New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-09
UU,T MS REEN PROTED.

We have no detailed account OF the dlsDurSe-
ments from our City's treasury for the perou
of thirty months which ended with last June.
We are not likely to have any that lets IN any
LIGHT upon the subject. But certain facts have
leaked out, in spite of persistent efforts 10 co"-
zeal them. which establish these propositions:
|. That the funded Debt of our City ana
County, which was reported at less than lhirty
Millions of Dollars on the 1st OF January, loO',
has certainly been more than doubled since
then. If il had only been doubled, the increase
would have been S1,OOO,00O per month.
II. That the total expenditures on our New
Courthouse, including its furniture, which no
competent builder will certify TO be worth
Excluding the ground, which has always be-
longed to the City, over Two Millions, have
been not less than Seven Millions of Dollars;
vet the "aching void" still yearns for more.
ILL., That the Mayor can only excuse the
enormous bills paid by the Controller by say
ing they were examined and passed by the
L" old Board of Supervisors" whereof William
NJ. Tweed is known to have been the ruler
and lord paramount. Translated into plain
English, Halls plea is, "True the money is
gone; but Connolly and | did Mt steal 1t ::
" il was Tweed: look to himw
". The albany Argus extenuatng the mon
strous overcharges for carpentering, plasterlng
plumbing, &C., on the New Court House and
Armories asserts that as much as SGoODO each
had to be paid for the (happily few RepuDh-
can votes required to pass the abominabIe lax
Levies of recent years, and points to st. Law
renee. Madison, IIerkimcr, Cayuga, and Chau-
tauoua. as counties whence came the Republic
cans thus bribed to betray their trust. his,
again. points directly to Tweed as the man
who Cat once Senator and SUPERVISOR pur-
chased these Republican legislators.
The above are not all the facts developed by
tbe testimony of our City's rulers and their
apologists; but let them suffice for the present.
We only add to them the undenied and unde-
niable fact that our Democratic masters who
had access to the City's stronghold have been
living and spending as though each had Alad-
dins lamp for his private posSesslon-tliat they
have built palaces, and laid ont grounds, anu
bought fast horses. and flung money night ana
| left, as though it cost nothing to obtain IT,.
| Some of them have stables whereof each
would buy a Fifth Avenue mansion and iur-
nish it sumptuOusly. A Controllers clerk on n
small salary contested the nearest Senate district
| in Connecticut III 1870, and overcame Its usual
Republican majority of 300 to 400 by lavish
disbursement of money. 1t did MT cost less
than 100000 to suborn the repeaters and
false counters who stole the vote of this State
from Grant and Colfax in 1863; and at least as
much was expended last year to choose IA
! Democratic Legislature and give Hoffman his
$4,000 majority. The Republican vote was, IN
the aggregate, reasonably full; it was over
borne by sluicing the State with money. And
our taxpayers have been robbed to carry
other States likewise.
Democrats who are not in the Ring. what
think ye of these things! Would you like to
see the Union ruled and run by those who
now run the City and State?