Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1882 — REMOVED FOR CAUSE. [ARTICLE]

REMOVED FOR CAUSE.

President Arthur Summarily • Bounces Severs! Washington Officials. They Are Charged with Improper Conduct in the Star-Route Cases.

[Washington Telegram.] A thunderbolt has fallen upon the starroute defendants, and the Government has atlast given undoubted evidence that It is very much in earnest in the prosecution. The President late this afternoon ordered the summary dismissal from office of Henry, United States Marshall of the' District; Ainger, Postmaster of Washington; Parker, Assistant Postmaster; Spencer, Government Director, and Helm, foreman of the Jiecord at the Government printing office. The charges made by the administration aga net these officials are these; That all of them have obstructed the a < ministration of lustioe in these cases, either by direct aid or >y public expressions of sympathy. As to Marshal Henrv, the accusation Is this: that, at an Interview in Cleveland during the progress of the star-route trial, he indulged in gross abuse of Mr. Bliss, spec al counse for the United S'ates, and declared that the Government had no case; that throughout the pro r-'as of the trial he expressed sympathy w th some of the defendants, particularly with Dutsey, who was a resident of bis own section in Ohio, and that he, when the panel from whicu the itiry was drawn was exhau<ted, so arranged it that talesman who would be satis.actory to the defense were chosen. As to Postmaster Ainger, the charge is that he, when Assistant Postmaster, wis impugned by two postoffice inspectors as to the certification of bogus bonds in the starroute cases, and that, whether these acts were true or not, the fact that Mr. Ainger is the proprietor of anewspaperin Michigan, and that during the last trial he wrote to his paper, over his own signature, denouncing the officers who bad instituted the prosecution, and de daring that the Government had no case, is regarded as sufficient cause lor his removal. As to Helm, the fact that he Is the business manager of the Critic, which has been virulent in its abuse o the Government pro-ecution, and of all who approve it, is considered sufficient cause for his removal from the position of foreman Of Government printing. Ex-Senator Spacer’s refusal to obey the summons of the court is assigned as the cause for his removal. These removals, announced just after dark, were a great, local sensation. [Another Telegram.] Scarcely anything but the removal o' the star-route sympathize s hasbe< n ta kedof in political circles to-day. The President’s a:tion is believed to be a pledge ot more vig rous measures in the prosecution of Brady, Dorsey, et a . Attorney General Brewster is warmed up for work, and an order has gone iorth to give no quarter. Rumors of other dismissals are as p[ency as blackberries. There are star-route sympathizers in almost every department of the Government, some of them occupying high post. tion«. The names of seventeen are in the hands ot the President, and their heads may be chopped off at anv moment District Attorney Corkhill and Public Printer Rounds are said to be among those marked for the ax.

The beheaded Marshal Henry was interviewed at Cleveland by a newspaper co< respondent and declared h mself the scapegoat selected to bear the burden of the failure of the star-raute prosecutions. He cited the fact that the two jurors selected by him had till the way through voted for conviction. Bob Ingersoll pronounces th ■ removals an effort to terrorize the jury. He declares Marshal Henry co be a* honest a man as ever lived, and rays there isn’t a word of truth in the letters of Brewster and Bliss. Postmaster Ainger, and his assistant, Parker, addressed a letter t > the President asking an investigation of their acts by a commission. He m, in an interview, says that he is a persecuted man, and proclaim* his belief in the nnocence 01 B<‘ady et ai.