The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-12-07

Mark how plain tale shall
put him down!" | say this much IN
presence of new trial, and defy all
the power and the money of The govern
ment to bride jurors and witnesses. as
they did at the last trial, to disprove a
single statement have made, or shall
make in regard 10 this matter.
Dorsey then proceeds to the review of
the charges made against him, and 10
the charge that he employed as tools
Peck, John w. Dorsey ana Miner, and
that they were all inexperienced, he
says Peck had been for years largely in
terested in mail contracts, when in 1878
Peck determined to make bids for a
large number of contracts, and asked
John Dorsey TO join him. He Is. w.
Dorsey demonstrated that it would place
him in an embarrassing position should
they enter into such contracts while he
was United States senator-they were
free agents, however, and acting for
themselves despite his argument, they
entered the bids and obtained 1874 routes.
Many OF these, he says, they gave to
other contractors before the service be-
gan.
| Neither one, he AYERS. ever received
one penny for increased mali service
and that they lost every penny they pos
sessed In their efforts to carry out their
undertakings. After they had taken the
contracts, Dorsey continues. he was in
duty bound by the obligations of kinship
| to assist them in obtaining bOndsmen.
He says Dorsey, Peck and Miner had
the bitter enmiiy of old contractors,
who regarded them as intruders upon
iAhe field, and the ill-wiH of members OF
the postOffice department, who might
have aided them in fulfilling their con-
tracts. Some time in August, he con.
| finnoo Miner n % inf of hai
declared a failing contractor, which
| would have thrown all three of them
into bankruptcy and involved the bonds
| men whom he had secured for them.
Miner, acting tor himself and the
others in their absence, transferred to
Henry NJ. Vale the entire interest of
Peck and John Dorsey, cutting them off
from their rights and him from monies
| advanced.
The writer concludes as follows: At
ter my term in congress expired 1 re-
peated my efforts to recover the amounts
l had advanced. ! saw Vale and Miner
and insisted that my account for money
advanced must be settled. Having no
money 10 pay, they proposed TO turn
over to me certain mail routes, which
during the three years they had to run
would repay me and provide for the
payment of $4,000 to John n. Peck
for his expenditures, and $4,000 to J.
w. Dorsey for his interest. I had no
alternative but TO accept this proposal
paid Peck and j. w. Dorsey $4,000
each, which hardly covered the sums ad-
vanced to them. l took charge of these
routes April 6, 1879, and continued in
charge of them about a mouth.
During this period, wherever l
| thought il was proper and the pub
lie wants demanded it, / tried
10 get the routes increased by all proper
and lawful means, as every prudent con-
tractor did under similar circumstances,
and did in that way get some increases
on four or five small routes. In June,
| 1879. l turned this whole mail business
over to other hands, and from that day
to this have never had anything more
| TO do with il than the president of the
| United States has had. From that time
| have never received letter or COM
munication of any kind from Gen.
Brady or any other official of the post
office department.
My acquaintance with Gen. Brady
was confined to official relations and
never until the commencement of this
case met him except at his Office at the
postoffice department. Miner ! had not
seen since April, 1878, until the trial.
Col. Peck is long since dead and j. W.
| Dorsey went out of the mail business
| in August, 1878. had not seen nor
had any communication with any of
these men Tor nearly three years.
The card here recapiiulates the points
made in the above statements and pro-
| ceeds: The attorney general of The
United States, who has descended TO en-
gage in this trial personally, chiefly, it
seems from his speech, to heap abuse
upon me, wrote letter few days Since
to the president, made up of denuncia-
| lion and epithets, of falsehood and SIAN
der, of malice and impotence in about
equal parts. Brewster has dragged the
robes of his great Office into the filth
and slime of debauchery number
of times, and if guilty of such atrocIous
acts would be guilty of equally infam-
Gus acts in the administration of the
Office he holds and dishonOrs. He &C.
cupies a quasi judicial position, but IN
advance of trial, and in an official COM
munication to his chief, In language
that would disgrace the merest police
court shyster, this attorney general of
the United States denounced the defend
ants in the star route cases as banded
robbers, great rascals, etc.
The prosec uting officers, attorney gen.
eral and president of the United States
know, just as well as l do, that my state
ment as given is absolutely and unquali-
fiedly true in every respect. EACH one of
those men know, IS | know, that never
made cent out OF the star route con
tracts. Each one of them knows, as
know, that no more conspired against
the government of the United States than
they have. Notwithstanding this knowl-
edge, which the records show, and
from which there is no escape, these
peOr lie are daily sending ont through
the press a monstrous falsehoOd until
the people have come to believe l am
the head of great ring which has been
robbing the government of millions of
dollars. will pay one thousand dol
lars for anything the prosecution can
show I ever made out of the treasury of
the United States excepting my salary
as senator.
There is another thing to which l
wish to call the attention of the public,
and that is the removal of Marshal Hen
ry, Postmaster Anger and Assistant
POstm astor Parker upon the pretence
that the marshal had in some way aided
me in the selection of jury in my in
tefest, and that the other gentlemen
were in some mysterious way implicit
ed. The charge against these gentlemen
is also charge against me. My opin-
ion IS that the removal of Anger and
Parker was simply decoy, the real OBJ
ject being the removal of the marshal,
that some one might be procured who
would really do for the government
what Marshal Henry was charged with
doing for me. In other words, the re-
moval was made in order that the selec-
ton of a jury might be absolutely in
the hands OF the prosecution; that is to
say, packed Removals were
made for the purpose OF
terTorizing the entire com
muniiy, 20 give notice to every gov
eminent official that he had no right to
be the friend of defendant; that he had
no right 10 express an opinion, no mat
ter how honestly entertained The Temov-
ais mean no officials in any of the de
partments. All facts that have stated
as TO my connection with the star mail
service, with much greater detail, were
placed in the hands of the president and
given TO the attorney general early in
, 1881. They have never been disputed
and they never will be, but sill the
work of fslsehoOd and defamation will
go on to glorify the men in power by
, crushing those that put them there.
m STEPHEN, W DORSEY.
} The Sunday Law In New York City.
NEW YoRK, Dec. 2.-The new code,
: SO far as it refers to the observance OF
Sunday, viii be enforced by the police
tomorrow. superintendent Wsliing,
in conversation, said: Il don't think il
will work 1t is an absolute necessity