The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1870-08-19
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HORACE GREELEY edits leading news
paper organ OF the Republican party. BAN.
CROFT DAVIS is Acting Secretary of Stale Of
the United States. The Legislature of
Massachusetts has taken and published cvi.
dence which proves that rot long before
DAVIS was appointed to Office, he took
large br,bc to bctray his constituents and
dcfraud his clients. This evidence has been
before the public for five months, and the
Republican party and Gen GRANT nave
been widely denounced for keeping man
guilty Of such crime in high Office Bat as
Mr. GREELEY has admitted lie has never
examined the proof in the case until this
week and now, having done So ho dis
misses Tie subject in the following brief and
easy manner
"'rHF svS ask Ne TO s0y whether Mr. j. e Ban.
CROFT pANit uop assistant secretary oI S.atcl DID
or oid not receive a InoG % SN"O ~ petra ~,
constituents aud .'.r"ud lis eh,hts. HAVING scad
and cgrofu'. corsluGCl the testimony a1iicci 10y
TINS Sun IN SUI port Of It's charge We decide there
upon that 10 ia not
parties, something moro tlan this was he
ccssary. If Mr. GREELEY lelievcs DAVIS in.
nocent, why doesn't he give his reasons for
that lclioi2 Why doesn't lie defend the nc
cuscd Scr iary Ike a man and brother2
We can tell him that saying he doesn't think
DAVIS was lIil ed with 100000 Will not M
sycI lic purpose Of the Republican party in
the approaching elections The people v Il
demand another kind OF explanation fo.
these iucts; and they Will not ark for any
certificate from WILLIAM CT, Film, either.
s;Tcet-Pavisg Frauds In Brook'Yn.
In Brooklyn the Water Beard has i'm
mcnsr powers, but is not satisfied with item
and goes beyond all law Whenever its nom
Irrs find it for their advantage.
Last winter the Democrats OF Brooklyn
tried to abolish this Board, and restore the
powers vested in it to the Common Council !;
but the Hon lIUGu McLAUGHLIN resisted the
effort 1t was one of those Commissions
which he wanted to preserve. 1t bad fur
nished FROM its employees q gr at proportion
OF the sixty-two canvassers and inspectors Of
election that District Attorney NORRIS had
indicted for perjury and for making false re
turns Its history has been ono Of fraud and pc.
culation. 1t has taken hundreds OF thousands
of dollars from the taxpayers for the benefit
of McLAUGuLIS's Ring. If it was abolished,
and its powers restol cd to the Board Of Alder
men, how could the Aldermen be controlled
Even If that portion of the Common Council
could be secured, Mayor KALBFLEIscII
would veto their action, whenever it was in
furious 10 the city. Without the Water
Board what organization would furnish fol-
the Ring its canvassers Of election, or take care
of the repeatcrsl These were grave cons.dc
rations. OF course MCLAUGHLIN could not
afford to lose so valuablc an adjuact. Young
McLAuGHLE is nov a fugitive from jus,c,
for repeating The elder oncs enjoy the pro
fits of tho business. He can travel in Enrop
II no plcases, and receive patrimonial lcga
rcs hereafter, paid by the tnTpoycrs o
Brooklyn
The way the Water Board has manage,
business in defiance of law has been Illus
trated often Of late, Last week an ad
ditional example was furnished. A shor
lime since proposals We're advertised for b.
the Water Board TO pave Atlantic avenue
from Flatbush avonus TO Classon avenue
There were three bids one by GUIDET, 70
five dollars and fifty cents square yard III
second by Mr. Witty for five dollars an,
lhirty.four cents the third by Mr. IASLoN
for five dollars and nineteen cents The con
tract was awarded to GUIDEr, the highcs
bidder. His profit viii be over $4,000.
GuIDET's is patent pavement and is II
all respects Ike the Belgian, except that tn
stones are smaller at the top than they are n
The base. The fraul on the part OF tn
Water Board is palpable, A patent pave
ment cannot be lawfully laid down will
OUT petition from n majority of the proper
~ holders in the street. This has ncvc
been obtained, And why should an advcrus
mont be published for proposals to lay pal
ent pavement, when none but GUIDET, tn
patentee, could lay II down? Some tim
since T.. get over the clause requiring pet
ton from the property holders, one thousan
persons purchased lot in common, nj
signed, as property holders, n petition f'
another patent pavement But the law r
quires that each property holder shall 20
sess at least one full alcd lot
II such fraud If resisted, il cannot stan,
81 any of the property holders ON Atlaut
avenue desire, they can dcirGt thc asses
mcht Or If Mr. llhNIoY appeals TO II
Court the contract with GUlpET viii b. 3
aside But if the properly holders dcoIc
so, so nn0 into the nurbctt of the Mue,