Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1871-07-28

! With reference 10 these itells 'ue '"''s ~
the following remarks =
The great eo-between in these Transactions 10
lanes Fl Inpersoll, a partner of Tweed's in the
| chair business. All the warrants for the ssums
sneci6ad are SIGNED by Connolly and Mayor
Han. who must therefore be privy to the roguery
which is going on. The warrants are then hand
"a over to Ineersoll, who draws the money, and
divides II between Tweed. S9eeny, Hah and
| Corrollv The two last, as signers Of the war
rants. are the chief thieves. No one, OF course,
| is SO green to believe that the amounts
copied above, straight from the Comptroller
book. were actually paid to the persons described
| A fractional part only fell to their share-,ne
bulk of it being retained (thst Is, stolen oy
Hall and Connolly and their colleagues. Thirty
five chairs and three or four tables cost ,ne Gl'y
| s17O 20 60. Does anybody believe that
Sseepy. Hall and Connolly paid that sum for
them The chairs for each srmory cost s9,4o4-
| o. Doe, ANYBODY believe that Hall and Con-
molly really paid that amount to any chalrInaker !
| No thew charged the amount to the city ana
divided the money among themselves. Anu
this. we say, was robbery, and for committing II
Hall and his colleagues are thieves. Is that
clear enough for them TO understand ihey
cannot saw IL is loose talk because the proofs OF
their dishonesty are plain enough for every
body to understand
The Times says further -
But the figures given above do not represent
the whole of the Fl auds committed by the ring
In the nine months referred to -four miliiohs'
raised hy the sale Of revenue bonds were drawn
out Of the city treasury and paid to the sgen. o.
the ring. For the quarter ending March o.
1871, So, 904 ,207 05 more was PAID out IN .ne
same manner to the same parties IN o.nei
words. Hall and his confederstes are robping
,ho onbIic in a more sudscious manner than
ever. while they are rebuilding their efforts 10
keen the proofs Of their robberes In their own
possession. The warrants used to be sent over
from the controllers office to Mayor HAL Tor
the signature of the latter. Now, Hall goes 10
Connolly's office to sign the WARRANTS Inc
ring have hank Of their own, so that the state
Of their accounts shall never be known to out
siders. and every precsution has been taken 10
cover nm their frauds We have, however, bea-
ten them once. and we expect to do 1t again
and in the meanwhile we invite them to deny
the accuracy of the figures given in our article
to-day If they can
These exposures were made on Thursday last
On Friday the Times returned TO the charge IN
the following fashion;
What will the public think when they see that
Ingersou has received nearly So, 000,O 900 in two
wears for furniture supplied to the new Court
house2 HI is put down in the Controller 9 ac-
counts as having received that sum, tut oil
course only a small fraction Of it actually passed
into his hands. The system is this man
does some work for the City authorities ana
charges g. 900 for it, When he presents his
bill. one of Connolly's sgents says to MIN,
eve can't pay this, but make the amount
SOB 600 aud you shall have your money at
once. +" A warrant is drawn for S55,OoO. and
indorsed by the presenter Of the bill over TO j.
H. Incersoll. He then receives five II 900 bills,
and the Ring pockets the s5O,OoO.
And on Saturday there was another similar
dose of grape AMI canister poured into Tam
many.
The Times challenges Hall and Connolly to
sue it for libel, or give it an opportunity to
prove its charges IN a court Of law. But they
are thus far silent, though they must do some
thing to meet such damaging exposures, or
stand convicted and disgracei even in the eyes OF
their own aiherents
These exposures have a value beyond the city
Of New York. The Tammany managers, are 10
these and other ways sccumulAhng fund, by
which they expect first to purchase the Demo
cratic National Convention, and whenihey have
thus secured their own man as nominee Of the
Democratic party, they intend, second, to secure
his election by lavish useof money, unknown
heretofore. even in the annals Of Democratic cor
ruption. If they can thus secure control Of the
National Treasury, they will repeat, upon
lsrger scale, the processes which have 50 richly
lined their pockets at the expense Of the taxpay-
ers of New York What do honest Democrats
among the people at large. say to the pros
pect