Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-07-14
The Typical CriminaIity.

The Washington correspondent of the
New York Times continues to dish up
the = atar-route" criminality. He says:
Ihe Postmaster General. finding or every
had eHi .c..ce of corruption and reckless eN-
trslvagauce look, through he reforms OF t &c
pie:ent u the reai>:'ffOl OF q cream oI "A sell
Sustaining !,EIarfHi' ut anc chea! er post.1e
liz the nea Il}ure. Energetic SuDOfalnate'
gather evidence ,Thc1 Will ovtr"heirn the
guI.5v. IL is r&rfi 10 ne who cams iilS1&:it
into these records and who rtfG!ies tie history
o. previous iuVt=stig- ons 10 scups Inc beief
that The Posc-odic. -, p :rtrn2nt mas been 4
snll 0f nj mt. Tor yeaI:. 1t VIII he no easy
fus.z to ,npute the amount % the people s
money stole. o" thrown away.
Not onlv the losc- Office Department,
bat nearly every other Depart -acnt I'M
del. the Government has bec1 the scene
o. wholesale feculation. This is not
strange lime and a5an the country
his seemed 10 say to the dishonest
patty. ,.Ion are only clever and
th~iirr: we ta',c no stock in the stories
affecting your good name: they are only
'campa On POWDER 20 ahesd we are
with YOU - So the party has come to
imagine itself the O1cner OF the country
in ice simple and should it not make
All the monct there is g in it2'' The
',Star route crimes ought TO wake up
the public TO the real nature Of the
party that has rioted in power so
long; Tor they are & little the pain
est. most palpable, most open
handed robberies yet brought to Light.
They will enable the most bigotcd Nepub
ian 20 see that the charges made
against his party 50 steadily, since 1872
especially. were something more than
cam aign talk. Indeed the crimes OF
the party have become q, vulgar and
tangible as horse stealing and pocket
picking: and the bigoted Republican
sees It, Does he still think the party
worthy the support OF good men2 Can
h sill say that honesty is the rule and
crime the exception in the Republican
party-t that the criminals are a lot OF
low fellows whom / is only necessary to
kick out TO MAKE every thing rot on as
''merr, "a n marriage bcll?1 We doubt
1t, Tor he VIII encounter this fact IN the
very beginning that the Republican
cand date Tor President, md the part
managers generally. were IN cahoots"
with the leaders Of this :. Star-ro,te'
vliainV, and drew freely on their guilty
bank account for campaign money.
! hus we have the criminal and ere
spectacle elements OF Radicalism
linked together indis>olubiv! There is
no gettil 9 out of it: the partnership has
been established by indubitab.e episto-
lar proof. There is much SHOW now Of
hunting down and Furnishing the scoun-
dles So far as Postmaster-tie neral
jane; IS concerned we are willing to
grant al honesty of purpose. MIR.
james is an honest man and a reform
er IN the true sense; but VIII he be
permitted TO carry out his programme
to the bitter end? We Shall be very
glad, tor the good OF the public service,
ii he be 80 permitted: but we are in
credu Gus. The Republican tenure is
so interviewer with, ard dependent
upon. official rascalitT that the PARTY
can hardly ''go back on its thrifty
ones in dead earnest. We can under
stand that the work of exposure and
prosecution may 20 so tar that it can
not be ''ed without a confession
and aCl.-..s.v4- 100 revolving for even
Radical assurance; but the work of re-
form las not progressed that far yet.
We trust the Republican Administra-
ton may ct be driven into these des-
perate straits. The tide is drifting in
that direction now. 1t will be bright
day for the country when the party OF
corruption stands forth naked in all its
crim;nality, and there be no one to do
1T further reverence. The cOrrcspOn-
dent of the inns says 1t will be no
easy task to compute the amount of
money stolen or thrown away" by this
one syndicate of thievery in the Repub-
lican party. 1t is No doubt past compu-
tation; and when we come to add the
''Star-route frauds to the other inter-
minable frauds that have depleted the
popular pocket, from Grants dis
graceful regime down to the present.
what an appalling aggregate of robbery
do we obtain. A nice party for ..busi-
ness mems clubs; nice party for the
honest and the bard-Ested; nice party
for moral and respectable people; a nice
party for young men to join and grow
up with nice party for ministers
and college professors, and all other
moral and physical Instructors of youth;
a nice party to serve as an eXemplar
Of the benetices and beauties OF Re-
publicanism; a nice party to assume the
possession OF ''all the morality and all
the respectability;' Il nice party to
ground itself upon decencv and hon
csty! General James is said to have at
frs, looked hopefully to an honest and
beneticent public service in the future;
but we imagine he has ere now despaired
OF accomplishing any thing durable
under the dominance If the Republican
party. FRS the storm; then the puri-
fed atmosp Eere and the smiling land
scape - UeUeJa1ad PGia1deaier.