New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-12-04
MAYOR HALL.

Wbctb.r deliberate, intentional, persistent,
unmitipated living may be relied on TO achieve
its ends il a problem which The Times seems
determined to press to solution. III It's iSS"o
| of the LIST. it said of Mayor Hall:
ono, only is he not In JAIL but he is Mayor OF inc t
and continues to be nsoent in his demcan3r 10
noon,o rs ever 'l,ut ho got none Of the plume En-
save Horace Greeley. How do you know that VIII Nj
Crccev since he knows thing tell US WHO dd sc
tic stolen property
A,srer.-We do not know, save in part,
"who did get the stolen property" we have
pullished every fact that we could elicit tiiaI
tends to shed light on the subject. These facts
trace the money ont of the Treasury into the
rockets of IngcrSoll, Garvcy keyser, &c, w.
| Thence a part of it seems to have been d.
yidcd with Tweed and with Connolly. The
suddenly acquired wealth ard lavish disbursc-
mcnts of these till recently poor men favor pre-
SUMPTION We have not traced any into the
pock,ts of Hall. We cannot find that he has
or has had $4,000 in cash or 100000 III prop
crty Of all kinds at any time in his possession
The positive testimony OF hls partner a. i-'
Brown before the Grand Jury weighs in thr
same scale with our inability to lnd any such
increase of wealth as a5tlrd or quarter OF the
Six Millions of "Accrmulatcd Debt Bonds >
should have given him.
But we do no. say Tat g he got nonc of tn"
"pundcr." He may have goi hell "i 1t, fer
anght VIC know. We only SAY that we have
not found it on him, and, if he did get 1t, he
must I've very clever at hiding. Here Is what
we said, carcfully and Il, lbtrately, after seek
ing information of leading member of the
Committee or Seventy, Oh the 9TH of October
last:
"That Oakley Han has cn,brzzlcd the prblic money
end converted to lis own usr, ia not yet proved.
,bc,,ch the testimony Of Mr.. John Foley Us IcuOcInt
and late Supervisory bears hard against him As. how
eyer do not understand M F"c TO assert that he mas
person. fnowr Of the division among the members
of tlc EoarL Of Audi, Of moneys frulul"nty o1lired
from the treasury on bogus claims must, Tor the
present. gard the charge that Mayor Hall has stolen
ilicns from tie City and converted them to lis oSn
use. IA MOI Proven.
"Iut that &c has ,uprty aided oti 10 t. en-; item
selves al the pabc cost ,ccms to mc clearly established
and virtually confessed. He holds most r. sponblc
and honorable trist which gives hi:n an effective Erto
on reckless disbursements Of the Cty's funds. Iii,
olci APP ROYAL j. requisite to anJ di>bursch"t IL all
OF course, he cannot watch against every lizzie leak and
scrutnize suspiciou>y every iahorrr's or sablcnan
bill for services rendered. But when bills OF $4,000
$50 CO.., $l0OGOO and over, rancd upon him in gucn
succession for plaHtcrng, plumbing, furnishing, aud
carpcng,'ra single edhce, until they amount In
the aggrega to suGicicncy to build AMI fur
uish that edhce thrice cannot doubt that 1t was
his plain duty TO call halt to mako inquiry; to send
trusty subordinate TO investigate and report, before
giving the requisite approval. 1t seems 10 plain that
Millions have been abstriccd from the City tctir'
which have been still there if Mayor Hall had !on''
his simple official duty. That he failed to attempt
this his own letter aud other unoquivCcally
show. without, therefore, gong into the question OF his
motive ojrri. il sceIns 10 he clear that Mayor Hall
has woruly, disastroUsly. betrayed In, tl = that
lie ought AT once resign BE- elected from ,nrc."
This statement The Times has never copied,
but has repeatedly misreprcscntcd and falsi-
fed. In its last issue, seeing that we did not
expressly contradict its fdl.rhoOd Of the lst it
improves upon It rs follows:
at is pity that TIE TRIBr>r cannot find = other
means Of helping ts friend Hall thanhy circulating lying
r. ports about Connolly" &c.. DC TINS helps to
dersand its admiration for man who brazens out his
crimes and insults aroinmuny whom he has rob cd"
Now, we never cherished nor pyoicsscd
any sort Of admiration for Hall, even when he
was Republican,. We never Endorsed his
honesty, though The Times pcrsistcntly says
we did. We never liked the man, never
trusted him, and never considered him other
than as an enemy when we were of one
party. When he first ran for Mayor,
he was placardcd all over the City as the
"anti-Grcclry" candidate. We always regarded
him as tricky politician, though we have not
considered him a downright thief. But only
let us trace dollar of the City's stolen Mil
lions into his pocket, and we shall come down
on him to the best of our ability. At present,
we hold him gravcly culpablc in that it was
his official duty not to let those Millions be
~ IL. l.
That should eject him from office at once.
Only give us proof that he shared the plumber,
and we shall insist on his going to State Prison.
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