New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-05-28
PINGS IND ORGANS.

To-day, for some reason best known to
itself, The World promises to undertake labor
which must have weighed upon its conscience
for many q long month. A Ring of pecula-
tors, only little less infamous than the gang
of conspirators headed by William NJ. Tweed
has been plundering the City of Brooklyn just
as Tammany plundered the City Of New York.
1t has robbed the people Of their money by
fraudulent accounts, and of their political
rights by frauds at the polls. The indig-
nant citizens have repeatedly applied to the
Legislature for relief, and the Legislature,
filed with The Worlds political friends, has
refused to help them. The Ring profcssed
allegiance to the Democratic party, and so The
World and the Democratic party protected it.
Long ago THE TRIBUNE exposed some of its
infames, but In our crusade against the
thieves The World gave us neither help nor
approval. 1t held its peace, and consented
that the robbery should go on. Somewhat
later The Brooklyn Eagle, convinced that its
party could not afford to bear the RESPONSE
bility of these crimes, took up the sub
ject which we had opened, followed
the clues which we had discovered,
and made q series of disclosures, for
which THE TRIBUNE gave it full credit. Still
The World spoke not word. Last Fall we
returned to the Brooklyn frauds, and when
the popular reform movement was in all its
vigor, we urged that the affairs of our sister
city should be taken in hand, and q clean
sweep made Of the rogues on both sides Of
the river. We published the story of some of
the worst of their thefts; we exposed In par
ticular the swindles connected with the East
River Bridge; we began an investigation of
other frauds, and suspended our labors only
when we discovered that the only facts we
were able to attain had already been fully pub
lished, and there was ample material for the
Legislature to act upon if it chose to do JUS
tice. All this whlo The World preserved its
discreet silence. 1t stood by Tweed, whom it
hated, because Tweed was the pillar of the
New York Democracy, until Tweed was over
thrown, and then it kicked him. 1t stood by
the Brooklyn thieves while honest journals
were exposing their infamies, because in its
folly it believed them to he the safeguards of
Brooklyn Democracy, and now that the party
is shown to be better without them, it makes
war upon them for purely partisan purposes
That The World in its eleventh-hour CONVEX
sion 10 the cause Oh IelOIiH ~ moved by no
love of honesty and fair government is almost
confessed by its bugle-bast of yesterday in
which it announces the battle, protesting
" allegiance TO the Democratic party,r it ex-
claims, " this scoundrelly Rings whole course
has been consistently undemocratc, yenal,
"and self-seeking. In city and county over
"whelmingly Democratic, it has alienated by
"its treacbery to the public interest and to
"party principles thousands of respectable
Democrats whose independent Votes at
Z" local elections have been counted out or nell
"tralized by that last worst resortHof political
"knaves. the stufling of ballot boxes There
FORE here Is at it,-not because it is n wrong,
an oppression, crime; but because it alien
ates a thousand Democratic votes not because
il has robbed the treasury and attacked the
equal right Of suffrage, but because it has
noutralized Democratic ballots. While 1t