Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-11-26

POOR OLD BOSS! y OOuDt II any
body has anything but pity for him
now. The many recipients of his
open handed charities who locked on
him as the fat habitat of the kindliel
instincts and who were grateful owe,
his benevolence, mourn his downfall
as they do not and cannot the calam
tiles of better but less loved public
men. Down in the slums of the
Sixth Ward and elsewhere in and
about Tweed's Senatorial District
the robbing of the public till is re-
garded as a very venial offense- es.
pecially If they who commit rob-
berries spend their plumber with an
unclutching hand. With these peo-
pie, hardened by the near acquaint-
ance with crime and embittered by
poverty the thing that compels them
to profitless and hungering honesty
comes, naturally enough, to be
looked on as the common enemy.
Tweed garroted this huiking enemy,
the Government-the power that
paid policemen and made beggar
women and their brats "move on
and they greeting him as their
champion and benefactor. They
were at war with responsibility in all
its shapes, specially landlords and
tax-collectors and water-rates men,
and they recognized in the burly
Boss the man who, somehow, they
didn't care howl bled the close
listed Government and divided his
steaiings with them. While he was
bad times with the rich and
the struggling taxpayer, he was
good with the wharf rats and
1azarroni down in the cellars and up
in the garrets of tenement houses.
So they would rather hire out to him
on election day than to anybody
else; and they cheerfully performed
such crimes against the ballot-box
as were needful to return the Boss to
his scat at Albany. As to himself,
he had systematized crime. He or
ganized tine forces OF roguery and
led them to victory and wealth. The
public was their oyster; and dishon-
esty was the rule and not the excep-
ton in their course of action. Sue
cess lei TO arrogance and 4 leering
defiance of the laws of 9ecency.
When the press, whose voice they
had stopped with dividends, got to
be too extortionate and clamorous
for hush money, the Boss and his
Ring associates unwisely refused to
paw the assessments thus demanded;
ind out came the charges of theft
The Times denounced them Us
.hieves-actual and provable perpe-
traitors of Grand Larceny, and swore
10 prove its accusations good. A
whirlwind was set .
going. Then came the Committee Of |
and the demolition of old |
rammany-and then the long course |
IF indictments, and now this conyic |
ion. As things so, this has been a
'peedily transacted business 1t must
,e remembered that in 1871 the
COURTS of New York were VIGOROUSLY
.orrupt. Tweed was little else than
king in the corporation whose chief
officer he was. To break
lis power and scatter his influence
o completely in less than four years |
S to make it . personal favor not to
end him to Blackwells Island while
,e waits the issue of the motion for =
lew trial, but keep him in the
rombs instead, is something quite as
in the course of popular
nstice rs anything that has been
one in England And yet one
hares in the general sense Of pity
hat is felt for the Inundated chief
lin, and the once proud and happy
Mt now humbled and disconsolate
,mily whose head and stay he has