New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-10-29
THE HOFFM4N ENC.

Do orr rural friends appreciate the power OF
q Ring2 If not, let them suppose themselves
residing in q city where an association for
plundering the taxpayers exists. ana 10 known
as the Tammany Society. 1t lays the t0unda-
ton for its operations by entering into
solemn league and covenant with the tens OK
thousands of liquor-sellers, gamblers. policy
players, rat-killers Observation-Disclosures, sailor
skinners, thieves, defrauders of the reve-
nue., smugglers, and rufiians generally. The
covenant ia in substance that in all their
contests with the morality, intelligence, aud
conscience of the age, tho Tammany hing VIII
be the champion of the base and tile VICIOUS,
against reform and deceney. early, late ana
all the time This league secures voters
enough to carry the city for the iahfhahy
Ring, eecting their Common Council Board OF
Supervisors, Mayor, n majority OF tue Judge"
of all the Courts, and nearly all our meEiben
of Congress, the Legislature, and local oibcers
Let us suppose proposition got mp to present
each of the grand Sachems of the Tammany
Society with hundred thousand dollars. 10
ia done as follows: A tool OF the Ring applies
to the Ring in the Common Council TO pass an
ordinance for widening Pearl-st. Jhe Ring in
tho Council passes the ordinance. The Ring
Mayor signs it. The Ring Corporation Counsel,
appointed by the Ring, puts it through before
the Ring Judges in Court If taxpayers
contest II, references arc ordered 70
the Rings referees, and the Ring makes
more out Of IL than ever. Commissioners OF
the Ring estimate the damages sustained by
the Ring owners. Judges OF the Ring assess
the fees and costs. If they cannot legally be
made TO amount to the required sum, the Ring
legislators get few figures into the tax bill
nj Albany. which "fxn the matter and the
Ring opens its capacious nav, and it is filled
from the public purse till it can hold no more.
John T. Hoffman is part of a Ring of this
kind. He is neither better nor worse than hrs
associates. Why does he yearn to surrender
an Office whose salaries are S23,0OO year, ana
whose patronage amounts to millions, III ordef
10 obtain an Office whose salary Is $4,000, and
whose legitimate patronage is confined 20 thu
power to let the thieves out OF State Prison,
and appoint them Judges OF the COurtsf Mr.
Hoffman is political adventurer. lie has
made his money, notl like John A. Gllswold,
by enterprise and sagacity in the conduct of
great manufacturing business, but blythe opor-
atoms of the Ring, which puts and
keeps him in Office How is the Gov
ernorship TO bring more "shekels" ints
the purse of such man than the Mayoralty
How are Sweeny, Tweed g. Co. to be rewarded
for making him Governors We DO not oilcr
Republican testimony on this point. Ex-Judge
Morris of Brooklyn, delegate to the STATE
Democratic Convention, and one of the bodies
and ablest men of bis party, spoke as follows
in the Convention of the Ring which nomi-
mated John Il. Hoffman for Governor:
''The Ring" he SAIL must have ALL and all muss
bend that Ring Give them tchat they are nO,o SEEK
ing wiz control OF politics in the state and they
will not be satisfied They will demand to control Tia
Federal patronage should Horao Seymour be elected.
Let them once secure that and ne unfinished Court.
House and Hke jobs Of theirs rH S into ifgaif caHo
rhen compared rih Vhat ney icH undertake 4" de sdrts
line We know them well. and tell YOU that there ~
end 10 TIER selshHesS which asks all when cannot
demand but demands all Whenever It has the power t
insist When came to Albany what did We hndf
We found erery lo66ysi whether Democrat Re
publican employed ,ooyki1 far tAeD aud their candidGts
Much rs he respected John T. Hoffman, he felt that the
combination referred to ought not to Do permitted
tolerated"
These charges have never been denied or
answered. They show that the rottcnncss
which pervadcs the government of our city
will spread like leprosy over the entire State.
unless Republicans work with their might aud
elect John A. Griswold.