Daily globe., 1883-07-20
ference who kept away. Why he did so
will appear later.

V.
The great Republican party had come
to this at last. 1t had nominated Credit
Mobilier man for president, and its candi-
date, to win, was obliged to meet with the
representatives. of powerful faction, and
dicker and bargain with them for the price
of their support. Dorsey had told Gar
field that this Fifth Avenue hotel confer
ence would be ''the climax of the canvass" i"
If it was successful, Dorsey promised sue
cess in November; if it failed, Dorsey said
that they might as well close their COM
mittee rooms and let the canvass go by
default. Time was pressing. 1t wanted
but a few weeks to the great preliminary
contest in Indiana. Garfield had been
greatly impressed with Dorsey's earnest
ness, and when he met the
representatives of the great stall
wart faction in the Fifth Avenue
parlor, it was noticed that the smiling.
hail-fellow- well-met manner was absent.
He was most serious, and seemed to be
thoroughly in earnest. He made plain,
seemingly perfectly frank statement to the
grim politicians in front of him who had
his fate in their hands. He acknowledged
as much to them. He said, as he had said
before to Dorsey, that New York had the
right to expect the largest recognition
at his hands; that it was his earnest desire
so to shape his course that all differences
in the party would be reconciled, and that
no one would expect that he would for a
moment entertain any idea but that of
learning what the wishes of the friends in
New York were, and if they were consistent
with what was fair, he would give his
hearty assent to them,
But generalities were not INDUCED in
very long. Facts and figures were pre-
sented as coldly and as free from hints as
bargain for the sale of railroad. They
told him first that it was expected that he
would agree to appoint as secretary of the
treasury New York man prominently
identified with the part of the party that
favored the nomination of Grant. He
said that the demand was not only not un-
reasonable but entirely proper, and when
Levi 2. Morton was suggested as the man
who was desired, Gen. Garfield promised
without further qualification, that, if elect
ed, he would appoint Mr.. Morton secretary
of the treasury. He subsequently added
that if Mr.. Morton preferred frst-class
mission abroad he should be appointed to
that. Now comes the humiliating part of
the business. The cool and determined pol
itIcians with whom the candidate for the
presidency was dealing kept up the bus1-
ness aspect of this proceeding by making
duplicate memoranda of what had been
promised. It was a formal document,
frigid as bill of sale.
But this was trifie compared with that
which followed. This only secured the
active support of the stalwarts. That was
nothing without money. Whether Garfield
made or received first the proposition that
men say was made, it is now asserted by
those who know that another memoran-
dunn was drawn up. In that it is asserted
that the candidate for the presidency of
the Republican party agreed with the
cool, remorseless politicians who had him
in their power, that the operation of re-
funding the government fves and skies,
which must soon take place, should be
given to such syndicate of New
York bankers as should be desig-
mated by the stalwarts, and at such com
mission as should be fair. Here were mil
lions in prospect. The operation, as has
since been shown, was an enormous one,
and at an apparently trifing commission
would have given the fortunate syndicate
profits such as has not been realized since
the days when the great government loans
were placed. With such an agreement
the problem of raising campaign funds
was solved, and the mysterious Fifth Ave
nue. hotel conference was ended The
bargain was made. The Lstalwarts had for
price been won-all but one. Mr..
Conkiing, as those who ought to know
best then and now believe, had learned of
this proposed bargain for the refunding
of the bonds, and cared not to have part
nor share in it. So he kept away from
that conference.