Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1872-08-07

time that there was Democrat IN the
Legislature who had bribe from
Cameron in his pocket, but who was
overawed from voting for him by the
rcyolyers OF his indignant constituents
pointed at his head as he sat in his
seat. 4a aaH ID. .aly
In 1867, when Cameron was elected
the third time to the Scnate--the term
ho is now servinh-it cost fifty thous.
and dollars 10 secure the result, and
that money was made by the State1
Treasury Ring on deposits of State
money in Cameron's own banks, which
was loaned at usurious rates of inter
est to all classes OF desperate spccula-
tors,
The venerable Thaddcus Stevens, J.
k. Moorhead, W. b Mann, A. o.
Curtin, and other distinguished Penn
sylyanians went TO Harrisburg in the
winter of 1867 to implore tho Lcglsla'
ture not to put the shame Of Cam
eron's election on the State and Re
publican party, but the eloquence OF
these veterans was of no avail in the
glitter of Camerons gold, who with
the contractors he had enriched while
he was Secretary of War, kept an
open hotel in Harrisburg, where votes
were as publicly purchased for him as
cards are. played at u Baden Baden
gambling saloon. at
The result Of such public career
has been to render General Cameron
completely infamous-uttorly odious
in Pennsylvania. Heis regarded there
as at the head OF ring AS vlllainous
as that of the Tammany in New YORK.
While he was Secretary of War his
satellites were enriched AS il by magic,
and any one familiar with tho banks
of the Susquehanna river fronting
Harrisburg has seen, in the palaces
which rise in that neighborhood, the
results Of the Cameron Ring plundcr
while the old chief was Secretary OF
War. He lives in palace remodcllcd
and refurnishcd, purchased by the
horse and mule contractors, and pre-
sented TO him during his time in the
War Department, for scventy'hvt
thousand dollars. His son occupies
another mansion only a few squares
higher up the river, the cost OF whose
banquoting hall would pay for the bes
farm in Dauphin county, while IT
proud tower frowns with naughty dis
dain on an unfinished monument whicl
the citizens of Harrisburg are too poo
to complete to the memory of thos'
who persisted in struggle out o
which young Cameron coined severa
millions of dollars. Stillanother mem
Der of this Ring, who kept small lly
cry stable at the beginning of the wal
, lives in marble palace which wopl'
shame many OF the mansions on flitl
avenue, whose owners acquired tn
wealth TO erect them after long year
/ of honest and bold enterprise, an
, ventures by sea and land. Hav
/ Tweed, lngcrsoll, Garvey, and Cor
molly done worse or better IN the man
/ aeement of the finances OF New for
, CITY than the Camerons have done !
r tho manipulation Of Government pa
ronage and the control OF the Treal
, ury of Pennsylvania? In 1860 Dor
> aid Cameron's recorded real estate /
' Dauphin county did not amount I
}. s25 900. | have heard it asserted !
!. Harrisburg that he is now the owne
!. of real estate in that city and Dauphi
4 county valued OF from six to scvc
!. hundred thousand dollars. He an
@ his father own from three to for
q thousand acres of the best farming Ian
!. in Lebanon, Lancaster, and Daupbi
O counties, almost every acre OF whlc
G with the exception of farm callC
# Lochiel, was purchased from 1860
. 1867, and during the same time thi
1. family managed to get control OF su
ficient stock in the Northern Centr
,l Railroad to elect Donald Cameron
10 president, so that that concern is no
n ran in their interests
n. Now put that and this together, al
YOU will see at glance why the X
70 publican party of Pennsylvania is d
re moralized,
10 Tho Camcrons are known to I
IN people as having become rich out
of their malfeasancc in office, coming
# gantic fortunes while the nation pour
@. out its richest blood, aud gathcri
le wealth in tho enjoyment of contrac
is which were marked by fraud such
have sent tho Tammany Ring of Nc
a. York into criminal exile And I
~ hold these men have on the affairs
y, " the State of Pennsylvania can only
i, broken by takirg tho control OF I
~ Auditing Office and State Trcasu
90 ' out of their hands. Why is the clc
= Cameron so anxious to secure Ha
- - rants election Why is he 50 sol
=, a. tous to keep the Treasurer of Pei
~ sylvania 10 his pockcty Why v
a. General Hartranfts term rs Audi
Ir General extended; and why are
n Camerons so determined TO prov'
10 the light from shining into the van
IN of Pennsylvania's State Treasury,
on of bringing TO the public view
Ia m archives of her Auditing DEPARTING
10 answer, because such intclligcn
Ne like the investigation into the ana
ts of Tammany, would result in pre-
ho cutions against the Cameron X
-, a similar 10 those now pending agai
Tweed and his associate thieves
or General Cameron, ,inconnection W
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