Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-10-01
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
Democratic Leaders
HO me agaIn-RelIglOus- siness
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DEMOCRATIC LEADERS.

DEMOCRATIC LEADERS.
John Morrissey was ignominiously kick
ed out of the Democratic Convention a
Syracuse, but he has no idea ofIe ting the
matter drop with that defeat He ch anges
the field of battle merely from Syracuse
to New York, and that he will do bet
ter here there can be no doubt. In the
State Convention he was terribly out of
his element. The farmers, merchants ;,
and other decent men sent to that con-
Yention from the rural districts did not
take kindly to the short-haired, broken
nosed gambler, not knowing that, prize
fighter as he was, and gambler as-he is,
he is a better man, by all odds, than he
who opposed him. True, he is gamb-
Ter, but what better are any of the lead
ing Democrats of the city
John Morrissey wants power, and he
wants control of patronage that he may
add the profits of political plum der to
the profits of his faro banks: but he
could not steal more than the leaders
who hive preceded him, if he tried As
between the gambler Morris sey and the
other Democratic aspirants for the con-
troll of the city, 1 should much prefer
Morrissey. He has sort of honesty, a
rough sense of honor, and great deal
of liberality. What he should plunder
the city of would not be thrown away in
a reckless maner, and the city would get
back something. He is the most decent
man of the lot. Morrissey and his ad-
herents 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 Tam
many man, in a speech Wenesday night,
accused Kelly of using thieves and muir
ders in his inter est, and of all sorts of
guilt and corruption. Tammany will
put full ticket IN the field, and so will
the Morrissey faction. Now, if the Re-
publicans 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 1t.
BROOKLYN. =. f.
Brooklyn is suffering quite as much as
New York for want of good government
indeed, if any difference, the Democrat
ic ring in that city is the more rapacious
of the two. For the year 1876, S., 100000
was collected for city expenses. This
money is al gone, an three months re
main 10. be provided for. The tax levy
next year wIll'haYe to be not less than
$l5,0O0,O 900, which is seven per cent. on
the valuation. The way the money goes
is fri ghtfuL In 81 $4,000 was appro-
priated for the Wallabout Bay improve
ment. The next year the com mission got
1885,, 600 more, and in eight years they
swelled the expenditure to $1,000, 900.
The big bridge is ano ther swindle. The
cost was originally placed at $1,000 900,
but the way money is being expended
upon it, it will cost $20,000,000 to finish
il; Prospect Park, which was to cost
$500,000, has already reached an expen-
diture of $40 100000, and 1t is not yet half
finished. Paving has been made the We
hicle for very big st eals.s Nearly mil
lion of dollars have been paid for paving
on three streets, VIII ich any honest con-
traetor would have been glad to have
done for $2,0O0,000.
Is it any wonder that 5000 houses ars
standing empty in Brookly n, and that
mans pove rty is estimated by the amount
of real estate that be owns Ten prinr
cipals, one hun dred lieutenants, and
about two thous and strikers, have stolen
all this money fir ON the taxpayers. And
vet there are Republicans who look for
re form 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 been feasting and flirting at the
various summer resorts for the past four
months. When it is pleasantly cool here
1t is very cold on the seashore and up In
the noun tains, and there is precious Ill
tie fun in flirting on hotel piazzas In over
coats and furs. And so back thew come
from unco mfortable quarters, to which.
fashion dr. ives them once year, to their
comfortable homes in the city. where
they would have been better off all the
season. They come back Yearied. tired,
and sick. Not rested by q season oE rest,
hut wear led by q season of dissipation.
They will rest in their own homes
month, to get strength to & through the
dissipation of the winter that is hetofe
them. But with the return of the iash-
ionables, New York looks once more
like New York. The streets are lull Oh
pretty women pretiey dressed, the avenue
aud he Park Shine again with handsome
Q euuipages, and the long deserted hons es
up.town are once more opend to admit
tbe Iigbf of heaven. The theatres and
MIA ces of amusement begin to show the
effect of the incoming Hood and so df , the
retail stores. The traders-and for that
M after everybody else-are CHAD o Zee
them home, for II means o resR mpt ION of
business, and an end OF the regalF r sum
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