The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-09-16
Press Comments on the STAR Route
Verdict.

New York Herald, Independent:
ssThe result of the star-route trial is seam
dalous failure of justice well caluculated
to arouse popular indignation everywhere.
The failure of the jury to convict Brady and
Stephen w. Dorsey is a most shameful defeat
of Justice Its disagreement on these men,
while finding Miner and Rerdell guilty, is SO
remarkable and inconsistent as to seem inca
pable of explanation on any honest theory;
OF all the censpirators arralgned BRADY and
Dorsey were the greatest offenders, the most
deserving of punishment, and those whose &C.
ouittal would have the most mischievous eff
fects. The government now has plain and
imperative duty to perform, and that is to
hiring these men to trial again without delay.
This is demanded by justice and the public
welfare.
New York Times, Republican:
1.-THE lame and impotent conclusion to
which the star-route trial has been brought by
the Washington jury is a grievons disappoint-
ment and suggests almost irresistibly that one
or more of its members must have been Sc
cured in the interest of the chief consplrators
from the very beginning Two kinds OF lntiu.
ence have undoubtedly been at work in behalf
of the two arch conspirators- and Dor
hope of effect-that of politics and that OF
money. But the end is not yet. There may
be a retrial of these offenders, and it is init
mated that civil suits will be brought for the
recovery of the plumber. Besides that, there
should be most searching investigation OF
the means used or attempted for securing OF
influencing the jury or any OF its members. Ii
the all-pervading corruption OF rich and pow
erful rascals is to reach and cOntaminate the
jury system, then is one of the chief bulwarks
of our safety rotten at its base.
New York Tribune Republican:
ssThe public will view the verdict in a
three fold aspect. They will say that it scarce
ly affects the standing of the principal defen-
dants because they have been adjudged guilty
on the evidence by an overwhelming majority
of the public sentiment. They will say in the
second place that possibly no verdict OF con-
viction could have been obtained from jay
which had so manifestly been tempered with.
They will say in the third place that with a
case so strong as this appeared to be against
Messrs. Dorsey and Brady, a thoroughly eff
cient prosecution might have made it impos-
sible for even corrupt jury to refuse ver-
diet of conviction.
New York World, Democrat; ..s-
'!The conviction of Brady and Dorsey would
have been exemplary. The moral of the trial
is, if it is to be drawn from the present con-
dition of the case, that pilfering sixpence from
the government is villainy of the deepest
dye which will be visited with sharp retribu-
ton, but that whoever plumbers the govern
ment on so great scale that he can afford to
spend some of the swag in electing Repub-
lican President, need only fear the imposition
of fine equal to the sum required to pay
counsel and corrupt the necessary jurors.
Philadelphia Ledger Independent:
"Whatever of animadversion the failure
may meet with is due only to the two or three
jurymen whose votes were against the evil
dence and against the judgment of an over
whelming majority of their colleagues"