The daily gazette., 1882-10-30
AN oPINION OF HARRINGTON.
What General H. v. Boynton Says of the
Safe Burgiarin the Republican Paper OF
Which He Is Correspondents

Safe Burgiari In tho Republican Paper OF
Which He Is Correspondents
tGen. II. V. Boynton In Gin. Gazette, Rep.l
WAsmrSaToN, Oct. 28.-The news re-
ceiyed here from Wilmington, Del, indi-
Gates possibility OF Republican success in
that State, which may prove most embar-
RAISING to the party as whole. This singu.
lar feature OF the situation is easily ex-
planned. Mr.. Richard Harrington, better
known here and TO the country at large as
"Dick" Harrington, of Washington safe
burglary fame, by intrigues known to the
worst elements Of the "machine," succeeded
some time since In having himself elected
Chairman Of the Republican State Commit
tee of Delaware.
This is one stepin the political recovery
which Harrington has been seeking ever
since his notorious crime banished him from
a public position and from the national cap
ital. lie has accomplished this step in the
lace of the fact that he is still under indict-
ment here, the first trial of the safe burglary
conspiracy having failed of conviction by
the most brazen manipulation of jury ever
attempted here. And this is saying all that
need be said In regard to that feature of the
trial.
If Harrington's labors were to be confined
to those of Chairman of the party organiza-
tion in Delaware the matter would not call
for such emphatic attention as is now de-
manded. But it appears that he has been
able by such quiet, but most active work, In
which he has had abundant help, both within
and from without the State to use his posi-
ticn as Chairman to secure the nomination
of majority OF the Republican nominees to
the State Legislature, and that the game,
as now fully understood, is to elect Harring-
ton to the United States Senate
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that for inspectors held short time since is
called, was so strongly. indicative of Repub-
lican success that Harrington and his fol-
lowers have, in their elation, thrown off all
DISCUSSES, and have openly declared that
Harrington Is now seeking vindication,"
and expects to obtain 1t by an election to
the Senate. This might "vindicate a safe
burglar, but where would the Senate be
Where would the Republican party of the
country find itself, when continuously
called upon through six years to apologize
for Harrington's presence In the Senate
The question might be raised on the thres-
hold whether man under Indictment for
felony could be SO purged by Republican
votes as to make him eligible to a seat, but
the discussion of such a question, which
would of necessity be raised, would not be
altogether without embarrassment of very
serious cast 1t is true that Attorney
General Brewster might, In case of Harring-
toms election, If approached on his soft side,
be induced to have the pending indictment
for the safe burglary conspiracy dismissed,
and SO relieve the Senate from one of the
grave embarrassments of the situation.
But even if the case were formally dis
missed from the criminal docket, the fact
would always remain that Harrington while
holding the responsible position of Assistant
TF.,sA ed GAaNa f1u IL. -
Columbia, entered into q conspiracy and
became one of its leading spirits, the object
of which was to falsely charge upon an
honorable citizen of high standing the crime
of burglary, for the purpose of blasting this
citizens reputation and render him power
less to carry forward the exposure of cor
rupt and gigantic ring which was plunder-
ing the citizens of Washington.
The Republicans of Delaware should re-
feet long and seriously upon the question of
forcing such man upon the party. Far
better defeat in their State than
such calamity to the party at
large. If the Republicans of Delaware
think that the satisfaction of having a seat
In the National Senate would In sufficient
degree compensate them for the universal
criticism which the election of Harrington
would cause, they ought still to reflect that
the party at large has some claim upon its
members for political decency, and that the
task of defending the election of Harring-
ton would be one from which the rest of the
Senate well might shrink.
All information from Delaware shows q
growing Republican strength In the State.
There seems to be little room for doubt that
but for the Harrington clique obtaining the
control of the machine, the State could
easily have been carried this year. 1t is
even possible to carry 1t with this load, so
reluctant are Republicans there to allow the
promising opportunity to pass unimproved.
But at the last many of the best Of them
seem to have decided that they will not con-
tribute to the projected scandal of sending
Harrington to the Senate. 1t will be we'll
for the Republicans Of that body and of the
whole country If they are saved from that