The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-10-10
NEW YORK HERAID TUESDAY OCTOBER TO- sHE

account The man who d clearly 4 The
head and front of al the offences charged
against the city government They must no
longer allow themselves 10 be used - the
tools Of adventurers, who desire to turn the
city reform movement to political purposes.
Let the enemies Of Mayor Hall, Peter B.
Sweeny and Others 6nd their own means Of
gratifying their enmity, and let the Young
Democracy, the Greeley republicans and al
other needy organisations work out their
partisan schemes In their own way. The
committee have but one duty to perform
to expose tho frauds that have been
committed on the people Of New York
and to bring to justice those who have com
mitted them. They now know that adjusted
claims" to the amount of over four hundred
and sixty thousand dollars have been allowed
by Connolly himself on an account for forty
eight thousand dollars only. They know that
false claims have been made out for hundreds
Of thousands Of dollars in the name of men
who were doing contract work for tho city and
who know nothing about such claims; that
they were audited in the bureau ruled over by
Watson and young Connolly, allowed
BY the Comptroller and paid upon
forged warrants. They know that the
fraudulent vouchers and forged warrants were
stolen and destroyed by Watson, who was
retained in his position up to the time Of his
death, and after tho Comptroller alleges that
he first knew of the abstraction of the docu-
ments. They know now from tho present
report Of the committee that the vouchers
upon which the amounts Of the adjusted
claims" Of Schuyler & Co. were obtained have
also been purloined from Connolly's office.
They know that young Connolly has gone to
Europe, and that there ID now no one left
Watson being dead-to throw any light upon
these abstracted papers. Do they need
any more proof to convince them
that the people see who're the
real culprits are to be foundf We again ask
by what right do they delay proceedings
against Connolly and still claim to be the true
friends and special champions Of justice
In this war against official rascality the citi-
sens are no respecters Of persons or Of poliH-
cal parties. They care nothing about
Tammsny or ti-Tammany, and they will not
suffer self constituted committee to stand in
the way Of justice for any Interior purpose It
is no excuse to pretend that the Seventy are
using Connolly to detect other offenders, or,
Is their journals say, as States evil
dence" against his accomplices. The
surest way to obtain his evidence
is to place him in . position to
prove his own innocence in court Of justice.
If the committee decline to do this, If it will
still insist upon beating about the bush,
making technical charges here and there. nh
ing the newspapers with abuse Of the ring"
and seeking to amuse the people with daily
promises Of startling disclosures" while it
hob-nobs and plots with the head and front Of
all the municipal CONCEPTION, then the citizens
will conclude that the committee Is . useless
piece Of nonsense, and will insist that It shall
step aside and leave the earnest business Of
the work Of publication and retribution to
other hands.