The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-06-23

pncaIlOns IN Europe, extra eulIlOnS VIII De issued
after this hour, and before the regular time for the
early edition.
4 STATESMAN AND A FLNANCIER.
THERE are always presaging rumors floating
upon the surface of American politics, which,
to the uninitiated, are as unintelligible and as
mysterious as the buried legends of Tyre and
Sodom. 1t was only this week that the tele-
graph flashed over the country the rather as
founding intelligence that Senator Cameron,
who was never known to resign anything that
the country would gain or he lose by resign
ing intended, when Congress again met, to
retire gracefully from the craftsmanship of
the Committee on Foreign Relations.
The continuation of this remarkable story
was that Mr.. Cameron would arrange matters
in such manner that Mr.. Sumner would be
reinstated in the position he had long held
with such distinguished credit to himself and
the country, and thus the Massachusetts Sc
nator, now in arms against the administra-
tion, would be brought into engaging har-
mony Herewith, dragging his State after
him. Exactly what all this meant nobody
knew, but every one was aware that, if it had
any meaning at all, it was that Simon had
some frightful game of 9otg-aoag to play, in
which Mr.. Sumner would be forced to have
''thumbs up" when he should have 'thumbs
down, because Simon said wig-wag.
The mystery of yesterday is no longer
mystery to-day. Mr.. Cameron IS a candidate
for the Vice Presidency, and lie soants Mr..
Summers aid IN Neao England. Mr.. Sumner
is an ambitious man; his displacement from
the craftsmanship of the Foreign Relations
Committee was an indignity which he keenly
felt, and he would doubtless do almost any
thing a high-toned, honorable gentleman
could do in order to regain his lost place.
But Mr.. Sumner being from "spur to plume"
a gentleman, it is not within the range of
human imagination that he would consent to
become the catspaw of Simon Cameron,
who is not a gentleman, but who IS huck-
ster in politics, and a man of whom the his
torian of his time will speak in all the terms
of honest reprobation that noble indignation
can suggest against one who, claiming to be a
statesman, was jobber in and out of place,
trader in his country's necessities, and a
buyer and seller of the franchise when money
was the only means that could secure him
place and power.
There can be no possible room for doubt
that the reinstatement of Mr.. Sumner to the
lost craftsmanship was determined upon in
order that his support might be secured for
the movement inaugurated within day or two
by the Grant and Cameron Club of Maryland,
which has its headquarters at Baltimore. The
heroic president of this association of un-
flinching patriots is Mr. Samuel S. Blair, who
is also superintendent of one of MIR. Came
ron's North Carolina railroads. He appears
in politics at this juncture for the first time,
and is pledged not to retire there
from until his employer is elected
vice-President of the United States.
The probable age of this adventurous politi-
Cal neophyte who can foretell? We look up
through the advancing centuries and see Mr..
Samuel S. Blair still upon the track urging
the election of the Winnebago Chieftain to
the Vice-Presidency. 1t may be
that Simon may have gone to his
happy hunting-grounds before his valorous
champion can succeed in getting him into the
Vice. Presidents chair; but what of that Mr.
Samuel S. Blair means to continue in politi
cal life until Mr.. Cameron secures the coveted
the prospective meeting of the Chief in the
happy hunting grounds with those WinnebagC
braves upon whom he showed those discounta
BILE Middletown Bank notes, That there will
be fight on that occasion no one can doubt
But in view of the rather sharp financial
game Simon once played upon those brave
in the flesh, was it expedient and altogethe
the Wisest thing for Grant and Cameron
Club to do, to suggest the inanciering skill o
Simon as it does in this resolution: -''Ths
the financial skill and ability of Simon Came
ron gave to the war for the Union its sinew
and nerve, nourished its vigor and secured it
victories from the beginning"
To see how history lies it is only necessar
to read that and the preceding resolution o
the Maryland Grant and Cameron Club, whicl
is as follows: -''That this declaration promi
nently presents the claims of an eminen
statesman, eminent not alone in the council
of the nation, but marked in the record of it
trials and tribulations as foremost and mos
active of its defenders"
History records-bearing false witness, Q
eourse-that Mr.. Salmon p. Chase and Nj
Jay Cooke were the two fnanciers who mau
aged to keep the national exchequer fu
during the vastly expensive war of the Rebe
lion, and that those two gentlemen we're keI
pretty busy in raising money while Nj
Cameron was Secretary to pay the frsudulen