The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-09-22

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O'Briens and give them a fictitious appear
ance of strength in the city outside their pait
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guerilla politicians. So ex-Mayor Havemeyel
and the committee made bargain with Con
molly, perpetuated the injunction and set tc
work to spread abroad new stories of star.
Ting developments which are to last until
after election. We have warned our citizens
before, and we repeat the warning, that the
movement which was honestly intended by them
to bring to light the frauds supposed to have
been perpetrated by public officers, and to
purge the new city government of the
offenders, is now being used in an unscrupu-
lous and dangerous manner, only to upset one
set of politicians for the advantage of another,
and probably worse set. The people de-
manded, as the HERALD has from first to last
demanded, that the charges of extravaganza
and corruption in the public departments, past
or present, should be most thoroughly investi-
gated, and that the guilty should be punished,
no matter where the blow might fall The
political Adventures and penniless Bohemians
who have claims against the city which they
cannot get paid, or who hope to share in the
drippugs of municipal plumber, from which
they are now excluded, are doing their best to
screen and defend the real culprit and to turn
the excitement Of the people to their own dis
honest purposes.
We warn all good citizens to pause and see
where they are drifting. Ten months ago
Oakley Hall was elected Mayor of the city by
twenty-five thousand majority. The charter
makes him the Chief Magistrate of the city
and requires him ''to be responsible for the
good order and efficient government of the
city" The politicians, having set up the Com
mittee Of Seventy, are now striving to induce
it to usurp the powers legally belonging to the
Mayor. They desire anarchy; they are lead
ing on to riot and bloodshed. When Mayor
Hall and the Corporation Counsel announce
their intention to prosecute the fraudulent
contractors who have robbed the city, the re-
publican organ cries out, ''No, gentlemen, it
is too late! You must keep your hands Off
zoe have taken the government in hand" An
English guerilla print, published in New Y ork,
goes further, and hints at a riot and fight
with the police, if necessary, to overthrow the
legally elected municipal government, al
though the experience Of the 10Th of July
ought to convince the British journalist
that mobs cannot indulge in their vagaries
in New York as they can in London
This insurrectionary course can have
but one ending. While the Committee
of Seventy is composed of reputable men be-
hind them stand the worst characters in the
city. Ward DULLES, Blackwell's Island con-
victs, prize fighters and gamblers are fockng
to the standard of revolt against properly con-
stituted authority. These men are reckless
and INSCRIPTIONS. How long do such gentle
manly insurgents as Havemeyer, Tilden,
Pierrepoint and Clews suppose they can re-
tain the leadership and control of an insurrec-
tionary movement against the regular city
government? How long do they calculate it
will be before they are pushed aside by the
rowdies, shoulder hitters and thieves who are
eagerly watching the progress of this first at
tempt at Communism in New York? Let
those who under the inspiration of political
they reap the whirlwind.