New-York tribune., 1871-07-28
TIE MONSTR0STTIES OF THE RING.
HONEST DEMOCRATIC CONFESSION.

The World, this morning, fairly faces tho
question Of who were responsible for the PundeTng Of
IL time it did so, for silence on such revelations
amounted almost to confession and completely on the
Supposed o d. to represent @ TIE World sa these
statements are exactly true as far as they go:
supervisors Il BY the work Republican
,ag Of aeb Of Republicans aud Democrats The 1883.
also passed BY Republican leg stature made the original 'hese -
the whole Board being elected year e they were divided
and their be regularly Democrat and Reub
keeping The Bosrd s"s equally balanced between te two Phus
ght perpetraie This grse child begen BY corrupt Republican
each and neither political party. being rsous
for for the Bo' the Only TE lI T.s CELL. % M Slfe n STaon ,m III
responsibility There msy have been one or gO honest T.n On
Democrats had majority in 10th branches o. tie Lgissa
poare. furnish materials 70, ie3olnei1g the Rcggscu parry 'of
But this though true, is not all that the occasion calls
for from the press IL Is full admission that the County
machinery by which the robbery was effected de
vised improved, and perfected by the Republican party
half OF the plunder; and that the Democratic party in
the Legislature alone entitled to the credit of having
But the Democratic party has consented and must
and will consent TO call the account square, and
for the first time exposed to brand and punish the de
frauders Much less can the Democracy afford tn have
it that these deTauders, these "rogues both
Sides" this den OF thieves as Ihe World Truly calls
them, have been not only allowed TO escape scot free,
party The same reasons that led the Democracy geen
months 10 abolish this corrupt Board, operate,
that afforded for ascertainng exactly who the
thieves were and what they STOLE to mpel the DemOc-
gacy to repudiate and punish them.
Who, then, composed the corrupt Board, which Tie
World admits 10 have been den OF thieyesp There
twelve OF them, six or each party. Thty seldom
allowed their names TO appear in print Their meet
ings never reported. Hence. recollect but -
few of them, and those the leading men. Foremost
senator W. NJ. Tweed, Democrat, and Polco Com
missioner Henry smith, Republican; COrSner Herman,
Democrat Walter Roche, Democrat, Onson Binnt or
the Republican Committee, James Hayes OF the fonng
Democracy are all whose names can now recall.
But a notable fact is this that while their general re-
pue bad that the Legislature, on becoming
and The World has no scruple, now or la,t
year, in calling them thieves" Mayor Hail.
and the Legislature only knew from general re-
pute-who saw exactly what swindng bills they cer-
fed while the public only know that they all made yst
fortunes very fast and spent public money with imle
rial profisOn; this Mayor. whom the Legislature,
abOlishing this bad Board authorized 10 appoint new
officers under a reformed local government, went to
straghtway select his principal appointees from
among this very den OF thieves; and he and C0nro
er Connolly ndOrsed every bill certified 10 them from
this den Of thieves and indOrsed and paid II without
demur and without disclosing to their constituents how
they being robbed 10y the branded "rogues on
both sides" Regarding these eXSupervtsors -
thieves and rogues,' The World must feel indignant
do do that the Democracy should st he drgFacrt
by their appointment and maintenance In new Offices
the creation OF which made necessary by their ms
deeds, and which intended an Insurance Of tic
treasury against the depTcdatiOns these If
The World could keep Democrats in city and country
nom thinking and talking OF these things, there might
be policy, though little honesty. in being silent
about them from until the Presidential election.
But the thing Is TOO garng for cOnceaimlt the party
must act in the spirit O the Legislature which aboIshtd
the den Of thieves aud not IN The spirit Of Mayor HdR
trhO Is0DDOiHted these men, Uh0m The World odHs
CARL DidiHf public disclosure, etdy dFd rhtt
Iese MieeeS presented 10 him against he public treasury