The Republican journal., 1883-08-09
Dorsey's Denlals.

Dorsey's Denlals.
We have before us the Chicago Herald inter-
view with ex-senator Dorsey. to which refer
encc was made last week OF the Sun article
Dorsey said: Il did not write it, | did not
prompt it. did not know it was to be pub
lished." As to the truth of the statements made
in that article Dorsey said that while parts of it
are true there are other parts VIGOROUSLY I'M
true. He then proceeded to correct some of the
Suns miSStatements. As to Brady and Bradv's
connection with the campaign Dorsey said
Gen. Brady and the Star Route people had
no more to do with the campaign. nor any in
| tiuence with General Garfield in shaping his
policy after his election than | have to do with
the King of Siam" And further: ''1'o the best
| of my belief Gen. Brady never contributed a
| dollar to the national finance committee nor
| ever gave dollar. and all the statements that
have been intimated by innuendo or otherwise
| that General Garfield and Mr. Blaine were try
| ing to protect Star Route contractors is abso-
| utely untrue" As to the October campaign in
| Indiana. Dorsey again asserts that Brady had
nothing whatever to do with it, while rs to
| the two dollar bills. new and crisp" of which
| so much has been heard, he declared that to be
"a mere stretch of fancy" He said: There
ashamed Of We took the means that were
| available and we carried it,
Since this interview with Dorsey was pub
ished the Herald has printed series of inter-
| views with the gentlemen mentioned in the sun
| article. Mr. c. A. Dana. in reference to Dor
seys allegations that the previous publications
of the sun Were unauthorized by him, says he
has nothing to say. and when he has he will say
it in the Suu.
Mr.. George Jones, editor of the Times. pro-
nounce> as a falsehood DOrscy'S statement that
the Times became Dorsey'> enemy because he
refused to divide the National Republican com
mttee's patronage 50 the Times could ret some
instead of the Tribune getting all. lie never
asked the committee for anything. We took
such advertising came in the regular way.
We sent Gen. Arthur Il check for $1,000 for
campaign expenses. We never saw Dorsey but
once, Viz. at Delmonico'>. At a dinner after the
campaign.
WhiteiaW Reid, editor of the Tribune saws
that 50 far a, he i concerned there is no truth
i'll the story Of Stanley Matthews nomination
TO the Supreme bench being secured by cuntri-
buttons of $4,000 each by Mr. Jay Gould and
Nj. c, p Huntington. Mr.. Reid never directly
or indirectly made srcha bargain with Garfield:
Il don't believe it wa, ever made" said Mr..
Reid. He never asked me for Mr.. Matthews
appointment. did not think that Garfield was
to appoint him.
Mr. Thomas c. Plat refused to say whether
or not Dorscy's statement that Plat carried the
Gould-liuntington subscription to Indiana is
true or not. lie says he has personal reasons
for declining TO answer any nsinuation> that
Dorsey makes concerning him.
L. Stephenson, then president Of the Fifth
National Bank. whom Dorsey SAYS was the
custodian of S600,000 Of the Republican cam
paign fund, says the statement that he or the
Fifth National Bank had anything to do with
the disbursements for campaign purposes i an
Infamous lie. u will give $1,000 for any proof
TO the contrary" he said. He Is Il friend of
Dor>ey's, but is unwilling that Dorsey should
associate him With matters he had nothing to
do with. lie never even cashed anyhodv'S
check for political purposes. He was in In
diana, but not for political reasons, and was
not in anybody'> employ but was on Il vaca-
ton. He gave TO the cause personally-pure
personally. He will give $1,000 for proof that
he spent any money in Indiana wrongfully.
Dor>ey's denial>. and those Of Messr> Jones.
Reid and Stephenson. taken with previous cor
rectons of the MEASUREMENTS in the sun arti-
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worthy of notice. Nor has it a responsible au-
thor. 1t is simply mass of falsehoodS pub
lished with a view to making a sensation. with
out regard to whom il might hurt or the inno-
cent il might wrong
We publish on The first page extracts from
the speeches of Hon. Josiah II. Drummond and
eX-Gov. Dngley at the recent Temperance
Camp-meeting 1T Maranocook. The Portland
Argus i'll commenting on Mr. Dingleys speech
claimed that there is rs much liquor used here
as elsewhere. and as much drunkenness as
anywhere; but lis the Lewiston Journal points
out, full and accurate statistics of arrests for
drunkenness We're given in the speech and they
show that this claim is unfoun,ed. From these
statistics it appears. says the journal, that the
average arrests for drunkenness in Maine cities
are only two-thrdS what they are in license
cities notwithstanding under prohibition near
ly all the drunkenness for the State is driven
into the cities and that the arrests for drunk
enness last year in Maine outside of our four
teen cities were only lS4 for Il population of
over 100000. The testimony of reliable CORE
spondents is that in $50 towns, with popula-
ton of 423,450, no liquor is sold, and not Il
single case of drunkenness has been known the
past year. And in nearly every one of these
towns forty years ago the testimony is that
there were from D to 10 open dram shops. and
that drunkenness was common as to occ;t-
sion little remark.