New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-21
TUE hCc0UyTS-THE TIMES.

arrogant that its best friends cannot live WITH
II in neacc If its battle with tho Tammany
Fin. Ind bcep waged for its individual glory
and or,olu.ncpt (as it was not) instead OF for
tho good of the public Gas we honestly Deiie'e
Il wall II coull not show more intolerance,
moro jealousy, and more unchaIltaDie Suspicion
of It's comrades than it has manifested during
the past month. 1t is willing that 0ther people
should copy its articles and initiate Its tactfoS;
but lot q Republican journal venture 10 stiihe
a blow of its own at tho cOmmon enemy ana,
prestol Tho Times rolls itself up like porcu-
nine and shoots out its vcnOmOus little qullls
alike at friend and foe. We might let 1t
| alone. and 90 our own way; but we have tho
cause of good government too much at heart,
we are too much in earnest ia our ehuca'or
| 70 oust the gang Of robbers who have taken
possession of the city treasury, to deSpise
even a cross grained ally like The Times, or TO
reject the aid of any hard hitter no matter
how dsagreeable he may be individually. IL
| takes all sorts of men to mako an army, ana
| in war we must sometimes use very unpieas-
ant instruments.
When tho extracts from the Controllers
books were published we copied them all IN
| full and though we had no means OF know
| ing that they were genuine until Messrs Han
| and Connolly by their silence virtually acknowl-
| edged them to be so, we have repeatedly pro-
s,r--559I our belief in them and have been fore
most in pointing out their importance ana
calling upon the Mayor and Controller for their
defense, if they had any to make. But while
there is no reasonable doubt in any impair
tial mind that the published extracts are
substantially correct, Mayor Hall has charged
that they are garbled, and Tammany newspa-
pcrs still declare that they are fictitious.
We were therefore at the pains of showing on
Saturday specimens of what Tammany has
actually confessed voting away during the
past three years. OF course we did not
undertake to copy all the appropriations. We
took only the accounts of Garvey lngersoH'
Miller Keyser, and the rest whose names
have already been made public, with few
others that seemed to be especially outrageous.
Our tables neither confirm nor discredit those
of The Times. They refer i'll great measure
to different periods. Hall and Connolly ex-
cuse themselves for drawing extravagant war
rants in 1868, 1869, and 1870, on the ground
that many of the payments were OF bills
audited and approved in former years. Very
well, VIC answer; let us see then what you
and your Ring have audited and approved
since 1868. So we took their official records,
and found the bills accepted to be almost as
bad as the payments actually made.
Lest anybody should be foolish enough to
imagine that these figures afforded o test of
the figures in The Times or could possibly
"break the force of the previous exposures"
we took the greatest pains to repeat over and
over again that the two accounts referred to
two different things. One table showed the
payments made in certain years, the other the
bills accepted during the same period. We
added these important considerations:
1. The bills do not include the enormous
sums known to have been received by Inger-
SOIL Garvey and others, on warrants drawn
in favor of third parties
g. "There is no reason for confidence that
"the schedule of bills approved, as Tammany
"prints it, is complete. If the clerk OF
"the Board of Supervisors chooses to omit
"from the journal all mention of certain
"heavy payments there is nobody to interfere
"with him.
9. "With these preliminary warnings, we
sprint the Tammany Confession, begging our
"readers not to conclude that, because the
"Rng has acknowledged this much, it is not
equity of great deal more"
And in another part of the same paper,
to make our purpose still clearer, we said:
awe publish this morning an extract from the
"offical records of the County Government
"during the last three years. showing GER
"tain portion of the accounts as they have
"been dressed up by Tammany for the public
"eye, and in the most favorable light in which
ait is possible to place them. Even so they
care bad enough to disgrace any administra-
"tion. 1t is proper to observe that
"the accounts herewith presented do not pur-
sport to cOyer the same transactions as the &c
"counts previously presented in The Times and
"THE TRIBUNE"
In the face of these explicit explanations,
The Times chooses to represent our statement
as publication in the interest of the Tam
many Ring, and it adds this extraordinary
comment:
the subject in the leading columns THE TRIBUNE, that
the figures have adverted 10 are sample OF tue ac
Mayor Hall and Controller Connolly from the accusa-
tons we have brought against them. We are unwilling
TO believe that TIE TRIBUNE has been hOaxed put IL
still incredible to suppose that garbled quo
tallons from the minutes OF the Board OF supeIysor5
specVcdttoRs Of warrants phfeh reTe actually dd'
The Times either cannot, or will not, under
stand the English language.
One word more in answer to the charge of
garblng. Oar contemporary says:
IN the year 1869 alone, give the following samples
OF the accounts passed by the Board and allowed by the
mayor OF WHICH IHE TRIBUNE has no record:
GREGG 4 co.
Jan. 7-Cafpets for Ard6ries. :........ $25,o95 10
NGERsOLL co.
sept 9-Furmture, New Court House o7.G1O 90
A. j. CARNEY.
sept 9-RePairs on Court House 1880 90
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