New-York tribune., 1871-11-06
OUR NEW-YORK ELECTION
From The NeV- Yorh Independent
nv II0pACp CRFEIFY

From The Nev. Yorh Independent
BY HORACE GREELEY.
The elections of 1871 have generally resulted
tavoraby to the Republicans than did those OF any
formcr year preceding that Of Presidential election
We expect and With reason to lose ground in the third
politics Is apt to become angud then than IN years
when President o. even House OF RepFescntatlves is
lost at the outset Connecticut was EeSansd directly
Sh1 & and Iowa. w have proclaimed their
adherence TO the Republican standard by Increased end
was regained at constitutional election this year while
1t is morally certain that HewJersey Maryland Mlcl
raj result Of their elections this month do nothing to dis
courage Republicans ss to the issue q a3 MACMILLAN
interest DURING the last two summer Protest
SI sse sS
BY Papist mO6h the former instance to the gtevous
damage Of the assaants. and, unhapply, TO That Of
be- conoead that these resorts to
in the qualification Of theological hatreds have deeply
more recent Sievelopment-aso local IN its origin
in its efect-has made wider not deeper i'm
Complaints Of the prohgacy Of cits local rulers
have been 50 loud and they paie1
robbed seemed TO dispute tat successive Legs
been brbed to pass axlevies outrageOuSy heavy.
bodying provisions considered nor even read.
ON the spOs of the hsedess deuded many dnned
in the public ear TIL had ceased to produce effect
was not dminished-decidedly not. The law expressly
required annual and ample exhibit Of municipal re-
disp6eSedehas not been even IN pretense Needed
1868 Meantime new charter was rushed through toe
in 1871, which virtually made four managing Democrats
autocrats city and custodians Of her property
At length came the de,lOuemet which ght have been
expected from the first. clerk in the Controllers
So5ds e sS S D eEa pS Of
made from the Treasury apparently for work done upon
pets and furniture supplied thereto proving mOnstrous
peculaton and fraud No one eyer read those alleged
fpou 70 XVith
payments made, whoever audited the bills
and directed their Ts Was IN @ h pSG %4 a e
SeSei fhSt the bills were re- large
plssterine and plumbing, &C., DO, never paid for
By any government before. No could possibly have
read the bills and not known that they fraudulent
But the Inevitable rogues though high in ONCE.
few while peculaton s not, unhappiy, confined to one
party. Why should the fact that prominent Democrats
have been detected in gigantic thefts do rreparsble
The answer s ready Detected robbers Of the public
not Nay they hold the high trusts they have
RcISrd B. Con1oIy, Controller; VIM. Il. Tweed, Com.
missioner Of Public Works.were made Board Of Audit
by the Charter Of 1870 and instructed 70 audit aud settle
outstanding claims against the city Claims 70 the
amount Of over q COG were paid under this provision
or % minutes and audited claim at all They simply
'S e pa SHa an a Ssss q s see pS s a
eording Most naturally oyer q 600 Of the proceeds
bank while the residue 1t is pretty certain took similar
dreetiOns In short the $500 900 Of claims frauds
and they DuI Wn6feOI the
city has been robbed BY kindred depredstions
Mr. Connolly has n9t ress1ed but has turned over his
Mr.. Tweed as Commissioner Of Pubic Works. Nay, Mr.
Tweed is Democratic candidate for reelection 10 the
SenAte with very strong probability Of And
81 his fellow Senators and Assembly from this city
his o0nfederates aceomplices In the gigantic frauds
which have made him and others rich and inaInousat
least twO-thirds Democratic candidates to fill again
the trusts they have 80 shamefuly betrayed
This then L. the novel feature Of State contest
that high funcOnaries are proved arrapt rQbbers
but that t6i' being pToyd tSey remain party LEADERS,
didStes for reelection. Their ettrontery
shocking than their rascalty And the party by whose
favor they ruee whose victories they by false voting and
tslee 0oupf1g engneered and by whose partially they
were enabled to SteAl cannot shake them of II it
would They cling TO 1t Ike the shirt OF Nessus and
insist on dragging 1t down with them 70 infamy.
Whoever viii may doubt the result Of Tuesdays
election. cannot, will not 1t will show that the peo
pie Of this great State emphatcay discaim and ndig
nantly repudiRte all association sympathy with the
authors and benenctareS Of the frauds which have 80
deeply wrUnged the Taxpayers Of the city, aud 40 In.
tens6ly ehamed the legislation and rule Of the State Of
New.York.