Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-30

the counsel for the government. and the
witnesses for the prosecution. Ii
,, has exhausted the vocabulary
of billingsgate in its abuse of the CORE
spondents of newspapers who supported the
prosecution. 1t has gone to such extremes
in these directions that some of the de-
PENDANTS became dissatisfied with It's
course. fearing, with good reason, that it
would lido them more harm than good.
From this city must be drawn grand jurors
and petit jurors. and the conductors of this
paper apparently believed that, with the
assistance of other papers here, either
openly or secretly in the service OF the ring,
they could build up a profitable sentiment
in the minds of the people. 1t is fact
that prominent merchants here did not
know until Buell. told his story in court
that Brady owned this paper. Buell. testl-
fed that Helm was not only the business
manager, but that he also supervised
and controlled the editorial columns. Be-
fore Mr.. Rounds became public printer,
this paper abused Public Printer Defrees,
and seemed to be carrying on war against
him. When Mr.. Rounds came into the
Office, Helm was made foreman in charge
of the Congressional Record, and it is said
that he has been even more influential in
this printing house, the greatest in the
world, than any other person except its
official head. His continued management
of the Brady paper while employed by the
government excited much comment here,
and in response to some criticism Mr..
Rounds defended Helm in a published
statement. A correspondent of an
honest local paper had written
that in the government printing
Office could be heard kind words for the
conspirators and curses for the perse-
cutors in the star route case, owing to
Helms great influence there. In reply,
Mr.. Rounds declared that Helm was an
honorable gentleman whose integity had
never been called in question before. He
continued as follows: Elf such things are
permitted, no mans reputation will be
safe from assaults so long as these human
ghouis live to disgrace socity." But now
the president and the attorney general
have shown that their views Of the pro-
priety of Helms employment in the print
ing Office are in accord with those which
Mr.. Rounds condemned. Mr.. Rounds is
not expected, however, to denounce them
as ghouls who disgrace society.
Publicity has not been so widely given
W VIC SdISCo WIi1Cn 1CS1 " tAO ASLlONdl vi
Postmaster Anger and Assistant Postmas-
made nearly year ago to the postoftice
department, to the president, and to con-
gress that these men had violated the law.
These reports, made by officers of the &C.
partment, were given to the press, and
were fully published in the Times of Jan.
Z, 1882, but they caused no action to be
4,1x oc
by postmasters who certified to the gen.
illness of worthless bonds given by star
route contractors had been pointed out by
Mr.. A. I'd. Gibson, in his report to the at
torney general. Mr.. Gibson said: Post
masters who have been accessory to these
frauds, and time and again violated
the law and the regulations of the depart
ment, have not even been rebuked,
and some of them to-day are still in Office"
Section 3,947 of the revised statutes pro-
yides that postmaster who shall knowing
ly make any false Or iilusory certificate of
the sufficiency of guarantors or sure
ties on mail contracts shall be dismissed,
and be subjected to fine and imprisonment.
Il was by getting the certificates of post
masters that the straw bidders we're en-
abled to rob the department. Inspectors
Tidbal and c-.allcross made a report to
Postmaster General James concerning the
work of the straw bidders and bogus bond
men i'll this city. 1t showed that in this
way $4,000 bogus bonds had been imposed
upon the department. Mr. Bliss read the
report and wrote letter concerning it in
which he suggested that it should be sent
to congress. Mr.. James sent the report to
the president, and the latter trans
mitted it to congress. Attention was di-
rected in the Timee last winter to the fact
that congress ignored this report. Among
the persons indicted for having swindled
the government was X. NJ. Armstrong, who
submitted bonds amounting to $2l5,20O
in 1880. The sureties were worthless, but
their responsibility, as shown in the report
made one year ago, had been certified by
Postmaster Anger. Referring to the
worthless bonds of Boone, Cabell and
others, the report said: "a large number
of these worthless bonds were certified by
D. 3. Anger, postmaster at Washington,
D. c., and in some instances Myron NJ.
Parker, assistant postmaster, certified to
the responsibility of others, signing Ain
gers name as postmaster and his own as
assistant. It was also discovered that
Myron NJ. Parker had entered as surety
on a number of proposals of John
R. Miner. Associated with Parker as
surety on these proposals was H. NJ. Vale,
a member of the so-called Dorsey combi-
nation. This bond was approved by D. B.
Anger, postmaster" Not only did these
men violate the law already referred to,
but Parker, in company with Vale, who
was recently tried, became surety for
Miner, whom the star route jury convict
ed, and in this way violated another law,
which provides that no employe of the
postofice department shall be interested in
a contract for carrying the mails. There
were marked Irregularities in the manner
il which the signatures were affixed. AS
to the Armstrong sureties, Anger made
affidavit as follows: II did not know at
the time of certifying to the responsible
ity of j. w Donohue and w. W. Jackson
anything personally about their financial
responsibility. 1 did not know that either
of them owned any property of any kind
at the time made the certif cate"
j. B. Colegrove, ring contractor who
tad large amount of service, had had his
sureties certified in Missouri, where they
lived. He desired to have them certified