Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1877-10-08
cuArrRn n Sixth.

Tweed does not grew more Interesting
Ii advances, and the public
has reached the conviction hat the
cream Of the story las been pretty
we'll taken Cd. II 10 true that AL his
vsminisosncss contain somsthing Of
sntsrtainmsnt and Instruction. There
. comic aide 10 the transactions Of
the ring. and Tweed. Who 10 an
abandoned old rsprobais. shll. In al his
misery and detection. rolls the plums Of
humor under his tongue. and rsAsarsss
the ludicrous incidents Of his crimes
with an unmistakabls rsliah. he has
the art alss Of presenting In . few tsrss
sentences . wonderfully vivid repre-
ssntatisn Of he men amsng whom he
lived and the operations BY which hey
svindlsd the public. Nothing could
be better In lie way than his account Of
the dealings Of the ring with that 40
commodating stationsr Who gave them
everything they wanted. from . pocket.
book TO an oil painting. and charged
the cost 10 the city under the head OF
pens and ink. AL the msmbsn Of the
City Government participated In the
grand gift distribution. 81 do mot
know that I could Be more definite than
to say everybody know that any
thing We wanted We got from Mr.. Jones
pictures. harness. Russia leather
goods; cannot name . thing
We could not get; they were
paid for in Mr.. Joass' Hill;
they were inserted - stationery"
prosperous member Of the ring In thoss
days led a wonderful life. The Court
house Commission built . Ans house
for him. and altar Garvsy had plastsrsd
the walls. they were hung BY Jones
with ''oil paiatings." touching which 1t
is to be presumed that the happy states
man was not particular about the artist
or the subject. 70 long . the picture
had plenty Of color and . rich frame.
Thus provided with . home al the pub
Lie cost. he could spend al his stealings
for drinks and diamond pins. Tweed
gives . graphic account also Of the do
iags on election night In 1868. whom
''almost all Of any ~notability in the
Democratic party" including 80 far as
he can remember. Swssny. Mclean.
Connolly and Governor Holman. met
with him at the Metropolitan Hetsl. and
arranged to telegraph the whole Bible TO
the rural districts II necessary. 90 q to
block the telegraph wires while the de-
sired forssriss we're made in the city rs-
turns: They eve used the Bible for
anything else"
But apart from these and . few other
passages. IL must be confessed that the
sixth chapter OF his Rscollsctions Is
rather . disappointment. The partisan
animus OF the examiners was made alto
gsthsr too plain on Saturday. Tweed
was asked what testimony he could have
given the Attorney General 10 his con-
fsssion had been accepted. In what suits
his evidence would have been material.
and how much money u would probably
have saved the city. There Is not . man
in tho Common Council who does not
perceive the a~bsurdity Of taking the
opinion Of the prisoner himself upon
points like thsss. and there 10 not .
respectable man in the city who IL not
conscious Of the indsosncy Of asking
such questions Of such . witness. merely
TO promote the interest Of . faction
within the Democratic party. which 10
trying TO discrsdit the Democratic State
Administration. These things have q
very bad effect. II Is suspicious that
Tweed's revelations are all in the interest
of T>mmany Hall. When they implieats
Democrats at all. the victims are Demo-
Gratis whom the present managers Of
Tammany Hall do not like. Yet Il II
certain that all the sinners are not on
the same aide Of the fence. Do the De-
mocracy Of New York expect Us TO BE-
lisve that IL has cast out all its bad