New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-18
Comments bU The Tribune.

Comments BY The Tribune.
"The Democratic party of the State" il now
in power by virtue of those very frauds
which the money stolen from our City trea-
sury melted and paid for. The fraudulent
naturalizations, bogus certificates, monstrous
repeating, and equally monstrous counting,
whereby Seymour and Blair were given the
vote of this State and Hoffman chosen its
Governor, were engineered by certain of our
City magnates and paid for out of the spoil
of our taxpayers. BY lavish disbursements
from our treasury. thinly disguised as payments
for carpentering, plastering carpetng, &c,
Sc, on our New Courthouse, Armories, &C.,
Hoffman's vote was swellcd by tens of thou
sands last year and Democratic Legislature
secured. Half the Democrats i'll either House
had been supplied by the plundercrs of our
City with the money which made their calling
and election sure. Hence they felt constrained
to steal Mr.. TwOmbly's seat and do whatever
dirty work was required OF them by Tweed
and his miniOns. They wefe bought with a
price" and had to do as their master ordered
Mr.. Blaine was emnently right in holding
up our City disbursements to National repro
baton, because the Nation is suffering their
evil effects. AS one result of these disbursc-
ments, our State has Democratic delegation
in the House over which Mr.. Blaine presidcs,
and would vote therein for Democratic Presi-
dent in case no election should be made next
year by the People. Money wrested from our tax
payers or added to our Citys debt has been
largely sent into Connecticut and other States
to corrupt their elections. Why, then, should
not Mr. Blaine reprObate our Municipal profit
gacyi
1.-THE Democratic party of the State will
"rectify abuses" will itf Why did it not
"rectfy" the theft of Twombly's seatP Why
has it never given half dozen votes in any
recent Legislature to "rectify" Tweed's abOm-
Unable Tax-Levies7 The handful of rotten
Republicans who voted with the great body
of the Democrats to pass those connections of
mountainous villany had the miserable excuse
that they were paid for so doing. The Albany
Argus asserts that some of them exactcd no
less than $4,000 each for that betrayal of
their constituents. The Democrats, having
generally been paid beforehand in the moneys
sent from this City to nominate and elect
them, are understood to have with few UNI
considerable exceptions) exacted no further
bonus. Our Winanses proved less modest and
tractable.
"The Democratic party of the State will +"
not "rectify the abuses" of our Municipal rule,
simply because they will have to be subsidized
afresh by our "Ring" to give them chance
of another triumph. Municipal corruption is
the muck-heap wherefrom that party matches
its governors and legislators. To "rectify"
Municipal "abuses" is to abolish Democratic
ma;orities. 1t Will not initiate the madness of
Hogarth's heated partisan who intently sawed
away at the horizontal stick which upheld the
adverse party's flag and his own body. Our
Municipal coTuptions will be "rectifed," but
never by the party which has for years fed
and fattened on them and by reason Of those
"abuses" is now in power.