, 1876-07-18
TIE REF0RMER,
Slippery Sans OAtcHtauoua Parade Over
Very Littl1 tiround-Tiftlrn'a Sham Reform
Compared With HrIatow's N'orlt.

Slippery sntn's Oatcntanoua Parade Over
Very Little dround-Tittlrn's Sham Reform
Compared svltf, IsrIatow's Work.
Ibsrssponht"ee G4hctnn1H Ga:rtte.
WAsHlNuToN, duly ll.-Thc following Is cir
culatcd Us the record of Tlldcn's Canal rcfor1n
suits front tho beginning uf Ills movement to
date, period ot fifteen months:
Number Of nuits brought. ..,.............. ~
futnbrr brought to traAl ................
Number Of convictions obtained. ]
Number Of suits dismissed by tourt...... l
Number Of snits HOW pending. ...,........ !
Amount Of money recovered. None.
Exren.c Of eonn'isslon and counsel to as =, 49, o,
Payment u two Certificates stopped by :. .a
Ss!assr of sslstins ff.uiaisal contract. s,0''
It can not bc said TINT t,cso nuts were COM
commenced By Attorney .4eneral harlow, md
finally abandoned BY niul as hopoless This ia tho
Buch nfc the Insignificant results of move
mcut begun with great ostcntatton 50 great as
to fix tho attention Of the whole country, and
carried on by Governor WHO, II be lad really
been in earnest, need not have been tAwartel III
Tur,fing from this paltry showing of Demo-
cratsu sl,nin reform, II Ia both refreshing md ill.,
structirc to cxa1nine thc br'stow IefoIM rrcoFd
Tho timo oev,aptod BY 'riltlell.
Bristow's movement a4{aiast the Whisky Ring
began tho first week IN May, 1873. III one year
the following record Ind been made:
vnlnc Of property scfzcd. zoo 900
Suits on Official bouls ,............... a50, 600
Total. "....,.......S3,1 LOU, O00
FrUln tho above spurrcs, the cnsh turned ln tho
Trrnsury Mny ], 1871, wis 5000 dDo The pro
cess Of condemnation 'and sale II necessarily
alow, but the iinal collection OF Mt least 81, ,000-
O0l more Is already fully assured,
The criminal indctmrnts wetc rs follows:
Diat!llarA and rectiGcrs. U5
Supervisors. ..''..:'..'...'''
Revenue Agents. ...,........."....,.....," 2
Collectors.
deputy Collectors. 4
hangers. ..s....--s. ....s..s..+ ~
Htnrckccpct8.. y!
Othes peraons. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. ID
Totsi.... ....,....,............. ...,....".17B
CONNECTIONS and pslas Of guilty.. ............1lv
Trea IT, Is nd aSnultei II
Total cost for Treasury Department III de-
teeth te.t!ngs ~ ths sd Frauds mud lrcpArl"s enfcs for
Since TIC lat Of May tho following additional
tlctaIls Of Bristnw's work Inns alNeArrd III the
Associated Press dispatches from vurous parta
Of tho country:
Indictments found. ...................... y
flhtn..:.n 3:ns wv
Recovered IN bonds....... :...+.....+..Sl7G,0O 0O0
Tlts loea not cover the whole ground, And IL
considerably within tho limits, which a com:
p!etc Transcript from the official rceor,ls Will
| Slow. Tl.is Il is impossible to obtun to date,
owing ta tho fact thAt the suits arc iu progress
over i wide tlcll-soNlc In New York, some iu
New Otluans, md several In san Francisco:
TiIdcn wns opurating over q sln9lo State,
| through officers vi Ills nwn selection, und ali-
sxcrablc 10 hin, for thu performance Of their
| duties. Bristow operated uycr the continent,
aul ut first, and tn some INSTANCES throughout,
by n,cana Of reluctant ol,lccrs or wotae. through
| thnse inculpatctl with tho Rings.
It III no nilswer tv say TINT Bristnw WAS not
cordially supported by tho Administration, alld
that hu was finally forced ont Of Il: lio l,ml,
aud nt,w llas, aud nrvor u'nre cordially than
clc,i,cut III the llopubllcan I,arty. And uts was
un element which proved Itself strung enough
ut Cincinnati to Lcfuat all ri,,s mud nominate \
candidate whose election Will iusure radcal re-
lortn Within tle purity. H. Y. 3.