Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-09-21
THE TAMMANY THIEVES.
4 Few Little Bills for Printing and
stationery.
From the n. Y. Times, Aug. 3lst.

WHICH we lHFlUe careful hIJtuIlDu. Inc
figures have been compiled from the
documents sent by Mayor Hall to the
Board of Supervisors, and present the
rings own version Of one department
OF their expenditures. They comprise
a list Of the warrants drawn for print
ing, stationery and advertising, during
1869 and 1870 and for printing and
stationery during the first few months
of 1871. 1t can not be too steadily
items OF County expenditure. The
City accounts are kept as closely secret
AS ever, and will certainly continue to
be so, until the Mayor and Comptroller
are compelled to make them public.
There can be no reasonable doubt that
under the same heads of expenditure
the warrants drawn on behalf of the
numerous departments of the City
Government will be found to be very
much greater in amount, and still more
glaringly fraudulent, than the majority
ofthose now published.
With reference to the IngersOll, Gar
yey and Keyser payments, the question
could fairly be raised. Who got the
money! What proportion Of the pro-
ceeds vent to the tradesmen who sub
mitted under oath bills that were mani
festly fraudulent, and what was the
share allotted to the corrupt officials
who passed the bills as genuine? In
regard to the warrants which We now
publish, the sphere of conjecture is
very much narrowed. OF the expen-
ditures, amounting to nearly two and
three-quarter millions of dollars, else
where detailed, upwards of two-thirds
went into the pockets of firms which
are simply aliases for Tweed. Between
March, 1869, and May, 1871, there
was paid to the New York Print
ing Company, the sum of
~, $50, $50. 81 on account Of "printing
and stationery" The representatives
of Tweed in this concern are Chas. f.
Wilbour, who oticiates rs President,
and Cornelius Corsou, who acts as Sec
rotary. From May, 1869, to May, 1871,
the Manufacturing Stationers' Com
pany received on account of "stat ION
cry the sum Of S97, SSl21. WiIbour
and Corson represent their master
Tweed in this concern in the nominal
capacities Of President and Secretary.
The Company is situated in one Of
Twcpd's buildings on Readc street. In
1869 and 1870 there was paid to the
Transcript Association, also controlled
by Tweed, the sum Of 1927, 135.76 for
advertising, being more than one-half
of the entire sum distributed among 50
other newspapers. The Transcript is a
worthless sheet, which probably not
one hundred people of the city ever
look Mt, and which is certainly never
perused by anybody save its proof
readers. The arduous labor of editing
this contemplate pretender to the
title of public journal is performed by
the indefatigable Charles Il. Wilbour.
To these three concerns, OF whose
profits Tweed receives the lions share,
there was paid, in the course Of a little
over two years, from the County De-
puftjRCittS atone, the sum of Sl.SGi,-
506,54. When the greatly superior
for fraud presented by
the more numerous departments of the
City Administration are sept IN view,
it may be safely assumed that when the
city accounts arc dr1gged to light the
paid 10 Iweed's printing
and stationery concerns Will be found
to very greatly exceed even the
huge amount we have quoted.
It must not be forgotten that, in adj
dilou to their emolumcutsa as managers
of Twced's private business, Wilbour
and Corsou are in receipt of very hand
some salaries from both city and coun-
ty branches of our local government. It
is not more than eight years since Chas.
E.Nilhour was u reporter of no remark
able talent on the staff of the n Y Tri-
brue. To-day he IL in position of OPP.
ulenCe. drives fast horses, and lives
sumptuously. In this he is greatly aid
ed 10y the receipt of 5000 year from
the county bureau for services which
are purely imaginary, and like sum
from the city bureau for a similar con-
sideration Cornelius Corson kept, a few
years ago, an unpretending rum shopon
the High Bridge road. Heis now an hum
bleimltatoro the Boss in the matter
of splendid residence and "palutial' "
stables. The amount OF his sinecurcs
in the County Department Is -, 500,
sndin the City Department probably
MS much. Wllhour, Corsou, and five
clerks perform the dutesrequirjug two
or three weeks each year at the Bureau
of Elections. For this service, the
two principals, the tive clerks and one
messenger figure ON the County pay
roll for the sum of twenty-,our thou
sand dollars, and ON the CIty pay non
for similar sum. 1t VIII thu~ lee seen
that, expensive as are the printing and
stationery of tae New York priutir
Company, its servants are NO less I4a-
priced. The few whom W. have al
ready described cost ia, - payers Of
New York not less tuau slNty-siX thou
sand dollars s. r, and, had we access