Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1883 — Dorsey Proposed as a Candidate. [ARTICLE]

Dorsey Proposed as a Candidate.

That stalwart Republican journal, the Denver Tribune, proposes that “Stephen W. Dorsey, of Arkansas, Cob orado, Judge Wylie’s court and New Mexico,” should be taken up by the Democrats as a candidate for Vice President. This will not answer. Mr. Dorsey still a Republican, and the Democrats will not have him. Yet we will say there is one reason why we should prefer him as a candidate before many other members of the Republican party. He is not a hypocrite. He had no hand in that shameful episode of our history, the fraudulent administration. He neither aided in stealing the Presidency in 1876, nor did he cover himself with disgrace by taking office under the fraud. The worst offenses alleged against him are small in comparison to that. But it is impossible that Mr. Dorsey should ever be a Democratic candidate. We do not like his style. We cannot tolerate his methods. The Republicans like them. They believe in them. After the election of 1880 they gave Dorsey a splendid banquet in this city to celebrate his success in achieving the election of Garfield and Arthur. At that banquet Gen. Arthur presided and made the chief speech. In praising Dorsey, he dwelt with great propriety on the most effective agency that had been employed in the election. That agency Arthur then described as “soap.” By this word he meant the bribery of voters. Garfield’s and Arthur’s election was bought, and if it had not been bought they could not have had it. In Indiana Pofsey applied soap to the extent of hundreds of thousands of dollars. The amount which he caused to be paid Out there is stated at $400,000. In the cities of New York and Brooklyn bribery was also practiced under his direction. He confesses that something like a hundred thousand dollars was expended here immediately before the election, and that the majority against Gen. Hancock in this State was thus created. Dorsey had at his disposal a vast corruption fund, and he used it without scruple in buying votes; while the chief Republicans, who knew all the facts, united to do him honor and to glorify an election which they had gained by “soap.” For this sort of politics we have no feeling but scorn and hatred. We would rather be beaten forever than use such means. Turn out the rascals! Clear out the den of thieves! • The Republican party must go!— New York Sun. When Congress convenes Mr. Whitelaw Reid will be required to tell what he knows about Jay Gould’s purchase of Stanley Matthews. Mr. Reid thinks the investigation will tickle the Republican party wonderfully. Maybe it wiH just laugh itselfr to death. Who knows? —lndianapolis Sentinel.