Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-12-02
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sArURDAY EVENING DEC. 2. 1892,
Dorsey:s Dubi GUS Defense.

SATURDAY EVENING DEC. 2. 1892.
Dorsey's Dubious Defense.
Elk Senator Dorsey sends to the news
papers q lengthy declaration of his inno-
cence of any connection with the Star
Route frauds and declares his readiness
to pay ono thousand dollars for every
dollar that he can he shown to have
made off the government outside his sal
arya as senator. He AYERS that at the out
set of the administration of Garfield he
put it fully into possession of all the facts
in his knowledge concerning the Star
Route contracts and demanded an inves
tigation of his conduct by a commission
of Democratic congressman. This was
refused him because, as he says, AttoIE
ney General MacVeagh informed him
that the government had no evidence OF
his completely with the frauds. lie says
that his brother and brother -in-law in
1873 took lot of mail contracts in spite
of his protest that their action would
embarrass him. Afterwards he helped
them to getbondsmen and advanced them
money. When his term rs senator ex-
pired lie called for payment and they
had nothing to pay him with but mail
routes, which he took in April 1879, and
in June Of the same year transferred
them to others, since which time he has
been ont of the mail business. Brady
was not his friend aud he never saw him
save in his Office. Dorsey seems to lie
of the opinion that Attorney General
Brewster, who undertook in the trial 20
hold him up as the head and front Of tie
conspiracy, needs to take the beam out
of his own eye. lie denounces him as
having dragged the robes of his office
into the filth and slime of debauchery so
many times," that he deserves to be
considered altogether bad; and the ex-
Senator concludes his plea to the country
with the melancholy reelection that
notwithstanding his white robes of inno-
cence, 1.-the work of falsehood and de
famation will 80 on to glorify the men
in power by ousting those who placed
them there" Too true, alas too true !!
Mr.. dorsey may be very innocent
man in these Star Route matters,
but We fear that none will ever believe it,.
The homes. fact is that there is not
much evidence TO speak of against him.
1t is all Of a negative character. The
circumstances are such as to deny that
he could have been innocent when those
about him were guilty. lie was easily
the "boss" !" of the men among whom
he moved, and if he permitted them
to plunder the government without
sharing with him he mus be charged
with folly of which his life and char.
acter show no signs while of the un-
scrupulOusness which would have led
him into just such transactions us the
Star Route conspiracies he was just
brimful and running over.
Mr.. Dorsey claims the credit of placing
in power the men who are now against
him, and public opinion gives him that
credit but the means that were success.
fully used hy Dorsey to elect Garfield
are well-known to have been of Il dis.
creditable kind. Dorsey, in claiming to
have put his friends into power by such
methods, simply claims that he
was rascal and if SD he cannot com.
plain OF the public judgment which
credits him with the leadership in the
postal fniquities. Attorney General
Brewster may possibly have got the
wrong pig by the ear when he seized
upon Dorsey as the head of the band of
robbers, but if SO the pig has no reason
to complain because of his bad general
reputation. The trouble with Dorsey is
that he did not have good character to
help him along. lie was dog known
to love sheep and no injustice will he
done by charging him with their
slaughter.
Mr.. Dorsey has the same good reason
that so many men before him have had,
to realize the fact that the way Of the
transgressor is hard. lie put the men
into power by fraud who now crush him.
The fellows who put Hayes into his seat
by fraud have been crushed too. All
these rascals sometime come to grief
The mills Of the gods in these cases have
ground pretty fast and exceedingly fine.
There is hardly grease spot left of these
criminals. Mr.. Dorsey would do well
TO keep as quiet as he can and sli, out
of the world when his time comes
thankful that he was not hung.
Dangerous Amusements.