Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-09-20
BRADY has been convicted by ten honest 1ury-

Brady has been convicted by ten honest Jury
men and by the general public, but his most crush
ing and conclusive condemnation is supplied by
the significant figures IN the current reports from
the government department he lately miSman-
aged, or rather managed so capaby In the interest
OF the gang OF thieves of which he was the head
1t Is announced that the official statement OF the
receipts and expenditures OF the Post Office de-
partment for the last fiscal year, which ended
June 30, 1882, Will show that for these twelve
months the receipts exceeded the expenditures by
at least 100000. That Is to say, it has been de-
monStrated that the Post Office department, res
cued from the hands OF the star route thieves,
not only be made self-sustaining but can turn In
handsome income to the public treasury. This grand
reform was Initiated by Postmaster General
James, who at one stroke cut off S1,5O0,OOO OF
Bradys annual plunderfngs Under Brady the
cost OF the star service in 1879 was 4O1 $50 1t
mounted 10 8, 321 Ai9 N 1880 In March, 1851 Post
master General James came into Office, detected
the star route rasclities, pitched Brady out, and
entered upon the work OF reform. The cost for the
nscal year 1881 was S. 957 1885, the appropriation
having been S7,S75,00O. Brady. who had counted
upon the CONTINUANCE OF his scheme OF plumber,
had estimated the cost for the year just ended at
$3.50 oOo and Congress appropriated g 10000. In
the report for 1881 Mr.. Elmer (Brady's succeSSOrl
stated that If no orders reducing the star service
had been made the sum needed for the current
year would have been s9,C00,O00. 1t is apparent
Therefore, that the Brady gang, not content with
the enormous proportions OF their STEAL plan
ming for another big deficiency appropriation to
the tune or nearly million Of dollars. But the
detection OF the scheme and the expulsion of
Brady from office broke the hold OF these greedy
DlOod-suckers upon the public treasury. That q
fraud OF such colossal proportions could exist so
long undetected Is not pleasant fact TO have re-
corded In our national history.
Mr.. Blaine has expressed himself very forcibly
In the Chicago Interview against MahOneism He
denied the stories that he intended TO go into the
campaign in Virginia, but declared that his SYM
pathy was wholly with the Straightout republican
party OF that state. He denounced the coalition
with the readjusters or repudationists, as he
called them, as great political blunder, and de-
clared that one OF the pillars OF the republican
party was the upholdlng OF the public faith. Mr..
Blaine put forward the somewhat novel doctrine
that he would be glad to see the General Govern
ment aid Virginia in the payment of her debt. He
places It on the ground that the government had
oismembered her territory, and ought to pay for
IL for the same reason that the United States made
IN allowance OF millions OF dollars to Mexico for
the ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF her territory during the
Mexican war; Another consideration which influ-
enced Linn Is the cesson of the northwest territory
IN hundred years ago, out OF which has grown
some OF the grandest states of the Union. There
h no doubt that the people OF Virginia and the
debt-holders would give Mr.. Bla1ne's views a
hearty support just how the rest of the country
would regard them remains TO be developed.
II Is quite evident that, notwithstanding the
yrotestations Of Mr.. Gladstone, England does not
Intend TO relax her hold upon Egypt, though her
policy Is apparently an ndecisive one. In the
meantime there are Indications that the East
ern question may soon cease to be a cues
ton OF European politics through a pos
sfble alliance of Russia, England and Frapce
The New York Journal or Commerce does not
prophecy this, but says that Russia wants the
Bosphorus, England wants Egypt, and France
wants the north OF Africa. 1t matters very little
what the rest Of Europe would think Of 1t II this
alliance were formed 1t would be sufficiently
powerful 10 have no fear OF the other states Nor
1s ii impossible that Austria at least If not italy,
might be made content with the partition OF the
Turks possessions by receiving a share OF the
spoilS.