The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1881-05-27


AZ the facts arc brought % LIGHT III
more and more does the lnlamy u III
s.Siar- route, steal appear. Tho plumber.
ING 81 the whisky ring IL Grants time
was - nothing compared with Che thlov'
Ing that has been done BY th!s nov rina
Of Rcpnb lean rascals. And only the
surface hes yet been uncovered. II the
investigation goes on and the hand d
Poslmaster-G James Il not STAYED
until the thieves are brought % justice.
i i hard 70 say how many patriots d
the God and morality party will be 70.
moved from their present sphere Of po-
litical usefulness 20 do some honest L.
Dor within penitent'ary walls.
What Is known as the ''Star-routo' ring
Is one Of the most colossal conspiracios
ever formed to rob the Government.
The \. pure and immaculate" Admin
istration OF Mr.. Hayes Restored with
corruption. Thomas j. Brady. the
lately deposed Second Assistant Post
master General. was the head and front
Of the combination. but the ramifica
tions II the ring extended almost every
where The contractors. lobbyists. sub
sidized congressman and benefic;aries
OF one sort or another were 70 be found
ii every State in the Union. and col
fusion between the Post-olIice and
Treasury Departments was essential 70
the success Of the audacious scheme to
plumber tho Government
II has supported lobby On the floor
Of Congress unequaled il efFrontcry
and persistence. Ii ever the d0ings OF
that lobby and its records are brought
TO the light the slaughter among Con-
gressional regulations will be frightful.
Il would be tedious to 60 over il detail
all the damaging facts brought out IN
the investigation already. nor Is il TO
the present purpose. The most start
ling revelations Of instances Of this
corruption have from time 70 time ap-
peared in the public press. and the
country knows and has known for =
long time the enormity Of the rascali-
~ with which Brady's bureau has for
years been honcy-combed. Brady has
grown wealthy out Of this steal. A
few wears ago. at . salary Of four
thousand live hundred dollars . year.
he is to-day said to be worth five mill
ion dollars. A well-known Pennsylva-
nian. who was here lobbying for the
Deficiency bill referred 70. when il
was pending before Congress. said he
was interested to the extent OF seventy
thousand dollars. and vet he was not
contractor. Steph. Dorsey. who
manipulated the Republican campaign
IN Indiana last fall with Star-r0uten
money. is one Of the chiefs Of the
ring and Is to-day rich man. although
. few years ago scalawag Of q
carpet Dagger in Arkansas. which
Stat he misrepresented for six Years IN
the Senate. He made his stake out Of
the :. Star-fontes" But these individual
instances OF the rapid accumu alton Of
wealth inil to give IN adequate idea Of
the vast corruption that rallated from
the Post-o:;ice Department under the
bcneiiccnt Administration Of tho
s.goods" "goody' HAYES. Il Il SAYING
q great deal, but ii Is doubtful ii any 81
the yiilainous rings that brought Grants
Administration into disgrace was on
half % stnpendous scale As the one
built up BY Brady and maintained for
four years TO the enrichment Of the
hundreds who were partakcrs In the
plumber filched from the public Golfers
in the most open and brazen manner
One Of the principal swindlers il ex-
Senator Dorsey, Secretary Of the Re-
publican National Executive Committee
In the Presidential campaign, aud the
man who took charge Of the corruption
fund BY which Indiana was carried for
Garfield. The frauds began when he
was Senator from Arkansas. He was
interested in contracts at that time and
narrowly escaped investigation.
Within month after DorSey's time