Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1876-07-28

AND lAANAN1
The following is the pungent speech of
Hon. Martin |. Townsend in reply to Hon.
:. 5. Cox, delivered in the House Of Repre-
sentatives, the other day
Mr.. Chairman have no time u talk
about South Carolina, but
There IS land Of pure de. -ht
Where saints immortal re n,
and that land Is the city Of New York
The population Of South Carolina, in $50
was 10, 800, the population Of the city Of
New York was $4,000. The population Of
South Carolina was about three fourths Of
that of the city of New York. The gentle
man from New York who has Just taken his
seat (Mr. Cox said that the Republican ad-
mihistration are eating out the substance of
South Carolina.
Now, sir, the debt of South Carolina over
and above every deduction Is less than Sl0.-
900 900. The debt of the city of New York
over and above every deduction is Sll4,-
600 600. Who eats the substance of the
people?
But, sir, more than that. Gentlemen say
that bad men with bad motives have ruined
the State of South Carolina. How about
William NJ. Tweed lie was the ruler Of
the city of New York in one form or an
other Tor more than twelve years. lie was
the ruler of New York, through Tammany
Hall, at the time when the gentleman from
Ohio brought his little Sc carpet-bag' TO the
city Of New York and set it down in Tam
many Hall, which was then fOurishing in
all its power and glory, and looked up
smilingly for the appreciation of William
NJ. Tweed. [Great laughter. While
William NJ. Tweed ruled New York
$4,000, coo was stolen from that peo-
pie by Tweed and his immediate associ-
ates, and there is to-day a Judgment entered
against William NJ Tweed for his share of
the stealings which could be traced to his
hands of over Sc 900 600; Peter B. Sweeny,
the city treasurer, stole another share
Richard b. Connolly, another share An
drew J. Carney stole his share. and Inger-
soil stole still another share Of the SIT. 600
UOO, and every man Of them has left this
country Tor his country's good, executing
two-Garyey, who Is in States prison, and
lngersoll, who has been pardOned out bv the
reform governor Of the State Of New
York. But there was not only this stealing
of $40 200, 900 by this Tweed gang. but
Thomas c. Fields, another glorious leader of
Iammany, got an appropriation from the
Legislature to the amount of more than
100000 nominally for the benefit of the
bremen, but he actually stole every dollar of
It, Henry Genet got an act passed for a
courthouse in the city Of New York and
stole the 100000 appropriated for the
courthouse, and the sheriff of New York let
him run away. The present sheriff allowed
William NJ. Tweed to 90 to his residence
and 90 up stairs unattended tic see his wife.
and allowed him thus to leave for parts I'M
known, and the reform" governor of the
State has not found time to investigate the
outrage of letting i'm escape or remove him
from office, as he had the power to do. This
Is the party of reform and retrenehment in
the city of New York from which nv col
league Mr.. Coxl halls.
But. sir, we have not told the whole story
yet Tammany elected judges to protect |
these thieves and rObbers-George G. BAR
nard, McCunn and Cardozo-eyery one of |
whom was impeached and two of them con-
victed and one resigned. But, sir. we are
not through yet. Ttere are now some de-
cent judges IN New York, and Tammany op-
poses every one Of them, and if Tammany
opposed them, my colleague who sits over
there talking about purity and reform, voted
against every one of them for he has never
found occasion to quit Tammany yet. And
when Boss Tweed's successor, the noted
John Kelly, came and waived his wand over
MN as he sat in our Speakers chair and
SAID to him, Come ont Of that chair and 90
with me to Saint Louis to carry out the
great farce which We have planned" and
SAID I'VE have elected our delegates, and we
want you, Brother Cox, to 60 with US to
SAINT Louis in the attitude of the brother of
the temperance lecturer. You know that
while the one brother was lecturing on tenn
perance the other was exhibiting himself as
IN awful example and that is the part you
'nd Will enact at Saint Louis Laugh
er.
The gentleman went out, and he and Mr.
John Kelly enacted the farce and tried to
make the world believe that if they nominat-
u iiiden they would be opposing Tammany,
hat notorious sink Of political corruption.
Here the hammer fell