Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1885 — A Partner of Tweed. [ARTICLE]

A Partner of Tweed.

The evidence which appears in the New York Times and Tribune that Gov. Hill was at one time a partner with Tweed in the ownership of a newspaper seems to he conclusive. Documents are given which show that in 1870, while Mr. Hill was a large shareholderin and the President of the Elmira Gazette Company, Tweed was induced by a common friend of himself and Hill to buy 200 shares of the paper’s stock for $10,000; that he paid in the money and held the stock for about a year, selling it back at the end of that time, at a greatly reduced price, to Hill, that the friend, Col. Patrick, Who arranged the sale to Tweed, was a thoroughly disreptuable politician, who was in the Assembly from Elmira in 1869 and 1870, when he%as a complete tool of Tweed; that when Tweed had become a partner with Hill 4be latter appeared in Albany as the successor of Patrick in the Assembly, and that throughout the memorable session of 1871, when some of the most infamous of Tweed’s jobs were put through the Legislature, Hill was the willing servant of his partner.