Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1882 — Dick Harrington & Co. [ARTICLE]

Dick Harrington & Co.

Why should it appear at all strange that Dick Harrington, who planned the safe burglary at Washington for B >ss Shepherd’s ring, should be made Chairman of the Republican State Committee of Delaware? True, he was indicted and escaped going to the penitentiary because tbe prosecution was not anxious to send him there. Daring the trial Gen. Grant gave him the moral support of the President’s countenance and recognition by an invitation to a formal reception at the White House. In the same way Grant protected Babcock by giving away to the defense, represented by Emory Storrs, the proofs that should have convicted that plunderer. Secor Robeson is the accepted Republican leader in the House of Representatives. He made the Speaker. He is Chairman of the Republican caucus. He was the directing mind of the special committee appointed to determine the business to be considered at the late session. He is second on Naval Affairs. He is second od. Rules. He is first on Naval Expenditures, and the last act of the Speaker was to put him on the select committee to investigate American shipping. The man who holds all these honors, without a word of protest from the Republican majority, was three several times denounced as “a thief, a liar and a perjurer” on the floor of the House in the hearing of the civilized world. He took the stigma, and did not utter a word of reply. He strutted before his associates as if a compliment had been bestowed upon him for political service. Chorpenning Creswell was driven from Gen. Grant’s Cabinet upon reiterated charges of corruption and of complicity in the straw-bid frauds while he was Postmaster General. He swore with phenomenal vigor before several investigating committees, but public opinion as to his guilt was never changed in the least degree. He went out of the department rich and disgraced. Gcu. Grant attempted to whitewash him subsequently by his appointment as counsel before the Alabama Commission, but he failed to alter the fixed judgment of the country. Creswell figured at Chicago in 1880 as a blatant third-termer, and now he is again counsel for the new Alabama Commission in reward for "that service. Stephen W. Dorsey, Secretary of the Republican National Committee, is on trial at Washington for fraudulent con • spiracy in the star route robberies. He was publicly dined in this city after the Presidential election by all the distinguished leaders of his party, with the then Vice President at the head of the table, and complimented for the corrupt methods by which “ Indiana was carried.” He has lost neither position nor confidence. After the remarkable disclosures of Blaine’s jobbery and his seizure of the Mulligan letters, and while every incident was fresh m the public mind, he was barely beaten at Cincinnati for the Presidential nomination. With the proofs of glaring venality existing against him in official forma, and with perjury stamped upon his testimony before two Congressional committees, Gen. Garfield was elected President. Why should Bepublican newspapers that have tolerated these offenders, and have condoned their crimes, complain of Harrington as unworthy to be Chairman of a little committee in Delaware ? Is he any worse than those are who have been indorsed by the party in and out of Congress and by the President in the White House ?— New York Sun.