Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1883 — DORSEY CONTINUES. [ARTICLE]

DORSEY CONTINUES.

44 Soap— That's It ” Laughed Arthur, as Hb Shivered His ChamHAGUE Glass—“ Soap.” Chicago H« iald: “Aftes Indiana had been won in October,” remarked the Herald reps esentative, “there was of course, no doubt in your mind of the ultimate result,” “Well, there ought not to have been, but when I came back to New York anu looked into the fold of shambled sheep 1 thought there was danger. I was utterly worn out and half sick Xrom the work in Indiana, but when I went to tuy house where Jewell and the Committee were, and saw Arthui sitting at. tha table with liis fat and .ruddy fß*v> buried in his hands, tne 1-ifturo of misery and appiehension, I knew iiiy work was not done. They were th* worst seated lot I ever saw They wore morally certain New York was lost. I thought so, too, to tel! the square truth, and I didn’t mu h wonder tit Arthur’s despair. Finally J 'ook rooms at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, rod set the ball iu motion to snatch vUiory from defeat. I calledfor the reports of every township in the State, and when I got them saw at onee that we were beaten unless We could reduce the rmipci y in New Y u s and Kings. Wesuoceeeed. We cut the Democratic vote down in those two counties 70,000. and by that means got the Slate bY 20,000 majority. They talk of line work in Indiana. It wasn’t a patch to what Wo lid iu Now York.” "And what were youi ohiei implements in that deal?” “Hot wont, sharp trades and quick bargains, and a golden stream from Stevenson’s Bunk.” “In other words, ‘soap,’ eh?” “ Well* ye«?,”said Mr. Dorsey, laugh ing. “That’s what Tom Actou called it.”

|fc“l thought,” said the H *t old eor respondent, "that you wer*. iud btei to President Arthur for thai ;. ie teit.” -Jll, Arthur made use of the exion, but Tom Acton was tho in-* r. It was at that d— — banquet I spoke of before; it was well past the shame of the evening, verybody was making a fool jself. Arthur, I remember was making a jubilant, hysterical and maudlin speech. He was rubbingjhis hands in invisible soap, and shower** ing encomiums right and left that were not deserved. Finally he said: “But while our friend, the honored guest of the evening, ia entitled to his full meed of praise, there aie oth-

er agencies which have helped to bring about those great results. Do you know what they are?”roared Ar thnr. He meant. I suppose, unity of action and hearty zeal, and all that rubbish. He paused an instant, as if for a reply. Tom Acton sat there with a big bottle of champagne before him. and in the stillness broke out with‘Soap!’ ‘That’s it,’ laughed Arthur, as he shivered his champagne glass on the table. ‘That’s it— Soap!’ ” “That,” continued Mr. Dorsry, “w-s the origin of the exp-ossion At this moment Isaac- announced that dinner was ready and the two hours’ interesting chat ended.