The daily gazette., 1882-08-21
NOT AT ALL STRANGE.
Why Dick HarrfngtOn's Political Elcva-
tiOn is Simply In Accordance with the
Eternal Fitness OF Things"

New York SUM-
Why should 1t appear at all strange thai
Dick Harrington, who planned the safe bur
glary at Washington, for Boss Shepherds
Ring, should be made Chairman of the Re
publican State Committee of Delaware
True, he was indicted, and escaped going tO
the penitentiary because the prosecution
was not anxious to send him there. During
the trial Gen. Grant gave him the moral
support Of the Presidents couutenance and
recognition by an invitation to formal re-
ception at the White House. In the same
way Grant protected Babcock by giving
away to the defense, represented by Emory
Storrs, the proofs that should have convicted
that plunderer.
Secor Robeson is the accepted Republican
leader of the House of Representatives. He
made the Speaker. He is chairman of the
Republican caucus. He was the directing
mind OF the special committee appointed to
determine the business to be considered at
the late session. He is second on the Appro-
priations. He is second on Naval Affairs.
He is second on Rules. He Is first on Naval
Expenditures, ,and the last act of the Speaker
was to put him on the select committee to
investigate American shipping.
The man who holds all these honors with
out word of protest from the Republican
majority, was three several times denounced
as " thief, liar, and a perjurer," ON the
moor OF the House and In the hearing of the
civilized world. He took the stigma, and
did not utter word of reply. He struttnd
before his associates as If a compliment had
been bestowed upon him for political service.
Chorpenning Creswell was driven from
General Grants Cabinet upon reiterated
charges of corruption and of completely in
the straw bid frauds while he was Post
master-General, He swOre with phenome-
nal vigor before several investigating CON-
mittees, but public opinion as to his guilt
was never changed in the least degree. He
went out of the department rich and dis
graced. General Grant attempted to white
wash him subsequently by his appointment
as counsel before the Alabama Commission,
but he failed TO alter the fixed Judgment Of
the country. Creswell figured at Chicago
in 1860 as blatant third-termer, and now
he is again counsel for the new Alabama
Commission in reward for that service.
stephen w. Dorsey, Secretary of the Re
publican National Committee, Is on trial at
Washington for fraudulent conspiracy in
the Star route robberies. He was publicly
dined in this city after the Presidential cleo
tion by all the distinguished leaders of his
party, with the then Vice President at the
head of the table, and complimented for
the corrupt methods by which /" Indiana
was carried" He has lost neither position
or nor confidence. After the remarkable
disclosures of Blaine's jobbery and his seiz-
ure Of the Mulligan letters, and while every
incident was fresh in the public mind, he
was barely beaten at Cincinnati for the
Presidential nomination.
With the proofs of glaring yenalIty exist
ing against him in official forms, and with
perjury stamped upon his testimony before
two Congressional committees, General
Garfield was elected President.
Why should Republican newspapers that
have tolerated these offenders, and have
condoned their crimes, complain of Har-
rington as unworthy to be chairman of a
little committee in Delaware9 Is he any
worse than those are who have been en-
dorsed by the party in and out of Congress
and by the President in the White HOuse2