, 1869-03-26

/ y ,be stsi4 ii teaanes: TE6. eoi1ed serpent
viii then boldly staiae his haa4 1ud hiss &c!
dates 70 q abcut him, ind, NM have hsae
70 'ea q q teisr IL to lev facts which will show
thai these statements a1e not exaggerated.
i. 60 long - this present msnhsers can
create and sell ttock at pleasure, ho" eau
their reelection b prevented, evsn II inc
soa.s q ~ st having 59F'sde9,oHp ID @ops .,
decisiop adverse to Erie -.
.. It DOES not require any argument to
nrnve that corporation managed by three
men who kynpath1ze with Tamnany Hail.
nnder the adyice Of Peter y. a~eeny aud
cunstances viii permit to uphold and Der,
peruatc the dominion OF fammRny, and ::
tserehy enabla Taumany to keep the Eeie
1ne1 msnsgers IN their placed. IT viii bo mose
| ihan The sword and the purse united.
5. The IErIe Railwa J, and iss branches. runs
auenlial agents IN most Of them, and many
emrioyee ID each. In every town 1t pays
| money and eKerts influence. It Is easy TO-
| see how il may poll scores Of votes 70 each
town, aud otheTHIe decide An election. Il
It has elected twenty ulcmbers this. 5ear. T.
can readily elect thirty next. And when IT
II noted that, from its seventeen Directors
thfs year, three are msmbass OF the Lsetsh-
ture' this estimate may be considered very
moderate - to it, political tendency And
!. lie regular earnings OF the Erie AID 4.
old branches are ab31r SIS, ,ooo, 900, and 1t
| has more than twelve thousand men II lsa
employ In this State. Now that the com
pany has become tho polIt,ca1. aliy Of Tam.
many Hall, need Its agents eyer want funds
O, Its candidates votes. II the committee
! or The Senate tud that $500, 900 Was set apart
in lump itr Albany use, beforn this alliance
was cobsummRted, Is 1t dln1cult 10 1maeloe
what may happen In the futute! When
aucceeded In discovering anything which the
Ere manage1t have not chosen or wlahed to
disclose. csn they hesitate In the futurc to
do any thing whieh party leaders and party
e1Gcncies may demand
). 1slt not apparent that, even without re-
sorting to the use Of naturalization papers,
/ ~ Is believed to bare been the case last fall,
tho Exgaciuus distribution Of thaso l6,oo0
men Eg the Tine, Just prior to elections,
would enable the Esie md Tamm,ny man, !,
along ihc Erie and It's branchess
6. But even these Gacis do oot Indicate the
magnitude and probabilities OF this new po
lltlcal power.
sfnee ihe fortunes Of Tammany and Eds
| were united tbs Erie usutpxa hare, In viola
ton Il law ard In the name Of that company,
leased a considerable railroad In No II Jersey
have leased the atlantic and Great Western
Railroad. being several hundred miles O.
road IN New York, Pennsyl!asia and ohto
|
DaJ ton Read, and have purchased aud pu
, IN operation 1 line OF twenty stea nefs on tht
: Western lakes Thee sequi5ittuns 1rc 70 b.
retained At all haxaEd* BY the aid Of TIL
partnership, and their earnings sWel! th
| smount Of money snuually received and dis
! bufsed By these managers to little khoEt 9
= twentT.n .nve millions al dollars, aud the NUN
her OF men In thelr dni]y employ to listlo les
than twenty five thous md. When 1t Is born
4 in mltd that railroad men can make their ra
: kideuce almost where they please, til 1t the
: can readily vote anywhere a'ong the lut,
:, will be plan1Y seen that this new politics
= power docs not alone threaten elections
= towns and villages, bnt IN states as welt.
- viii require no great exertl N Of that skill e
:; hlbited By TammAnY last tall to give Ohtt
Pe1us1l7ania, Or New York three or at
|. thousand mora Democratic votes thu i
=. ehart In any coming election.
= II the Erie managers have their way IN tt
present Legislature, the Erie and rauuau
!, rings, body "roiled lnto one and turnt
n IA loose on the feld Of politics." aud propells
n by the Joint power Of the money of the Er
- managers and Of the patronage OF the Tar
- many managers, win roll over and cru
- all before 1t. Those who do not expect
~ ride in its car, and arc cot willing to
~ crushed beneath Its progress, wilt do we'll
- see that It does not acquire i more destru
y, uve momentum No sueh corrupt and Il
=. mdabie po itical power ever appeared In t
=. field OF New York politics.