Daily globe., 1883-07-31

| the letter and was going to publish a fac
simile. I went down to Byrne and tried
to stop it,
Speaking of the Morey letter Mr.. Dor
sey, has it ever come out who was re-
sponsible for that? Was it an idea of Bar
num's?"
"Bless yon, no. Barnum never had any
ideas. No it was concocted by w. W. Had
ley"
SIT is stated in some part of the Sun ar
ticle that one outcome of the Fifth Avenue
hotel conference was the organization of a
finance committee composed of members
outside the regular national committee :"
eyes, sir. A finance committee was
formed composed of the very best citizens
of New York and Boston, with power to
raise
ALL THE MONEY THEY COULD,
and disburse the same under direction of
the chairman, the Hon Levi P. Morton"
SWELL, that's queer thing. 1t is sup
posed that the chairman of the regular ma
tional committee is the proper custodian
of the funds received for political purposes.
And how is it, then, that Morton instead of
to carry on the campaign?'
"Well, can't tell you. The fact was
that those who had contributed largely to
campaign purposes during every year, re-
fused to pay a cent unless some other
person than Mr.. Jewell was to have charge
of the distribution. His honesty was not
doubted. His capacity was questioned.
AS for myself, 1 refused to accept cent or
pay out one."
"Now, you say there was finance COM
mittee. The public would like
to know who that finance committee was"
San organization so unusual would nat
urally attract attention. / don't believe
that anyone of the members of that COM
mittee are ashamed of the part they took
in it, and if thought one of them would
feel eggrieved at the mention Of his name
I should hesitate about doing so, but can
not at this late day see how harm can
come to anybody. Foremost was Levi p.
Morton, then j. Pierpont Morgan, John
A. Stewart, Augustus Kuntz, 81. F. Hatch,
j, w. Bosler, j. M, Forbes. Jesse Seligman,
j. R. Kune, j. J. Aston, Jesse Hoyt, G. P.
Huntington, was made chairman and
afterward a large number of names were
added to it, and some of those above
enumerated may have been stricken of,
but as substantial whole the committee
remained as originally agreed upon"
Having got the finance committee or
ganized the next thing was to raise money,
was it not?"
''Well, that would seem so. That was
what the committee was organic
ed for" said Mr.. Dorsey,
with a grim smile, and that is what cam
paigns require, either under reformers or
under what George William Curtis calls
the freebootsrs OF politics. After twenty
years of effort on Mr.. Curtis part to be a
state senator in New York he ought to
know better than anybody else what it
costs to run politics. 1t is hardly fair for
you to ask me questions of this kind when
you have those great intellectual lights
before you. I never knew reformer who
wasn't great if he had wind enough to
blow his own horn. I have always felt
deeply grieved that didn't join in early
life the ragged brigade of Curtis and
MacVeagh. just think of it. Now suppose
I had the Nation, the Post and all the rest
of the press that wash their shirts in dish
water and
LIVE ON SKINNED MILK
would glorify my ascension to power"
"But as to the moneyw
''When the national committee was
organized-a cheap affair-to carry on the
campaign, money had to be had of course
"Well, how much had to be had? How
much was raised by that finance commit
tee? How much was paid to Jewell,
chairman of the national committee, and
how much to your"
81 don't know what was paid to Jewell,
but think very small sum. Mr.. Ed
Stevenson, president of the Sixth Avenue
National bank, of New York, received and
disbursed all the money ever sent to me,
and he will verify my statement, that I
would not allow him to pay my hotel bills,
the hotel bills of my clerks. or their sala-
ries. think he disbursed about $500,O00
on my order, but he has the checks and
accounts and perhaps he can come nearer
the account than I can. / only speak from
memory and from general knowledge of
the facts'
''Was this expenditure made mostly in
the campaign in Indiana and Ohio?"
every largely so. AS I said about
100000 was used there.'
"Were there other expenses in the cam
paign?"
''Yes, sir. 1 may say that among the
most important and probably the most
effective were in the counties of New
York and Kings"