Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-04-18

the Senate I'd 60; but what for? can't |
talk, and know it. AS to spending my
time in hearing a lot of snoozers discuss the
tariff and the particulars of contract to
carry the mails from Paducah to Schoharie,
I don't think I'm doing that just now.''
Busybodies frequently carried tales to and
from Tweed and Sweeny, but to no good
end. So long as they worked together, they
worked together, and each had implicit con-
fdence in the other. Tweed suggested once
to Sweeny to send Jim Sweeny to him when
ever he heard any of these stories, but
Peter B. laughed, and said he thought they
could afford to wait until they met.
For Connolly Tweed entertained supreme
contempt. 1t used to CRATE on him when his
friends or agents were compelled to pay trib
ute to Connolly or his son, or some of the
leeches that surrounded them, or else to wait
for their money, On one occasion a city
creditor appealed to Tweed to use his infu-
ence with Connolly to have his bill paid.
els is right?' asked Tweed.
''Certainly."
s'Have you asked for it?''
'"Twenty times, and can get it less twenty
per cent.''
Tweed looked at him minute, and then
hurriedly wrote as follows:
He tells me your people ask twenty per cent.
The whole id thing isn't but 81, 100. If you
don't pay it will Thine,
WILLIAM NJ. TWEED.
The creditor got his money in full.
In Connolly's Office Tweed was as brusque
and independent as in his own. He cared
nothing for him personally, although they
were intimate and addressed each other ia
miliarly. Tweed had fund of stories not
found in Rabalais. He rarely told one in
the chamberlain's Office; but if the walls in
room used by Surrogate Calvin, could and
would speak, they would astonish the hearer
more than any photograph could. It is well
cured tremendous hold on Connolly. In
fact he manipulated the entire machinery of
the comptrollership, and ruled the comptrol-
send Connolly had been up to some of his
twenty per cent. tricks, in which he was
aided and abetted by Watson. A friend of
Tweed had bill which was correct and inst
in every particular, and had passed the
scrutiny of all the departments. It waited
simply for warrant with the comptroller's
signature. Connolly had promised it that
day. The creditor called.
"Mr. Watson" said the comptroller,
''won't you hand me the warrant for the-'s
bill?''
cit can't be paid today
''Why not?" asked the creditor.
"That's my business" rejoined Watson,
and left the room.
Tweed happened to come in, and heard
the last remark.
whats up?' he asked.
The creditor, who was embarrassed for
want of the money, told Tweed what had
happened, and also of the twenty per cent.
claim.
Without word, Tweed toddled to The
door leading to the great office, where Wat
son had mounted high stool at his desk.
WATSON" said he,'' the Comptroller says
he promised Mr.-his warrant to-day.
Where is it?'
"It can't be paid to- day, Mr.. Tweed
"Can't be paid, after the comptroller says
to pay it? For Gods sake, who are you?
See here, Connolly, who is comptroller
here-you or Watson?''
II suppose am" replied Connolly,
family smiling.
''Then, Watson, give this man his warrant,
or you'll be asking the name of new
! auditor before you're twenty-four hours
older.''
1AAu Vl4at Authu SOI HIS AuOuSys
For "little Gunnie Bedford as he always
called Judge Bedford, Tweed felt sincere
contempt. Having made him what he was,
he thought Bedford went unnecessarily out
of his way to conciliate Charles O'Connor
when he committed his old chief to the
Tombs, without bail, in misdemeanor case.
"Why," said Tweed, ''if I couldn't spit
twenty Bedfords an hour, and have each one
giant alongside of Gunnie, ought to be
| hung" At another time he said: "Well, l
really have no hard feelings against any liv-
ing man, but ao0uld like to see little Gunnie
Bedford get his deserts.''
With all his getting of money, Tweed
cared but little for money itself. He made
| enormous sacrifices at times. On one
| occasion he was bitten by mania
for owning an interest in newspapers.
He said he had loaned or advanced
to the Democrat nearly $4,000. He
owned largely in the Transcript and Leader,
and held either stocks or bonds of half q
dozen weekies. He professed to hold the
press in derision, but was foremost in en-
deavoring to conciliate newspapers that OPP
posed him or his schemes. It at one time
became the custom-not yet extinction
certain journals to claim credit for having
broken the Tweed ring, and Tweed used to
say that those who shouted reform the loud
est had bled him most when he was in
power.
In speaking of his downfall he reiterated
what he had said aforetime about the press:
eff those picture papers would only leave
me alone, l wouldn't care for all the rest"
But those pictures are such caricatures
that no one would ever know You by them, .
said his friend.
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get an idea that Tweed is thief. They get
used to seeing Tweed in striped suit, and
pretty soon they'll be mad if he ISM t in one. -
For the comments of journals outside of
New York city, he cared literally nothing.
On one occasion, some one sent him COPY
of peculiarly pretentious journal published
in neighboring city, in which was an ar
ticle claiming the authorship of Tweed'e
downfall. He looked at it, laughed, and
said: ooh, yes; have seen this paper be-
fore. TWAS sent to me with marked TRADE
against Slippery Dick, the Big Judge.
Really the man who "runs'' the paper, as he
calls it, is too amusing to quarrel WITH
In that way he always met the offices OF
the oficious who brought the feeble assaults
of no-bodies to his attention; but he would
have been glad to pay any sum to be insured
immunity from the picture papers.
At one time he seriously contemplated a
retaliatory warfare in the same line, and
said that if he had cared to cut the hearts OF
the men who we're killing his wife and
children by their pictures, he could easily do
it, and do it by revealing the secrets
of their lives as brought to him
by detectives and others. Better counsele
prevailed, however, and he gave up the idea.
In tact, it is difficult TO imagine Tweed in 1