Daily globe., 1883-08-02


those?"
''No. didn't say so. This is the first I
had heard, though, that Foster had lost
his memory. If he says now that the
tender to me of cabinet place by Gar
| field was not genuine he simply lies.
believe that is plain English. He knows
/ just as we'll as 1 the truth of it. cannot
| believe yet that he has allowed himself
willingly to get into print that way.
Foster knows as we'll as L, perhaps, the
troubles that beset poor Garfield in the
formation of his cabinet. He knows how
I fought against James and McVeagh, and
how not until the last moment, aye, two
hours before he went up to the capitol
steps to take the oath, Garfield had not
and could not make up his mind"
"There is one part of this Sun article"
continued Mr.. Dorsey, (which, read again,
please-that part respecting Garfield's
doubts about his cabihet-read that" The
Herald correspondent read:
When Garfield came to Washington a
few days before his Inauguration, he was
as cloudy about his cabinet as he was a
week after his election. When he got here,
those who were with him will remember
what siege he had of it. His promises,
like notes falling due on day certain,
were presented to him for fulfllment from
all sides. He seemed hardly to know which
way to turn. But there was one man whose
counsels he sought, and upon whom he
seemed to lean, and that was ex-senator
Dorsey. Garfield received the plain
est kind of talk from him, and
seemed to lie it, and he often pro-
testsd that he could trust Dorsey through
and through. Two days before he was in
augursted Garfield told Dorsey that he
saw no opening for New York except the
appointment of Mr.. James. He excused
himself by saying that other New Workers
whom he preferred had declined places in
the cabinet and he could not accept Mr..
Conkling's view that New York ought to
have the chief place or none. He also said
that he had determined to appoint Mr..
MacVeagh, attorney general, though he
deeply regretted that such appointment
would be. dlspleasing to Dorsey. As he
expressed it, he would make the appoint
ment, and after he was inaugurated he
would have time to turn around and see
what would be best.
Mr.. James was telegraphed for to come
here from New York. He came, and met
General Garfield at the Riggs house on
sat Mr.. Dorsey, though it is probable that
Mr.. James did not know this. Mr.. Dorsey
subsequently summarized the conversation
that Mr. James had with Garfield. He said
that Mr.. James informed Garfield that he
was not an aspirant for a place i'll the
cabinet, but that if General Garfield saw
fit to appoint him he should enter, not as a
stalwart, not as Grant man, nor an
Arfh hr1f
should be Garfield adherent through and
through. General Garfield seemed en-
tirely satisfied with this. When Mr.. James
quilted the parlor he met Senator Dorsey
in the hall. He said that he WIS going
around to Conkling's rooms, in Fourteenth
street, and Senator Dorsey went with him.
Senator Conkling was there. In the inter
view that followed Mr.. Dorsey says he
heard Mr.. James say to ConklinG that he
had told Garfield that he was not candi-
date for any cabinet place; that he was en-
tirely satisfied with his place in New York;
but that, as General Garfield had indicated
an intention of appointing him, he wished
to have it understood that in going into
the cabinet he could only go as the repre-
sentative of Mr.. Conkling' and the New
York stalwarts.
swell" said Mr.. Dorsey, shat is fanciful
like the rest, though, also like the rest, it is
based upon truth. 1t is true that Garfield
did not know fully whose names he should
send in as cabinet until two hours before
Swain or somebody carried the list up to
he capitol. know that. 1 know how
the poor fellow was bothered and badgered.
For myself, only pleaded against James
and McVeagh. 1 knew those two feather
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or, at least, bring it into contempt. 1
pleaded and begged and scol3ed and
stormed. didn't see then what I know
now-that the poor fellow was in whirl
pool of conflicting interests, out of which
he couldn't see his way. I could have
seen it had known all-so could you. 1
would have taken the bit in my mouth and
said to the horde of importunates. Il am
president, and will do as please Gar
field could't do that. They pestered him
like gnatS-they worried MS very soul.
"'General,' L" I said to him on the day he
sent his cabinet in, lis there no way to pre-
vent this mistake--a mistake that I know
will wreck your"
'Steve," he said, and the honest, kindly
heart beat, know, with emotion, for the
tears welled up-''Steve, my mind is made
up. I've got 10 90 IL. WOulQn'b nurL
your feelings for the world, but 1 must-I
cannot help myself"
There was something in the wearied face
that touched me, and : said, patting him
on the back, ''go ahead. old man. know
you believe you are right. God bless you
and your work"
THE names were sent in and my influence
with, and may say public interest in, the
administration ceased from that hour
And how about the duplicity of James,
as shown in this Sun article?
sOh, d-n James. The mention of
the very name of the fellow makes me
weary. Isaac, bring out some ice water"
| The moon shone down upon the broad
piazza, and in the rarifed air of that alti-
tude-7,000 feet above tho sea-its beams
made the surroundings as light as day.
Isaac's ice-water pitcher cleaned with
such silvery elegance that the other jug
that he carried in his other hand was
almost thrown in a shadow. After the
pitcher and the, Jug had commingled in
the moonlight, and again been disinte-
grated in the shadows of the night, the
Herald man bit off the end Of cigar and
said: MIR. Dorsey, it seems to me that the
events of 1880 have been pretty we'll dis