New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-07-31

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also OF fraud upon the public, by otlnS as n w ad
special apocaypac of voc rcyelled through ltset
series OF accounts already printed, bound up ID DOCK
form, and entirely accessible 70 the public bad tEe pun
JIG cared 10 Investigate business and I'm duty 10 l''cli
what certain portion Of the public grceaiy snaps up
when cooked into SANDER, and peryersoy presented to
the attempted injury OF public acryants.
practice the Ignorance OF the public, and not through
~ own IGNORANCE was Hayey enough confessed by me
by the supCrhuman effort which its financial man had
made the day before 70 persuade NewYOrk property
holders that they ought 10 lei, loose riot arson ANA pnc
on their CITY, Tie Times di9cgy admitted nat 30
had been nine months gesltug the monster 10 has
observe tie effect Of this admission The Times makes
Il tie grayamcn OF rs charges against the Controller
that these accounts kept secret" by him. the
son OF TINS alleged secrecy being that he dared not
confront the public with them 80 scaudaOus were they
their face and their face rocking with fraud.
Yet The Times for nine months aided and a3cttcJ &c
Ether that i6e Times 50 densely stupid that it re;
quires nine months study OF accounts, obviously and
scand80usly fraudulent, IA order % perceive the Iiaud
In them: In which III becomes The Iines to charge
any ministerial or discussing officer OF tle City Govern
ment with dishonesty FOR falling TO perceive IN nine
hours or nine days. what itself requires nine months
to ascertain. or, that me It"leS au paFatc %
with OF the persons who were pfonung Dy tHe.o
alleged frauds which private Icaton' Cucou II u
cOnspire with them 70 conceal thelF gy plctGG.s
or That The Times believing seit have put ITS hand
on damning evidences Of the guilt Of certain city 0h-
cials deliberately Withheld those evidences rom tue
public with the hope VI using them as screw 20 wiring
money the public treasury through the fears OF
those Oicialsa eding for which, when II Is taken
by unfortunate persons OF the female sex, ana
OF ' wealth. SiI' society ha, Invented an appropHate
name and the h0rsepOnd provides an appropriate, II
horns of this thrcehOrned dilemma The Times may elect
to be mpled we know not Those who know the char,
probably have little trouble in deciding ON which horn
The hines really sits impaed
4 glimpse of the truth this point was last week
given by Mayor Hall, In card which he Issued NJ the
request of number Of persons VINO knew the aDomna.
bic Daselessness OF the charges advanced against himself
and the Controller, upon the strength OF these stale re-
productions OF accounts passed aud published by q
nat nd NJ III
the Mayor violated old rule OF the legal profession
by, nterrupting an adversary before lnG aafer5ary
AGAINST the iduclary representatives, OF great metro
polls be met with the patient skill Of lawyer
There place in such FOR honest disgust and III
dination. And this, particularly when the sandefer
happens to DE thoroughly well-lnown is The Times
bv the city officials IL traduccs Years ago, when The
Times was lifted out Of impending bankruptcy by the
bold real estate operations Of its real business founder
Mr. Wesley who long ago abandoned tie concern,
The Times had close intimacy with stu older Boards
gestatcd a good deal more than mine months WITH
out yet publishing them. Dir. George Jones was lts
agent then in renting offices to the city IN " me ltmeS
building" arranged not To the disadvantage OF
The Times, between those elder Boards or supervisors
T,nles Building" to the Street Department expired IN
April 1863 and tine Department removed to The Broad
way Bank building, by an nadyertehcc thc
technically continued to occupy Its old ohlaes
for few days after the lst of May. 1883 or
this technicality Mr. George Jones aVaiied MN
self to extOrt from the city the payment ~ UhOte years.
rent 70 Nag s6i getting rent as we believe for the
offices during the Same time from ahother tenant.
this all that he got He made the ey pay more
han IA o
during the occupation by the street Department OF ts
old Offices for the few days above mentioned He made
also interest on the rental thus exoteq ahd on ,9
damages thus eXtUrtd for four years up TO he uae wien
he collected his claims, together WIN costs, tleitDy
swelling his original demand of rent for premises not
enioyei by the city, in the end Than Stry per cent
And this he made the City do BY the machinery OF the
hT Ts s yse9 aDd its friends resisted by Controller
molly first to last, and submitted TO 3y MN az s
only under mandamus procured ny Ie 4"e' " eAtoI'
the payment of its claims. . NJ.
When The TaeSs receipt for squeezing money ont OF
IN %
tortions of TIE TRBUNE's friend, Mr. John ii. keyser
OF Mr. Andrew Garvey and OF Mr. lngersOll, IL may be
fond that these puryeyOrs OF actual furniture and res
Goes and pastering and plumbing have been much more
moderate and reasonable IN their ~ OF
than was The Times in It's manipulation OF rents Tor IN
,Tiis ,aU he found we saw The accounts OF these
gentlemen with all other accounts against the city are
now publishing or repubshng In detail aud IN ertenso;
When we ger them we shall be very much surprised II
we don't find that the accounts which The Times has dis
honestly printed as If they represented lew weeks or
and substance nearly the whole or the interior WORK
Of the new Court House. we snail De not
dead aud hybrid Board of supervisors do not
prove to be larger than the s ACCOUNTS Tor
private person without entering into the merits or de.
there never has been ana there never VIII DE any Pu2c
work done in the world under board" OF which this
has not been and will not be true The wings made Just
such camOr about the alleged 10 have been sunk
In the New-YOrk Custom House. and no Radical has
get at and publish detailed account OF the mil
lions worse than wasted upon converting the monstrous
Capito building at Washington into ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
il were a mausoleuml --Of national extrava gance
rupOn, bad TASTE aud stupidity. The British Parla-
ment has ferreod the most reckless expenditures OF
money the British Houses of Parliament, without
thence concluding that the officials who ministeriay
obeyed the In signing away that money thieves
and villains that 1t would be well for London TO with
hold her taxes and plunge the British Umpire INTO
anarchy. go
The World charges and truly charges The Times with
fighting corpses" II Is rdmpng over the batte-telds
fought by The World yearagO, by The Herald two years
ago 1t is perfoTatng dead bodies struck down By the
scurous but pucky little Free Press four months before
the last election
The City Government is not fighting 'corpses" II Is
defending Law and Authority In city full OF dangerous
elements against uceudsry sanderers. II Is de-
Tending the credit OF the commercial metropolis
of America against scurous stock whose hands
have dabbed in every financial pool and puddle for the
last years. Ii has abundant power to do this power
without the help and not to be prosttuted 70 the
purposes, OF damaged and desperate newspaper enter
pIises. Ii will that power quietly, fully, and eff
fectuay. Aud In doing II will be supported by every
candid and honest citizen OF this great capital