The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-02-20
WORKING TIE CHURCH.

Ex-senator Dorsey, the late Stal
Route defendant, has been sorry
thorn in the side of the corrupt ring
(Which embraces pretty nearly the
entire org nizstion) of the Republi-
can party. For a long time he was
the chief deer IF the dirty work,
having neither conscience nor any
idea of political morality. Indeed,
the man seems never to have
thought that honesty and morality
could enter into party management.
To him the doctrine that to the vic
tors belong the spells was
gospel to be obeyed by
the party and individuals.
When it was found that he was COB
bling more than his share of the
spoils and his dissatis fed fellow Re
publicaps were forced by public
sentiment TO make a show Of com
polling him to disgorge, he thought
it time to retaliste, and has sincs
been persecuting his prosecutors.
They have gotten the better OF him.
he being overwhelmed with dis
grace, but it was case Of one
against million, snd as a
matter of course defeat was
inevitable. However, he fights
like a desperate hero, and
his own misery must be modified by
the fun of seeing others wriggle on
the spit where he has impaled them.
The latest contribution to the We
lume of campaign exposures that
Dorsey has made is found in the Chi
cago Meas, one of its correspondents
having "pumped" the ex-senator to
good effect. 1t Ia doubly interesting
from the fact that IL proves again
that the late lamented Garfield was
not entirely without guile. The
correspondent and Dorsey tell the
story as follows:
"While in Indiana did Gen. CART Id
write you in reference to and suggesting
the use Of the Campbellite church to Sc.
cure his election, on the ground that he
wa' member Of it?'
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to me, but sent out the most prominent
men Of that church. among them Mr..
Phillips, Of Pennsylvania, and bis own
successor as president of Bran College.
We did all we could and used all the
methods in our power, at the suggestion
of General Garfield, to produce the re-
suit we desired. 1 say this because l
don't think there is any secret about it
II there is, it is 80 open that 10, 00C people
know it,"
"Whss method did he suggest to
change the political convictions of the
mem bers Of bis church,"
General Garfield seemed to think it
best where We found church in debt
that represented large number ofvoters
that il we had the means we should pay
off the debt, and where we found com
munity with good number of Campbell,
lite voters without q church we hsn bet
ter contribute literally toward building
one, and especially II the voters were
De locrsts. carried out theae sugges
lions TO the best Of nv ability under the
guardianship Of Mr.. Phillips and others.
We tried to make the lonely way of the
Oampbellite as pleasant ss possible, and
there were about 25,0 of them in the
State"
Now, the question arises, was
Garfield playing the whole Repub.
lican party for the benefit of his
church, or did he play the church
for the benefit of himself and the
Republican party? The Csmpbellite
church is VIGOROUSLY poor in this
worlds treasures, however well fixed
it may bs with regard to riches
that have been stored where moth
and rust do not enter, nor Repub~
lican thieves break through and
steal. Understanding the circum>
stances it Is not impossible
that General Garfield concluded
that In view of the fact that large
sum of money was to be expended
it would be an act of shrewd loyalty
on his part to use some of it in lifting
mortgages from his churches and
providing new houses of worship
for his poor brethren: especially is
this probable when it ia reasoned
that dollar so expended would not
only be so much credit with
the Lord, but would influence a
vote for the party q and the church's
candidate for the Presidency. Mr..
Dorsey does not give a list of the
churches that were helped or the new
ones erected out of the Republican
corruption found, but he does assert,
and nobody has denied it, that he
spent 1892, In carrying Indiana for
Garfield. We hope the Cambsllite
brethren obtained large portion OF
that money. 1t is much better that
it be expended in building houses CT
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