The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-12-08
DORSEY'S CASE.
Wayne MacVeagh Pays His Re-
spects to Stephen w.
Dorsey.
Dorsey's Threat Against the Pres
ident, as Voiced by Joe
Pulitzer.
Dorsey the Custodian Of Mighty Cam
paign Secrets.

NEW YORK, Dec. A reporter called upon
ex-Attorney General Wayne MacVeagh, who
was in the city to-day, to make some inquiries
in regard to statements contained in
Mr.. Dorseys letter affecting Mr.. MacVeagh
and ex-Postmaster General James Mr.
MacVeagh was apparently in very cheer
full frame of mind, seeming not to re-
reply. In answer to inquiries, however, he
said: off Dorsey, or any of the other star
route thieves, find any real solace in their
troubles in lying about Mr.. James and myself,
/ hope that they will continue to do so. 1t
seems about the only recourse now left to
them, and feel about it much as the old man
did about his wife berating hint relieved
her and didn't do him any harm"
@The letter contains statements that might
be classed as startling If true" remarked the
reporter.
"To-days's letter is very tame reading after
the picturesque lying Dorsey did in the letter
which he published some time ago, and which
he asserted was sent to President Garfield
before the formation of the cabinet"
@You do not care, then, to reply to Mr.. Dor
sey's statements?"
GNo; l must be excused from entering
into any controversy with a man like Dorsey.
1t was my official duty to examine these
cases, and the only conclusion possible from
such examination was that Dorsey is a thief.
In that opinion Postmaster General James
agreed. Since then Attorney General Brew
ster, Mr.. Bliss, Mr.. -.Merrick, Mr.. Ker, two
grand jurors, and ten out of twelve of the
men who tried the case have expressed the
same opinion. AS Dorsey therefore, has
been tried, indicted, and once sub
stantially convicted in the result Of
the trial of Rerdeu and Miner, it
is impossible, with the most moderate self
respect, to notice anything he says, even if he
had not shown himself to be most reckless
and shameless liar about both the living and
the dead Ry the by, "queried Mr.. MacVeagh, 81
wonder If there is another man i'll the United
States who after indirect and substantial con-
viction for stealing public money, would hold
on to the secretaryship of national COM
committee?"
''Mr. Dorsey refers in his letter to an al
legged meeting at the postoffice department at
which you were present with Mr. James and
Col. Ingersoll, who appeared as counsel for
Dorsey. Was there such meeting?"
"a report of that alleged conference was
published at the time. Dorsey and his coun-
sci went there, and Mr.. James sent for me-
1t was well-lnown at the time that my own
convictions were that the only proper way to
investigate the frauds was before court and
jury, and that refused to listen to any ar
rangement for any other kind of investiga-
ton. That was the origin of the enmity of
the thieves toward me. They believed
that but for me the matter could have been
smothered md certificates of good character
given all around In that they were mistaken,
however. They forgot that behind me was
Postmaster General James, and behind him
President Garfield, and back of him an intelli-
gent press and an aroused and indignant
people, making any such compromise with
crime impossible. In this regard have re-
ceived far more credit than deserved | could
not have smothered the cases if had tried
Ext Postmaster General James was at his offic,
in the Lincoln bank to-day, and when a re-
porter made inquiry of him in regard to the
Dorsey letter, he said: Il do not intend to
enter into any controversy with Dorsey. AT
the proper time | will have something to say,
but there is no need of it now My conviction
of those men is the same now as before, and
is well expressed in the closing words of Mr..
Brewster's letter to the president, in which, il
| remember right, he said that they are the
worst band of organized scoundrels that ever
existed since the commencement of the gov.
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