Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1882 — The Great Star Route Imposture. [ARTICLE]

The Great Star Route Imposture.

[Washington Special to New York Sun.] The Star Route prosecutions are fast be.oming a political farce. Tho case now on trial was the weakest one the Government had. It was deliberately put forward by the prosecution in order that there might be a failure. It was believed that if the Administration made a show of prosecuting Mr. Dorsey, everybody would believe the prosecution was dead in earnest, and that the Star Route roguet were to be-brought to justice. •It is pretty well understood that this case will be a failure, and it is veiy probable that the presiding judge will throw it out of Court before the prosecution will have an opportunity to sum it up. Colonel George Bliss know that the Government had a ease in which there was positive evidence of cors ruption, and that care had been taken to keep this particular case from tne Grand Jury. There is another case in which collaterally this positive evidence could be used: a United States Senator was involved, and for political reasons somebody saw to it that the Grand Jury failed to indict the Senator. So this case falls to the ground also. Call in and see us before buying your groceries elsewhere.

THARP & HOPKINS,

Leopold’s Stone Building