The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-20
DORSEY IN INDIANA.
The Part He Took in the Last Campaign
The Motives of the Ex-senator.
.ia Daggett. in BrookIyn EagIe.

Ex-Sheriff Daggett, in Brooklyn Eagle.
How was the money raised which Senator
Plat took to Indiana?"
at was raised by subscription among tbo
merchants and bankers of New York, at a
dinner given, l think, at Governor Morgan,
house"
SIS Dorsey entitled to the credit which bs
claims in connection with the Republican
victory in Indiana?'.
Not at all. He went there as the author.
lied representative of the national commit
tee. 1t is we'll known that Indiana has mora
politicians to the square inch than any State
in the Union. They were divided into MANY
cliques. There was the John c. New clique,
the Gresham clique, the Dudley clique and
many more, each one jealous of the other.
They had worked we'll together while Oliver
L. Morton was in control of the State,
his ov%ershadowing ability welding
them together, but after his death
they had degenerated into fierce and
uncompromising fragments. New and Dud.
ley, however, had the most perfectly organl
lied machinery in the State for ascertainina
the political opinions of its inhabitantsi
They had been at such work for years. Where
Dorsey came in was simply to bump togeth.
er the heads of the leaders of the ~factions
and tell them to stop fighting. He did this
as the representative of the committee, and
any other man in his place could have done
the same thing. For those who are not fa
miliar with the expenditure of money fol
political pusposes there seems to be but oni
conclusion, and that is, that the money 81
expended is used as a corruption fund. Tha
is rot SO. The money spent in Indiana wa
used for the purpose of familiarizing TIL
voters of that State with fho raa1 eir,,6ooDa
OF the election-with the bearing the fight il
October would have upon the contest
November. The gentlemen l nave men
tioned-New, Dudley, Gresham and 9th
ers were members of the committe
before whom all claims for assistance wer
laid, and they passed upon them. Mr.. Oorse
accepted their judgment, and gave an ordd
upon Mr.. Stevenson for the money to d
given to the committeeman from the variou
localities. Had Mr.. Dorsey remained ii
New York precisely the. same thing would
have been lone by any other member of TIL
national committee who had been sent to In
diana. 1t is all bosh to talk of Dorsey as be
ing entitled to the credit of CARRYING tn
State. The campaign in Indiana was planned
by I%ndianians, AID their plan was submitte,
to General Arthur and Senator Plat, and b
them approved. Through them the none
for carrying out the plan was raised. tn
discovery by the Indiana State COMMITTEE
that their State was to swarm with illegd
voters from the borders of Kentucky REQUIRED
the expenditure OF a considerable portion 1f
the money raised, for the reason that thee
was a vast extent of territory which had 70
be watched day and night to prevent this
nefarions scheme from being carried OUT"
What do you suppose are Dorsey's mo-
tives in attacking General Garfield and Pres.
ident Arthur. Is he seeking to destroy his
party?'
1T is difficult to determine what his mo.
twas Shunpad opA avoida1 hxr tboen
who formerly fawned upon him, his nature
has become embittered, and he seeks to ruin
that which he failed to rule. The Repub-
lican party has withstood many attacks far
more serious than those made by Dorsey,
who stands before the world convicted, not
withstanding the verdict of not guilty, which
was probably procured by the same means by
which expedition was accomplished in the
star-route frauds. His bitter hostility to
General Arthur can only be explained on
the theory that he expected h.- -4be :
trials when he came into Office. Nearly
every statement made by Dorsey is known
to General Arthur to be false, and yet he
must remain silent under them. After all
they are but the insane rawlings of a mailman,
and as such will be received generally with
that consideration which usually attaches to
such vaporings. Dorsey has not substanti-
ated a single statement made by him, and
cannot. His outrageous eXaggeration of the
amount of money raised and expended
which he places up in the millions-can be
disproven by a hundred men. Every one
knows that political campaigns cannot be
conducted without the expenditure of
money, and the pious and v%irtuous Demo-
crat who lifts up his eyes in holy horror at
the bare suggestion is probably at this mo-
ment cudgeling his brains to now where
the money is coming from to respond to the
slogan of Turn the rascals out know
that the national committee was very hard
up at the time when Dorsey claims it was
r~eveling in wealth, for Governor Jewell bor-
rowed $4,000 from me at a tim when
he had advanced SIS, 900 of his own money,
and the treasury was still empty. 1t was
near the close of the campaign before the
committee was able to repay me this loan.
This does not seem to bear out Dorsey's
statement"