Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-08-04
Democrats as Governors.

Democrats as Governors.
= TkE exposures Of the corruptions of
the New York city and county govern
ment have astounded even the people OF
that tcity WHO are accustomed to hear of
oS,EsSSTdh%ry oS,rSSI robOeries by the public
1t appears that the Mayor and Comp
troller have paid out, during 1860 and
1870, toNmembers of the ring, for sup
posed work and materials on the new
Court House and armories the following
GUMS
To A. J, Garyey, for plastering. 2,s7O, ,i64
To lngersoll y Co furniture for ar
TO same, for furniture for Court House. i,476SSS
To same, for carpenter work Court
To same, for fitting up................. A474
To j. A. Smith, for carpets in Court
To same, for carpets and shades in ar.
mories, Offices, tc.................,.. b2oSHl
Total. al........,................ so, ,S9O,S07
Estimating $565,735 for carpets, at So
yard, this would call for 1l3, 147 square
yards, or enough to cover mole than 23
acres of space.
The following sums were paid for re.
pairs on ten armories during nine months /:
To Garvey, for plastering. $3.50
To Keyeer, for plumbing g.................. 143,33O
To IngersOll, for chairs ............... l7O,12g
To Miller, for carpenter work k........... 4S4,l "a
Total. .....................s'.... Ss44,4o5
The total sum paid out by the Mayor
and Comptroller upon these and similar
bills, on account of the county, is placed
at $9,000,000 How much has been paid
out ON city account has not yet been made
public. The checks are made out in the
names of various parties, but all indorsed
back to members Of the Ring
The defense to all this is very lame
one. Mayor Hall states that for twenty
years he has been contributor to the col
umns of the New York Times, and that
paper has always spoken kindly OF him;
that, until recently, the Times has been on
the list of papers for corporation adver-
tising, and that the rejection of fraudu'
lent bill by that paper has induced its pro-
prietor to malign public officers whom it
once complimented. But Mayor Hall does
not meet the only question in which the
public have any interest. The public cares
nothing about the aninus of the New York
Times, or whether it springs from mean
or worthy nature. What they wish 10
know is whether the statements made by
the paper are true or not. This part of
the case Mayor Hall does not meet. He
admits the payment of the money, and
practically admits all that is alleged
We will suppose that the expenditures
by the city, on these armories and Court
House, are only half those made by the
county, and we then have the fact that
over $i3,000,000 of public money has been
willfully taken from appropriations nomi
nally made for two small jobs, and divided
among the friends, supporters, and part
ners of the men in Office.
The Democratic party have been practi
cally out of official power for ten yoads in
all parts of the country, except in New
York city. They have not had exclusive
control of the State Government over u
year. But in New York city their rule
has been absolute anu exclusive. They
have had possession of every branch OF the
City Government, lineal and lateral They
have had control of all the public institu-
tions, and of the election of all courts,
Judges, and other authorities who might
at any time exercise any supervisory or
other control. In fact, the City Govern.
ment has been an absolute Democratic dy-
nasty, into which no Republican could
possibly hope to be admitted. During
that time the city and county of New
York have raised by loans and taxes pos
sibly $500,000, 600, and have expended the
money. The fact that thousands of men,
having no known occupation save that of
political jackals, have :in that time risen
from poverty to wealth; that double that
number have lived and are now living in
the most extravsgant style, without any
known business or office, and that still
others have amassed fortunes which would
appear princely alongside of the oldest
haneos in Europe, tells its own story. 1t
H fhat .
political agents is kept for no public du-
ties, and are paid literally. Taking the
exposures of the New York Times as q
specimen UI way A..044~y
has been distributed, it is safe to say that
in the last ten yrars the City Government
of New York has divided among It's ad
herents $3.50, 900, 900 without the least con
sideration or service to the public.
This is the Democratic rule in the only
place in the United States where that party
has had absolute control during the last
ten years Tammany Hall is the grand
directing power of this municipal govern
ment, far SURPRISING, in its annual receipts
and expenditures, some of the larges
States in the Union. Tammany Hall aim
to govern the nation as it governs New
York city, and the American people cal
well imSgine the result of transferring L
Tweed, Sweeney, and Hall the control o
the national expenditures, and, practically
of the legislation of Congress. In til,
next Presidential election the contest will
be between the Republican party ant
Tammany Hail, and to add the national ad
ministrniion to that of New York cit,
will be the grand tff)rt of the Democrats
party.
The election Of the candidate of Tam
many Hall to the Presidency, in 1877
would be the signal for ageneral extension
ments of the various States and of all larg
cities. Like the conquerors of oldel
times, Tammany Hail would distribut
States, counties, and towns among it
federal chiefs, and we should have in
short time general scheme of spoliatiol
or contlscatiOn throughout the land unde
the sworn adherents of Tammany and il
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