New-York tribune., 1884-10-23
SPECIMEN cLErELaND REroRurRs.

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| When Hubert q. Thompson and his followers
sought to escape the odium of their old
methods, they called nm alleged citizens mass
meeting and organized themselves into the
County Democracy" lIut their new organi2a.
tion differed ouly In namc from the one they
had lett IN living Hall. This year Thompson
has tcsnltcd tp the same old dodge by placing
before the people n so-callcd Citizens ticket tor
local offices, The open manner N which he
issued his orders on SUNDAY last WAS thus de
sUibcd Ia that Democratic organ, Ne lIOrd oi
| Monday Commissioner of Plblic Works
Thompson has rooms at the Worth House,
" Twenty -liith-st, and Broadway, and many of
his district leaders had conferences with him
during the afternoon and evening"
His "district lenders carried out Thomp-
sons instructions on Tuesday by nominating
his men for local offices. Those same district
leaders acted under his orders at Saratoga and
at Chicago in nominating his man Cleveland for
President. One of those district leaders,
Colonel James J. Mooney, was made chairman
on Tuesday of the committee to inform Mr.
Grace and the other candidates of their nom
nation Mooney will be recognized as the
remarkable man who dealt out 5000 orders, as
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Public Works Department. Those orders were
given to Barry, tavern keeper, and to Me-
Donald, who was imprisoned by order of the
Legislature and to other friends of Thompson
and Mooney. When the Grand Jury and the
Legislature began an investigation into those
extraordinary transactions, III an cndcavOI to
find ont what had become of the public money,
they were banlcd by the absence of any official
records and by the refusal of Barry Mcdonald
and other witnesses to tell what they knew.
Mcdonald was sent to prison, and Barry cs
capped by swearing that he could not rcmem-
ber where he purchased or delivered alleged
supplies for which the city paid him many
thousands of dollars. Mooney tried to help
himself by producing bogus records on which
the ink was not dry. He was exposed, and the
Senate Committee voted to ask the Grand jury
to indict him. Now Thompson has the cilron
cry to bring this man out As the head of Il COM
mttce to inform these alleged Citizens candi-
dates " of their nomination
Another one of those conspicuous district
leaders was Maurice B. Flynn, who personally
and under various firm names has been paid.
through Thompson, hundreds of thousands of
dollars of public money on 5000 orders from
the Public Works Department. Those orders
are given in evasion OF the law which requires
n public letting by contract. That is done so
that Flynn can charge cXtravagant prices, ana
be relieved from competition and scrutiny.
Other large recipients of those orders We're
among Thompson's district leaders, and they
are, next TO the British manufacturers, the
largest contributors to the Cleveland campaign
fund. "Mike" Norton, one of Twccds official
lieutenauts, Fatty" Walsh, indicted for keep
Ing a gambling house, John j. OByrne, who
while Assistant District Attorney appeared be-
fore the Excise Board as private counsel for
notorious woman whose license had been
revoked, and other such men were among the