New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-22

crat TO his post, whatever it be. Yet all these
are paradcd by The Times az holding Office
under Tammany Hall!
Now turn to those holding in or under tho
Tax Commission and consider tho facts;
The Tax Commission of this City had been
for several years Republican prior to 1859.
Its cmpioy6s were Radical republicans, without
one known exception. Its total cost was COLI
siderably less than $4,000 per annum. Al the
Session of 1862 Mr. Thomas Murphy (ex-Scna-
tor now Collector Of CuslOms), with Gen. CheS-
tor A. Arthur and other prominent members Oh
the present Custom-Ilouse faction, went up 10
ALBANY and induced Senators Folger ana
Crowley. and Others Qhe Senate being Re
pullican), to make q bargain with Iwocd anu
the Democrats whereby the Republican lax
Commissioners were logislatcd out ana inc
aupontment of new Commissioners vested III
Controller Connolly, with tho understanding
tbot they should DO half-and-half in politics,
and their employees ditto. Under tniS
arrangement the Controller appointed Messrs
George II. Andrews and Nathaniel Sands as
the two Republican Commissioners, and they
made half the subordinate appointments. Inc
cost of the Tax Commission has since been
mora than four times what it was under un-
divided Republican rule The Republican Sen
ators who had carried this arrangement were
allowed TO name their friends for good places
in or under this Commission-plaCcs which they
still hold, save that Gen. Arthur resigned
that of Counsel, and was succeeded by ). ..
Ritterband, who (boing member of the Union
Republican General Committoe) Is paraded by
The Times as holding Office under Tammany
Hall! Arc Senators FOlger and Crowley
Tammany mem Certainly, not less than
thrcc-fourths of the Republicans holding Office
under that Commission are in full and active
sympathy with the Custom House faction and
its General Committee. We cannot, therefore,
regard them IA No. Republicans; but Rcpub-
licans they are, and we do not charge them
with belonging TO or fraternizing with Tam
many Han.
SO we might speak OF other mixed Com
missions and the Republicans holding Office
under them. Part of them are of the Murphy
persuasion, others are not; but they all hold by
tenures which forbid their expulsion by our
Tammany rulers They are in Office as Re-
publicans, known TO be such, and with full
liberty to act accordingly. In the good time
coming, we trust that no party revolution will
cxpel from Office capable and upright clerks,
policemen, frcmcn &c, because of their
politics.
And now as to the Tweed Charter of 1870,
whereby this City, then in revolt, was delivered
over, bound hand and foot to the men who
have since ruled and treated it as their own.
We did our best to defeat that Charter, but
to no purpose the Republican Senators Qhe
Hon. +. S. Thaycr cxcepted) having been some
how committed to its support before we reached
Albany. The Times was (only last year, most
active and busy in support of that Charter,
which gave all power to Tweed, Connolly,
Hall s, Co. On the 9th of April, 1870, it com
mcnded that Tweed Charter as follows:
"The almost unanimous demand Of the people OF this
metropolis for a hOrOuJ reform ~ hee'ectOa Of 00tccTs
as yell as in The general administration Of agf's has
been deoeded 10 IL 00y and Min ceeiity which Is re-
orabIe Despite the incredibly "a to the possibility
of reform expressed by those who thought the city hope
cssy given over 10 control OF lawessness and cor
rupon the uOice Of NE loir-oJidi"g. orderiorig. tar
| paying class has been heeded."
| 1t added:
at is almost without precedent that such important
action inrolrng such large reforms, and concerning
which there has been such sharp factlCnal contest
| should he attended with such unanimiy."
Still later, The Times disparaged the dcclara-
ton of the Union League Club against that
Tweed Charter, offsetting it by that of the
| Citizens Association Composed of Nathaniel
| Sands), declaring that said Charter corrected
many abuses, and would give us "honest and
efficient local government" When Tweed
had somehow put it through, The Times (ApriI
| 13, 1870 exultingly shouted
"The good work goes onl Charter and effective
| Election Law-md the Board of Supervisors, will
all its niquites Is legislated out of existence TnF
TRIBUNE in its anxiety comfort its exemplary friends
of the Young Democracy may in these things only
the handiwork Of Satan. But ne eiasens. who desire
ADORE all things good city Government, note 7ih pieas
| ure he changes in progress, and are hOpef'd"
Mayor Hall soon aiterward announced his!
appointment of Tweed Connolly and Swceny
to be Heads of Departments, which The Times
indOrsed as follows:
| AS a whole the appointments Of the heads OF the
various departments Of the City Government which have
been announced by the Mayor far above the
in point OF personal fitness and should be Saisactory"
This is the Moses who offers to lead this
people safely through the Red Sea of Tam
many corruption into the Promised Land OF
official integrity and municipal frugality. We
sincerely hope that it may persevere in the
good course on which it has somewhat tardiy
entered; but when it undertakes to warn oil
elder if not better soldiers from the field ii
would fain monopolize, we are impelled TO re-
mind it OF Its record.
TUE CUBtN CLAIMS CONUISSIOy