The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-11-22
The Charter Elec,ion-The Ring Mt It's Old

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The Charter Eiecsion-The Ring mt Iss Old
Tricks.
The overthrow OF the Tsmmany and Fer
nando Wood candidate In the county election
by majority of twenty thousand, and the
defeat of the Baron Won Hoffman and his
famous mustache by a majority of fifteen
thousand in the State, might very well have
been supposed to have disposed of the "ring"
and to have put final stop to their intrigues
and enterprises But recent events show that
the men who have so long fattened upon the
city and enjoyed the good things Of life at the
expense of the taxpayers are not going to
yield the control Of twenty million dollars
a year, with all its jobs and commissions, its
pickings and sealings, without hard struggle.
The approaching charter election begins to
develop some exceedingly ingenious thimble-
rigging tricks on the part Of the "ring" opera
tors. First, we had Comptroller Brennan's letter
to few wealthy citizens, who signed what they
supposed was character for him upon
leaving his place, "a a mistress will some
times do for maid when she wants
to get rid of her. In this letter Brennan
pitched into certain persons and made
parade of pretended honesty and show of
retiring from the contest for the Comptroller
ship. II was thought to be very cunningly
devised coup d'ftot, designed to divert public
attention from Brennan until late hour of the
canvass, and is generally supposed to have
been concocted and written by Peter Bogus
Sweeney or Peter Blatherskite Sweeney or
Peter Buncombe Sweeney, or probably by
Bogus, Blatherskite and Buncombe Sweeney,
all in one. Next we had the resignation Of
Street Commissioner Cornell, by which Judge
Whiting was temporarily nonplussed, and the
nomination by the head of the "ring" Of Mr..
Isaac Bell as his successor. Yhe Aldermen
hung up Mr. Bell, and the result is that Tweed,
who is included in the charges OF corruption
made against Cornell and who has always fur
nished the political brains to run the Office for
the benefit of the "ring," remains in as Street
Commissioner and has the patronage and
sands Of the department under his thumb until
after the charter election.
From all this it is evident that Hoffman, Peter
Balderdash Sweeney, Tweed & Co., have
resolved to run Brennan again for Comptroller
as the Tammany ''ring" candidate, and to hold
on to the Street Commissioners office until
after election In order to use 1t for his success
At present there is no prominent candidate in
the field. The two Connollys. Mike and Dick,
are busting about on their own account, but
they do not amount to anything, and will have
to wait few years longer before they get the
key Of the city stronghold into their hands.
The real object Of all the Sweeneys is to secure
the reelection OF Brennan, and he is their only
candidate. We want our taxpayers and respect
able citizens to thoroughly understand that all
Peter Blubbering Sweeney's tears and protcs-
tations are make-believe, and that his true
design is to put Brennan on the track at late
day, when his merits cannot be fully discussed.
Brennan, il is well known, is in no respect fit
for the Office. He has neither sense, education
nor financial ability. Neither his training in
the grogshops OF tho Five Points nor
his experience on the police, as constable
or justice, fiji him for the chief financial Office
in the city. His completely with the ring"
renders him above all an undesirable person
for the position. Since he has been Comp
troller it is a notorious fact that the city Office
holders who are in the "ring" have all grown
to be wealthy men, and that persons who have
had salaries Of FIVE or six thousand dollars a
year have accumulated property and lived in
style that fifty thousand dollars year would
not cover. And yet Peter Brazen Sweeney
pretends that Brennan is not friendly to the
''ring" Let our respectable citizens and in
dependent voters remember that the true
game OF Tammany is to spring Brennan upon
them as a candidate for Comptroller, and let
them make up their minds to vote against him
and not to be cajoled and wheedled over by
Peter Buttonhoe Sweeney.
The MYSTERIOUS INFLUENCE or THE HERALD
Some of our contemporaries are very much
exercised about the extraordinary influence Of
the HERALD, and think that, like Providence, we
move in mysterious way our wonders to per-
form. According to their account the HERALD
manages and regulates everything in a most
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