Daily globe., 1883-08-17
a BLUBBER INTERVIEW,

The Brooklyn Eagle publishes an inter-
view with Albert Dsggett, the big, beef
eating ex-sheriff of Kings county, in which
that clustering person pretends to contra
dict some of the minor statements of Dor
seY. Daggett, in his rambling talk, shows
that he has as little political sense or any
other kind of sense as the fat-witted Pho
neer Press and few other caIIow crea-
lures. Those who really know anything
about the inside of the Chicago conven-
ton are quite willing to abstain from any
reference to the version given by Dorsey
of the conduct of Garfield at the conven-
tion. 1t is a delicate matter and those
who discuss it to contradict Dorsey or for
any other purpose, exhibit lamentabIe
weakness. It is due to General Garfield to
say that primarily he did not wish to at
tend the Chicago convention. He had
been mentioned in connection with the
nomination, he had been approached on
the subject, and so far as he had any SYM
pathy with any of the candidates it was
with Blaine. Garfield was mentioned in
connection with the nomination in such a
way that Sherman was afraid of him.
To make his own case more secure. as he
thought, he asked, then insisted and final
ly commanded that Garfield should be a
delegate to the convention and present the
name of Sherman. With painful reIuct-
ance Garfield consented. He presented
Sherman,s name to the convention, but in
way that did not satisfy Sherman OF his
agents, and from Sherman and his friends
then and there came the charge against
Garfield, that Dorsey has merely repeated.
In his interview Daggett says:
AS to Garfield betraying Sherman at the ma
tional convention, the general said to me him
sell during the convention, 81 am not and can
not be candidate before this convention. T
came here as the champion and advocate of Sec
retary Sherman, who is Ohios candidate.,' 7
was IN close consultation with Garfield. Denni-
sonAand Foster during all the exciting period of
the convention, and Garfield never tagged for
an instant IN his zeal for Sherman. He had no
ldeaj of being nominated, and no wish to be-
he was palsled when he was nominated,
Ibis only goes to show that Daggett
and all other fools like him ought to
be muzzled. Ex-Gov. Dennison. who
was Sherman's chief manager, Mr.. Bate
man who had charge of Sherman's head
quarters, the two men who directed the
Sherman movement, did not confide in
Garfield or Foster, but on the contrary
kept all matters they deemed vital. secret
from them. Every sharp man in the con-
vention or Witnessing it, understood that
perfectly we'll. All understood too that
the delegates from GarfeId's congressional
district were Blaine men, and led the
break IN the Ohio delegation against Sher-
man. 1t was remarked at the time. and
not unreasonably, that it was very stranpe
that Garfield and the delegates from his
district were at such a variance. The an
plause that greeted Garfield every time he
came into the convention did not come
from Sherman men, but was started bv
Evan Morris, delegate from GarfeId's
district. Gov. Dennison asked Garfield to
try to get the delegates from his district
TO vote for Sherman, but he declined to
ask them, on the ground that they were
independent men and could vote for whom
they pleased. There are plenty of other
incidents, taken singLy or in mass, that
never have been reconciled with a support