The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-09-11
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seymour and the New York .'RIng.''

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| at the New York State Democratic
Convention, last week, the Tammany
| and Mozart Hall Democratic "rings" OF
New York quarrelled, and told some
wholesome truths of each other. Ihe
Tammany "ring" was successful, and
nominated Hoffman for Governor. One
of the Mozart Hall leaders, when the
nomination for Lieutenant Governor
was pending, made the following re-
marks about the Tammany "ring:"
ave of Kings know them; we have
been lured by them. They came to us
when tEey wanted the organization OF
the Assembly, and sought to bargain.
They secured the organization, but
when we who pay some $500, 600 toward
the support OF the Metropolitan Police
Department asked for one commits
sioner last winter, we were denied. The
ring must have all, and all must bend
to that ring. Give them what they are
now seeking, viz: the control OF our
politics in the State, and they will not
be satisfied. They IOiLL demand control
of the B'eneTaE patronage, should Sey-
nol1' be elected. and he will be elected.
Let them once Secttre that. and the HTltfH-
iShed court house and like jObS of theirs
tUiH sink into i7tSig1liJicunce 1CIle1I com
pared to IDhdt they Gpitt undertake f7I the
same line. We know them we'll, and
we tell you that there Is no end to their
SeLtiSlnesS, which asks all when it can
not demand, but which demands all
whenever it has the power to insist"
This is warning the country cannot
afford to neglect. IfSeymour is elect.
ed President, the New York ring"
whose corruptions, swindles, jobs, and
stealings from the people have render
ed tho city government of New York
Infamous for years, will remove their
headquarters to Washington, and the
plumber of the United States Treasury,
for the next four years, Will exceed
anything ever dreamed of in the way
of rascality. The people have fair
warming, from The Democrats of New
York themselves-a warning uttered
in the Democratic State Convention of
New York, and not denied by single
Democrat there-that, II Seymour is
elected, the Taxpayers of the country
will be plundered and swindled by the
Shrewdest, boldest, most rapactous and
most merciless "ring" of political job
bers and thieves ever known to Ameri-
can history. The vast 'tjobsn by which
this "ring" has plundered the city of
New York will sink into insignif1-
cance," we are told, compared with the
robberies they will perpetrate in Wash
ington, Mt the expense of the people of
the United States.
There has been great complaint made
over the corruption existing in the
Government departments under An
drew Johnson's administration. The
honest tax-payeys of the country have
been cheated out of over One Hundred
Millions of Dollars year in the one
article of the whisky tax, and out of
another Hundred Millions on other
articles. Corruption has crept into all
the offices. Revenue Collectors have
formed regular bargains with gangs of
thieves. But the greatest of al these Uit-
LGinicS has been PeTpetrGtei IN Net0 York
ojF1t EUarU dollar Of tax thnS pVR0p0.
by swindling. the honest Taxpayers
have had to pay, or will have to pay.
If sthe Government had received the
Two Hundred Millions of Dollars out
of which it was swindled last year, il
would have paid off Two Hundred
SO much interest, and saved SO
much 10 the honest Taxpayers; for
the honest taxpayers have got to pay
the debt, and, ofcourse, have to make
up every dollar lost through the rascal
ity ofthe dishonest Taxpayers. IfSey-
"Ring" of the whole country, we are
assured from Democratic sources, is to
be moved TO Washington, to take full
possession of the Government. The
Government offices, all over the coun-
try, will be farmed out to members OF
the ring" In four years, 1t Is Propa,,
BILE not less than Six or Seven Hundred
Millions of Dollars will be swindled
out OF the Government, every dollar of
which will be added 10 the burdens of
the honest Taxpayers of the country.
In fact, the United States will be gov
erned by New York clique. There
will no longer be a North, South, East or
West; but only a New York band of
thieves. The people cannot afford to
neglect this warning, coming as it does,
from New York Democrats, who know
whereof they testify.