The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-10-06
How Dorsey Saved Indiana.

How Dorsey Sased indiana.
Shortly after the last Presidential
election dinner partywas given in New
I York as "A sort OF jolHiication over the
/ success of the Republican party. Among
! he distinguished persons for whom
+ plates weFe laid and who attended were
I Vice President elect Arthur aud eX-
/ Senator Dorsey. There Was drinking
of bumpers and much merriment, "a
I feast Of wit and a flow of soul. = There
were toasts and speech making and the
I victory ef ''the grand old party was
discussed aud glorifed The figure
/ that stood out most prominently in that
hilarious assemblage was Stephen W.
Dorsey. He was the lion of the oc-
casiOB. The President elect
scarcely shared any part of 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
Arthu.ian and Dorseyan euphemisin 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-
tion among unlettered Republicans Is
thought ought only to be an article OF
necessity among the ''unwasf1eo
Democracy From that moment
soap became thing of beauty and
Joy forever to the minds of the as
sembled merry-makers. Dorsey had
saved Indiana with ''soap." Oh! II
was an excellent Joke and very practical
one into the bargain. But the crowni1e
, glory of Dorsey in the estimation OF his
boon companions consisted in the fact
that he had found his own SOAP his
lieutenants, in the Indiana battle, Cor
ham and New and Dudley, had drawn
upon my Dear Hubbell's' saponitiel
for their supply, but Dorsey scorned
such a proceeding and generously and
nobly tapped his own barrel. 1t is sad
to think that this coRvivial devotion to
Dorsey within few short months dis
solved like a bubble kcwn from that
other kind of soap s'cred only to the
unwaShed. Melancholy and mournful
beyond expression isthe 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 imPriled hero of the
Indiana campaign, not even the soft
soap of sympathy, istendered 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 iury-fixer, too, from all accounts,
had to be lathered. and alter all Judge
Wvlie blew the defense into bubbles OF
soap. The time may yet come when
Dorsey will conclude that a public wash
ing of Republican dirty linen viii ena-
bic him to put some of his surplus stock
OF soap to better use than any to
which it has yet been applied, Then
shall there be weeping and wailing and
onashing 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 (Pa.) Patriot.