Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1884-09-11
The ALDERMEN'S aBOODLE.' -
THEY GET $25 200 EACH FOR CIV.
ING AWAY THE FRANCHISE.
Pinkerton's Detectives Uherth the Whole
Scheme and are Shortly to go Before
the Grand Jury with Their
Evidence.

Scheme and are Shortly to go Before
the Grand Jury with Their
Evidence.
From the Nese York World,
Four of Pinkerton's detectives are
on the track of eighteen Alderman
who are said to have been bribed into
giving away the Broadway Surface
Railroad franchise over the Mayors
veto. The size and the holders of the
"boodle" are already known and some
of the band of eighteen are marked
men. AS soon as the legal evidence is
put in shape it will be presented to
the Grand Jury and bench-warrants
will be obtained for the guilty men.
The detectives themselves will not
speak of the clues they have already
obtained, though they promise some
startling results within the next few
days. 1t is well known that they have
been engaged to do this work by Mr..
L. E. hittenden, the President of the
Anti-M onopoly League, and that the
league is heavily supporting his efforts
to ferret out and punish the recreant
members of the Board.
Said a prominent member OF the
| League yesterday "The amount and
character of the doodle have already
| been determined. 1t consists of S1O,-
900 cash and $4,000 in stock of the
railroad for each member voting for
the franchise. That would make a
total in money and stocks of S450, 600.
1t is not as large as that, however,
because some of the Aldermen could
be counted upon as voting for the
measure for past political favors.
Jake Sharp is too economical a man
to have wasted $4,000 apiece on these
men.
THE GUILTY ONES ALL KNOWN:
care the men who managed the
scheme known?"
"They are, though it would be pre-
mature for me to mention names at
present. These were two managers
one representing the railroad and the
other the Board of Aldermen. Jake
Sharp's man is an ex-Assemblyman
who has had dealings of this kind be-
fore and knows how to fix things SO as
to cover his tracks. He stops at ho-
tel on Fifth avenue, and lives there in
a style of regal magnifcence. Some
of the Board of Aldermen at first
picked out former clerk of Police
| Justice to receive the Doodle for them
| but one of the Aldermen made q
strenuous objection to the man."
: "For what reason %
"He said that if that man ever got
: his hands on the doodle that woulc
t be the last the Board would ever SEE
: of it. The objection was deemed wei
taken, and a saloon keeper whose plac'
} of business is not a thousand mile
r away from the City Hall was chosen
: The Board could trust this man, as ht
had held previous boobies and al
: wsys divided up 'on the square,
r WHY THE "BooDLE" WAS GIVEN.
: "Isn't that, after all, large amour
5 to pay for the naked franchise of
n road which cannot be built withou
e the consent of majority>of the proI
t erty-owners :"
/ at gives Jake Sharp the advantage
II Having the franchise he believes tina
e he can more easily win over the proI
erty-owners. If he fails in that he ca
It appeal to the Railroad Commissio
n appointed by the Supreme Court
E, have the land condemned. To do s.
7, all + Q has to do is to convince thel
e, that the proposed route is public III
Y. cessity, and he thinks the Board wi
le be open to conviction if the propt
d sort of arguments are PLACED befol
ID them. We of the Anti-Monophly pa
TO ty do not particularly care wheth'
j the road is built or not. If the pro-
id erty-owners don't want to have it,
lie ought not to be built; if they have I
ut objection, then the road should be CO
k structed, but the city should get Il
* fullest possible benefit from it. II
1e offer of the cable company to pay 81
Of 100000 for the franchise is merely
We first bid If the franchise is put up
't, auction, 1 believe an even much lar
re er sum can be obtained. All the
ne points will be considered and the o
to tion of the Board of Aldermen shov
or up in its true light at the meeting
" be held tomorrow (Thursday) eveni
n? at Chickering Hall. Mayor Edison
expected to preside. 1t may be th
RS. as his veto message will be discuss
lu he may think it indelicate for him
We occupy the chair, but know that
rk is heart and soul with us in this mo'
bt. ment, and hopes that the meeting W
GU be a great success. Among the pr
RS, cipal speakers will be Frederic
&C. Coudert, Joseph III. Choate and Fra
ou B. Thurber. With the detecti'
lb- working to put the guilty members
un the Board into Jail, and with the gr'
ou. mass of honest, tax-paying citizens p
tic testing against this gigantic steal, il
nd to be hoped that those Aldermen "
lch have pocketed the bribes will be fe
ed to disgorge."
on, WHAT AN ALDERMAN SAYS.
rt- Last evening it was even rumo
all about the neighborhoed of the c
aif- Hall that the warrants for the Aid
nee men had been issued, bnt this ste
'ur, was denied. District-Attorney Oh
use refused either to affirm or deny the
Ken port. At the Office Of L. E. Chit
To- den nothing was known of any act
Vii of the kind having been taken.
ress Alderman John O'Neill, who
)ak present at the meeting, was very
ok dignant when the World repol
'ple asked him about the ruinor.
ang "Arrested!' r he exclaimed. "W
ger what can they be arrested for?
sR. one of them has been arrested, tor