The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-10-02
since 1860, and the rate per capita for our en-

Rate
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k6l.........l ,62I 682 Fernando Wood. 1912
iSS.' iSSS % SDg So9 Sig SSiilgG9eoIge 9odyke ,ooo
lS6i.....,l ,l3 505 092 8e.....G. g. guntner. IL 10
lS65......... lS, ,203.0 .052 S6.-...C. q. Guntner.
lS66..... 10 $50 767 S3...J ohm n. Hoffman. 10 95
Is67.."...22, l76s7s S3.....John T. Hoffman, % II
1868 H Ia 9S3 W-....John I. Hoffman. 2ili
From the above it W i'll be seen that under
Mayor Opdyke, with currency DEPRECATED
so as to average during his term (lS62-3) only
20 cents on the dollar, the expenses of the city,
in greenbacks, were no greater in the total,
and somewhat less per head of the population,
than they had been in gold during the last two
years of Fernando Wood. In short, the two
years Of 0pdyke cost less in gold than the two
years of Wood by the difference between gold
and currency on $21, 900 600, or say $6,000,-
600. This cannot be due to rise in prices,
because gold, the key of all prices, Is
lower. 1t is not caused by increase of
population, because 1t is just twice as great
per capita. We shall show that it is due to
the operations OF that gang of political thieves
who have nominated John T. Hoffman for
Governor. These operations cannot be
termed stealing, because the word stealing
expresses neither their turpitude nor their
magnitude. As new term seems to be
needed, we brand them with at once the most
appropriate and opprobrious epChet that
occurs to us, viz, Workmanship. Workmanship
is the cooperation of politicians to plunder the
taxpayers in accordance with the forms of law
1t is a school of ethics which teaches that gov
ernments are instituted among men in order
that those who have charge of the treasury
may make Handsome thing" out of it. II
is regarded a Handsome thing in Hoffman
ship if an official on a salary Of $4,000 year
can spend $50, 900, and have net surplus of
100000 at the end of the twelvemonth. Lar
ceny is rude and unpublished form of Hoff-
manship. It steals, but it leaves the law
against stealing, plain and pure, on the statute
book. Workmanship applies to the Legislature
for an act specially authorizing what if done
without its authority would be stealing. An
honest man, or an officer who "sticks" at con-
scientious scruples, is rejected by Hoffman
ship" as an impractcable fool, sort of politi-
cal idiot. An officer who holds his tongue,
pockets his indirect bribe, sticks at nothing,
and stands by his friends, is promoted by Hoff-
manship to be Acknowledgements
| To illustrate the operation of Hoffmanship
we begin building Court House in 1861
| which ought honestly to have been completed
two years ago for $4,000, 900. 1t has already
cost us nearly s5000,0O0, is incomplete, and
will cost us 81, 100000; 80, 100000 have been
| spent on it under the sanction of Mayor Hoff-
man. Who gets the wasted three, four, or
five millions Let as see. On September 16,
| 1861, the Board Of Supervisors resolved to
| build it of marble. On the 23d of the same
month one Of the Supervisors, on private
account, engaged marble quarry at Sheffield
| for $3.50, which he and his associates after
wards bought in fee for S30S0, making their total
investment $4330. Two responsible firms in this
city offered to supply the entire marble for the
building, one for $3.50, 900, and the other for
| S125, 600. The Court House Commissioners
tried to get the marble thus in open market at
the lowest terms. The Supervisors fought
| them, defeated them, and two years ago the
city had already paid 1920 900 for marble to
the supervisor who had taken up his resi-
dence at the Sheffield quarry, and to his asso
ciates. Soon after they sold the quarry for
100000 more. Here was nice little ''plum"
of ST. l00,0 900 obtained according to law' and
to the science of Workmanship. Whatever
share OF it is wanted to help elect Hoffman we
wager will be forthcoming. BY the same
policy of Workmanship" the contract for the
iron work was awarded privately, at far
higher figures and to less responsible parties
than could have been secured had the con-
tracts been awarded, after due public compe-
titiop, to the lowest bidder with responsible
sureties. So of the other contracts.
On the same policy Of Workmanship" the
sum Of $lO8, 209 32 was expended in supplying
the armories of our city militia regiments with
black walnut furniture, including such items
as As b lack walnut chairs at SAC each. The
further sum of 500, l52 55 was expended on
carpets, painting, plumbing and other luxu-
ries of camp life. By the same policy of Hoff-
|
from the veins of the taxpayers, by one of Hoff.
mans principal adjutants, under pretense Of
publishing (H) the city's advertisements in q
pretended newspaper called the Transcript
which has virtually no subscription list, and
perhaps 1000 gratuitous circulation.
BY the same policy of Workmanship the city
was invited to pay eighty thousand dollars fol
the clerical labor OF preparing the report and
surveys OF the Commissioners of Estimate or
the opening of Church street. The same
policy of Hoffmanship, after paying to its cor
poration counsel for salaries and CLERK hire
$25, 600 year, sum equal to the salary of the
President of the United States, and three times
that of his Cabinet officers, still, in one period
| OF twenty-five months, pays $44, Gil so il
counsel fees to other lawyers, of whom one
alone receives $21, 727'50, and another $9775
The same policy of ''sieal and let steal
causes the Common Council to pay a noted
politician, and supporter of Hoffman for Gov.
ernor, $lS 000 year for the rent of premises
not worth $6000 and neither fit nor occupied
for the purposes for which the city is made tc
hire them.
Need we continue dd nousedm the enumera
ton OF these multiplied schemes of robbery
and plunder over which Hoffman and Hoffman
chip preside 1t is by these, with Hoffman al
Lord OF Misrule, that our taxessin New Yorl
have swelled from twelve millions of dollars
per annum to twenty four millions. FreemeI
OF New York, do you want to see your annua
revenues parcelled out among the harpies wht
are now fatteDing on our street contracts ? d.
you want to invest twenty millions in STATE
Capitol, after the manner in which we are
building our Court House Do you want t
| buy marble suarries for 81 800 600, which cos