The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-08-24
GARFiELD--DORSEY.
The Star Route Swindler Select
ed by Garfield
For Secretary of the lnterior-He De-
clined, and Continued His Plain
Talk to Garfield.

Dorsey on SATURDAY eS W VhS ~;
a Dlace in his cabinet. We quote part
of the interview that followed:
NIr, Dorsey-Yes, sir, he did; and l
snnposed that every public man at that
time thoroughly understood that had
been rendered the office OF Secretary OF
the Interior. He not only rendered me
the position but urgently repeateu ~
time and again, and there are plenty OF
living, witnesses TO verify 'ne S'a'e-
"T6en Mr.. Torrey's story is true in this
particular at leastr
"It is not only true in this particular
but in all particulars, and he would re-
member better than l precisely the oe-
currences of the time covering an tnls
nOlitical correspondence. My letters
are GENERALLY copied, but frequently let
ters of personal and confidential char
acter were excluded from the copy
General Garfield having rendered
YOU a cabinet position, did you answer
him verbally or in wrltlngF
"Tn the presence of friend decl1n-
ed II verbally and with emphasis. af-
ferWaTd thought that it was due TO
GaneraI Garfield that should decline in
more formal manner and in writing.
7 therefore wrote from my rancho In
New Mexico early in December, 1880,
decIining that place or any other place
that he could offer me. Inc letter seems
to me to be too hOmely for puOlicatlon.
If was not intended to be seen by any
body but General Garfield; but If 1t is
wanted it will come out with all of its
homeIiness and candidneSS and truth"
'EYOn have undoubtedly seen 1t sug-
Oested in the Herald that if all of your
correspondence during the time you
were actively engaged as Secretary OF
the National Republican committee
down to the Inauguration of President
Garfield were published it would be
mighty interesting reading. What OBJ
lection have you to its publication
"I have no right to publish letter
written to me unless l am forced to do
so. IL the correspondence between the
late President and myself was TO be
published it would take not less than
TWENTY-FIVE pages of the Herald. 1t
wonId cover almost every conceivable
question that came up during the cam
naipn and afterward-a criticism and
discussion of men all living that might
NOT he pleasant to be heard, and more
than that, never said word or wrote
a letter to General Garfield for or against
any man or any policy that ne did not
ask me to do. pointed out his errors,
according to my Judgment, without any
regard whatever to the fact that he was
the President-elect."
MORE OF THE DORSEY LETTERS TO GAR
FIELD.
Two more of these letters are pub
Ished of Later date than the one pub
lished last week, dated January Z, 1881
But they are not so very SASSY" and In
dependent as that letter under date OF
January 20, 1881. Dorsey writes:
Hon. James A. Garfield, Mentor, Ohio:
MY DEAR GENERAL:-I hear so many
rumOrs as to what you are to do or what
yOu have decided upon, some of which
would rather not hear, that, on Che
whole, have thought best to write you,
and shall do so frankly.
First-I do not think you ought to put
men in your Cabinet who were not able
to see success in your cause at the be-
ginning, and who, after the result was
made clear by others, came forward In
a hating and half-hearted way to take
their place in the procession. If you dc
ANYTHING of this kind, in my judgment
vou make a very serious mistake. This
is not a good time for the tender feet to
lean, We want stalWaTt pioneers, who
are known and trusted by the regular
troops. We have had enough of this
shilly-shally, quick-sand business. II
won't do. l don't like to see 1t repeated
in the newspapers day after day as com.
ing from Mr.. Blaine and his friends that
men who voted for Grant or for some
other man at Chicago are especially
selected to be ridden down under
the wheels of Mr.. Blaine's triumphal
car. l know that it is not true, and
when l am told by the camp followers
that the entire incoming administration
is to be managed and controlled by 6
syndicate headed by Blaine and Sher
man to subserve their respective ambi
tions, whatever they may be, simply
reply that those who believe such stories
do not know the man who will occupy
the Presidential chair. No President
has ever done a wiser thing than as
sumo you have done in placing MIR
Blaine at the head of your Cabinet, anC
no one has ever done or could do 80 I'M
= wise thing as to permit him to have {
hand in selecting the other mem
bers of the Cabinet, OF in AM
degree to control it after it is selected
You don't need Blaine Cabinet. Mr.
Blaine's modesty, however. will not pre-
vent him from taking hand in tn,
smallest detail of your administration
His strikers are numerous and noisy.
hope they will not embarrass you. ThI
pleasant satisfaction have in the mids
of all rumors and newspaper talk is tn
fact that believe General Garfield will
be President himself, and not Mr.. Blaine
So much for the gossip that meets me Of
, all sides.
{ Mr.. Dorsey then makes a long pie
: for the appointment of Chief Justic
FOlger as Secretary of the Treasury, an
also indOrses Window for place in tn
Cabinet. The letter concludes as fol
lows:
/ have heard that General Walker wa
likely to be appointed Secretary of tn
Interior. 1 give all these stories fo
what they are worth. General Wake
is not Republican. He does not eve
know himself to what party he belong
and never did. went to him once
see about the appointment of two supel
visOrs of census for Arkansas, and urge
him to appoint some of the best Repui
licans in the State. 1 presented him tn
names of five persons of all national
ties, all of whom had been in the Fec
eral aTmy-twO cOlOnels and three lieI
tenant cOlOnels-two of whom had bee
Of tho Ctafa ond oIl q no ,,,ov