New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-12-03
REPLYING TO MIR. DORSEY.
TALKS WITH MIR. MACVEAGH AND MIR.
JAMES

JAMES
BOTH OF THEM CONSIDER Mr.. DORsEY's LETTER
NOT WORTHY OF ANY EXTENDED ANswER-A
FEW BLUNT WORDS
Ex-senator $. w. Dorsey's last contribution to
the star Route literature in the form of a letter to
the public published yesterday, was much COM
mented upon. A TRIBUNE reporter called upon ex-
Attorney General Wayne MacYeagh, who was in the
city yesterday, to make some inquiries
in regard to statements contained In
Mr. Dorsey's letter affecting Mr.. MacVeagh
and expos master-General James. Mr. MacVeagh
was apparently in very cheerful frame of mind,
seeming not to regard Mr.. Dorseys letter as worthy
of any reply. In answer to inquiries, however, he
said:
"If Dorsey or any Of the other Star Route thieves
find any real soacc in their troubles in lying about
Mr. James and myself, | hope that they will con-
tinue 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 beratng him--t relieved
her. and did not do him any HARM"
"Tho letter contains statements that might he
classed as startling if true" remarked the reporter
"To-days letter is very tame reading" said Mr.
Macveagh. 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. Dorsey's
statcmentsp
"No. I must be excused from entering
into any controversy with a man like
Dorsey. It was my official duty to ex-
anime these cases, and the only conclusion possible
from such examination was that Dorsey is thief.
I'm that opinion Postmaster General James agreed.
since then Attorney-Gcneral Brewster, Mr. bliss,
Mr. Merrick, Mr.. Ker. two grand Jurors and ten out
of twelve of the men who tried the case have ex'
messed tlc same opinion. As Dorsey, therefore,
hon, vinJ infpf fa1 an
viccd IN the result of the trial of Rcrde and Miner
it Is impossible, with the most moderate Sr-respect'
to notice thing he says, even If he had not shown
himself to I've n most reckless and shameless liar
about both the living and the dead, 90, ...,o -.
"By the by" queried Mr.. Mac Ncagh. Il wonder II
there is another in the United States, who, AZ
ter indirect and substantial conviction for stealing
public money, would mold Oh to the secretarysp OF
a National Committee =
"Nr. Dorsey refers in his letter to an alleged
meeting at the Post Office Department at which you
were present with MIR. James and Colonel IngerSoll,
who appeared as counsel Tor Dorsey was IheIe
such meeting ~
a report of that alleged =, conference l,cS
was published at the TINE. Dorsey ~ auu uo
his counsel went there and Mr.. James sent FOL mo-
1t was well known Il. the time that my own conNc'
tons were that the only proper way To lnveStiHat9
thclrauds before u court and Jury, ara that
refused to listen to any arrangement for any other
kind of investigations That was the origin OF lh9
enni ity OF the thieves toward me Ihey DclcVed
that but for the matter could have been snotl-
cred and certificates OF good character gwen an
round. In that they were mistaken however
They forgot that behind me was fOstlhaster-ueh,
eral James and behind him President Garfield, and
back of him an intelligent press and an aroused ana
lndiauan people making any such compromise
with crime impossible. In this regard have re-
cclved far moro credit than deserved. could not
have smothcred the case If ! had tried
Ex-Postmaster-Gen James was at MS once
in the Lincoln Bank yesterday; aud when Kib- i
UNI reporter made inquiry OF him III regard to tho
Dorsey letter he said:
do not intend to enter into any controversy
with Dorsey AT the proper time will have scme-
NV conviction of those men il the same now as
before and IS we'll expressed in the closing words Oh
Mr Brewster's recent letter TO the President, IN
which, if | remember right hc said that they are
the worst band Of organized scoundrels That ever
existed since the commencement OF the Govern