Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-01-09
HOW THEY ESCAPE.
Political Influences in Behalf of the Star
Route Gang.

Political Influences in Behalf of the Star
Route Gang.
To the Editor of the Globe.
ST. PAUL, Jan. S.-The Republican
press of the country are still attempting
to induce people to believe there is to be
a day Of Judgment for the Star route
thieves They have been thumbing the
same string for nearly a year and even
their most callew dupes begin to think
they are spending too much time in tuning
up and it is time for the music to COM
mence. The authorities have full knowl-
edge of who the guilty parties are and the
magnitude of their guilt They are too
well aware of these things, in fact. They
know that their tenure of ef1ce mainly
depends on the perpetuity of this or some
kindred system of stealing. When, nearly
a year age, this leak in the treasury could
ne longer be hid from view the Repub-
lican managers and their subsidized rpress
gave it out that the peculaters were to
be punished and there were some few
simple ones who, unmindful OF the past,
believed it would be as they said. If there
is an official who wishes to see these viii
lians punished, his hands are tied by these
other thieves nearer the throne, and he
dare not make a movement if he could.
The Republican machine cannot afford
to lose such effective workers as the
Dorseys and the Bradys and those others
of equal or greater magnitude whe would
be borne down into the vortex made by
their sinking. The Republican managers
have never forgiven Blaine for leaving
the chair of the house and striding down
the aisle to defy an accuser and demand
an investigation when his name was
coupled with that Of Colfax
and other statesmen Of that ilk
in q scheme to rob the
peoples treasury. He saved himself by
a hairs breadth, but the investigation he
brought about by his rashness cost the
party many able workers.
Wiser counsels obtained when the
whisky ring was unearthed, and while
the thieves and their organs shouted for
the punishment of the robbers, they
knew the officials whose elections had
been brought about by the use of the
stolen money would see to it that no one
of the gang whose influence was worth
retaining should be punished. One Off
cial, Secretary Bristow, mistook the mean
ing of the cry "Let no guilty man es-
cape, and made an effort to have justice
meted out to the offenders, and his pun
ishment for his mistaken zeal was -swift
and sure and continued, till now there is
none so poor to do him honor. He is by
far the worst punished man who had any
thing to do with the matter. In the steal
now before the public the whisky ring
tactics are being followed with nicely Of
detail that cannot fail to convince any
reasoning mind that the outcome will be
the same, and that the principle plumber
ers will go unwhipt of justice, though
perhaps it may be necessary to cruelty
some Insignificant scape-goat. The pee.
pie at large are beginning to take the
statements of the Republican papers fol
what they are worth in this matter, and
to know that every legal advance that i:
made will have some weak point in its
time of battle through which the enemy
can make good its escape.
Yours, JUSTICE.