New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-10-31


| tings" was in the hands Of tho Democrats,
and Me ContfactS r6ferrs4 to6hpeSeT Ghe
| the act and creature Of Democtstic author
Ays~Rho4eeeg1ay- WAi0hR
rated Or covered up, prove thia, Acdmpis-
| sion, non partisan only In name, NJ ade mp
three to one Of Demccrstic paStisanS-two
of them Democratic candidutss aid the
third "a anAgipg the canvass ~ chairtna OF
| the election cOmmittee-have BEEN Com
| PEELED to admit and state the fact. II could
not and can not be gsinssid; II IN too, pal
pablo. -. a... - lt .lnf- !. 20
d. FACTS FOB TAxPAYERs TO DIGEST. '-'
Let me give you some instances! One
| contract wssst building q reservoir as
| OtiscO Lake, OnOndago county. The COZ:
tract was first for 9i9, 0ooJ and included
Telling the trees and roofing out the Stumps
on three OF four acres of land-s:grnbbihk
and clearing "a 1t is called. The original
| contract was authorized in August, 1865, BY
| Democratic canal hoard. On the seventh
| Of January, 1870, an additional contract
was made by w. w. Wright, . Democratic
| canal Commissioner, which embraced four
hundred acres. This contract required
'chopping and clearing" instead Of grub
should pay the price not only Of telling the
timber, but of roofing out the stumps also.
The contractor did not .eyen fell the trees,
but gave away the standing timber for the
! cutting, left the stuDps standing. and was
paid. $24,7 81. 25 for this. To complete the
sHsls,Gy sSS1s CT sfss .ss SS7t ss "
and put that in his p6cket' Also. III, :
Take another instance. On the twenty
6rss of July, 1869, the canal board let CON
tract to II. ID. Denison, long Q membef Of
the Democratic State Committee. You will
! find his name with that of Senator Jsrvis
Lord, Allen .. Beach. and other such, ap-
pended to the call for the recent Demo
for straig htening the Erie canal near Fort
Schuyler, and tor building wall. The CON
tract price was S74,ls3 40, The estimated
COST was $84 GAS. The amount paid the
contractor Is half i million dollar 8 The
testimony shows the whole thing Illegal and
bad from beginning to end. The proceed.
ings IN the canal board were in, violation
Of plain statute law. No maps, sur
REQUIRES, we're produced or made, and
the contract was given to the highest
Of twelve bidders. The work WA chest,
the commission says, and was misstAted BY
the engineer in charge $4,000 at time.
Even the bid was fraud and q snare.
Who voted this job The record Of the
Canal board preserves the names.. Yeas
tfoiler; Bristol, Treasurer; Champlain, At
toruey General; Richmond, State Engineer
and Surveyor; Bascom and Fay. Canal Com.
mlssi0ners. Seven yeas. Nays, none.
These officials were all Democrats. They
appointed Mr.. Croker and Mr.. Babcock
tho two engineers under whom the work
was dons. No Republican had any part in
It. Can you believe that nobody but Demo-
Gratis can be trusted to pursue. and, if pos
siple. redress the wrongi
Willard johnson, three times member
OF the Legislature, was voted contract ON
the same day, by the same officials. He was
to have about $4,000. He has received
SILL 900, and his work is pronounced .
fraud. The contract had written in it false
and forged prices for hemlock lumber and
lOck-masonry. This WAS afterwsrd detected
by o Republican official, and exposed and
corrected. Willard johnson has never been
sued, though the facts were notorious last
winter. After the whole affair was public
bill which had BEEN passed paying this con.
tractor $55,O0O, parcel of the $4,000 excess
over his contract, went to Governor Tilden.
He did not veto 1.-THE let it become law.
and the money is gone. This transactlon
has been Consistently charged "a the result of
an agreement between the Governor and
an influential member OF his party, and
though proof has been offered If denial
were made, no denial has ever been made.
tOn the came day another contract was
voted by the same unanimous seven, to the
bhuo heulbuu, iOE d lOuR wall al OGlCd ana
for removing "benches." The work has
been going on for two years, under Dem
ocratic State engineer and his staff, and it
is pronounced sham aud a cheat. On the
seventeenth of June, 1871, the canal board,
every member of it being Democrat, voted
the same Denison another contract This
was for improving the Champlain canal
take n from the State is $l43,3l6. The whole
proceeding appears to have been gross to
the last degree. The maps, surveys and
plans were not made, false quantities were
exhibited at the letting, the law was violat-
ed from the beginning, and the work is in
large part worthless.
About the same time Mr.. George d. Lord,
under an alias, received from the same
canal board three contracts for slope WALL
and although his bid was seventy five cents
per cubic yard, In all three contracts it was
stated at III IS This fact was known to
Democratic officials in 1871, but the work
went on and the contract was unchanged
till 1872, when Republican STATE engineer
came in and detected and corrected it.
Take all this history, and find in it the
reasons for indorsing and electing the Dem
ocratic party on the issue of canal frauds, if
you can.
TENDS TO BE
But Mr.. Tilden has denounced these
things. Yes, so has every honest man on
both sides. So did all the Republicans in
the Legislature, and when Democrats as
sailed the Governor. Republicans stood by
him, and voted him extraordinary powers
of various kinds. He asked power to re-
move State officials, and he has never used
1t. He asked authority to appoint an in
spector Of public works forthwith-this
power was given him, and the Office created;
and there 1t has stood vacant for ax months
Republicans. and their conventions and
press, have all encouraged and supported
the Governor in every movement for re.
form. This is rs as it should be- but why
vote down the pant unstained by the frauds
and conspicuous everywhere for it's earnest
ness in chastising and Graduating them
The last report of the commission, Just out,
makes more puzzling than ever the MONACO
ton OF the Governor under the law en-
,powering HIM to remove delinquent
officials. Various works at Black Rock
har6or have cost, it seems, more than o
million dollars, and most of it, the report
says. has been wasted or plundered. A
canal board committee OF five gave Mr.,
George d. Lord $4,000, which the COM
mission insists was wrong. One member
OF TINS committee was Republican, no
longer in office, and the other four were
Democrats, and they are still in Office The
State engineer was and is one of the four,
jackson, the canal commissioner ON the
Black Rock division, was and is another of
the four; the facts have long been notorious,
but no one has been suspended. A Repub-
lican appraiser IL badly compromised in this
affair; he has been indicted, and earnestly
hone will get his deserts. When Repu6-
lean is caught swindling, he ought especi.
know that swindling 10 wrong. Mr.. Fay,
lately DemOcratio canal commissioners