The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-12-03
EX-SENATOR DORSEY.
4 sketch OF the Man Who Managed the |
Republican Campaign.
From Gath,s New York Letter to the Cincin
natl EndIfirPP

4 sketch OF the Man Who Managed the |
Republican Campaign
From Gath's New York Letter to the Cincin.
natl Enquirer
Dorsey goes out TO his ranch in New
Mexico at the close of the week: His
wife who IS from 0beriin, o.,
will 20 with him and take the new baby
along. Dorsey is pretty large, broadset
man. with Il square head, black hair, and
a bald spot on the top of it, and black
side whiskers and beard He is only
thirty eight years old, and native OF
Vermont, but went To Oberlin when
boy and attended college there. He en-
listed in an artillery regiment command
ed by Gen Bartlett, of Cleveland land had
a battery through the war, fought at Shi-
lob, Stone river, Chattanooga, Mission
ridge and in the army OF the Potomac
at the Wilderness, Cold Harbor, Peters
burg, etc. AT The close of the war he
was only twenty-three years old, and
borrowing some money from about San
dusky he went into Mississippi and Ala
bama before anybody much had got
in there, and bought cotton at a few
cents pound, and built and repaired
the old railroad so that he could move
this cotton to the gulf. Thus he got
large prices for it. He then opened a
large general store in Mississippi some
where and made large profits and sold
out % his partner. Being now pretty
well fixed he established tool works at
Sandusky, Ohio, and came east and
picked the best workmen from eastern
factories. In connection with the tool
works he got into railroad in Arkan.
sas, and being almost the only Republi-
can there toward the closing days of
Northern rule with any means he was
elected to the senate. The railroad
ruined him, as the southern railroads
ruined most of their EN- bankers, and he
passed through bankruptcy, and In the
course of another year he made fortune
by foreseeIng good times and buying
Kansas Pacific railroad stock at five 10
twenty-five cents ON the dollar and sell.
ing il for seventy-five cents. With this
money he selected and bought the first
ranch in New Mexico, which his wife's
sister directs, and is now coming well
forward with herds of cattle.
1t is understood that Dorsey went into
the national committee as secretary al
the request of Garfield, though it was
holly opposed by John Sherman. ]
thought, as did most people, that he
would make failure of it. but he had
been moderated He has, under a rath
| er Emphatic exterior, most active men
lhI lHSlTuIlcuI COHCediCu SOu1eNnCTt
within him, which goes tick, tick, like
the inside of watch, and makes time
all around the rim of things. You never
see him excited-never raising his
voice, never swearing, and he looks very
| ike a Catholic cardinal or ecclesiastic o
the Spanish iype-probably through hi.
descent, which was of early Calvert
Maryland stock, and possibly French
The national committee fell almost en-
| tirely into his hands, and his pru
dence was even more manifest than hi!
activity. The nervous and choleric Jew
ell hardly knew that he was overmatch
ed, so agreeable and consenting was Dor
sey; and he went voluntarily to the pos
of difficulty, Indiana, and there go
along in the kindest spirit with New
| Harrison, Porter and the rest, while tn,
prodigious amount of time that he coul(
put into infinite details astonished ev
eryb body but himself, whom the work a
last made sick. This kind of mar
might have done good work in such
community as Arkansas, where he still
holds nominal citizenship.