Show OIL aj amira irmo of IS L OW Fa famous ous expose was made 9 J r dwards edward tell tells of senator dorseys confession of the way in which he captured indiana for republican republicans in 1830 one of the famous boj poj po tacal exposes of yesterday erday waa was that in which ste t ilan W dorsey united states eena sona lor for from arkansas during the ricou It ruction period told how ae as secretary of the republican national corn com matl in 1880 he be had collected and used in new two dollar bills for or the purpose of influencing the tato state of indiana to return s eafe safe ma dority for tho republican presidential ti ceet of tb that it year now for the first time la Is told in print bow how senator dorsey came to make the confession hibb created such intense excias ment throughout the country in the emmr summer of 1883 early in barfield Oar field administration the eo so called star route frauda frauds were brought to light and in connection with them senator dorsey was in dieted for conspiracy at tte first trial the jury failed to reaia reath a d deat a cl lion but upon a trial in 1833 be waa was acquitted I 1 reported big this 00 oo ond end trial for the new now york sun on orders from mr dana direct it wae was late in the day that esna tor dormoy wid acquitted about 10 0 clock that light there came a knock on the door of the hotel room I 1 was occupy ILK lb and opening the th door in response ree I 1 was confronted by senator domneys Dore Dor eye negro valt sen ben atah stab dorsey wants to see we you all at once sah ah he be reported lie ile done ent me to tell you youell all so 0 o deeply wondering at the message I 1 went immediately to senator dor T he ile received me cordially and at once began to explain why he bad had summoned me 1 1 I have read every day your report of my trial he bald maid all yours baa has been ve t only true report of 0 the trial you have told exactly what happened what wai was aid bald and done you have not colored your reports at the instigation of those of my political enemies who abused my indictment when they should have defended me from the charges brought against me I 1 am grateful to you for your fairness to me and I 1 am now going to prove my gratefulness I 1 have just finished a statement in which I 1 tell tail why I 1 was wall indicted and tried in it I 1 charge that all thir trouble was brought upon m me maliciously by my political enemies ener nies here Is the statement you alone of at aji the newspaper men who reported iny trial wll will get it send it to your paper U d you like and you can at assure asare mr dana that he will have the publication catlon ot of it al at mid brown of georgia declared that he learned something from every speech however ory dry it might seam se am to other others one ot aby th famous civil war rover bora core of the south mouth was joseph E vown V own of georgia C orala father of the present georgia governor gorp gorer nor of that name goyer nor brown the elder an ardent feces slon lat seized the georgia forts before his state seceded raised nn army rt ot old pen and boys to prove t general hermal from marching inarching through the state in hia his way to the se ej 1 threatened to hare have georgia acedo from rom the confederacy should cone crip ion be enforced jn in the aate support d bebie geneval T ra branit fco r 1 be lency rn ran for or united states as a republican later returning to the demo cratic f arty end arid belag belc sent by it to the united states senate in 1880 it was wall while he was in washington that I 1 made the om of guy emor drown brown lie wad n man of 0 patri archal appearance lie its wore the beard I 1 of the prophet his white hair hung in quaint and tight little ringlets tIng lets about hie his ears and the back of his head the lenses of his spectacles were so cx as to make his ap aft t abnormally largo ills ill dress oo 00 matter bow hot the weather r was always the frock coat ablack black and the old fashioned dickey collar and he be aldaya looked cool isfort ho tie haj been in the senate only a ft short time when it waa descove red that he was cot not only a patient and faltha 11 listener to every speech chrt was nade but that he alio also s emad to take real pleasure in n L daving heed head to the dullest of utterances utterance alpon upon one oo 00 A from florida who had the reputation nf at immediately emptying the sen son chamber chimber ahel he rose arose to speak delivered tin an address of nearly three hours duration with benator senator drown brown as to his only listener and the ballf in bis his opening rig sentences sentence fixed Us his gala upon his brother from georgia and kept it there until he hid rid himself of his ponderous thoughts the th next da dav I 1 met senator browa brown said you paid the MB ren ator stor from florida a very great cour ty in Ulten I enIng tn to hit I 1 isah night I 1 leave for my ranch la in new now mexico good by I 1 bad had tried to report the trial im parti partially illy and I 1 believe that senator dorsey was not quite accurate when he charged that all the tile other report reports bad had been colored against him yet this I 1 know absolutely for a fact I 1 hardly took time to thank the senator for giving mo the exclusive use of hip hi statement so anxious as I 1 to put it on the wire after he b had bad banded handed it to me and next day when it was pub dished in full ita its accusations against the sena senators toes former political associates and its vindictive tone caused caud it to be the sensation of the hour A day later I 1 received a wire from mr dana instructing me to call on senator dorsee doree while he was in a vindictive mood and get him if possible to describe bow how the doubtful and crucial state of indiana had really been influenced to go republican three yeara years before I 1 telegraphed back that the senator iad I ad left tor for bis his ranch in new now mexico an hour or so to after ho he bad had given me this statement and in a short time word came from mr lit dana to follow senator dorsey thither at once A week or so later I 1 was sitting with the senator on the porch of his hi ranch house senator I 1 said 1 I have been seat sent he had every newspaper in the state sent to him at washington and head read local new news with utmost care united states senator from kansas from bli his death in december 1801 1901 preston IL plumb wae was one of the tb moat most interesting men to be found in the national capital during that pe vo and that wee was the time too ana joha john J ingalls waa was in the heyday of 0 his big national glory senator plumb waa was in striking contrast to hia his distinguished colleague ingalls wan was a fine scholar a student ot of the las classies la esice sies and one of the beet best orators the senate ever had plumi was anything but a brilliant Ep eaker ana and he delivered his speeches so rapidly that toey they ere caught wita with dim colty culty by the senate ingalls was fastidious in bis big dress and his personal habits plumb was not at all particular about the style cut or condition of his coat cost bleming Mp fating ingalls on the street and not knowing who be h was yon you would at once have set him down as a man of parts meeting plumb under like you senator who always listened 1 not patiently tir he be eald laid at last 1 I 1 wae was greatly interested in the speech of the senator from florida and received nuch information from him I 1 do not care at all for the flourish of rhetoric rheto ria and if it I 1 am ever impatient A with ath a speaker it Is when it la Is apparent that be he Is to trying to display oratorical gifts oratory Is 19 all right tight upon the stump but it Is not in place in the senate and I 1 am glad to observe that the cal bombast and the classical quota eions which in other years character iced much of ot the speaking in the sen men ale ate no longer prevail the pesch that counts count the kind of speech that should always be mad made in the senate Is the lh one that informs such speeches may seem dr at fit times to others but never to me and from lib lit ening to just such speeches since I 1 took my seat I 1 have gained a great fund of valuable information there Is no senator who cannot beath me some thing I 1 hope it may be eald said of me la in time that I 1 have been able to teach some of my fellow ne eena natora tors something at least to give them some informs tion and ax as jong na as I 1 am a member of the senate I 1 shall unless circumstances over which I 1 have no control prevent it listen to every speech made and pay par earnest heed beed to it even though I 1 may chance to be to the only in the senate chamber senator brodu was faithful to that resolution hie his service was ended it Is perhaps a record unique in the history of the upper house of the national legislature CoPY copyright tight 1210 1 br by E J edward all night 1 11 sill II the way out cere here fro from m washing to ton to have you tell me ju just t bow how the influenced to go state ot of indiana was republican tn in 1880 11 you tell me ma the story I 1 know you can if it you w will III I 1 ii tell you he be eald maid grimly the bond of secrecy wae was removed from MY lip lips when the very men ho bo should have shielded ibl elded ine from prosecution in the star route matter for what I 1 bad had done for or the republican party actually conspired to persecute roe me III tell ou the whole story and III i tell ou thing things that cant be denied for it was ass 1 I the secretary a of the re be publican national committee who planned and had carried out the trick that did the work in lia icci diina ma the next minute Step stephen hers W dor sey started in with hie his confession for a ek ek thereafter I 1 remained at bis his ranch questioning quett loning pickle picking up al a thread here end and a thread there writing the tory and playing bil blysard lards with A ith my host hot when whon roy my talk task wa was all done he it and vouched for every very statement made therein then the manuscript wa was eat sent east printed a enort short time later it filled nearly two pages in the new lorli sun and caused a veritable country wil alja lo 10 een sew and va this day what sena tor dorsey told ine and what I 1 arote rote bout about bow how indiana had been made republican in 1880 by the purchase of colored votes at two dollan dollars apiece has never been denied copyright 1910 ly 1 the th lit ut rry ivess ir plumb kept tab on kansas Is would have placed him as a plain fanner famer again ICA liag war not especially in te rested in politic patronage or in any of the minor political duties with which lena senators tore are a often burdened in patronage patron axe and the detail details that it its distribution brings plumb was deeply interested and in till tills connection his intimate knowledge of his own state wae w 86 constantly a boote of wonder to big colleague collea tug s andl st good deal of a mystery why amid senator fry frye of maino waino to me in the its ot of senator SD Ator plumb seem to know every mi me i in n the state at of kama kansas either by nl or eight might ala more be haa b the entire statistics as a well ai am the latest thought though tL ef of the tale state at hi ills tongue a end ilaw ne he doe does it all I 1 can cant t quite comprehend A little later 1 had occa aton to call upon senator numb one evening at his room rooms I 1 the doot and I 1 ini a in kenw ep anve to a luuk and heart summons to enter I 1 at first saw rb one ne bet rut I 1 bad had never be fore seen etch a collection of new news papers and unbound documents se as the room contained cont lined not even in the acce of a newspaper exchange editor the were about everywhere th the J floor was literally c carpeted with them and aby wr were stacked up in the coz ners find on salves placed against tag walla walls for a few moments I 1 gazed about me in its eilent silent wonder then earing a rustling in an alcore of GI th the room as of some one turning axer a newspaper I 1 walked thither and dl dis covered senator plumb all but bidden behind an newspaper ava dash ing trough it at breakneck speed seemingly taking in an all entire colln COIL 1011 at a single glance of the ey eye ach well senator I 1 eald said in my surprise I 1 this Is somewhat unusual 11 ife smiled this ti where and bow I 1 keep in touch with my elate state be b eald said 1 I hare have every newspaper published in kansas dally or weekly sent to me here I 1 read road every one on of them faithfully I 1 do not look at the associated press res reports or at the reirin matter but I 1 read carefully and full fully the local news and an I 1 am especially pa cuTar aar to scan eean the C columns COB con tributes tri buted by w what hat are called the coun cun try coir t identa alo are never so happy as a when wilm they are tiling telling all they know about everybody Tery elery body they know through them I 1 have acme cr me to know about their neighbors just as am much as they do themselves theme elves 1 I also read the editorial very care lully fully I 1 am especially carefuL to red the ad of the democratic pa pers in this apy I 1 am able to keep abreast of the tajet in K thought thO light just us an from fr om the local new now columns and the th letters of the lbs coun try correspondents I 1 learn of tie tle lat est happenings to and views of john smith and john jones they say mar ta in the 1 I beller believe that I 1 know everything worth know ing abou kansas well I 1 try to learn all about it I 1 at Is worth knowing and it Is IN I 1 only by dking and rendial thoroughly the paper papers of the that I 1 have been able to keep in stats state I 1 at rian 1 h J it if its people touch and mad its pro opinions 1 alons OD but it a a job it keeps me busy ertling after evening eren ing it turn turns my quarter qu artere into an all old paper heap and the junior scrap senator troa from the sunflower state looked ruefully at the mass of discarded papers bading the carpet completely 1110 by B r J Kd adu wards U aulito revolved 4 |