Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-03-10

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to the prosecution of the Whiskey Ring
and the course pursued towards Belknap
as examples of republican policy towards
republican corruptionists; we now men,
ton the case of Tweed & Co. as an exam
pie illustrating the course of the democra-
cy toward the greatest public robbers of
modern times. Let us see what the Maine
Standard said about this stupendous viii
lainy when it was exposed.
From the Maine Standard Nor. 1871
1.-The New York Times, which long ago
earned the right to the appellatlon of the
.'dsreputable Times" and has quite right
fully had that descriptive term applied to
it to this day by certain of its contempt
raries, has lately added to its unenyiable
notorety by publishing a "seres" of
COARSE, GROSSLY FALSE AND MA
LICIOUS CHARGES against the members
of the Democratic city government of New
York The charges. are, in brief, that
the members ofthe city government, May
or Hall and Comptroller Connolly in par
ticular. have been guilty of stupendous
frauds upon the city treasury. amounting
, in the aggregate to something like eight
or ten millions of dollars. The Times
publishes long columns of figures to show
that the city authorities have made out ex-
orbitant charges for keeping the city ar
mories and for work done on the new
courthouse, and asks the public to infer
that they pocketed the difference between
these sums and what they really had to
pay. 1t alleges that the city was required
to pay $941 900 for keeping the ten armo-
ries in repair for nine months time, and
that similar frauds were practiced in the
matter of carpets, furniture, etc., for the
courthouse.
These charges of the Times were natu-
rally caught up by all the radical papers
of the country, daily, weekly and monthly.
and the changes have been rung upon
them with all the vim and venom which
the whole herd of mean, insectiverous'
creatures could bring to their command.
THE DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRA-
TON OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
has been. OR will be before the month ex-
pires, denounced for fraud, corruption and
extravaganza, in the most unmeasured
terms. by the whole radical press of the |
country. and UPON THE SOLE AU-
THORIIY of the naked assertion of dis |
reputable, dishonest. disappointed news-
paper, WITHOUT A SCINTILLA OF
GOOD EVIDENCE IN ITS SUPPORT. |
The animus of these lackeys, who imagine
themselves to be particularly obliged to
give a strong. vociferous sneeze whenever
one of their leaders takes pinch of snuff,
is evidently of political nature; they
seek to distract attention from the hideous
corruption that pervades every department
of the federal government, as administered
by their party. by charging similar crimes
upon the democratic administration of the
leading city in the Union. THEIR En-
POSURES AND DENUNCIATIONS ARE
SIMPLY THE OLD STOP THIEF
CRY"
Thus the Satanic Standard endeavored
to screen Tweed, as did likewise the whole |
democratic press. and the party even went
so far in his behalf as to elect him to the |
State Senate, after his infamy was pub
lshed all over the land.
lf"honest republicans" need ANYTHING
more than a look at the last or any num-
Der of the Standard to make them turn
with disgust and indignation from the |
party OF which it is an organ, they can |
read the above defence of Tweed & Co.
from its columns.