Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-08-11
Dorsey's Charges.


Sun a few days ago, giving the inside
facts of the Republican campaign of 1880,
attracted such wide attention and called
out so many denials. that the Sun sent a
member of its staff to New Mexico to
interview Dorsey, who is living on his
ranch in that territory. The interview
appeared in Thursdays Sun. Dorsey
not only reiterates and strengthens with
additional facts what had already been
published. but he also makes statements
that have not heretofore appeared IN print.
No one who reads the interview can
for a moment doubt that Dorsey speaks
the truth. He gives names, dates and cir
cumstances, and tells story that har-
mOnizes so well with what is admitted by
the Republican leaders to be true, that 1t
is impossible TO reach any other cOnclu-
sion than that he is worthy of belief. Be-
ing Secretary of the National Committee
there was little done with which he was
not acquainted. He knows the secrets OF
the party and he is giving them to the
country with a particularly and cold
blOOdedness that shows that he means TO
get even with those who put him in
felOn's dock. The fact that he was
prosecuted on grave criminal charges by
those with whom be was formerly asso-
ciated in the management of his party,
and that he is now bitter and revengeful,
might detract from the credibility of his
statements if he were not so careful to
support what he says by referring to men
who are widely known throughout the
country and who would promptly publish
denials if his assertions lacked truth. 1t
may be assumed that there will be no de-
mails. If there should be, it is about certain
that Dorsey would publish a few of the
many letters that came into his possession
during that remarkable campaign of 1880.
In his interview, Dorsey says that the
nomination of Garfield was not UMPIRE
meditated. 1t was carefully planned
months before the convention, Garfield
sold out John Sherman while pretending
to be his friend. COnkling, Dorsey says,
could have been nominated, and il was
proposed to him that he should allow his
name to 20 before the convention. He de-
clined. He was instructed by his State,
he said. to secure the nomination of Grant
nomination even if it were rendered to
him unanimously. How striking was his
conduct in comparison with that of Gar
field, That Garfield sold out the great offices
Of Secretary of the Treasury and an Asso-
ciate Justiceship of the Supreme Court TO
get money to buy the Presidency Dorsey
most positively asserts. The record is a
II farT. oft Tthn fs
it cannot fail to ask, is the party which is
guilty of such corruption fit to continue
in the control of the government: The
sum and substance of DOrsey's state :
ments are as follows:
First That Sherman was betrayed at
Chicago; that the pretended surprise of
Gariied's nomination was a sham, and
that it was the result of a prearranged
plan.
second. That jealOusieshnd ambitions
appeared at the very beginning of the
canvass, and showed themselves in the
organization of the National Committee.
''Third. That it was at the earnest re-
quest Of Garfield. Governor Foster and
General Arthur that he accepted the place
of Secretary of the National Committee.
Fourth. That the rich bankers Of New
York were so distruStful that they re-
fused To contribute a cent until a peculiar
organization, known as a Finance Com
mittee, composed of these bankers, was
formed.
Fifth. He intimates that Garfield, Ar
thur and all of the Republican leaders re-
lied upon money to win the battle, and
admits that a very large sum was raised
and disbursed by these bankers. 1t was
purely a money campaign.
''SiXth. He asserts positively that Gar
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port by a positive promise to appoint Levi
=. Morton Secretary OF the Treasury.
Seventh. He reiterates the charge that
the pockets of the New York bankers
were reached through promise of Gar
fields to allow syndicate of them to re-
fluid the government bonds.
Eighth. He asserts With great positive
ness that a bargain was made between
Garfield's representatives and jay Gould
and G. p. Huntington, by which Garfield
promised to secure the appointment of
Stanley Matthews as Associate Justice of
the Supreme Court. and the two capital
lists promised one hundred thousand
dollars to the Republican campaign fund.
He asserts. that this money was paid,
was brought to him in Indiana by Mr.. T..
c. Plat, and that he casued more than
half of it to be sent to Ohio to be used by
Gov. Foster in the campaign there.
ninth. He asserts that more than $780,
600 was taken to Indiana by prominent
New York banker whom he names. That
this was used there to carry the day.
tenth. He asserts that Garfield was
most eager TO have as much money raised
as possible, so eager that he made the
blunder of writing the Hubbell letter
against his (DOrsey's) advice.
Eleventh. He asserts that the vast fund
raised. between one and two million dol
lars was a cOrruptiOn fund.
Twelfth. He tells the story of the curl
Gus intrigues that led to the putting of
James and MacVeagh in Garfield's Cabi-
net. and asserts that il was Garfeld's in
tentiOn to remove them.
Thirteenth. He asserts that Garfield was
bulldOZed by Blaine and prominent New
York editor into violating his promises to
COnkling, and into appointing Robertson
Collector of the Port of New York, with
out having first notified the New York
Senators that such was his intention.
But this bulldOzing took the shape of a
threat to publish the details of the Stanley
Matthews scandal unless RObertsOn's ap-
pOintment was made"