Year: 1871

The ComptroIier's Rcmedy-A Chance for a


New Deal.


Eureka! Connolly, the impeachable, haa
at last discovered plan for bringing to light
the corruption in the city government, even
as Archimedes, after patient research, sud-
denly found method of detecting the adul-
teration of King Hiero's crown This infalli-
BILE test is vouched for by an ex-Mayor
and endorsed by the new organ of the
Comptroller, and its name is Green
The modus 0perandi to put it in
motion is at least ingenious. Connolly, the
Comptroller, holding office under an appoint
ment by the Mayor, is found, on judicial in
vestigatiou, to be not altogether free from the
suspicion of having allowed the city to be rob-
bed through criminal negligence in his depart
ment. So Connolly, the Comptroller, appoints
friend Green, of another city department, his
deputy, and then Connolly, the Comptroller,
retires from his Office, and friend Green, the
deputy, becomes Comptroller in his place.
This, we are told by Connolly's organ
paper but recently so resolved
upon thorough reform in the city
government that it would hear Of no
compromise, is to cure all the evils Of
which the people have so long complained,
and is to unearth certain hidden evidences OF
corruption which are to ''implicate Hall aud
Sweeny." To be sure, we are warned that
we have lost the chance of bringing one ter
rible malefactor to justice for the Comp
troller's organ. informs us that the famous
stolen vouchers alone implicated Tweed, and
they are gone forever. But we are to fasten
guilt upon Hall and sweeny, through the
instrumentality Of Green, and then the old
emerald ring will be destroyed for ever, and
new one substituted in its place.


Let us hope the new combination of Con.
molly, Green, Havemeyer and the British
American organ will give us real and not a
bogus reform. 1t will not be enough if Comp
troller Green rests satisfied with taking few
insignificant scalps and only raises the hair
OF an auditor, an assistant auditor and book
keeper who may have fallen under his
displeasure. 1t will not satisfy the peo-
pie If reorganization should be confined
to the transfer Of the city deposits from the
Broadway Bank to the Bank of North
America, or to some other such trivial change.
Let us have first the discovery of who stole
the vouchers, revelation which gentleman
who himself enters into Office upon special
vouchers should be well able to accomplish
Then let every head of city department
appoint deputy and retire from Office,
leaving his deputy to discharge his duties,
and we shall thus secure a new deal
in the city government without any
necessity to appeal to courts or charters.
Tweed may thus give way to ex-Sherifl
OBrien; Sweeny may step aside for Collector
Murphy, and Hall may leave the west wing Of
the old City Hall to the occupation of the Big
Judge. Thus may we hope to be saved; thus
may the Britsh-American organ of the Comp
troller secure rich share of the city printing
thus may bran new ring be slipped over the
neck of the delighted New Yorkers; and thus
may the prosecuted Connolly enjoy a peaceful
political grave, while the Men of Munster and
the Tammany braves shed tears of sympathy
over his remains and raise the plaintive CRY.


'Grecn be the turf above thcep,