The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-08-02

roums and let the campaiga go by
default. This was pressing. 1t wanted
but few weeks to the great prelimmi
nary contest i'll Indiana. Garfield had
been greatly impressed by Dorsey's
earnestness and when he met the repre-
scntatives of the great Slalwarl faction in
the Fifth Avenue rarlor. il was noticed
that the smiling, haii-felow. well.met
manner was absent. lie WAS most
serious and seemed to be thoroughly in
earnest. He made a plain seemingly
perfectly frank statement to the grim
politicians in front of him who mad his
fate iii their hands. He acknowledged
rs much to them. lie said, us lie had
said before to Dorsey, that New York
had the right to expect tho largest recog.
| milton at his hands; that it was his earn
est desire 80 TO shape his course that all
| differences ;n the party would be recon
! ciled, and that no one would expect that
| he would for Il moment entertain any
| idea but that of learning what the wishes
of the friends iu New York were, and if
they were consistent with what was fair,
lie would give his hearty assent to them.
But generalities were not INDUCED in
very long. Facts and figures were pre-
sented as co,dly and as free from hints
as a bargain for the sale Of railroad.
They told him first that it was expected
that he would agree to appoint ns secre-
tary of the treasury New York man
prominently identified with the part of
the party that favored the nomination of
| Grant. He said that the demand was
not only not unreasonable but entirely
proper, and when Levi =. Morton wns
suggested as the man who was desired,
Gen. Garfield promised, without further
qualification, that, if elected, he would
appoint Mr.. Morton secretary of the
treasury. He subsequently added that
if Mr.. Morton preferred first class
mission abroad, lie should be appointed
to that. Now comes the humiiialing
part of the business. The cool and
determined politicians with whom the
candidate for the Presidency was dealing
kept up the business aspect Of this pro-
ceeding by making duplicate memoranda
of what had been promised. 1t was n
formal document, frigid as bill of SALE
But this was triile compared with
that which followed. This only secured
the active support of the StaIwarts.
Whether Garfield made or received first
the proposition that mon say was made,
it is now asserted by those who Enow
that another memorandum was d. IN
up. In that it is ass> rted that the ii
didate for the Presidency of the Rcpub.
lican party agreed with the cool, re.
morseless politicians who had him in
their power, that the operation of refund
ing the Government iives and skies.
which must soon take place, should be
given to such syndicate of New York
bankers rs should be designated by the
Stalwarts, and at such commission n
should be fair. Hero were millions ia
prospect. The operation, as has since
been shown, was III enormous one, and
Mt an apparently trhing commission
would have given the fortunate syndi
cate profits such as has not been realized
since the days when the great Govern
ment loans were placed. With such an
agreement the problem of raising cam
paign fuuus was solved, aud the mysteri
GUS Fifth Avenue Hotel conference was
ended. The bargain was made. The
Staiwarts had for price been won-alI
but one. Mr.. Conkling, rs those who
ought to know best then and now believe,
had learned Of ths proposed bargain s,,r
the rcfunding of the bonds, and cared
not to have part nor share in it. So he
kept away from that conference
"Hurrah," shouted the excited Jewell
when he met Dorsey alone, "the battles
Won" Dorsey, grim, earnest, and full
of nerve rs ever, did not allow his Joy
to affect his business. Bat it really
seemed as though the party were now
getting ready to fight o battle. There
had been some doubt about that before.
Within week after the Fifth Avenue
conference, Wall street had subscribed u
very large amount of money, not far
from half q million dollars. At the
same time began that remarkable, and,
at the time, unexplained zeal which the
old Stal%Srt leaders suddenly took in the
Republican canvass. Grant, Conkling,
Don Cameron took hold, anu the politi
cal temperature sprang from zero to
fever heat. These three leaders made.
their memorable visit to Garfield al
Mentor, aud Grant aud Conkling took
the stump. But while all this firework
business was going on, there was one
man who bad more serious matters to
attend to. In constant communication
with Garfield, Dorsey began TO organize
for an October victory in Indiana. The
eye OF the public being distracted by the
splurging and hurrah boys style of cam
paigning that followed the Fifth Avenue
conference, Dorsey had abundant oppor
tunity to put into operation, without
being detected, the plan of campaigning
in Indiana that afterward won the battle,
aud which brought from Garfield those
expressions of thanks and grateful
Acknowledgements which Dorsey now has
in his possession.
Dorsey's plan involved the most
thorough CANVASS OF the State Of Ind
ana that had been made since the vigor
GUS days Of 0. P. Morton. Every vote,
was enrolled, and the first canvass
showed that the State was hopslessiy
Democratic. OF the purely strategic,
aud organizing part of the work it is no,
necessary TO speak, except to Say that i,
Won for Dorsey the loudest praiaes from.
those who knew what he had done, and
caused Garfield to speak of him as a
prodigy of political ability
1n the latter part of September, after
Dorsey's organization had been perfected,
alter every voter had been placed, and
the influences that could be brought to
bear on each voter had been thorough,
learned, a special messenger left New
York for Indianapolis, He had with
him over four hundred thousand dollars,
either in cash or in convertible paper.
This money hSd ali been raised in New
York, and principally by the efforts OF
Levi P. Morton. Dorsey never touched
a penny of the money, though urged to
see to its distribution personally. He
was there not only to see to it that bis
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