Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-07
WHEN ROGUES


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WREN ROGUES
Those who were in position to know,
from the outside, something of the meth
DDS employed in 1880 to carry Indiana for
Garfield and Arthur, very well understood
the compliment paid to Mr.. Dorsey at the
February dinner in New York in 1881 by
Vice President-elect Arthur, when that
gentleman glowingly congratulated the
secretary of the national committee upon
the admirable use of ''soap" in the cam
paign in that state. At point
of time when there was great
gloom within the Republican tents, and
party leaders were fastening to and fro,
and the visitors at Mentor were numerous
and distinguished, word came from In
diana that generous supplies must be pro-
vided or all was lost. The venerable
Simon Cameron suddenly left his home and
made a journey to Indiana in the weller
ing heat of the dog days, stopping of course
at Lawnfeld to pay his respect to the can
didate for president. Mr.. Cameron was
accompanied with black grip-sack, which
was jealousy guarded. Shortly after
Cameron had returned to Penn
sylvania there was at first whispered words
of encouragement in regard to an improve
ment in the situation. Soon the party
managers grew holder and the state was
claimed with confidence, and when the
| votes were counted, sure enough,
they proclaimed that the electoral
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cured for the candidates nominated in
June at Chicago. Everybody knew that
the result had been produced by the alche-
my Of money, which the vice president
characterized in public few months
after as soap" but only the few within
done. Bat in such cases time generally
arrives when the true facts come out to
crafty public curiosity, if nothing more.
An open letter has been given out from W.
2. Fish0ack, Of Indiana, to Congressman
Peelle, of the Indianapolis district. Mr..
Fishback was formerly the editor of the
Indianapolis Journal, and afterward one
of the proprietors of the st. Louis Demo
crat "a Republican paper) before the con-
solidation with the Globe of that city. In
his open letter he referred to the course
of the machine managers in his state In
diana), and with great bitterness refers to
the conduct of the campaign of 1880. He
aYows that he has knowledge that it is the
| policy to duplicate the work of 1880, in
The campaign of 1884. "Men like Dorsey
he writes, "will come to Indiana again as
they came in 1880 and disburse 100000
in the Denison house parlors, to be used
in buying votes, hiring repeaters, bribing
election officers to Stuff ballot-boxes and
falsify election returns" He asserts
that ''there are men high in Office because
they connived at such crimes, and it is nc
secret that other men honored by the party
are SO honored mainly because they aided
the escape of arrested felons who wsrs
hired to come from other states to violate
the election laws of Indiana"
| Mr.. Fishback, who is one of the oldest
Republicans in the state, makes an avowaI
so explicit that it is attracting wide public
notice, though it may be tha
Arthur, now president, John G
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treasury, Col. Dudley, commissioner Of
penions, will not hear of it, and, being
deaf, of course will be dumb. Bye-and.
bye more facts will come out, as the pres
ent imposing harmony in the party grows
more intense. The more harmoniou.
people are the more they are given to tell
ing tales out of school. The same tricI
never works twice in politics, and before
the next campaign is inaugurated the at
mosphere will be too sulphurous to admit
a repetition of plot such as was concoc.
ted by the Camerons father and SOM ''Mer
like Dorsey" and men thigh in Office
and carried into successful execution. In
the division of the spells too many heart:
have ached, and revenge is too sweet tc
keep the secret of the successful raid upon
Indiana buried from the public knewl.
edge,
Glow pretty it is to see
Brethren dwell together in harmony"