Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1881-04-30
iii POSTAL STEALS.

THE POSTAL STEALS.
1t has. for a leng time. been suspected
that there was an immense swindle il
the star route postal contracts as conduc
ted by the department. at Washington
During the last session Of congress ev
cry effort was made to ascertain jus
what was the real necessity of this ser
vice, but without any definite result, thu
reports Of the department. being burise
In . mass OF details and red tape. thu
end of which was not reached. 1t ssemI
that Mr.. James, who II the only really
practical and competent man IN >wha'
the New York World dubs the ''chun
cabinet" has been compelled. BY public
clamor, to request the resignatisn ol
Mr.. Brady, the second assistant post
master general, who IL more than sus-
pectsd Of exceedingly crooked crock.
ednsss.
Within TIVE years the annual pay on
o. star mail routes vas raised from
s727 ,11s to q, 800. 214.and this fer pras-
tically the same service. When Mr..
Sherman made up his budget ct the
amount Of nensy stolen from the gsv-
srnmsnt by it, employees. he failed T.
include the sun indicated BY . very
simple arithmstleal calculation with the
above two figures. That the postal de-
partmsnt has been ~ rsttsn under Mr..
Hayes ~ the naval department wal IN
der Gen. Grant. seems bsyend lusstion.
rs p,JVs this We quets. not from . dem
-ecratIc paper, bat,frsn the leading re-
ptbliSan newspaper in America. the
New York Times. Its correspondent in
writing from Warrington, under date OF
April - aid:-"Thoss whs claim 70
know all the points ct the investigates
which is being made ints the methods ct
the star route ring say the halt Aas ret
yet been made public and will mot b.
until measures are taken y bring Brady
to justice. and the ~psnitentiary, II posi-
BILE. The whsls steal 10 divided betwssa
what 10 known - the Dorsey gang aud
the Gilmer and Salisbury party. the hat
ter being the most ~extsnsivs opirsssrsl IN
the swindle. Dorssy's gang 10 composed
OF j. W. Dorsey, J. NJ. Peck and J.%K.
Miner, who have acted, ~ blinds fer|
Stephen W. Dorsey. ex-senator from
and secretary Of the rspasli-
can national committee, bidding ter asd
receiving contracts. J. VI. Dorsey isa
brother of Stephen W. Dorsey. Only .
little over three years ago he was . far
msr in Vermont, an ignorant. stupid
specimen Of humanity. He was net 20
that his more brilliant brother
could not use him ~ . sst's.paw to pull
gold from the public treasury, and he
was brought to Warrington for this psr-
pose, j. M. Peck, the second worthy Of
the trio, is brother-in-law Of Stephen
w. Dorsey, having married . sister Of
the lattsr's wife, and J. Z. Miner, 10 81
of the great original Dorsey
He was brought frsm Sandas-
ky, O.. expressly to g into the star
route business. The amount known to
have been .pocksted BY the stephen W.
gang in excess Of tho amount
called for by their original bids. il not
less, in round numbers, thsa e412. 0oo.
What percentage OF this was Transferred
70 Brady ~ his share Of the spoils, enlY
Stephen W. Dorsey and his partners can
This 'sgreat original Dorsey" - the
Times calls HIM, was the great cam
paign leader In Indiana, where, accord
ing to Mr.. Chester 4. Arthur, BY the
grace OF Satan and the republican party
ics-prssidsnt OF the United States. he
suessss for James A. Garfield.
The Times has to say Of the Gilmsr and,
Salisbury gang:-"The drm OF Gilnsr.
Salisbury SEQ, which did an even more
business IN the swindlss than
The Dorsey crowd, is composed Of J. T.
1ilmsr, Munres Salisbury and G. G..
Salisbury, the younger brother Of Aun-
roe. J. G. Gilnsr was formerly stage
driver On the Holiday overland rslts
Ct. Joseph 70 Sacramento. Cal. He
vas q very ignorant man, and could
'oarcely write his own name, bat he had
\ shrewd eye for business. In 1858 hs
|ormsd apartnsrshlp with the Salisburys
and bought out the stags-liae Of Wells,
Fargo & Co., owe which most Of tho
mails in the territories were at that tine
Since then the firm has bssn
Engaged in the star route business, and
made q large fortune" After detailing
The names OF the many firms which made
straw bids for Gilmsr. Salisbury b Co.. |
The Times says:-"Ths excess Of pay
received BY the Gilmer b Salisbury
combination YER that called for by the
contracts amounts to the neat
sum Of SITE. sos, with nor still to
hear from. In addition to the. msney
given these large contractors WHO made
their bids through straw agents. small
have bssn divided between
and the smaller contractors who
made their bids on their account. In
DR.. ]. H. Pearson secured an
excess Of $40,261 on . route OF '261
John A. Walsh secured an In
crease Of t1s8 AS on q route from Pres.
cott. Arizona. to Santa Fe. for which he
originally contracted for $18.500. etc."
So it goes; under Grant We had the
ring. the psst-tradsrships. the
navy swindles, and under Hayes the
postal steals. no wonder these roEuss
did not want the democrats to look at
the books. The deluge was better than
that; 80 they stole the presidency from
Tilden and bought it away from Han
cock.
GRAND WORK BY THE FERRY
BOAT UNDME.