Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-10-13
How Dorsey Saved Indiana.

Shortly after the last Presidential
election dinner party was given in New
York as sort OF Notification over the
success of the Republican party. Among
the distinguished persons for whom
plates were laid and who attended were
Nice-President elect Arthur and ex-
Senator Dorsey. There was drinking
of bumpers and much merriment, "a
feast of wit and flow of SOUL" There
were toasts and speech-making and the
victory of :'the grand old party was
discussed and glorihed. The figure
that stood out most prominently in that
hilarious aSsemblage was Stephen w.
Dorsey. He was the lion of the oc-
casion. The Vice-President elect
scarcely shared any partof the homage
of those assembled with him. 1t was
bestowed almost altogether upon Mr..
Dorsey. He was the daring spirit who
snatched victory from the jaws of de-
feat He was the heroic character
whose desperate deeds had saved In
diana to Garfield and Arthur. His
political methods, too. were approved
and applauded. He had based all his
operations in Indiana on '.soap." an
Arthurian and Dorseyan euphemism for
filthy lucre. The mention of the word
set the table in roar with laughter
and applause. "Soap" had been the
salvation of the Republ can party;
SOAP" which in its common accepta-
ton among unlettered Republicans is
thought ought only to be an article of
necessity among the ''unwashed
Democracy" Frori that moment
''soap" became thing of beauty and a
Joy forever to the minds of the as
sembled merry-makers. Dorsey had
saved Indiana with SOAP Obi it
was an excellent joke and very practical
one into the bargain. But the browning
glory of Dorsey in the estimation of his
boon compan ons consisted in the fact
that he had found his own soap" His
ieutenants, in the Indiana battle, Cor
ham and New and Dudley, had drawn
upon my Dear Hubbelrs'' saponifier
for their supply, but Dorsey scorned
such proceeding and generously and
nobly tapped his own barrel 1t is sad
to think that this cornwall devotion to
Dorsey within a few short months dis
solved like bubble blown from that
other kind of soap sacred only to the
ur1washed. Melancholy and mournful
beyond expression is the story of the
heartlesS indifference of Arthur to the
fate of his former boon companion
now in the tolls of justice right under
the droppingS of the White House. No
assistance to the imperiled hero of the
Indiana campaign, not even the soft
soap of sympathy, is rendered by the
man who reached the Presidency
through the saponaceous operations so
loudly applauded at the New York din
ner. Dorsey must find his own soap
again and his lawyers require probably
as much as he used in Indiana in 1880.
The jury-fxer, too, from all accounts,
had to be lathered, and after all Judge
Wylie blew the defense into bubbles OF
soap. The time may yet come when
Dorsey will conclude that public wash.
ing of Republican dirty linen viii ena-
bic him to put scme of his surplus stock
of soap to a better use than any to
which it has yet been applied. Then
shall there be weeping and waiting and
crashing of teeth in. the councils of the
Administration, and the Republican
leaders shall curse the day they ignored
Dorsey and his Star-route soap.-Har-
risburg (Pd.) Patrol.