Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1882-03-30
Ele ction Expenditures.

Ele ction Expenditures.
A very instructive letter upon the politi.
cal contest of 1880 in Indianna is pub.
ished in the New York Times. 1t is we'll
known that the October election in that
State substantially determined the result of
Presidential struggle month lator, aud is
equally notorious that on mauy memorable
occasions the success Of the Republicans
10 October has becu credited to the man.
agcmcnt of Senator Dorsey, Of Arkansas,
Secretary of the Republican National
Committee, now under indictment on ao-
count Of the Star Route frauds The
writer in tho Times, however, denies that
Mr. Dorsey is entitled to any credit for
this election. All the real work, in the
opinion of the writer, was accomplished by
Mr.. Dudley, whom President Garfield after.
wards appointed to be @, ,mmisioner of
Pensions. But the following statement
of the Times merits unusual consideration:
'Thc labor was finished before Senator
Dorsey aud staff arrived 10 tho State, and
that the result would have been the same
had he remained away is maintained by
those who were in q position to know 1t
Mr.. Dorsey not less than S250,000 to use
in the State, and by others it is claimed
that 100000 was tho amount sent Bc
this asiit may, there is no record to show
that over $4,000 was expended, and the
remainder of the sum was sent into the
State, whatever it may have been, it is
charged, stuck in the pockets of those
in whose hands it was placed for distribu-
ton"
On the same subject an Indiana CORES
spondcnt of the Cincinnati Commercial
likewise speaks as follows:
III do not know how much money cor
rupt politicians placed in MIR. Dorscy's
hands to be used in curruptiug the voters
of Itdana; but l do know that he did
not disburso more than $4,000, and every
dollar of that sum went into the hands of
the bummers attached to his friends from
other States. The Legitimate expenses of
the campaign were paid by tho State Coma
mittcc or by Dudley's committee"
1t is perhaps proper to add that the vast
sum furnished to Dorsey was mainly, if not
entirely raised here in tho city of New
York by the contributions and the efforts of
the Hon. Levi p. Morton now Minister to
France.
| But the poiut to which we desire to draw
special attention is the fact that most of this
money roiscd for corrupt use 10 Indiana
was stolen by the agents through whom it
was to be disburscd. "Scnator Dorsey and
stnff," to employ the phrase of the Times,
put all of it except $4,000 or $4,000 in
their own pockets, and nevor paid it over
to any one; while, according to the allegs-
| tion of the Cincinnati Commercial, every
dollar of this $4,000 or S55,000 which
Dorsey parted with, "went into tho hands
Of tho bummers attached to his friends
from other States"
We believe that this startling instance
! tioo in our elections. lere in Now York,
for Instance, large sums arc raised by each
purity for election purposes. Every candl-
! date is heavily assessed, and tho aggregate
amounts to something enormous Most Of
this money is stolen. 1t is retuiucd by
agents into whose hands it is paid. and is
appropriated as their own. The cxpcndi-
Of William w. Astor, for Instance, in his
unsuccessful attempt to buy himself into
Congress last fall, cannot have been less
than $4,000; and no we'll Informed person
can doubt that oven that smaller portion OF
this money which was intended to be dis.
bnrscd for honest expenses, was taken by
thicrish politicians, and never did any good
to anybody but themselves.
Arc these gross abuses to continue? Is
the corruption Of voters to form an essen
tial element in election contests in this free
country Are candidates to be- always at
the mercy of strikers of every degree, or
of thieves and plunderors, big and little?
Already it is impossible for any but rich
mnn to be candidate for Office in this city
unless ho is willing to accept the benefac
tons of those who expect TO have use for
him and are willing to pay his election cx-
penses as q guarantee Of the ownership
thoy desire.
These evils must be cxtirpnted, or
elections will be farce, and self government
become mere matter Of purchase and
sale. Korb Sun.
"ADzAoKLY. "A quartctte of darkcys
wcro the other day discussing tho orthocpy
of tho word "exactly" sI nose what It
is" said one, "it am 'dezackly!" "You
doan no nuflin," said another, "it am jis
'zackly." "Prezaokly' am do rite way"
chimcd In third. Tho fourth becoming
disgusted, cried, "Niggahs, you better 90
to school sum more fore you preten to
nounce dc word 'adzackly,' now dats wat
| tell yer fer true" Aud tho literary cllb
dispersed. Jackson Mc,os.
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