Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-06-22
RICH AND RACY.
Stephen w. Dorsey Writes a Vigorous
and Trenchant Letter.
REGARDS TO MACVEAGH & JAMES
One Knaye and the Other Sychopant
Understrapper.
THE GOVERNMENT METHODS USED
TIE Bring About a Conviction on the
Charge Of Conspiracy.
HIS HOME INVADED BY SPIES,
And Attempts Made to Corrupt His Ser
wants to Betray Him.
THE CHARGE AGAINST HIM ALE.
HIS HOME INVADED BY SPIES
And Attempts Made to Corrupt His Ser
wants to Betray Him.
THE CHARGE AGAINST HIM ALE.
And ALI Knew it, Including the Stalled
Ok at the Trough Of Accident.
Especial Telegram to the Globe. |

Especial Telegram to the Globe
WASHINGTON, June 21.-The text of Dor
sey's letter to Dickinson is as follows
Howard G. Dickinson, ESQ, New York
Ny Dear Sir: You have doubtless before
this received my brief note thanking you
for your kind letter of congratulation and
promising full and more satisfactory
reply. Our business relations have been
such that think it due to you even more
than to myself that 1 should, now that
the trial is at an end, give you something
like connected history of the efforts that
have been made to destroy me. AS mat
ter of truth the original object was wholly
political. 1t was conflict between what
L thought ought to be wise administra-
ton of public affairs on the one hand.
and what MacYeagh and those who
always follow him to the rear thou ght
would best subserve their own ends and
crafty their own ambition on the other.
L never heard of cooks, drummers and
teamsters winning banners in war. I
could not believe swift political stragglers
could win the political battle of peace.
therefore believed honest men must be on
one side or the other to face whatever
fight there was. Those who amble to the
cowardly covers of the rear in battle were
not men in whom had confidence, and
our political history has shown that such
persons are not worthy of the confidence
of the public, though they are often put
nj he
tween MacVeagh and myself was joined
early. What l had to say said in response
to requests from the president in January
and February, 1881. The published cor
respondence between Gen. Garfield and
myself shows the reason for the animus of
| my enemies in the cabinet.
When Gen. Garfield began to canvass
the formation of the cabinet, and Iamong
| Others was asked to give my views, [ took
| the ground that certain appointments were
unfit to be made, and expressed in IN
mistakable language the misfortune that
thought would follow such appointments.
as you will remember. You will also re-
member the anxious solicitude with which
[ considered what always seemed to me to
be Gen. Garfeld's unwise intentions
in his proposed selections of cabinet off
GERS from New York and Pennsylva-
MIA. You will likewise remember
! thought these two great
states which had furnished so many illus
trious men who had adorned the public
service, now had among their citizens men
equally as eminent as those who had pre-
coded them, and that 1 also believed that
from among these natural leaders Gen
| Garfield ought select the two first officers
of his cabinet, but instead of doing that
he chose from Pennsylvania a man, be-
cause ne was a son-in-law, and man from
! New York because he was a sycophant.
1t would seem that capacity, uprighteous-
ness and experience were ignored; that
the small ambition of small men should
! be satisfied. Your predictions made al
that time have been verified. You know
with what scorn l treated the
detestable idiocy of the suggestion that
such men as MacVeagh and James should
be made cabinet ministers to represent the
Republicans of these two great states
neither one of whom could be elected mag
istrate in the smallest bailiwick in his
state. They cut no more figure in the
! politics of the nation than the remotest
fixed star does upon the movements OF
! Saturn. feared that Grant and Conkling
and Arthur and all the great leaders whom
l believed to be upright, and in whom
believed the people of the country had
confidence, were to be ignored, and that a
political fungus of pretension was to take
the place Of those sturdy oaks of expert
ence and merit. You know with what re-
luctance l took part in the campaign. No
! body knows better than you what sacrificed
in business affairs when [ accepted the Sec
retaryship of the Republican committee
withdrawing my attention from the enter
prise in which we were concerned to de-
vote if to the proftless, and as it turned
out, worse than thankless, task of discharg-
ing this trust for the Republican party
through the most desperate canvass of its
history. When the campaign was over
declined the greatest reward that can be
offered to any citizen by any executive. 1
wanted no Office and I would have none,
and if the president elect could have
touched it. l did not obtrude upon the
president elect, as you know, any sugges-
tons of mine. but when he asked my ad-
vice-and you well remember the letters in
which he made these requests gave it to
him without reserve, as the published cor
respondence between US shows. Gen. Gar
field decided he was right and Twas wrong,
and thus MacVeagh came into power, hating
me. Gen. Garfield, in his amiability and
kindness of heart, permitted MacVeagh
and James to read the correspondence
which had passed between US, as he after
ward told me. This exemplifed the weak
ness Of a generous man.
The intensity Of MacVeagh's hatred for
| me is sufficiently attested by the fact that