Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1881 — The Savior of Indiana. [ARTICLE]

The Savior of Indiana.

Stephen W. Dorsey in himself would not merit much discussion. Knaves of his sort are passing through obscure courts and into the penitentiary in wellregulated communities daily. But Dorsey is the agent of a great party—the honored and feted agent. He was chosen in February last as the one man meet to be worshiped by all that is regarded as of repute and influence in the party that elected Garfield President. He is the man, it should not be forgotten, -who “carried Indiana.” How he carried it Vice President Arthur with a broad wink declared it inexpedient to tell at that famous dinner, because there were “reporters present.” Some of the ways in which he carried it are now breaking surfaceward. One of the patriots whom he neglected to placate quotes his instructions. This evangelist, one S. P. Conner, Chairman of a county committee, says : “Dorsey demanded that Newton should give 600 majority. I told him we could not give it. He then said he would give me money to help us, and that being on the Illinois line we could thus colonize and make the 600 majority, X told him

frankly I was not zealous enough in the cause to engage in such disreputable business. As autocrat, he seemed greatly incensed, and dismissed me from his artgust presence with a promise to see me later.” Conner now avers that Newton secured the 600 majority without colonizing, and that, having achieved this in? possibility, he thought himself entitled to a Postmastership, but it was ungraciously refused. Hence Conner’s contribution to the rapidly accumulating evidences of Dorsey’s handiwork in postal thefts and electoral corruption. No wonder, with the postoffice mine in hand, he could declare a little while ago that he would stand a lawsuit sooner than take an office. Meanwhile Dorsey is the agont-in-chief of the Republican party organization. He has not secured his letter from Postmaster General James, exonerating him, as he modestly asked, but he need have no fear. His is a party that stands by its rogues. He will have opportunity of getting even with the marplots who have uncovered liis rascalities. What a President he Would make, as Gorham said of Brady. —Philadelphia Tinies.