New-York tribune., 1884-10-25

| grasp on the city treasury. From that treasury
IA drawn the money 10 pny the FoOo o'ue''
lasued Nv lhompson. The recipients o' ,hoN'
ot,lers n,e the ln,eest contributors to The C'c'r
Land rs,npslun fund 4 he of,lefs nie lssne' ~
| plnln dIstprnid ~ the law which iea'si
wb..a,., eyt vsth IL necessary vs. he hBne 10 rn'-
pa,e a, r.,ert pa,ienat Job ot nht supply 70 hredn'
IL, snt psseuiaf purpose, which wete ahn ub W we
undertaken ~ snrrit furnished ft ,he enipo'hu"nh
aud the saepfa ps,s ~ The sai wufh ~ surri' shsi
,esalhpf Ntete the expenditure w mt IVAN ri"o''
| the same shall No w eeh,iaet
| Tha Law fuitha, pioYldea fpf ah,pitisihA, hten
aud for awarding tho oanl'aela ~ The lowest
b,de,s IN order ,o SAVE time Ia making s'''a'l
purchases, an exception was nhle ~ 'he '"",
tract clause of any Job ~ supply "the several
plrts at which involved an expenditure ot 'esa
than ~ 900" Thompson seized upon that es-
ception as u cloak Ia enrich his associates, 10
enable them to escape competition ana 10
charge eytlayagant prices, he divides piece ot
work or supply into parts, 50 that ca'l part
will not exceed in cost $1,000; ana LOT
each pant he issues n separate order. Many oi
these orders are for exactly 5000, and nave
been frequently given several nj time 10 Que
person TO cover one piece OF work. In that way
Thompson, for instance, builds new covers
without contract, giving an order for few iee'
nc time, each order FOR 5000 or less. On these
orders he has paid out about 81 OOo,Ooo III
comparatively short time Under them he paio
81 "A ton more for coal than other departments
paid by contract, and trebled the expenses oi
the department on that item alone For clean
ing the city buildings he paid seven times and
half ~ much per lincal foot rs it costs the
Federal Government To do similar work. ana
from 400 TO 75O per cent more than 1t costs the
owners of large buildings rented Tor pupho
Offices. For paving over street openings nc paid
400 per cent more than the city authorities oi
BROOKLYN paid at the same time for similar
work. On these private orders he paiu hiy
per cent more for hydrants than other cues
paid for an equally good article Those are
mere instances of the methods as shown Dy tne
Grand Jury and the Legislature, by whlch le
enricbcs his favorites mt public expense. In
many cases there were no records or anything
else to show that the city ever received the sup
plies and work it paid for at such enormously
excessive rates.
Is il not plain why those men can give money
so freely to aid Thompson and Cleveland IL
was after the sworn evidence OF these irregu-
larities was before Cleveland that he vetoed
reform measures in Thompsons interest; and
had Thompson made the member of the Ma
tonal Democratic Committee from this state.
But Thompson IA chairman of the Democratic
Committee to select delegates to Chicago chose
men who enforced the tyrannical unit rule ana
thus by machine triumph secured Cleveland's
nomination. Thompson is now chief counsellor
with Seven Mule - Barnum in the conspiracy
= Ia Iail n ga ip
With Cleveland. How would the voters oi the
Nation like to have this precious $000 combina-
tion in control mt Washington