National Republican., 1883-10-06
The Democratic steal. in New yorl, city

The Democratic steals in New York City.
The pure and indebted democracy which
is appealed to by tho New York SIN to
spread itself all over the country and put
itself into oil tho places now occupied by
republican rascals, whose rascality consists in
being republicans, has curious way of show
ing its honesty. 1t has come to light that
some dear, good democrats, who collect
money in New York from tho people for
water rents, have recoipted in full when
only paid in part, and have cancelled
tho remainder upon the payment into
tho democratic campaign fund of
n portion of the money of which
the treasury is thus robbed. The New York
sm will perceive the great advantage of this
over Assessing the Office holders. The truly
good democracy, into which Charles A. Dana
stepped over when the republican party
became SO wicked as to refuse to give HIM the
federal office he had sturdily begged in vain
at the hands of two presidents, has gloried in
its holy war against allowing republican
officials to contribute to republican party
success. The democratic civil service re-
formers recommend theofiice holders to button
up their pockets, and even frighten tho
timid into abjeot neutrality. But democratic
Office holders.are improving on this reform by
not only withholding their own money from
the political fund, but by making up for it
by ,robbing the public treasury for the good of
their party. The grand jury of New York
city is unearthing these steals, and it appears
that bills have been rendered at reduced
rates in return for money contributed to the
democratic campaign fund Mr.. Theodore b.
Woolsey, the foreman of the grand jury, says:
"I think 1t was the conviction of all the men,
bcrs Of the jury that fraud in the water depart
ment is no new thing and that when money has
been needed by the machine it has obtained con-
tributons from large consumers of water, in re-
turn for which such consumers have been credited
on their ledger accounts with about three times
us much as though 1t had been actually received
by the department, no entries being made upon
| the cash book" a...a, .asru...r .l.s
| This smells of the old Tweed regime, and
oHoho thuV thO NShAONiltlS. parry ID JuAt dS
prone to steal as the sparks are to fly upward
OF course, the New York SIN is very mad at
Mr.. Woolsey for this. 1t hurts Dana to see
his rascally party associates exposed.
The rule of evidence used by reform demo-
Gratis like Dana against the republican party
is that if a republican official is found
to be dishonest it is a fair presumption
that he is acting as his party desires him to-.
We shall apply this same rule to tho rotten
party, which Dana has been trying to
deodorizc and shall argue thcrefrom that
the democrats intend to supply their cam
paign fund from the public treasury through
the agency of thieving democratic officials.
The people will decide whether an honest
gift by a republican official of a small sum of
his own money for raising campaign funds is
to be denounced while democratic officials
are to rob the people for the same purpose,
and keep their fat salaries and perquisites in
their own pockets, The democratic frauds
and their humbug assistants must so.