The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-21
DORSEY'S STORY.
Indiana Republicans Scout the Idea of His
Carrying the State.

indianapolis Special to Boston Herald.
The long story of Mr.. Dorsey and his rela-
tions to the campaign of 1880, printed in the
New York Sun, reached this latitude o-day,
and, as this locality figures prominently in
the narrative as the scene of Mr.. Dorsey s
wonderful exploits, it has been read with
some little interest, but there is not a ripple
of feeling as the result. The trash and non
sense about the Indiana campaign and Mr.
Dorsey's remarkable work in this State have
been told so often that it has become a twice
told tale, hummed into the ear OF drowsy
man. AS a matter of fact, Mr.. Dorsey's pres
ence IN Indiana. with his lieutenant, Mr..
George O. Gorham was the one thing which,
more than anything else, threatened the re-
suit of the election. The Republicans of
Indiana for more than year had
been actively at work organizing the
State and when Governor Porter was NOM
mated, and General Garfield became the
candidate there was at once the most jubilant
feeling everywhere, and the people went to
work in every school district and precinct.
This was deepened and widened when the
tariff question became so prominent. 1t is
within personal knowledge that Dorsey and
his crowd played upon Garfied's fears, and
made him believe that things here were in q
desperate condition. He sent Swain over
here to look into matters. Swain fell into
the hands of few men who were in that
ring, and he went back to Mentor with q
cock-and-bull story, out of which Dorsey &
Co. hoped to trade with the new admnistra-
ton. The history of the campaign from the
beginning to the end, written by those
who knew the inside workings, will show
that from the start the influences were in
favor of the Republicans, and these disinter-
ested DerSOnS wrote uroentlV and sent tele-
grams during the closing weeks of the can
vass to leading party men in the East, warn
ing them of the ill-feeling that was being de-
veloped by the presence and the Swagger,
and the ill-smelling influence of Dorsey,
Gorham, Filley & Co. 1t is notorious here,
with those who know, that there was the
greatest danger of a violent reaction against
the impSrtinent interference of these men,
A great deal of money was used, but it was
used legitimately i'll the work of organization
and policing the State against Democratic
frauds and in carrying out the plans
of the State central committee
and of Colonel Dudley, who had
special charge of certain branches of
the work. 1t is known tnat during the last
week of the campaign a sum of money came
here from New York and was offered to tine
central committee, and the bearer was told
that there was no necessity for it at all. Only
portion was taken and the balance re-
turned. Mr.. Dorsey's swagger aud story and
alleged confessions and publications of the
campaign are received here with contempt.
The idea that Dorsey could come into the
State for three weeks put up at the Denison,
drink McBrayer, and carry Indiana, may do
for marines, and was made to answer the
purpose of dishonest men with General Gar
field for time. But he lived to find out his
mistake, and it is time the country generally
was disabused of the nonsense.