Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-06-09
Democratic SHARES and Pitfalls

1uoiI OdteiOOiy oAsiofoSono0
and Corruption Their E1trav
agance illustrated by Ingersole S
Testimony-The Way to put up
or fix Biils-The Percentage Of
the Ring-The Court House Job.
The Democracy have set their snsres
and pitfalls, and they expect to reap a
ooantiful harvest from the unsusPect-
ing and homes. people who are to be
trapped by their battle cry Of e1trsv
sgance and chrruptien. There is too
much of ertravsgance and corruption
on every side. In almost every walk
of life If is found to greater or less
degree. Under that battle cry, with
out anything else to offer, they expect
TO raise Their game aud bag t. How
many they will catch in their cunuingly
Get snares, aud gather in their pitfalls,
time will tell. Their shouts are already
heard throughout the land, and wall
swell louder and louder until the No
vember election has passed, while at
the same time they, themselves, are
feekiRg witk extravaganza and corrup-
ton.
Reader, do you know how they man
age affairs in counties, in cities aud III
State, where they have control. The
management in New Yolk city may give
you insight. Their modus operandi IN
that place, so recently as last week, was
nate manifest to the world, and any
man who reads may know, BY James ii
1ngersOIe, who, through Republican
exposure, was imprisoned in Sing Sing,
as an accompiiee of Boss Tweed, and
released, or pardoned, on a promise
that he would tell Of the practices of
the ring, testified in Court, in a suit
against Tweed TO recover six millions
of p!under, as his share ON public
buildings and other improvements in
New York.
James II. Ingersole testified
In the year 1867 it was understood
that persons who applied Offices and
buildings would be required to allow
the public officers percentages on the
amount of their bills for the same. My
father and his partner tbereupon ceased
from furnishing such supplies. 1t oc-
CURED to me that might probably do
so, aud in that same year called upon
Tweed at the Street Department, on
the corner of Broadway and Park
place, and told him SO. He asked me
whether Watson had spoken to me
about it, and ] answered in the mega
tive "You had best 80 over and talk
to Woodward about It." Accordingly,
| weutto the Supervisors Clerks Office,
and, at my request, Joseph b. Young
there introduced me to Woodward.
th,u stated to Woodward that |
understood there was new programme
that people who supplied public Offices
of the city or county must pay for it
that as some who had before furnished
the supplies we're unwilling to 60 on in
that way | had thought | might under
take it, and that Tweed had referred
me 10 him. Woodward heard lie
through, aud spoke but little. He,
however, told me to call next day
Within a day or two afterward l met
Woodward in the same Office, when he
stated TO me that it was all right, and
added that | must fix my bills so as to
"put up" as be expressed it, 35 per
cent" He told me that % per cent.
was for Tweed aud 10 per cent. for Con-
molly. | assented, and thereupon he
handed me number Of orders for rup-
plies to public Offices. This was the
beginning of my dealing IN this way.
My FIRST receipt of warrant from the
Finance Department of said city OIL
account of such dealings was on Janu-
sry 20, 1865.
After had complied with the first
set of orders thus given me by Wood
ward, and before receiving any moucy
therefor, called upon Tweed at said
Street Department, and had q couver-
sation with him concerning the method
Of making up my bills. 1 mentioned
to him that my fathers partner had de-
clined doing this sort of business, aud
that could Eot use their firm name.
Tweed replied lie is very hin skin
ned you can use "lngersoll & Co." as
firm; that little difference will not be
noticed, and the bills will 60 right
along as usual. said, {" Very WE'LL"
and ,henceforward in all my transac-
iions, | made out my bills under the
6rm of "lngersOll & Co." except where
fictitious names were used.
| understood from the acts and occa
sional speeches of Tweed, Connolly,
Watson, aud Woodward, that l bad
only to do as | was directed by them or
any of them, and that the allowance
aud payment of bills made up by me
agains; said City Corporation and said
county would be SO arranged that
would be we'll paid thereout, and that
from the residue aud like dealings with I