The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-10-05
The scheme as then and there concocted,

: The scheme as then and there concocted,
and to which the immaculate Tammany
chief contributed fifteen thousand dollars
rs doucer to start with. embraced three
very important objects which were after,
wards happily achieved. First, the pos.
session of all the offices of the State, inclu-
ding United States Senator, which was
to be accomplished by the organization of
the new baptisinal party, but to which no.
body was to stand sponsor until all the
political cards had been successfully played
by aid Of the Tammany fund. Second,
the immediate control and final ownership
Of all the railroads in the State,
built by the peoples money; and
third, q grand financial operation,
by which the State was to be swim
died out of not less than seventy mill
lions of dollars, by compromising interest
upon interest, to go into the pockets of the
leaders and chief conspirators in this finan-
cial swindle. To aid in the accomplishment
of these schemes, after the new government
should be formed and baptized " as the
Conservative party, resort was had to q
little legislative "joker," called the
Enabling Act, by which q grossly partisan
judiciary should be secured to enforce the
legislation necessary to carry out the entire
new programme. a alt u.
But without pursuing this branch Of
their special iniquity any further in this
connection, we might briefly mention the
following facts as showing that the "mem-
cries" Of the party ought to be immortal,
if they are not already so: aa5 oE "a
1. 1t openly violated the Constitution of
the State by making offices appointive
which the fundamental law declared should
be elective. e,,.s r.-- r
2. 1t shielded and protected, if it did not
employ, hired assassins to seize ono of the
ballot-boxes in this city, to break it open
and burn the ballots therein, in order to
prevent Republicans from holding offices
to which they were duly elected, and to
put their baptized Conservatives in their
place. it,g5Iprgo gsei '4Sd lie5 VA E
3. 1t arrested, tried, condemned and pun
ished innocent men, on false testimony,
before partisan courts and juries, because
Of their political opinions, and thus made
the guilt or innocence of the accused to de-
depend upon the political faith he pro-
fessed.
3 4. 1t has openly and VIGOROUSLY disre-
garded the true material interests of the
State, by placing the State treasury at the
mercy Of bondholders, money shavers, and
Wall street Shylocks. ''
s. II attempted to give, and did give, ac-
cording to the decisions of its partizan
Judiciary, to this class Of bondholders a
priority over all other creditors of the
State, by making their coupons receivable
for taxes, and thereby offering q bride to
tax-gatherers to speculate in coupons with
State funds. 3u3 fGaB .EJlH aaiaHnH 3D..
@. By making the taxes payable six months
or more in advance of the time the State
Il
should need the money, it has compelled
the people to borrow money at twelve pei
cent.or sacrifice their property, that the
State Treasurer might loan it out to the
Richmond banks at the paltry5 figure Of
four per cent. a7s4 sadl !5.a.a4
z 1t has practically and substantially nulli-
fed the homestead provision of the Consti-
tuition, so that the needy and impoverished
people of the State are denied the benefit
Of that wise and humane law which was
made to secure to them and their families
home and the possession of the necessa-
ries of life. r. vfif7sfa4f sdr goBE,
8. Itput the entire machinery for determin-
ing the proper count of votes at the polls
into the hands Of its baptized" party
Conservatives, and in voting districts where
there were decided Republican majorities,
one ormore of the Conservative inspectors
would either absent themselves or commit
some clerical error in their returns, by
which partisan judges might declare such
elections void and proceed to appoint Con-
servatives in their stead. In Richmond,
Manchester, and not less than hundred
other places in the State, this nice little
game was played in way to immortalize
the memories Of the party. o egf1 H..
K But this is not the half that might in
truth be told of this party Of Immortal
memories, |" as the Conservative styles it.
1t has been the tool and agent Of mercenal ,
spectators. who would have robbed and
despoiled the State. but for the timely inter-
ference of the last Legislature. which would
have been powerless to save the people
from impoverishment to the last degree of
endurance, except for the Republican mem.
bers of that body.
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