, 1876-07-18

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canvass, It Ia to 10 mado upon tho assunn.
ton and tho assertion that he is tho model
reformcr, Tho very embodiment Of reforms Ia
10 accomplished aud the exponent Of reforms
accomplished. Lila election will bo urged
upon that ground, md upon none other. Hi
prctansiona as reformor tost upon hia tut
tack" aa it Is styled, npon tho Eric-Cannl
Ring. So much ado has been made about It,
aud 30 loudly haa T11nEa'a "domolition Of
that Ling boon Advertised, that public cnrios.
ity has been provoked as to what has TtLpEs
really doua against that Ring, which has 50
long plnndored tile commerce aud corrupted
tho politics OF the Empire State,
People hnve long known nil about
TINT Ring, how. it stolo, and
stole, and stole, aud T1nnEa has taken ha
trouble, through his organs, to let them MI
know that ho Inns smashed tho Ring. But
tie particulars aro what tho public l,m
yearncd 10 bo placed in possession Of. How
many Of tho canal.thioves has T11Dra sent to
the Statos Prison and how much Of thcil
ill-gotten plumber has ho rccoyca for thu
people Of Now York, To whom 1t bolongsi
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and Lis organs have been aignally slow to
inpart information. Perhaps wa move,
should hayo known, but that Gen. II. V.
noys1oN tho woll-known Washington corro
spondont, has carefully co1lated tho fact
from official records, and which TIE TR1B
usE reprints in this Issue. showing precisely
what TnDEs has done in the way Of dcmol
ishing tho Caual Ring. The result Ia to do
vo1op that tho sum total Of T11pEN's warfars
against tho Canal Ring hayo consistod In
going on with o suit brought by tho Re
publican Attorney General, BARLOW, undo.
tho Administration Of Gov. DIX, md in
causing two other suits to be instituted
against tho Ring. OF tho three suits, on'
las been dismissed by the Court, ono Is still
ponding and, in the third, tho conviction
Of ono Of the Ring-thieves, LonD, Was oh
tainod. Tie Is not in tho Ponitontlary, how:
over. Flo is permitted to run at largo, bo
CAUSE his father is power among tho Nov
York Democracy, md hos to be conciliated by
llr. Reformer T11pEs. OF ali the million
6tolon by tho Cannl King, Gov. T11nuN, By
his attack thereon aforesaid, has recoverod-
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euro in thoir plunder rs before, md not one
OF their fraudulent coutraota has heen IN.
nullod, though to the lawyers employed by
tho T1LpEN Administration to demolish tho
Ring 4100, 600 faca have been paid out
Of the stats Treasury. In Wow Of tho facts,
was sscr there smaller foundation for such
enormous pretansions a. these OF TnpkS to
be the professional reformor7
Con. Do1NroH contrasts with this canal
reform record Of TuDzs tho reform nccom.
plisled by single Republican official, Soc.
retary Dn1srow, which makes tho exhibit yet
moro paitry for T11DEr. Dn1srow COM
1nencod smashing tho Whisky Ring shortly nj.
tor Tn.pEN mado protonse Of doing tho samo
thing with tho Canal Ring. In ono year ITO
Of tho thieyos bud boon convicted or had
pleaded guilty, and twelvo had fed tho cor,r-
Try to escape conviction. and over 5000, GOO
recovered from tho Ring have already been
covered into tho Treasury. But MIR.
Dn1sTow was not a professional roformer, as
Mr. TlLpEN Is.