Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1881 — Guiteau, Dorsey & Co. [ARTICLE]

Guiteau, Dorsey & Co.

The embarrassment under which the President suffers, because of the character of a couple of men who claim to have made him, is grimly portrayed by a Washington correspondent. Dorsey carried Indiana. Guiteau swore: “1 think a great deal of President Arthur ; I made him President.” “But Guiteau is in court, and very likely to hang for making Arthur President, while Dorsey is threatened with the penitentiary for his manner of scraping money together to make Arthur Vice President. There probably never was an administration so embarrassed about its paternity. It is a case of etiquette not provided for in Mrs. Admiral Dalilgreu’s able work on that subject, nor is it ’aid down m the rules for governing the elevator in the war and navy offices. It must be a tough thing on the President to contemplate the probability of having to decide which of the two made him—Dorsey or Guiteau. There can be no question of identity. Mr. Arthur has formally acknowledged Dorsey at that banquet, and Guiteau has admitted the promotion under oath. It can not be charged that Dorsey was insane when he was distributing the small bills ot the Indiana campaign—sl and $2 bills—nor has he pleaded insanity as an offset to the star-route frauds. Yet it will be a bad day for party discipline and boss rule when a President of the United States rewards his most conspicuous political friends by hanging them and clapping them into the penitentiary, instead of giving them office, as is customary. True, there is more room in Hades and the penitentiary than in the civil service, but the example might frighten off a good deal of boss support. The question is : What is to be done with the stalwart firm of Presi-dent-makers—Guiteau, Dorsey & Co.?”— Chicago Times.