The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-08-02

= success, and Dorsey WAS admired aud
congratulated. Subsequently Gen. Ar
thur, then Vice. President elect. in a
burst of confidence ~ the famous dinner
gi:cn In dorsey, summarized il all in
one word, Soap" Garfield, Arthur,
James, Wayne MacNcugh ana other
Republican leaders knew a, the tiulc
what had been done, and AL We'd in
doing Dorsey honor.
VII.
But the cilec; of tho October election
in Indiana was only moral, and il was
feared it would he tcmporsry. Both
Dorsey and Brady asserted that The
same kind of argument that had been
used in October must he used again in
November, or the State would De lost.
a two.dollar bill WAS good only for one
election. More money must bu raised,
aud the Republican s!!:si;agnrs III casting
about for means Thought Of the Star
route contractors. Garfield himself,
calling to mind his investigation and his
discovery that tho contractors were re.
ceiving great sums from tho Government,
felt that they ought To subscribe. Other
Leading Republican managers had the
same opinion.
One day Jay llubbcll called upon
masler.general. Brady" said he, "the
Star. route contractors must subscribe nj
least forty thousand dollars 10 the cam
paign fund, and YOU must 'ccEec, the
| money"
BRADY replied that there would hc no
difficulty about raising that amount. lie
vas willing 10 ander.aiic go raise il, bu.
he didn't propose to bun, his fingers, in
view OF Hayes's order, and the feeling
| against Government employees soliciting
subscrip tions. Hubbcll thought thai
Grady was altogether too sensitive about
it, but Brady was firm. Give me"
said Brady, Something that | can fall
back on in case Of trouble and YOU shall
have the money"
II ubbell asked Brady if n mcmurun.
dura of somc sort from Il. B. I!aycs
wc'nld be sufficient, and Brady said TIM,
IL could, of course, provided it was the
right kind of memorandum. lIubbeIl
promised TO get it, and went to Ilavcs
forthwith. Hayes refused to write any
memorandum or letter. He did not for
bid the raising of the money he only
refused to do anything that would throw
the responsibility for it upon him.
Hubbell was in despair. He laborcd
again with Brady. but the assistant pos,
master general was firm ns rock. Hub.
bell then communicated with Dorsey.
and the result was that IIubbcll returned
To Brady, saying: "W ould you under.
take to rnse that money from the Star.
route contractors if you should get a
request or memorandum from Gen,
! Garfield?"
Brady hsd little faith in Garfield. lie
could not forget that Garfield had
promised to defend the Star-route an
prnpria.ions, and had failed to do 50
SUE, after considering tho matter for n
| while, Brady said that he would try To
raise the money, provided salts factory
Hocument were received from Garfield
iubbell at once wrote both To Garfield
and to Dorsey, who happened to be At
Mentor ut tho time. The project wns
talked over between Garfield and Dor.
sey, and at that time Garfield expressed
himself very frankly about the Stnr.routr
contractors. He knew that they were
receiving large contracts from the Gov.
ernment, and he thought they ought to
oe willing To contribute something for
the suc2ess Of {. party that had not oDi,
given them opportunities, but could
protect them in the future. Garfield
then showed Dorsey Il letter that he had
written to Brady at Hubbells suggestion,
1
himself to collect tho money. Dorsey
pcremptorily told him not to send the
letter. At D0rsey's suggestion, the
queer and notorious "Aly dear Hubbell"
letter was written. In it occurs the ex
preston, ASK Brady how tho depart.
ments are DOING" and this was intended
to be hint, request upon which Brady
would act When Brady first saw it he
treated IL with contempt. lie thought
he saw in it Willingness on the part of
the candidate to make cats. paw OF
him. But he finally consented to collect
the money. With the letter as an
authority, he did collect large sum of
money, part of which he took to Indi
ana, where it was spent, with Gariicld's
knowledge, by himself. and where i,
would do the most good.
Such is the history Of the "AIy dear
| Hubbcll' letter.
| 1t was about this time that complaints
were made both to Brady and Dorsey
that Gen. Garfield's hospitality at Men
tor was being abused, and that the can.
| didate found himself seriously embar
rassed for money. Garfield represented
that it was not right to expect or to
allow the candidate to be subjected Il
these burdens. This was lust wha,
Hayes had done before him, and Don
Cameron sent Hayes check for
| handsome amount to relieve his embar.
rassment. Both Brady and Dorsey saw
| to it that GaIfield's embarrassment was
relieved i'll the same way, for which
favor acknowledgements were duly re-
ceived from the candidate.
IN.
We now come to an event i'm the r.
markable canvass of 1880 that may have
the light Of Congressional III ves,iga.
ton thrown upon it. Early next winter
II is the intention Of a member of the
House to introduce n resolution recitinr
that charges have been made atTectiur
the integrity of the appuintmenl of y
Justice of the Supreme Court, and ask
ing that committee Of investigation br
appointed to ascertain the truth thereof
The following is q statement of the sub
stance of these charges:
1t is asserted that some of the Repub
ican managers in New York discovered
Or thought that they discovered, that JAY
Gould had subscribed fifty thousand
dollars to the Democratic campaign fund
in the fall Of 1880. This discovery
frightened the leaders. They had ex
pected large subscription from Mr..
Gould, but had failed 10 get it. He had
been distant, and it was thought that he
believed that Hancock would be elected.
How to get Mr.. Gould interested and