaIIy
cTedulous gentlemen who occupy the bar.
racks at the other end-the marines! Whv.
so well understood in this community Is the
''dlsinferested" nature OF the Chronicles Con.
gressional 'jobs" that it is street joke as com.
mon as goose pasture. that the name of the
publisher of the Chronicle appears in every
corporate scheme before Congress, with the
single exception Of the one incorporating the
District Temperance Society Its not charged
that the Chronicle men could not stand even
total abstinence, If it was made werth their
while, but a cold water job with no money in il
Is a touch above even their Roman yirtue
The amount of disinterested absorbedness in
the public welfare they have at stake in In !.
Canal and Sewerage Company Job is not
readily compatible. We venture to estimate
it at about sl25,0OO to each corporation.
(2D Nobody, we believe, has CHARGED thu
Chronicle with spending the money; that was not
tneir part OF the programme, but somebody Of
Their gang spent money, and good deal of IT,
t'-) The Chronicle shows stupidity as well "a
mahgnlty in this silly charge of corruption
against the municipal authorities We NAV he
pardoned for saying here, what the Chronicle AT
heart must know, that if ever there was a mn
nicipal officer whose skirts were clear of such
a charge II is the present incumbent of thu
Washington chair OF Mayoralty. We doubt n
there ever was municipal officer who con-
Quoted the affairs Of his charge with mora
scrupulous, sensitive care to avoid even an
opening for censure on this score This fact is
well known to everybody here having the
slightest knowledge regarding our city affairs
As 10 The other members or the city Govern.
ment, the city Councils, &c, we apprehend
that they need defence quite as little as does
the Mayor We hav'nt seen any Of them look
ing very much gorged by Corporation plumber
Croz Noyes, MeCathran, George Wright Tai.
bot, Mead, and the rest of 'em hay'nt pur.
chased any palatial mansions or suburban vii.
las ont of the spoils, so far as is known. See
ing them in their dingy quarters at the CITY
Hall, arrayed in clean but cheap summer cos.
tune, plying their ten cent palm leaf fans ana
tagging away at the routine Of city legislation.
~ certainly never struck us that thew were
gaining much fat at the Corporations expense.
Dd an body ever near Of a Washington Coun.
Gilman making ten cent bat, even, by steal
ipgsI We did. Possibly the CITY treas.
ury suffered for those palm.lea fans but that,
Wei bet hat, Is the extent Of their plunder.
(i.) Proceed II, did you,-when and wherel
What shall be thought of paper that DELHI
erately utters a falsehood so easily disproyed.
There Is not cent Of expenditure and recent
that does not appear regularly in the statement
q the receipts and Expenditures of the corno
ration published ann ually, and which animal
tiaiem' mt Is within reach Of every person in
the city. These annual published statements
ior the years IN which Mayor Wallach has
Deen ID ONCE show that instead Of 6. milIion.,,
OF canal money having been collected and ex.
Penoeo' unaccoonted for, that the asgresste
receipts from the canal during his term has
been something over 30, 900, and the expendi.
lures about sl6OG0, thus far
II oy the "millions'' unaccounted fsr-for the
ChToHiete IL muddy as well as maliensnt-th.,
paper means the general receipts and expsndi-
lures The allegation equally false. for. AZ
above stated, every item Of receipt and expen.
diture appears in the annual statement.
To- he Chronicle writer simply betrays his
lgn ORANGE Of the antecedents of Mayor Wal.
ZACH. His hatred Of emancipation,"-why.
II Is perfectly well known In this community
10 every body but the Chronicle emanciparion
fsdgIirg g, just topped out from the Breckiu.
ridge nest, that Mayor wallach was an orir,.
pal emancipationIst. advocating IL years aso.
rot a negro phobist, but from the belief that
slavery was an incubus upon the prosperity
IF the States where IL existed. II Is perfeetly
well known here that Mayor Wallach gave