Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-08-10
MORE REVELATIONS.
Tho "Black Walnut Bureau'' In tho Indi.
ana Campaign.

Tho "Black Walnut Bureau" In the Ind1
ana Campaign.
In the Sun of to day Dorsey's story il
supplemented by the revelations of man
who was Republican officeholder at the
East in 1880. A fortnight before the
October election in Indiana, he says, 81
received an urgent request, or command,
to go to Indianapolis. The summons was
in writing. It was signed by Senator
Dorsey. I took this letter to my official
superior and was told by him to 90.
"When reached IndianapolisI reported
to Senator Dorsey, and until three or four
days before the election worked under his
directions. During the CANVASS I was
daily in contact with Dorsey and the other
Republican managers at their headquarters
in the New-Denison house. Dorsey was
everything in that campaign. He thought
of everything, cared for everything, su
pervised everything, was obsyed by every
body. When, one day, he broke down
overwork and was sick in bed, matters at
headquarters were in hopeless confusion.
The subordinate managers ran around
wildly and helpless. like so many chickens
with their heads chopped off.
dudley and New were on tho ground,
but their work relatively amounted to
little, although they have been superbly
rewarded for the work that they did. The
one trusted lieutenant of Stephen w.
Dorsey was George C. Gorham. He was
cool headed and efficient. Nearly every
dollar of the Indiana fund that was paid
out to local or imported agents was paid
on the order of Stephen w. Dorsey or on
the order of George c. Gorham.
''Swaim was also there during almost all
Of my stay, as the personal representative
of Garfield. He was constantly at head
quarters. He communicated with Garfield
several times every day, by telegraph or
BY mail. also wrote frequently TO Gar
field to inform him as to the situation.
This fact Swain must have discovered
during one of his flying visits to Mentor,
for he afterwards treated me with some
sulkiness. He appeared to be displeased
because facts went to Mentor through
another medium than himself.
my particular and immediate functions
were the organization and control of the
parties, of kers, repeaters and roughs
brought to indianapolis fronl the East and
distributed in small gangs to different
points in the state. The trick of impor.
tation and colonization had been tried on
much larger scale, but without success.
in 1876, when was also in Indiana. In
1880 the means used to carry the state
were different. The chief dependence was
put on Greenbacks, not on oolonists and
repeaters.
In the Garfield year, I think, not moro
than $50 outsiders were sent to Indiana
from the east for these purposes One
party, as remember, consisted of As men
from Baltimore and Wilmington. There
were gangs from Philadelphia, Pittsburg
and other eastern cities. The imported
Republicans were letter carriers, petty
Office holders and ward workers in the
cities where they belonged. Their duties
were to intimidate Democratic voters, to
brawl, create disturbances and knock
Democratic voters and to repeat as often
- possible.
"On Wednesday evening, Oct. 8 about
dark, Senator DON Cameron arrived at the