Year: 1872

aaies sStension, resolved to afford them evesyt
facility Il do justice between the people and
the LEGGED plunderers Every citizen is fami-
liar alth the result. The evidence was at last
PclAA ~ the mysteries were unearthed; tina
r. ads I'D robberies were brought practically
home - the guilty parties, and criminal
ndtc'ments were found against them. The
Io~r.e and the press were loud in their lauda-
ton of the Judge and the jury through whose
firmness and fidelity this act of public Justice
was accomplished The Legislature, by q
special law, endorsed and legalized Judge Bed
fords action, 80 as to place it beyond
the possibility of technical objection.
The public robbers paled and trem-
bled before the shadow of their coming
fate; many fed the city, and others resigned
the positions they still disgraced. The pri-
son stripes were more terrible to them than
civil suits, and their insolent defiance gave
place to abject fear. But for the criminal in
dictments found against them by the Grand
Jury of the General Sessions, through Judge
Bedford effective cooperation, Tweed would
have been to-day at the head of the Depart
ment of Public Works. and the conspirators
would still have been displaying their dis
honestly acquired wealth before the eyes Of
the people they had plundered


For these reasons and for none other, the
HERALD demanded Judge Bedford's nomi-
nation by all honest reformers, and now in
sists that he should receive all honest reform
votes. The arguments used against him
only strengthen his claims upon the sup
port of good citizens by their weakness
and evident malice. Before the Bar Associa-
ton member rises and charges that Judge
Bedford is unfit to sit upon the Bench because
he granted the unopposed motion of the Dis
trict Attorney to commit the most notorious Of
the public robbers without bail. A political
English-edited organ, fraudulently claiming to
favor reform while willing to sacrifice the cause
Of good government for party and personal
objects, urges the people Of New York to op-
pose Judge Bedford because Recorder Hackett
refused motion to transfer the case of Mayor
Hall from the General Sessions to the Oyer
and Terminer. These are the arguments used
to induce intelligent men and honest reformers
to vote against Judge to whom the city is in
debted for the criminal prosecution of the pub
lie pfunderers, and who vas hailsd year age,
by the people, the press and the State Legisla-
ture as the most useful ally the reform move
ment had ever secured.


The HERALD has advocated Judge Bedford's
nomination and election on public grounds
alone. Apart from this it cares for no parties
and for no individuals But it is beginning
to be well understood by the people that the
reform movement carried by them to sue
cessful issue last Fall is being perverted from
its legitimate object by politicians and parti-
san journals for the accomplishment Of their
own corrupt and selfish purposes. The mask
can yet be stripped from the faces Of these
bogus reformers and selfish patriots. who ars
ready to cover up any amount of rascality on
the part of their own friends. and whose fingers
are soiled with foul bargains. It is not alone
in opposition to Judge Bedford that they are
doing the work Of Tweed and his fellow plum
derers and the intelligent citizens of New
York are well aware of the fact Imagine the
political allies of Senator James Wood and Of
the whole infamous Legislature of last Winter
prating of reform and denouncing Judge as
unfit to sit upon the Bench because he sent
Tweed to Jail without bail