The Portland daily press., 1871-08-23
Red Hot Shot.

"Brick" Pomeroy has many friends in the
Democratic party who believe in his sincerity
and honesty; and for this reason, also, he has
enemies chief among whom are the Tamma-
ny leaders. Pomeroy has this advantage
over them, however, that he is in no way con-
nected with their robberies, and he is too out
spoken to Withhold his conviction of their ras-
calities. Here is what he says of the Tam
mauy thefts:
If the Lead sachems of Tammany can man.
age to secure the nomination OF their man"
tor the presidency, and then see him elected,
there will be naugarated the grandest admin
istratioI of theft, profigacy, extravaganza
and crime this country ever witnessed.
The ring of swindiers now holding treach-
erous power in New York city under the
name of Democracy, are doing more TO
weaken the cause of Democracy in the coun-
try at large than the entire vote OF the city
can atone for.
This is Tammany!
This is the so-called Democratic authority
governing in New York
This is the devils comhination,,o t tieevs now
ruling in New York city, not tor the good oil
the many, but for the enrichment of the few.
This is the monopoly OF the corruptionists
DOW ptOpOoluS W Uuy tiC uOuludllOu vi UU6
next Democratic candidate for the presidency
that Washington may tie included-that some
OF the leading thieves of our New York eff
Gals may be transplanted to newer fields, but
under the same management!
1t is tor the Democracy OF the country to
look to this-tO send to the national conven-
ton of 1872 men who dare to be honest to
| taxpayers and 20 principles, or there will be
| such defeat, such disruption and scatter
| ing of the Democracy as no power on earth
can ever rally.
| Honest men will not always endorse cor
ruption.
New York, the pig-pen of Tammsny, may
| submit to what its people have not pluck
enough to help, but the Democracy of the
| country will not submit to such dictation.
Look at New York!
One hundred and one millions of dollars in
debt!
And what have the people to show for it?
A steam yacht!
An American club house!
A race trackl
A supreme court owned by the Erie rail.
way, with Hon. George Barnard toll-keeper'
A palace for lying, slippery Dick Connolly
the comptroller who went into Office SO pool
that he could not qualify in Sl'O00-who il
now millionaire.
| "A fortune OF SlU,UUU,UOO fOr refer Bl5marcl
Sweeney, who was poor man when first ap
pointed city chamberlain.
A palace for Hon. William M. Tweed, til,
likeliest man in the lot, who has only mad
twenty-five millions Of dollars out of the city
| by honesty and economy, in ten years!
fortune of seven millions for A. Oake,
Hall, the popinjay mayor, who sqwaks whel
bis masters pull the strings, and pockets hi
per centage of the plumber while angling fol
the nomination for governor.
Six thousand harlots and nineteen hundred
dens OF infamy, supported directly from cit.
| stealings.
These are a few of the exhibits for this en-
ormods debt which must be paid or repudiat
| ed.
WILL the argus never remember tina
Gen. Sherman declares that he never mad
the speech attributed to him-and that b
has said that the Ku Klux bill has alread
prevented many disturbances in the South