Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-11-27

door of the public treasury, clad in
the robe of office, ,stuffing his pockets
openly with the money of the peo-
ple,a and .strewing it itamong his spawn
of subordinates as a king might scat
ter pennies among slaves.
Boss Tweed stands sentenced to a
term of imprisonment which, though
it is wholly inadeqate to his crime
will be at least warning to others
and an indication that his promi-
nent associates may also be brought
to justice. The convicted sachem
is now sixty-five years of age. 1.-The
lives to see the expiration of his SEN
tence he viii be in his seventy-ninth
year. The sentence puts him defini-
tely out of the way of further mis-
chief. But what of New York? Has
the unclean lair of the Tammany
thieves been cleansed, or is the i'm
morality, the loose, disgraceful con-
dition Of pubic morals which made
the old ring possible, still there?
The conviction Of Tweed is a CLEAN
of hope, but it is only step toward
what must yet be done.
Below we give the remarks of
Judge Davis as he pronounced the
sentence.
Judge Davis then resumed: "Wil
liam NJ. Tweed, you stand convicted
by q verdict of jury oftwelve hon
est men, of a large number Of crimes
charged against you, united in one
indictment and the verdict, in the
opinion of the court, could not have
been otherwise without the violation
of the oaths which the jury had tax
en-, an utter disregard of the obliga-
tion under which they rested, to
speak the truth and the whole truth.
With all the opportunity you had,
had you faithfully performed your
duties to the public, to win the re-
spect and honor of the whole com
munity, you saw fit to prevert the op
portunity you possessed and the
powers with which you were clothed
in manner more wicked, more in
famous and more outrageous than
any instance of like character which
the whole history of the civilized
world contains. Instead of protec-
ting the public,you plundered it;in-
stead of standing guard where the
law placed you, over the treasury of
your county, you threw that
treasury open not merely to your
own rapacity, but also to the avarice
of your associates, under circum.
stances which make it transparent
that you were engaged in concer-
ted conspiracy to plunder the treas
ury of this country in which your
self and your associates in crime
were principally to be benefited.
The evidence on this subject can
leave no manner of doubt in the
minds of any. The commencement
of it all was the entering by you on
those duties as President of the
Board of Audit, on the 5th of May;
The very next day after that, youl
career of plunder began, and from
that day forward consecutively till
the whole one hundred and ninety
accounts before that board had been
audited and certified, and warrants
issued and money paid, the evidence
is conclusive that the whole proceed.
ing was instituted to carry out q
concerted plan to enrich yourself
and those associated with you. II
there was no other, testimony, that
in my judgment would be conclu.
sively established by the fact that
on each of these several claims, as
they were passed on and untimely
allowed, your share of the plunder
was clearly fixed and prescribed al
twenty four per cent.while the share
OF your associates had been fixed by
a somewhat similar standard Of
iplunder. 1t is impossible to believe
in the distribution of one hundred
and ninety cases in which the mon
eys were received on these warrants
that just twenty-four per cent. ol
4 each sum should always be allotted
to you without an understanding in
advice, by concerted arrangement
that this exact sum should be your
fined proportion of moneys of which
the country should be plundered
1t is vain to suggest that your trail
and conviction have been the result
of any partizan feeling that this was
after alias one of the jury summon
ed on panel expressed it, a strug-
4 gle between the Ins' and the Outs.
mo-. The whole struggle has been
a struggle between honesty and fraud
between virtue and crime"
4 The judge here, in vindication OF
| The -partizan nature of the prose,
cutioIi, alluded to the Times as first
giving the figures to the light, and
to the great assistance rendered by
Charles O'Connor and Samuel j.
Tilden in the preparation of the le'
gal proceedings, and continued:
4 at would be wrong and unjust to
entertain for moment the idea that
your conviction has been the result
of persecution at the hands of any
person or party. 1t has been the re-
suit of evidence SO clear and plain
that never have I seen a case where
the evidence was SO utterly over
whelming, and where it was SO i'm