The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-04-07
UNWRITTEN HISTORY.
The Star Route Surprises Will
Never End.
Dorsey Relates President Garfield's Pro
mise to Bounce lanes and Nc
veagh Out of Office.

WASHINGTON, April 5.-Star route sur
prises will never end. The prosecution
has concluded the cross examination Of
Dorsey. The general opinion Is that
Merrick got tired of being used as,
floor mOpper by Dorsey, and brought
matters to an end abruptly to put a stop
to his own misery. Bliss had got enough
of this sort of thing from Brady, and
Ker is physically and mentally inca
pacitated from conducting an examina-
tiOn, by being deaf as a post, and near
relative of ThOmpsOn's colt.
The result of the examination Of the
two chief defendants, Dorsey and Brady,
has been to revOlutiOnize public feeling
here in circles where it has all along
been unfavOTable to the defense. The
general opinion now Is Enthusiastically
and emphatically that the government
has no case on which to prosecute these
men. And this feeling is deepened and
strengthened by the finding of the last
batch of indictments. Whether the
prosecuting officers 80 Intended it or not
the public believe that they were found
to inflrence the present trial for one
thing, and to prOlOng the enormous fees
of Bliss, Merrick and Ker, for another
thing. At one or two places the testi-
mOny grew interesting to-day, though
for the most part it was of dry, routine
character, consisting of minute details
the force of which is only perceptible to
the attorneys, and often enough not to
them save with large microscope.
For instan . the audience was all at
tention whom Dorsey told how Miss
Springman was appointed to a clerk
ship in one of the departments in 1881,
on his recommendation, and how he
went to his ranch in Mexico before the
appointment was made out, and Rerdell
got IL and took it to her, and afteTward
how this creature wrote vile letters to
her, which letters were in the possession
of the witness. The government didn't
call for them. The interview with Rer-
dell at the Albemarle Hotel, New York
was then taken up. and led to DOrsey's
visit here, and the affidavit ReTdell
made, denying what he had told James
and MacVeagh. The affidavit was very
hard on James and MacVeagh. Dorsey
went on to say that IL he had written
1T, "theTe would have been some English
in it," Merrick asked him what he
meant. Dorsey replied in the vigorous
speech and manner he employs when
thoroughly in earnest, that James and
MacVeagh were two dirty scOundrels
who disgraeed the offices they held and
the administration that put them in
Office. He added that If Garfield had
OCbu SuOb a Wcbh AhBbI DObn VI bub56 pbE-
sons would have been kicked out of
their offices in contempt and disgrace,
and this he (Garfeld) had promised
Dorsey to do, in the presence Of Inger-
soil. During the delivery of the
"reminiscences of the past that is
so far and yet so near, the
silence in the courtroom was al
almost painful. None of the counsel be-
thought him to object, and the court was
equally wrapped up in this interview be-
tween the slain Garfield and the man to
whose skill and nerve he owed his cleo
tiOn to the Presidency. Col. Bliss forgot
his usual sneering smile, and sat down
with face paler than usual and set
mouth, looking intently into the face of
the man on whom he had so abjectly
fawned in the day of power and ObliviOns
to time or place, or change of MephistO-
philes of the New York bar and politics
dropped his mask and nodded assent as
the cold truth fell in frozen facts from
DOrsey's lips in earnest and measured
voice. Col. Bliss cOrrObOrated the ex-sen-
atOr by thus punctuating his story by
cOnhrmatOry mods. Bliss looked quick
ly around as If startled, and resumed his
sneering mask. MerTick hastily took up
the dropped thread of the examination,
and things went on as usual again. 1t
is supposed John W. Dorsey will go on
tomorrow.