Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1881-02-26
NEW T h IN POLITICS.

Mr.. Dorsey was given a dinner re-
Gently, at Delmonico's. to glorify him
for the success OF his financial plan OF
carrying Indiana last October. 1t now
leaks out that he was his own host, and
failed to pay for the costly viands. A
number OF leading republicans disgraced
themselves by being his guests, but so
great has been the condemnation Of the
affair, got up, as it is asserted. o inf1u-
ence Mr.. Garfield in some OF his ap-
p%ointments, that even the New York
Herald, strong republican paper though
it has been OF late, is nauseated. MIR.
Nordhoff, who controls its Washington
bureau, writes :-"It ought to be said to
the credit of respectable republicans
here that they are not as proud of Mr..
Dorsey's Indiana campaign as we're
some of the people who dined with him
last Friday. The men who knew most
about it here are the least DESTROYS to
have it gloriied, and there has been
quiet laughter over a report from New
York that Mr.. Jay Gould said that what
the Dorsey dinner needed to make it
complete was q list OF the subscribers to
the Indiana fund, a detailed account OF
the disbursement of the fund in Indiana,
and Mr.. Beecher's blessing upon the
whole. A southern Indiana republican
said to your correspondent some time
ago:-sDorsey, whom none OF US had
ever seen until he came to our state to
manage the campaign, willalways be
known in my part of tie state as the au-
thor of an immense number of new two
dollar bills which got into circulation
after he came to Indianapolis. and of the
over-abundance of which our banks now
complain. 1 understood al the time that
it was very difficult for Dorsey to get
30 many new two dollar bills together,
and that in the end there was q subsidi-
airy shower of two dollar and q half gold
pieces, but that fell in some other part
of the state, for u voting population
saw none of Them There is an old
story of q very eminent civil service re-
former to whom, when Nj. Lincoln
came in, In 1860. was assigned the dis
tributlon OF a part of the patronage OF
an important custom house. He summon
ed the ofice-seekers OF his nelghborhood
to show cause why they should receive
the crumbs they hungered for, and
among others came q rough fellow whose
face the gentlemanly distributor OF pat
ronage did not remember. And what
have you done for the republican party,
my iriendp' he gently inquired. Done.
replied the rough; Done. Confound it,
I've done all the dirty work of the re-
publican party In this district for the
last three years. sir. That's what I've
done. and I've come for my pay AL
right replied the dispenser Of pay !; the
first thoroughly dirty Office / have In
my gilt you shall have it, It is the
very general though not loudly express
ed opinion of decent republicans here
that If Gen. Garfield should have any
particularly dirty place to give away,
Mr.. Dorsey would be certainly entitled
to it for himself or his friends"
And yet this same New York Herald.
by its correspondents, as we pointed out
at the time. did everything in its pow.
err to assist Mr.. Dorsey. If there was
harm in the purchase of an election
and we hold it to be the most debasing
and demoralizlng form OF corruption,
because it poisons the fountain from
whence political purity should flow
why did not this powerful newspaper
interpose its influence to check it? Oh,
no; an ally OF the national banks, con
trolled by a gentleman more an English
man than an American. it thought j
saw success for the republicans. and de
sired to be on the winning side. To &c
there, 1t is not too much to say, 1t ha'
thrown as much political mud, in polit'
terms, as has any coarser BLACKBOARD
Though claiming to be an Independent
paper. it is now as much a republican
sheet as is the Times. This it has
| right to be; but why, as the creates
newspaper in the country. has it not a
loudly denounced the Indiana crime. a
it has the perpetrators OF the Morey let
ter forgery? Where Is the difference Ii
degree of guilt7 In what is bribery bet
ter than forgery? True. it comes halt
ingly along with q correspondence t,
denounce Dorsey. but what has it t
say of his partners. Jewell, Harrison
Gorham and Newt Not a word. Th
time has come, or 1t ought very soon t
come, when such party methods shout
consign any organization which indol
ses them. either by Nj. Hayes metho
Of rewards, or by the method sdopte
by the leading republicans who put thei
legs under Mr.. Dorsey's mahogany, t
everlasting oblivion.
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