The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-04-24
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STAR ROUTE sTEALINGS.
Brady and Pats Bound for the
PenisentIarY.
ROguery and Robbery for
hitch Hayes Is RespOH.
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A good deal Of curiosity is felt here over
the promised revelations 10 connection
/ With the star route contracts. james
and the other officials who are preparing
| the da will say nothing for publication
about what may he expected, but james
is reported TO have said privately that 81
the proper time disclosures will be made
compared with which the Tweed regime
will go down to history as respectable.
Its said 10 be cap4be of proof that for
four Years not less than $4,000, 900 year
was misapplied. Brady snd his ascot
ates naturally became rich. 1t was given
out for the comfort Of such as might be
lieve it, that Brady had profit d largely
in Telephone stock. They bought and
controlled newspapers, correspondents,
epngressmen and such others IS might
be useful To them One weekly paper
here is commonly said 10 have been
bought outright by the contractors during
last years investigation. The silence
and afterwards the support of another
weekly paper was also secured. In one
of the dailIes Brady is a large
stakeholder. That paper has nothing
to say about the removal except IN
directly by calling paper that has ex-
posed Brady's dOings, hlter for tne
ISLANDERS of sharpers, sTindlers and
thieves. Another daily keeps hands OF
editoriAlly and losses aside the news. OF
the day in a manner meant to indicate
that there is little or nothing in it. A
gentleman whose sources of information
are good says there is little doubt of last
nights rumor that Brady will be in
dieted and he reports one of the officials
Engaged upon thecsse to have said to-day
that Brady must either disg)rge or 20 to
the Del ilenliary. Itshould be ssid, how
ever, that the common belief is hat
nothing will be done beyond complete
exposure. -
Heraid'S Washington: Postmaster
General james inquiry into the Star
route corruption, which has been carried
on with equal vigor and secrecy, promises
presently TO develop some surprising
rascsiities in high places. 1t may, in the
end, if powerful political influences do net
p all to prevent it, send several promi-
nent politicians TO the penItentiary.
There is already sufficient evidence on
hand to show that the Star route lobby
was not without congressman as part of
lis force aud the game f straw bidding,
sham securities aud raised contracts, ap-
pears TO have been carried on with a
bIazen etTonieTy which shows that the
men engaged in it, some of them men of
p liIicsl Influence, and other Utfice- hold
ers here and elsewhere, had not
the least (, ar of Interference from
any quarter. The President probably
remembers the impudent resistance TO in
vesiigstion IN the House the winter be-
fore last, when the Star route lobby
gathered here TO support Grady and 10
defeat the Inquiry BY the House. The
President Is bent upon thorough ex-
pOsure Of the whole mass of corruption,
and bad given orders that the investiga-
ton, now proceeding, shall be searching,
and that the wrong dOsrs shall be brought
10 punishment without reg ard TO persons
or political influence. The result prom
lies TO be as astonishing in its details as
the exposure of the whiskey ring by
Secretary Bristow, and fortunately the
present attorney general is not the kind
of a man to issue on order, intimidating
witnesses and shielding rOgues. Brady's
friends say to-day that he has covered
himself against effective attack by having
kept copies of all the recon-
mendstions for increased service and in
creased pay on Star routes made by
congress. men and other public function
aries. 1t is to be hoped thst this is true,
and that he will be pushed hard enough
to induce him to make these copies of
written and oral recommendations public.
Having such papers in his possession no
doubt gave HIM the power he h d over
members of the last House of representa-
tives, which enabled him to openly bully
the committee of inquiry. Hayes and his
postmaster general absolutely refused to
take the least notice of the proved
irregularities of the star route business.
They threw the whole inquiry on Con-
gress, knowing, as they must have known,
that a congressional investigation is sure
to cover rather than expose wrong doing.
The present administration appears TO
be determined to pursue more honor
able and effective course aud If the
executive Is in esrnest there Is at
least some hope of bringing to day light !,
the Star route jobberies. and with them
perhaps the congressman and other pub
lie officers on whose influence the jobberS
depended.
Star route frauds: 1t Is impossible that
the frauds could have been committed
without the guilty knowiedge of persons
high in station in the postofies depart
ment. II was impossible, il the second
assistant postmaster general was pos
sessed of common sense, that the mail
service through sparssly settled regions
Of the country should have been doubled
and quadrupled, at q corresponding in
crease Of cost to the gov yrnment, and in
defiance Of all the natural demands of the
pubic, without their being in the inte-
rior manage ment of the postoffice de-
Iariment Knowledge that this was q
fraud upon the government. The Times
called attention TO the glaring fact in the
case tAat congressman were either gull
libls or guilty if tuey supported Brady
in his ingenious defense, aud he was left
TO work ont MIA Dlsns