The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1870-09-13
VIII Mr.. Greeley make bancroft Davis
Restore the Money!

Mr.. GREELEY makes an earnest appeal
10 Boss TWEED in the IFDlGc. lie urges
the Boss to make restitution of the dividends
which, he says, the Eric Railway las carmel,
but not paid He calls upon TWEED to
resign, and get all the other Directors of tic
Erie Company to resign, 20 that a new Board
may be elected. How this would produce
restitution of any back dividonds, Mr. GEnE.
LEY does not explain. But how could such
an election-held as it must be, on only
thirty days notice--rcsult in anything but
the choice of the same men as are now in
powcrP And rs the new Board could not le
legally organized except under the very
classification net which Mr.. GREELEY SO
warmly condemns, the whole operation in
stead of working any sort Of restitution,
would only leave matters precisely as they
were before
If Mr.. GREELEY is really so anxious TO re-
store to the Eiie stockholders money Of which
they have been dishonesty deprived, why
doesn't he appeal to JOHN BANCROFT DAVIS,
Acting Secretary CT State in President
GRANTS Cabinet, TO restore the two millions
and three-quarters OF dollars of which those
stockholders We're deffaudcI by the contract
with the Boston Hartford and Erie, which
DAVIS iXcl up when he was a d rector and
counsel Of the Ere Company? II Mr. GREE
LEY should contend ,hat DAVIS himself did
not make over 100000 10y the brte lie re
cc.ved on that occasion, vi lie not Admit
that the Eric stockholders lost two millions
and three.quarters by DAvIss act, committed
in cons deratiou Of bride? And that beiug
60, ought not DAVIS to make restitution OF
the WI ole sum Lost.
Willie 10 is apioalinG 70 DAVIS on this
ulj,ct Mr. GpEELCr might also call upon
him to make rest tstion Of about two NIL
lions more ct which III, Ese Company was
d,trauicd by he lease Of the worthless But
GLo aud Bradford Io,j, Tor which DAVIS s
rceporsii :, W. thet fraudulent t-,r sact On
DAVIS was an owner IF the Buffalo ana
Bradford concern OF one de- and also Dice
tor and counsel o. the Esie Company On the
other How much l., made individually by
this fraud VIC DO not know; but the Erie
stockholders lost through this fraudulent act
of lis something like two millions of dol
lars, aud he should restore il to them.
If Mr. GREELEY VIII appeal to DAVIS and
get him to restore these iuGr millions and
thrce-quarters, he Will thereby give the
stockholders Immediately dividend Vi six
per cent, which is rr1at deal more than they
could expect - Ieal q from the resignation
and reelection Of Boss TWEED and his fellow
Directors Besides IN max ne such an ap-
peal TO y vls, Mr. GREELEY cannot be sus-
pectcd of any political partisan motive.
DAyIs-what tAcre Is Of l!im--belongs nomi-
nally To tie Republican party, and holds,
with Mr.. GREELEY's assent and appro-
baton, one Of the highest offices in the
nat .onal Administration. Accordingly, Mr.
GREELEY can with the utmost propriety ap.
peal to him rs fellow Republican TO .lake
restitution to tie WIDOWS and orphans who
have suffered heavy losses and are in poy erty
and misery through his fraudulent acts
But when lie appeals 70 Boss TWEED, people
ere apt to suspect that he has some partisan
object in view. Let him first get DAVIS
10 make restitution olthese four millions and
three quarters, and then he can take hold OF
TWEED with cleaner hands and better
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