Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-07-28
DORSEY'S DENIAL,
NO MONEY tKuM THE STAR RoUrEl

NO MONEY FROM THE STAR REUTERS.
BRADY not Dorsey's PArtner-Tho Indiana
Fight In 1s7G-SAoo.oOO Spent BY
tho Republicans.
The Chicago Herald has an interview
with ex-senator Dorsey regarding the re-
cent article in the New York Sun assail-
ing President Garfield, ex Attorney Gener.
al MacVeagh and ex, Postmaster General
James. The most important portions OF
the interview are as follows:
"Now let ne see about that Sun article
again." said Mr.. Dorsey. 81 still think
Mr.. Dana has done me gross injustice in
publishing # and connecting my name
with it so Rointedly. did not write it.
did not prompt it. I did not know it
was to be published. did not even see il
until you brought it here last evening,
but now that it is published will say that
parts of it, the more important parts, are
true. There are other parts notoriously
untrue. wish you would read it over
again slowly, and I'll tell you where it is
wrong"
The correspondent read the opening
sentences, which asserted tho supremacy
of Brady and Dorsey in the campaign of
Il AOCOs WISH yOu u bLOp
said Mr.. Dorsey. "This is as good a
time as any to set one lie at rest, and that
is the story that Brady and Dorsey, or
Dorsey ard Brady, had anything together
in politics or anything else. I am sick and
brought together. As for politics, as far
as know, and am perfectly familiar
with the campaign of 1880, General Brady
took no hand or part it it, and never con.
tributed to my knowledge, o1o penny
toward it,
lsrady's P0cketbOoK Not Opened,
scarcely knew Brady at that time,
and the whole talk about Brady and Dor
| sey and Dorsey and Brady is the merest
| nonsense and bOsh. If he took any part
Route contractors contributed to it,
never knew or heard of it. I am certain
that no Star Route contractors contribu-
ted outside of Mr.. Bosler and myself, paid
or ever gave q cent to the national com.
mittee. Gen. Brady and the Star Route
people had no more to do with the cam
paign nor any influence with General
Garfield in shaping his policy, after his
election than l have to do with the king
| of SIAM"
"But," said the correspondent, "t that
will hardly satisfy the country, in view of
the Jay Hubbell letter." "Yes, that
damnable letter." said the senator laugh
ing, "that did look bad. Let me give
you the history of that. was at Mentor
when General Garfield showed me a large
number of letters which he thought affect
ed the particular management Of the cam
paign and requested me to dictate answers
to his steuOgrapher. Among them was
the famous Hubbell- Brady letter. ad-
vised General Garfield not to answer that
letter either to Hubbell or Brady, and it
was thrown aside, as supposed, to remain
in the waste basket, but it seems after
left that the anxiety of General Garfield
to raise money for the campaign induced
him to discard my advice, and to write
the Hubbell letter. No practical result
ever came of it, SO far as know, and to
the best of my belief General Brady never
contributed q cent to the national finance
committee nor to any other committee.
No mail contractor ever gave dollar, and
all the statements that have been intima.
ted by inuendo otherwise that General
Garfield and Mr.. Blaine were trying to
protect Star Route contractors is absolute
ly untrue"
The Indiana Fight.
Brady is here reported" said the COR
respondent, as having much to do with
the October Indiana campaign of that
year. As matter of fact had he any
thing to do with it?''
Nothing whatever. He knew nothing
about it, apparently cared nothing about
it and took no part in it, There are two
men who deserve all the credit and honor
of political success in Indiana. They are
John =. New and Colonel w. w. Dudley.
Whatever did was simply to supplement
their efforts. of course did all could to
assist in organizing the party in thu state,
and whatever l did do was done at the
request of the Republican stats committee
of Indiana, at the earnest solicitation of
Messrs. New and Dudley"
But it seems you are credited with
good deal moro than that. How about
those two dollar bills, new and crisp?"
"Oh that's mere stretch of fancy.
That there was money used in Indiana in
1880, certainly no one will deny. That it
has been used always by both parties and
will be used as long as parties exist is
simply truisn. 1t is not proper at this
time to say how it was used, for what
which it came'
is indefinite. Hero you are distinctly
charged with having run things in Indiana,
having won tho fight and having BEEN re.
warded with banquet in New York"
"There is nothing in the Indiana cam
paign to be ashamed of. We took the
means that were available to carry the
state and We carried it."
"But how? Simply organization-n
money ."
money"
"How much money was used in round
figures
"F6ur hundred thousand dollars."
And how was that money expended?"
'Oh, now you are going down too
deeply. However, perhaps can give you
some idea when l say there were 100 or
more townships In the state, and that in
each of these townships we had three
good, honest, square Republicans to canvas
the whole vote, find out what was wanted
in their townships to change the CON-
plexion Of their affairs, or help to do it, |
and report to us at Indianapolis when the |
time came. Each one of these men.
nearly 5000 in number, reported what |
they could do. and how much it would |
take to influence people to q change of |
thought. We paid SEQ to some, and as |
high as $75 to others, but we took care |
that the three men from every township
should know just what each got. There
was no choice for 'nigginy.' There, that's
all there was in carrying Indiana in Octo.
Der. You mustn't ask me to 90 apy
deeper into particulars, for won't do it,"