Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-03
raE FRAUDS OF THaE NEW YORK
TIMESs

raE FRAUDS OF THE NEW YORK
TIMES.
The New York Eoesing Post (Radi-
CALI has the following paragraph in its
issue of July 20: 2f,l fAEg usrW A
, ssThirty clerks employed in the custom
house found new, if not congenial, en-
ployment yesterday. Esrly in the morn
ing eleven clerks in the naval Office and
about twenty attached to the collectors
department received orders to report at
the Times Office, to assist in the dissemi-
nation OF knowledge. It is reported,
upon apparently good authority, that for
the remainder of the day they were en-
gagged in mailing for transmission through
out the United States and Europe an I'M
mense edition of the Times supplement
of this morning, containing the "secret
accounts and the explanatory articles
accompanying them. The amount OF
labor imposed upon the Government
clerks can be inferred from the fact that
at Q O'Clock this morning the edition had
reached three hundred thousand copies,
and the presses were then still working
The Washington Patriot says truly
that when public servants are thus d.
verted from their proper duties to sub
serve partisan purpose, and detailed to
aid in circulating matter of this kind, the
whole story is told. No better proof is
needed of the corrupt organization of the
New York Custom House than this simple
fact. And this proceeding is all the more
audacious, when it is remembered that
between this very Custom House and the
Internal Revenue Office, millions of the
peoples money have been stolen, without
even the form of an investigation
Bailey alone, took over q million, and
was allowed to escape without
the least opposition. In fact, he.w was
changed from one district to another, in
New York, with a full knowledge that
he was defaulter.
The New York World exposes the
frauds of the Times as follows:
'sThe New York Times has been en-
ployed by the Federal government to
publish, and the Federal government by
the use in the Times Office OF clerks de-
tailed for that purpose from the Custom
house has undertaken to help the Times
in disseminating through the country, q
monstrous batch of figures purporting to
justify the Times in charging dishonesty
and swindling upon two of the highest
officials of this city. The claim made by
the Times, and the only claim made by
it which has gained for it q hearing
among decent people, is that in publish
ing these figures it is revealing gigantic
system of swindling long concealed
from the public eye. 1t heads its vast
array of numerals with the startling
words, 'Connolly's Secret Accounts.
1t processes to have obtained these
''secret accorns,' in a private and mys-
ferrous manner; to have received them
Sin confidence, from some swindler who
enjoys its intimacy, nine months ago;
and to have been constrained by its rels-
tons with that swindler into helping to
conceal these awful practices upon the
public purse up to the present day. If
this claim of the Times be proved false
and fraudulent, all its charges against the
officials whom it has assailed with such
unbridled violence recoil upon IFS own
head. This claim of the Times we are
compelled-almosl with regret that we
should be forced to set such stigma up
on any journal belonging to the
American presto pronounce utterly
false and fraudulent. Its secret
accounts have at last been
given to the public ia full. They prove to
be no secret accounts iai all. They are
simply observation-disclosures obtained we
neither know nCr care TO inquire-of the
amounts, accurate or Inaccurate, real or
imaginary, of warrants drawn by the
Comptroller, or by the law required, for
the payment of bills ordered to be paid
by the Board of Supervisors; the amounts
of which bills, with the dates of the psss-
ing of the orders of payment hare long
since been published, bound in volunaes
and accessible to all the citizens of New
York in the official reports called the
Proceedings of the Board of Supervi-
sors of the County of New York. ID
The World then shows by compari-
son that the accounts paraded by the
Times as ''secret accounts" are the came
that were allowed by the Supervisors and
published in their reports in 1869. 1t is
a desperate case of making war upon the
Democracy of New York by the Times
and the Grant administration by fraud.