American citizen., 1881-06-04
The "Star.route" Revelations.

The revelations concerning the "Star-
route" swindle have filed the Republic
an bosses with alarm and dismay.
They find the men entrusted with the
manageffient of the late Presidential
canvass on their side stepped to their
eyes in that monstfous ifiiduity: Dor-
sey, Who superintehded the purchase df
Indiana and WAS complimented with q
public dinner at which Vice-President
Arthur toasted him ds the 6fficient dis
tributor of political tracts" Brady,
who was called upon for material aid
by Garfield through Hubbell. the Chair
man of the Republican Congressional
Committee; Gorham, the candidate for
Secretary Of the Senate and editor OF
the Washington organ of the stalwarts,
and who was the associate and assistant
of Dorsey in Indiana, were the organ
izers and leaders OF their party during
the late Presidential canvass. Dorsey,
it turns out, was one of the chief benefit
ciaries of the frauds committed on the
Government through the connivance of
Brady, late Second Assistant Postmas-
ter-General. and Gorham is his chum,
adviser and defender. In order to
soften the effect which the disclosures
concerning Dorsey. Brady & Co.
necessarily must have on the for
tune of the Republican party the bosses
at Washington invented and circulated
the story that the nomination of General
Hancock for the Presidency was secured
by the use of money contributed by the
'.Star-ronte" ring. This bold and out
rageous falsehood was telegraphed
from Washington to such journals as
are known to be ready to publish any
scandal that is likely to make a suffi-
cient sensation to procure them few
additional readers. In order to invest
the calumny with an air of probability a
statement was injected into it to the CT
feet that tan ahti-Ratdall delegation
was sent from this State 10 the Cincin-
natl Convention through the expendi-
ture of ''Star-route" money. But this
simply served to stamp the lie with its
true character. The delegation from
this State was not "anti- RANDALL. :"
The ex-Speaker's friends organized the
delegation, elected its chairman (Mr.
Malcolm Hay, of Pittsburgh), controlled
its committees. and would have given
their favorite for President a majority
of its votes had not the pressure in
favor of Hancock from the people, in
thousands of enthusiastic kilograms to
the delegates, destroyed their hopes.
This is a matter of history and is we'll
known to every member of the delega-
tion from this State to the
Cincinnati Convention. But the
charge that Hancock's nomina-
tion was corruptly procured fell every
where OH incredulOus ears, and now
the bosses are obliged to change their
tactics in order to throw some of the
odium of the 'Star-route'' iniquity on
the Democrats. The other day a num-
ber of persons were arrested in Phila-
delphia and taken before the United
States Commissioner on charges of
completely in certain frauds perpetrated
on the Government in the letting of
contracts for carrying the mails. At
once it was announced through the col
umns of the sensational press that the
accused parties are friends of ex-
Speaker Randall, but it was generously
added that it is thought the ex-Speaker
had no knowledge of their connection
with the fraudulent mail contracts!
This shows how severe is the test to
which the ingenuity of the Republican
bosses is subjected in their efforts to
divert public attention from the real
criminals in the Star-route" frauds
and to transfer to the Democracy some
of the odium which attaches to their
own party on account of the prominent
part played in those frauds by the men
who raised the sinews of war and pur-
chased the victory for Garfield and Ar
thur last November. Harrisburg Pa. }
Patriot.