Year: 1873

Mr.. Tweed was q man of genius. He always
had enlarged views of public peculntion. Tho
magnitude and magnifcence Of his municipal
Operations as he was wont facetOusly to
designate his purely local enterprises in con-
tradistincton to his miniature Credit Mobiier
methods at Albany, and his railway
and real estate speculations in half a
dozen States, are something to command
admiration. The wisdom of stealing largely,
if you steal at all, is confirmed in the triumphs
of Tweed His very charities, it has lately
been made manifest, were splendid lilustra-
tions of his ingenuity in pilfering. II tempo
rary he suffers the detractiOn and the dan
gers which attend on lesser rOgues, he enjoys
the satisfaction Of an extensive sympathy
and strong support from his fellows OF
all degrees 1t is, perhaps, something glorious
and enviable in his eyes to be the centrai
figure of any sort of group; and one cannot
but feel shame-faced admiration Tor the
head robber that boldly assumes the RESPONSE
bility of his position. But alas one has 10
wonder how this grand, though gloomy, figure
of the old Ring can possibly cast such con-
temptible shadow as Thomas Murphy


Incapable alike of originating great swipdle
or perpetrating a bold one, Murphy has been
content 10 take hundreds where his partner
and great examplar struck for millions. When
Mr.. Tweed manipulated listening and money
less Senators, Mr.. Murphy went about dicker-
ing with quartermasters. The one concocted
CITY Charters that put the whole treasury III
his hands: the other contemplated hat con-
tracts that yielded thirty per cent OF shoddy
gains. The one openly inserted millions
for his own use in the tax levy; the other was
detected the other day smuggling matter OF
a paltry quarter of a million into the appro-
priations at Washington. whole cityS
patronage was claimed by Tweed, while Muir
ply was content with that of Custom-house'
Behold the one aspiring to make President;
the other content to be made by the crumbs
that drop from Presidents table Bah IL
is by comparison the lackey to the man;
Jacaues Strop TO Robert Macaire; sneak thlef
to q Claude Duval


The greatest proof of Tweed's genius was
the skillful and secret manner in which ne
inflicted the Charter of 1870 upon an unsus-
pecting community. Through years OF prep
aration he planned and perfected the King,
and only his cOnfederates knew what he was
about. 1t would seem q pity that 80 per-
feet an artisan should have had 70 Work
with such bunglng tools, and at last
have his magnificent structure overthrOwh
Inv them. were it not that the ruins are
rather pleasant for honest folk TO contemplate.
Murphy has displayed none of this peculiar
talent of the man he initiates. Himself ana
his purpose are equally transparent lie had
not the boldness to assume the risk and


&C "a Tweed
did. but masks himself behind the
complacent and useful Davenport. lie
has not the skill TO make 1t
appear that he is about to give us reformed
government by honest officials, but his very
first positive step reveals the retention OF the
worst of Tweed's confederates in the most
responsible positions. He has organized raid
on the Treasury and cannot conceal that his
primary purpose is to attack its most watchful
defender. How Mr. Tweed must blush at such
unhattering imitation


II remains to be seen how far tho people
and their representatives mean to submit TO
Mr.. Murphy's dietatiOn. We have been re-
peatedly and fully fOrewarned of the new
Ring; we know it to be merely the revival OF
the old; we recognize in Mr.. Murphy the
skulking shadow of his partner, Tweed. Thus
forearmed, are we to sit idly down and con-
sent to be robbed as of oldi Are our repre-
sentatives to be permitted to cOnnive at these
palpable frauds and then go unpunishedf
The retention of +. Delafield Smith who
consented to the conspiracy which placed
him in the office Of Counsel to the Corpora
ton as a Tammany appointee the retention
of Van Mort for Commissioner of Public
Works as the nominee of Tweed; and the
saddling upon the Police Department of
Henry Smith, whom his present allies were
lately using as the bogy to trighten children
of mature years from the Greeley movement
explain themselves. The proposed retention
of Mr.. Green as Controller is concession
not sufficient now to sweeten the pill.
1t is not enough that capable man be re-
tanned in the Treasury; it is imperative that
the Mayor shall appoint honest men TO the
departments and charter which, in the in
terest of Tweed and Murphy, restraints a
Mayor fresh from the people, and one i'll whom
| they have confidence, from selecting the best
| men, is one which everybody will recognize as
a palpable swindle


MONOPOLIES.


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