Show TELEGRAPEI o ARTHURS AIT Talk About the Prebidcrus Star Route > Removals Cleveland 26The interview referred to in the letter of AttorneyGeneral Brewster and District Attorney Bliee as sufficient cause for thn removal of Marshal Mar-shal Henry appeared in Youngstown News Regiater on June 13th and is as follows What therein the statement made by Bliss that you had been tubjected to the influence of John W Dorsey and had made promises not to push vigorously vig-orously the star route cases against him Marshal Henry answered not oven the substance of a shadow I understand that Bliss says that whila the jury was being drawn in the star route cases Dor sey called at my office and remained several sev-eral hours and that while there he extracted ex-tracted from me a promizo thst I would favor him and dot use active measures in assisting the prosecution The only time Dorsey was in my office was one day when he called and asked for a match to light a cigar The deputy in the ioem that Dortey entered handed the box to him Doraey said I guess Ill take three or four Tho deputy rep iedY ou csn have as many as you want Dorsey placed several in hIs packet handed the box to the deputy ana passed out I was in an adjoining room and recognized Doreeys voice talking to the deputy but he did not come into my room he neither saw nor heard me nor made any inquiry after me That is all thero is to this sensation sen-sation that Bliss is trying to make He dont amount to much Be is too full of downright meanness ever to amount to anything He is the follow whom Horace Greeley suggested should be branded as lying BUSSH and the appellation appel-lation suits him well His efforts to override over-ride the most common laws of deaenoy have been met by stern rebuke from Judge Wylie each time he attempted to carry on his bravado in court Judge Wylie is a stern old Virginian an incorruptible incor-ruptible justice and hews to the line no mattur where the chips fall When Bliss intimated that the defendants in the star route cases were in court through connivance conniv-ance of their attorney Bob Inergol one of the counsel atom and pointing his flpgerat Bliss while his eye sparkled with euppres ed passion thoundered out Thats a lie and you are a liar Blisa I cowered down like a dog and had still I further cause to regret bis insinuation when Judge Wylla gave him a most I stinging reprimand Any person whom Bliss distrusts and I have foiled to find oDe whom he does not is liable at any moment to feel the venom of his treach rous tongue corning from some uneus jecea quarter It is probable ha even suspects himself at times as when he carries his pocketbook in his left pocket his eyes are continually wandering towards his left hand for fear it may give him the slip and get hold of the money without his being aware of the fact Bliss is continually trying to hedge and throw distrust upon the administration of President Presi-dent Garfield Those who know Bliss best pay but little attention to the pompous pom-pous fellow Chicago 6Tho Times will say editorially torially to morrow AVhiie it is po sibla there may he some important political significance in tho sudden executive onslaught on-slaught upon the star route gang and that it may bo the initial act in a coming series works meet for repentence suggested sug-gested by the popular judgment pre nounced some three weeks ago the probability prob-ability at this writing seems to be the president has only yielded perhaps re unctantly he has certainly yielded tardily tar-dily to representations from the department depart-ment of justice which he could not afford to disregard if compelled to part company with the presen attorney general Under ordinary circumstances cir-cumstances the grief of Arthur might not be inconsolable but to let that officer resign for tho notorious reason that his efforts to bring a gang of public robbers to justice wore opposed end baffled by conspirators holding office under government would be of course so scandalous that the most hardened politician might hesitate to pusue it The public will await further developments develop-ments before concluding that the removals re-movals should be credited to the awakening awaken-ing of tho executive conscience rather than to the instinct of self pros aeration Col Ingeriolli of counsel in the star route cases said in an interview tonight on the subject of Saturdays dismissal by I President Arthur It is an effort on tho part of government to t rrorize the 1 jury 1 believe Marshal Henry is as honest a man as over lived He never did the slightest favor to the defendants He simply did his duty 1 no more no less The nation they Rant him but is that they may put some one in who will do more than bjs duty They want to get absolute control of the jury I never dreamed that Ain or or Parker were either friends or enemies of the defendants de-fendants Those men have been cut down without a hearing Nothing more unjust nothing moro infamous has been done in the history of the country The idea that an officer cannot give his opinion of tho innocence of a party being prosecuted by the government without removal is simply horrible Their idea is that every officer is a dog that can be hissed on any defendant by the attorney general a doctrine too contemptible to findi lodgment in the brain of any decent man 1 nave not read the letters of Attorney At-torney General firewater and Mr Bliss anti dont interd to I know there is not a word of truth in them and I do not care to take up my time to read what is not EO It had been talked that the marshal would be removed and that everybody who does not think Brew tsr the iiost wonderful of men would follow him I believe Aingar and Parker were removed because they were such honest men The department of justice ha grown desperate since its paid agents were convicted af trying to bril o the jury If the next jury acquits and it i never will convict 1 presume Brews ter will want all the jury convicted of conspiracy to acquit He wants to scare this onethats all know nothing about Spencer and Helm except that pencer is a government witness It is simply infamous to remove men without with-out a hearing and jut a stain on them by expert letters Washington 26The postmaster and assistant removed on Saturday by the President for alleged active sympathy with the star route thief addressed the following letter to the President 1 Washington D C Nov 26 To the Presidentsir Learning through the public press for too first time that by your order we have been removed from the position of postmaster post-master and assistant postmaster of this I city on the ground that we have been guilty of misconduct as officers of the government which allegations are false in every particular ana damaging to us we avail ourselves of this early opportunity opportu-nity to bring the matter to your attention in case slid reports are authentic and ask of you that before you finally con firm this alleged action you will I suspend such summary proceedings i until the matter can be lorouffhly investigated by a commission any fur method your wisdom may suggest to arrive at a just and correct contusion con-tusion The charges against Tidball ate postoffica inspector to which Bliss alludes in his letter to you were met more than a year ago and explained to the satisfaction sat-isfaction of the department As to the charges that we directly or indirectly interfered erfered with the star route cases we deny it As to the correspondence of Mr Ainger in i his home paper it was simply the substance of what was stated by the court from the bench at the time and was reflected cs a matter of news only While we do not wish to question your right to suspend in one case or remove in another we do deny your right to assign as-sign as a cause for such suspension and removal conduct and action alike dam sing and injurious to us AS public officers offi-cers and honorable men without giving 11 an opportunity to be heard You must be aware that these reflections which are virtually slanders upon our characte s receiving ceiving the official sanction of your high office leave no other course than this application and appeal to your sense of right and justice Tho offices we willingly yield but to the aspersions en our characters we enter a respectful bnt earnest protest Very respectfully your obedient servants vants D B AINQKE MM PABKER Washington 27Tbero are rumors on the street that several prominent officers in the poatoffico will be dismissed for complicity with the star routers Up to this time 12 m the story lacks confirmation con-firmation Chicago 27 Editorials on tho removals re-movals in Washington from all parts of the country show evidently that the tress do not regret but applaud them Marshal Henry has some apologists and the removal of a friend of Garfield is criticized but the point is raised that Garfield would have been first to remove Henry if he had been derelict 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