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

The following rather lengthy card
from Mr.. d. G. Forney, the editor and
of the Washington Sunday
Morning Chronicle, appears in the New
York Herald and the Philadelphia
Press Of the 25th OF July:
0rFlcr OF THE !
SUNDAY MoRSiSG CHRONICLE,
WASHINGTON, d. G., July 25.J
Editor Neo York Herald
1t is always profitable to record his
tory, provided you do it bravely and
truthfully and as Simon Cameron, in
nervous anxiety TO screen himself from
the penalties of a long career of poit
cal wrong, has sought to entangle me
in the meshes of his falsehoods con
corning the political situation in Penn
sylvania, | propose TO make a revela-
ton concerning that gentleman which
will convince you that he and the horde
of hungry oilice.holders, fat mule and
horse contractors, and State Treasury
pimps surrounding him, are the sole
and only cause Of the dissatisfaction
now threatening disaster TO the Re-
publican party in Pennsylvania in Dc
tober.
General Cameron is the original
author of all the corruption, debase.
ment, plumber, and prostitution which
have disgraced the elective franchise,
the Legislation, and the management
of tho finances of Pennsylvania
need not tell the readers OF the Herald
how this man started in public life
as an Indian agent how heplundered
the Indians, whom he was delegated
to protect how he polluted the Canal
Board of Pennsylvania; how he won
and abused the confidence Of Governor
George Wolf and Governor David X
Porter, both of whom abhorred him
because he cheated them, betraying
tho trust they reposed in him how
be managed to have his brother ap
pointed superintendent Of motive pow
er on the railroads owned by Penn
sylyania that he mightsecure contracts
Tor supplies; how he engaged in con
tracts while he was president of th'
Lebanon Valley Railroad, until th'
stockholders drove him from the posi-
ton; how, to this day, he is forced U
disgorge to make up the losses of SOM
of the subcontractors on that road 70
fear of exposure and criminal prose
cution how he and his family fatten
cd on the Northern Central Railroad
I and how his business and 6nancia
acts, in every transaction in which h
has ever been engaged, are stepped il
r corruption, blackencd with suspicion
and deformed by shame.
1t is not necessary for me TO reviv
a any of the serious charges which ar
daily preferred against this miserabl
old man. The country has heard theI
repeated SO often, and the archives {
both State and National Governmen
contain enough Of his shame and r,
a buke to mako his name execrabI
a while there is a being to hear it in hi
u native State.
My purpose is simply 10 reply
General Cameron, who has sought
make it appear that the political VI
rest in Pennsylvania and the certaint
Of defeat there for tho Rcpublica
party in October is due to inlluenc,
|. other than those arising from the di
d satisfaction with his corruption. Gel
eral Camcron's fierce struggle is nj
to save the Republican party of Pom
sylvania in October, or secure tn!
State for Grant, but TO save himse
He is the pursued party in all the a
Or CRY discussions in the keystone Stat
i and his the record of shame whit
: bears my noble Republican brcthr'
in that Commonwealth down into u
dust lie fears new rule in u
Auditing and Treasury Department
in that State, and above all ho shrin
from Democratic Governor OF Z
h Buckalew type, because he secs in th
q result the speedy realization Of doc
\. which he is certain 10 meet sooner
II later.
:. Why does General Cameron th
u trcmble on tho verge OF the grave, "a
shrink with horror from having
!. record laid bare 7 Let me tell yC
When he was first elected Unit
States Senator, in lS45, he purchas
the votes which secured him succc
IL was the first time Pcnnsylval
Legislature was debauched by the
of money, and he is the first man "
I'M. bought scat in tho United Sta
60, Senate. In 1857 he repeated tho sal
ads game, and 80 intense was the indigl
tion felt all over Pennsylvania AZ II
|. act that the Legislature then pas
: resolutions censuring the Senator ele
and asking the United States Sen
not TO receive him. The second ii
o,, Cameron was elected he purcha'
. two Democrats, and threatened
send the relative of third to the p
II itentiary for robbing one Of his ban
dh- II he refused 10 vote for him.
!. third attempt To gct into tho Sen