Show IF IT is not disrespectful to somebody I some-body that Judge Cox of Washington I was compelled to discharge the defendants de-fendants in the star route prosecutions prosecu-tions it comes very near so The way the people will look upon the i matter is that the attorneygeneral the postmaster general and the district dis-trict attorney have all been negligent or worse From the bluster that hag been made over the alleged star route frauds the country has been almost driven into the belief that the I rogueries had been no glaring ondj gross as to make the conviction of the guilty parties not only a matter of ease but of certainty It now transpires tran-spires that while the officers were doing so much loud talking about the thieving and using their alleged knowledge of wrongdoing for political politi-cal purposes in helping the administration adminis-tration to the appellation of a reform government they were letting the time pass by in which they could begin proceedings against the accused and after the summers sensation the alleged chief rogue Brady slips away from the law and snaps his fingers at those who have either lied about him or been grossly negligent of duty It begins to look vary much as if the star route sensation sensa-tion would Sat out though for all that the accused may be guilty as charged |