The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-23
MORNING OCTOBER 90 1875.

act, should you vote for scores of men who
are before you and who did not do the act ?
Why should you vote for whole party,
having hundreds of thousands In its train,
because one man, not on any ticket, has
shown willingness to strike at wrong
Certainly, If the democratic party should
be installed in power, 1t is because that
party has gained your confidence. In the
matters at stake, is that true? Has the dem
ocratic party recommended itself
by its acts touching the canal
management and canal frauds ? Look at
the tables for years of canal expenditures,
and they will show you every period of the
democratic management by increases and
extravagances of cost. Look at the canal
contracts, most notorious for rascality and
wrong. They all originated In democratic
canal boards. Look at the acts of the leg
islature suffering these plunderlngs. Their
dates will show. that they were passed
when Hoffman was governor and Tweed
governed. 1868, 1869, 1870 and 1871 are
infested years, and then the whole power
over canal lettings was in the hands of the
democrats and the contracts referred to are
every one the act and creation of demo-
cratic authority. Records which cannot
be obliterated or covered up prove this. A
commission, non-partizan only In name,
made up Of three to one of democratic par
tisans, two of them democratic candidates
and the third managing the canvass as
chairman of the election committee, have
been compelled to admit and state the
fact. 1t could not be gainsayed. 1t is too
papable.'
The senator instanced several fraud
ulent contracts authorized by the demo-
cratic canal board, ard said Take all
this history and find in it the reasons for
endorsing and electing the democratic
party on the issue of canal frauds If you
can. The last report of the commission
just out makes more puzzling than ever
now the action of the governor under law
empowering him to remove delinquent Of
ficials. Various works at Black Rock,
Harbor Lane, cost, in sums, more than q
million dollars, and most of it, the report
says, has been wasted or plundered. A
canal board committee composed of
five, gave George d. Lsrd $4,000
which the committee insists was wrong.
One member of this committee was re-
publican, no longer in office, and the other
four were democrats, and they are still In
office. The state engineer was and lie one
of the four jackson, the canal commits
sioner on the Black Rock division was and
is another of the four. The facts have
been long notorious, but no one has been
suspended. A republican appraiser is bad
ly compromised in this affair. He has
been indicted and earnestly hope will get
his deserts.
Mr.. Fay, lately democratic canal COM
missioner, and now q democratic division
engineer, appears in both capacities to have
been the heart and part of conspiracy to
rob the state in the Black Rock works. but
he too has gone unremoved, though for six
months his proceedings have been secret
to no one.
Mr.. Conkling next answered an article
which appeared ia the New York World,
criliczing his Albany address, and pro-
duced figures to show that Mr.. Tilden and
the whole body of the democratic partisans
supported the known Tweed ticket in 1876
He then referred to John Kelley, and de-
nounced his attempt to remove from the
bench Recorder Hackett
Senator Ccnklng concluded as follows ::
w neu YOU TeiDeHlDcT tudt 1 Weeus TWO
great levers were courts and officers of cleo
ton, does it not look as If a buding Tam
many is bursting into blossom. Add to
this debt taxes and assessments which are
rolling up against you add the wasteful
way in which your public works are being
dawdled over, as testified by Schultz and
Sherwood on Tuesday before the legislature
committee add the fact that, in violation
of the law, a citizen of another state has
been brought here to administer depart
ment of which he confessed his ignorance !;
add the general state of Tanlmany rule,
and then judge whether the World was not
laboring under error in denouncing as false
hoods an allegation that you have sprout-
ing Tammany among you. II you
are imprisoned in dangers, then
you yourselves carry the key. Tie
time OF deliverance is in the ides of No
yember Let this great city be wise on
that day and from the hills and wales of
the state will roll down majorities to meet
you, which will make the state, whose in
terest and whose honor are so dear to us,
the fortress of honest money, of rcviving
prosperity, of free schools and of genuine
reform.