Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1875-10-01

NEW YORK, September %, 1870.
DEMOCRATIC LEADERS.
! John Morrissey was ignominiously kick
| ed out of the Democratic Convention at
| Syracuse, but he has no idea of letting the
matter drop with tha defeat. He changes
the field of battle merely from Syracuse to
! New York, and that he will do better here
| there can be no doubt. In the State Con-
yention he was terribly out of his clement.
/ The farmers, merchants, and other decent
men sent to that convention from the rural
districts did not take kindly to the short
haired, broken-nosed gambler, not know
ing that, prize-fghter as be was and gamb-
/ ler as he was and gambler as he is, he is
better man, by all odds, than he wko op-
posed him. True, he is a gambler, but
what better are any of the leading Demo
Gratis of the city?
| John Morrissey wants power, and he
wants control of patronage that he may
add the profits of political plumber TO the
profits of his faro banks but he could not
|
ceded him. if he tried. As between the
| gambler Morrissey and the other Demo
cratic aspirants for the control OF the city,
L should much prefer Morrissey. He has
a sort OF honesty, a rough sense of honor,
and great deal ot lloerelity. What he
should plunder the city of would not be
thrown away in reckless manner, and
the city would get back something. He is
the most decent man of the lot. Morressey
and his adherents are making a splendid
fight against Kelly and Tammany, and
| you need not be surprised if they beat
them in the city this fall. Tammany has
| become so dictatorial that the 'outs" have
become restive. Creamer. leading anti
| Tammany man, in q speech Wednesday
night, accused Kelly of using thieves and
murderers in his interest, and of all sorts
of guilt and corruption. Tammany will
put full ticket in the field, and so will the
! Morressey faction. Now, if the Repubi-
cans only had sense and energy enough to
put proper ticket into the field, and work
| for it, they could slide in between these
warning factions and get possession of the
city. But they will not do it.
BROOKLYN.
Brooklyn is suffering quite as much as
New York for want of good government
indeed, if any difference, the Democratic
ring in that city is the more rapacious of
the two. For the year 1875, SS.000,000
was collected for city expenses. This
money is all gone, and three months re-
main to be provided for. The tax levy
next year will have to be not less than
S15, 200, 900, which is seven per cent. Oh
the valuation. The way the money goes
is frightful. In '67 S175,000 was appro-
prlated for the Wallabout Bay improve
ment. The next year the commission got
1886, 1000 more, and in eight years they
swelled the expenditure TO S1,200,000.
The big bridge is another swindle. The
cost was originally placed at S3,000,OOO,
but the way money is being expended up
on it, it will cost 500, 600, 900 to finish it.
Prospect Park, which was to cost $500,
600, has already reached an expenditure
of $10, 900, 900, and it is not yet half finish
ed. Paving has been made the vehicle
for very big steals. Nearly 4 million of
dollars have been paid for paving on three
streets, which an honest contractor would |
have been glad to have done for 5000, 600. |
Is itany wonder that 5000 houses are |
standing empty in Brooklyn, and that
mans poverty is estimated by The amount |
Of real estate that he owns ? Ten princi |
pals, one hundred leutenants, and about |
two thousand strikers, have stolen all this
money from the taxpayers. And yet there
are Republicans who look for reform by an
alliance with the men who are, and have
been for years, doing this kind of work.
HOME AGAIN
The cold weather has brought back to
their homes the thousands of families who
have seen feasting and flirting at the var.
ious summer resorts for the past four