The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-06-25
The "star.route. Revelations.

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The revelations concernlngthe "Star-
route swindle have filed the Republic
an bosses with alarm and dlsmay.
They find the men entrusted with the
of the late Presidential
canvass on their. side stepped to their
ewes in that menstrous iniquity. Dor
sey, who superintendent the purchase OF
Indiana and was complimented with
public dinner at which Vice-President
Arthur toasted him as the efficient dis
tributor of political tracts" Brady,
who was called upon for material aid
by Garfield through Hubbell, the Chair
man of the Republican Congress onal
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 ont, was one of the chief benefi-
Charles of the frauds committed on the
Government through the connivance OF
Brady, late Second Assistant Postmas-
ter-General. and Gorham is his chum,
auVlseE anu ucfcHuci- Al oAuSA w
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
.sStar. route" r.ng. 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 suffi-
cient sensation to procure them few
additional readers. In order to invest
the calumny with an air of probability q
statement was injected into it to the eff
feet that ian anti-RandaIl delegation
was sent from this State 10 the Cincin-
natl Convention through the expendi-
ture of s.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 friends organized the
delegation, elected its chairman (Mr.
Malcolm Hay, OF Pittsburgh). controlled
its committees. and would have given
their favorite for President 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 matter of history and is well
known to every member of the delega-
ton from this Stale TO the
Cincinnati Convention. But the
charge that Hancock's nom ma
ton was corruptly procured fell every
where on incredulous ears, and now
the bosses are obliged to change theil
tactics in order to throw some of the
odium of the "Star route" iniquity on
the Democrats. The other day mum
Der of persons were arrested in Phila,
delphia and taken before the United
States Commissioner on charges o.
completely in certain frauds perpetratet
on the Government in the letting o.
contracts for carr, ing the mails. Al
once it was announced through the col
umns of the sensational press that thu
accused parties are friends of ex
Speaker Randa |, but it was generousl.
added that it is thought the ex-Speakel
had no knowledge of their connection
with the fraudulent mail contracts
This shows how severe is the test Il
which the ingenuity of the Republican
bosses is sui, ected in their efforts t
divert public attention from the rea
criminals in the Star-route' fraud
! and to transfer to the Democracy som
of the odium which attaches to thei
own party on account of the prominen
part played in those frauds by the mel
who raised the sinews of war and pur
chased the victory for Garfield and Al
, thur last November. Harrisburg Pa.
Patriot.