Daily globe., 1883-08-02

conversation was interrupted while they
were speaking of the money spent by the
Republican national committee in New
York. The following completes the inter
view, and adds valuable chapter to our
political history:
after Indiana had been won in Octo-
ber," remarked the Herald representative,
''there was, of course, no doubt in your
mind of the ultimate RESULT
"Well. there ought not to have been, but
when l came back to New York and looked
into the fold of shambled sheep thought
there was danger. was utterly worn out
and half sick from the work in Indiana.
but when went to my honse, where jew
ell and the committee were, and saw
Arthur sitting at the table with his fat and
ruddy face buried in his hands, the picture
of misery and apprehension, knew my
work was not done. They were the worst
scared lot ever saw. They were morally
certain New York was lost. I thought so,
too, to tell the square truth, and I didn't
much wonder at Arthur's despair. Finally
I took rooms at the Fifth Avenue Hotel,
and set the ball IN motion to snatch victo-
~ from defeat. I called for the reports
from every township in the state, and
when he got them saw at once that we
were beaten unless we could reduce the
majority in New York and Kings. There
was no time to cover the state. We had
less than three weeks to work in. It was
impossible to do anything but turn every
light in upon New York and Kings. We
succeeded. We cut the Democratic vote
down in those two counties 10000, and by
that means got the state by 10000 majori-
ty. They talk of fine work in Indiana.
It wasn't patch to what we did in New
York.
''And what we're your chief implements
in that deal?"
''Hot work, sharp trades and quick bar
gaius, and golden stream from Steven
sons Bank
SIN other words, soap eh?"
swell yes" said MIR. Dorsey, laughing.
''Thats what Tom Acton called it."
Il thought" said the Herald correspond
ent, that you were indebted to President
Arthur for that happy conceit."
'Well, Arthur made use of the express
sion, but Tom Acton was the inventor. It
was at that d banquet spoke of before;
it was we'll along past the shank of the
evening, and everybody was making fool
of himself. Arthur, remember, was
making jubilant, hysterical aud maudlin
speech. He was rubbing his hands in in
visible soap, and showering enconiums
right and left that were not deserved. Fin
ally he said: "But while our friend, the
honored guest of the evening, is entitled to
his full need of praise, there are other
agencies which have helped to bring about
these great results. Do you know what
they are?" roared Arthur. He meant, /
SUPPOSE, unity of action and hearty zeal
and all that rubbish. He paused an in
stant, as if for reply Tom Acton sat
there with big bottle of champagne be-
fore him, and in the stiffness broke out
with 'Soap!' That's it, laughed Arthur,
as he shivered his champagne glass on the
table. That's it-Soap.'" "That," con-
tinued Mr.. Dorsey, "was the origin of the
expression
At this moment Isaac announced that
dinner was ready, and the two hours inter-
esting chat ended.
Mrs. Dorsey is superb housekeeper.
Her cook, a colored woman, is mistress of
the art. Isaac, as butler and "cellarer," is
a marvel of skill aud Judgment; the ex-
senator, as host, is a perfect symphony
of carving-knife and cordiality. Isaac had
ransacked the innermost recesses of his
vast stone vault and brought forth Bur-
gundy of Spanish Importation and tertio
millennial mellowness. The bottles were
gray with the mold of generations and its
contents were weighted with the bloom of
priestly blessings bestowed when New
Mexico was an appenage Of Spain. The
frappe was frozen in ice from the adjacent
Palo Blanco; ana its sparkle, though
deadened by the frost, would even yet
have delighted the Widows gFast by its
homelike brilliancy. The e. der was
a charm and a success. During
its continuance Mrs. Dorsey chatted away
and remarked: "You two getlemen, his
torians of the time, had better now settle
down to materialities. The trouble with
Dorsey" she said-she always calls him
'Dersey"-"is that when he gets started he
wants brake; please don't interpret him
and his sayings too literally" and her
great eyes spoke volumes. 1t was the
woman's instinct of caution which, in re-
gard Cor him she revered, risked even the
imputation of inhospitality to secure.
The lady was reassured that in the hands
of her guest her husbands widest out
burst or most delicate confidence was
safe.
dorsey isn't always PRUDENT she said
with quiet dig into the sugar bowl. Mr.
Dorsey bent his great goggles on her and
smiled lovingly, and remarked: My dear,
did you ever know me to be very much of 6
foel?"
The lady smiled and the subjec
changed.
After dinner the mail rider passed by
and left huge sack of letters and papers
1t is Mrs. Dorsey's duty to open mail mat
ter, and while the senator and his CUES
were on the veranda enjoying cigar il
the twilight the lady appeared and said
Dorsey, here's something Charlie Foste
says about you that you ought to know;
know he-he-tells what isn't So"
Better say, dear, that he lies," said th'
senator. ''But what is it? know it''
something mean"
"He has been interviewed in Cincinnati
said the lady, "and here's a long account
He says you were never offered a cabine
position except verbally, and then with tn
understanding that you should decline it
That even then you begged for the offer
that you didn't have Garfeld's confidence
that he was afraid of you, and-and-
don't know how much more.