Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-08-31
DORSEY AGAIN.
The Secretary of the Republi-
can National Committee
Gives Out Some of his
Political CORES
pondence.
Some Very Suspicious Letters
from Supposedly PiOuS and
Christian Gentlemen.
The Calcium Turned on the Ma
tional Campaign of 1880.


Other Points of the Correspondence.
The Campaign of $50,
New YORK, Aug. 2S.-The Sun
prints another batch of correspond
ence of the republican leaders in the
campaign of 1880. This time there can
be no doubt that it was supplied by
Dorsey as it is composed of letters
written to him by the political lead
ers.
MONEY WANTED FOR MAINE.
The national committee, before the
Indiana campaign, were besought for
money for Maine, and the following
letter from Mr. Blaine shows that
they were not satisfied with the
amounts that were contributed:
AUGUSTA, Me-, August IA, 1885,
My Dear Dorsey: Your committee
was appointed early in July. 1t is
now the middle of August, and we
have not received one penny's aid i'll
the closest and most central battle of
the campaign. l do not wish to be n
grumbler, but l assure you that you
are imperiling the whole campaign.
Yours, JAS. G. BLAINE.
THE OCTOBER STATES AGAIN.
The next letter Mr.. Allison wrote
Senator Dorsey, and reads as follows:
DUBUQUE, Ia, Sept. 14.-MY DEAR
SIR: The Maine business is very bad.
| tell you you must get down to serl-
Gus work. Money must be had, and
must be sent to Indiana. If we lose
Indiana in October we are beaten. No
stone must be left unturned in that di
rection. You must gather about you
a corps of strong men who can aid
you in raising funds We must re
cover this disaster in Maine by carry
ing Ohio and Indiana. Maine was
carried by money and the still hunt
tactics. Those same tactics must be
played in Indiana and Ohio. Look
out. Hastily yours,
w. B. ALLISON.
AID ASKED FOR WEST VIRGINIA.
But the national committee at that
time were having demands made upon
them from other directions. For in
stance, here is letter from the Hon.
Stewart L. Woodford, from West Nir-
ginia:
WHEELING, w. Va, Aug. 80, 1885,
Ny Dear Sir: = Now for busi-
ness. These people ought to be help
ed. Here, if anywhere, the south is
to be broken. = You know what
funds you have. Sturgiss and Atkin-
son agree to raise so, 1000 if you will
give them SIS, 900. With $25, 900 they
can make an effective campaign. OF
this $1,000 Wheeling men will give
S., 900 and Sturgiss agrees to raise the
remaining S., 900. With $25, 900 they
can organize the state. If
you can possibly do this without en-
dangering Indiana, | advise it very
earnestly. Your friend,
STEWART l.. WooDFoRD.
The Hon. Marshall Jewell.
Sept. Z the Rev. j. r. Thompson,
president of the West Virginia uni
versity, wrote to Secretary Dorsey as
follows:
If you put men and sinews here at
once the republicans will carry it
West Virginia) in October.
THE OLD DOMINION.
But the republican national com
mittee had more important business
to attend to than putting men and
money into West Virginia. There
was a plaintive howl from Virginia
herself for cash, as appears by the
following letter from Mahone's chief
republican lieutenant:
LINwooD, Sept. 22, 1SS0.-Gov.
Jewell-MY DEAR SIR: The expend-
iture of $4,000 by your committee
will insure the electoral vote of Vir
ginia to Garfield and Arthur. "Help
US, Cassius, or we perish. "
Yours truly,
JOHN F. LEWIS.
WHAT Mr.. RICHARD SMITH KNEW.
The opinion of Mr.. Henderson was
not shared by Richard Smith, editor
of the Cincinnati Gazette. He writes
as follows:
CINCINNATI, o., Sept II, 1885,
The Hon. Marshall Jewell-DEAR SIR;
Your favor of the 10th inst. came duly
to hand and it surprises me. | was
amazed at what you said had been
represented to you by Nash and Gar
field, because l knew what l said to
yos was true | am not in the habit
of misrepresentlng matters OF this
kind, and now repeat every line /
wrote you before and since the Maine
election, and support every line of
that letter. I probably know more
about what tho democrats are doing
and proposing to do than Mr.. Nash,
chairman of the republican committee
of Ohio, because the brains of the
management arc here. Perhaps you
will say | am meddling.
Well, you know am up
to my eyes in this fight. am devot-
ing night and day to it, and in feeling
am ''all over IN this business.
Therefore, / keep posted both as to
this state and Indiana. That, too, is
my business; and / now tell you that
as matters are going in Indiana and
Ohio we are beaten in both states.
There should be $4,000 judiciously
placed in each state within the next
ten days, and two-t.irds of it should
be reserved for use on election day.
Ii your GOuhltLttt tOilCluOc W lCb
Ohio take care of herself, and meet
the enemy in a halfway style, you
might just as well give up now and
not spend another dollar in effort.
Now mark what tell YOU. / incloSe
my correspondence. Truly yours,
RICHARD SMITH.
GOV. FOSTER
Gov. Foster seems to have been of
the opinion that money was necessary
In Ohio, for he writes as follows:
COLUMBUS, o., Sept. 16, 1sS0.-The
Hon. Richard Smith, Cincinnati, O.,
Dear Sir: I have given the subject of
our finances some attention, and have
received and am promised SIS, 900.
We ought to have $40, 900 obtained
SIG. 900 of it for Cleveland-and am
trying to get hold Of some of your
men who can contribute literally. I
hope to have your aid and sympathies
In my visit to Cincinnati Yours very
Gu Ts<se.-rrv-a