Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1882-08-15
THE GREAT TRIALS
THEIR ANIMUS SHOWN UP BY A
NEWSPAPER.

ten by Him to President Garfield
Full Text Of the Letter.
WASHINGTON, August 13.-The
Su ,day Gazette, in an article attack
ing the prosecution in the pending
Star Route c; s,s, and more part.cu-
larly examining the course of Attor-
ney General MacVeagh and ex-Post
master General James, publishes an
astonishing letter over the signature
of ex-senator S. w. Dorsey, to Presi-
dent Garfield, in which it processes to
find the animus of the Star Route
prosecution.
The editor of the Gazette, Richard
j. Hinton, was in charge of the COM
pilation of documents for distribution
through the Republican National
Campaign Committee Of 1880, under
the supervision of Senator Dorsey.
In his article he says that he has in
his possession a large number of let
tiers from various sources, one of which
he selects for publication. Following
is the letter:
FIFTH AVENUE, New York,
February Z, 1881.
My DEAR GENERAL:-Colonel
George Bliss called on me, recently,
and introduced MIR. Knox, who said
that he was classmate of yours at
Williams college, and further state d
that he was about leaving for Mentor
to visit you at your request, to discuss
the question OF proper person to
place in your cabinet from New York.
1t cannot be possible that you call
upon George Bliss, much less upon
Knox, to give advice respecting SO i'm
portant a question to you, and to the
people of this State. Both of these
gentlemen may be honest, trae and
respectable. So far as l know they
are; but Bliss and Knox do not rep
resent the people or the leaders Of the
people of New Y ork, no more than l
represent the King of Siam.
All such advice as this is preten-
tious, idiotic, and if you are occupy.
ing your time listening to men like
them, wish to express, in the most
emphatic way, that you and
your administration will prove
lamentable failure. You should
take the bit in your teeth and
decide for yourself who you want in
your Cabinet. What do you want
advice of men every one of whom has
an AK to grind, u I'd scheme to push:
If you want to advance in New
York, why don't you send for Conk.
ling or Arthur, the two men who
elected you with the aid of Grant:
Why don't you consult with some.
body who has status?
Now | tell you, and I tell you with.
out a grain Of selishness, that you
cannot afford to have any FRACTIONAL
feeling between yourself and Conk.
ling and General Arthur. Whenever
you determine to assail these men you
drive the last nail in your political cot.
fin. You cannot desert them to make
peace with Curtis, Wayne MacVeagf
and others of that class. You cannot
disband an army to get recruits. We
now have great, well-organized, ac-
tive and aggressive army. If you
want to muster out that army in order
to pick " sneaks, bummers and de-
serters in the rear, go ahead, and !
predict you will land in surrendered
camp. | am tired of this blathering
talk about MacVeagh to go into the
Cabinet from Pennsylvania, and James
from New York. Such detestable
rot ought to be smoked out at once
and you ought to do it in some public
way, as have repeatedly urged upon
you. There is but one appointment
that you ought to make from New
York, and that is Chief Judge Folgel
to be Secretary of the Treasury.
Yo" don't need any Bliss or Kno,
to ascertain or to prove his character
capacity and standing in New York
Running for Chief Judge on the same
ticket with you, he received more thar
double the majority you did. Now
take my advice about this, and ! ash
you to do that because you know
have no earthly interest except to see
a successful and honorable admins
tration, and my advice is this: Wher
you get ready to select a citizen O.
New York for your Cabinet, send fol
Senator Conkling, General Arthur
Governor Cornell, J. ID. Warren O
, Buffalo, Ex-Governor Morgan, Thos
c. Platt, and men of that class, ane
get their best judgment.
Bliss and Knox? What nonsense
l beg you not to permit Knox to rur
around this State inquiring about mel
tittest for the Cabinet and pretending
to represent you by acts of this kind
You injure yourself and cast an un
pardonable reflection upon the mer