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

nd yet this is the man who occupies
Charles Summers place, who makes
Ibe room of tho Committee on Foreign
Relations, wherc, under the chairman
ship of Sumner, the statesmen Of the
assembled for consultation, a
resort for the pot-houso politicians of
The land, who plot with him for plum
der and are bribed TO execute hisplans
for personal revenge on those who
have the manliness 10 resist bis per.
sonal rule. l did not seek this quarral
with General Cameronj but as he
went out of his way 10 attack me on
matters connected with my legitimate
business in aiding 10 collect the war
claims OF Pennsylvania, ] want TO let
him know there is one Forney who !
docs not fear him, who knows his de-
fects and his crimes, and who, in self
defence, is always ready to strike back
when struck
Ny relation TO the Evans affair, or
rather the collection Of the Pcnrsyl.
vania war claim, was purely profes
sional, and as legitimate as that OF
services rendered by any lawyer or
claim agent in the country. Whatever
criminality there is connected with
the management Of the collection of
these claims is certainly no fault OF
mine, but rather the executive officers
of Pennsy lyania, who merely pretend
ed TO be aware that the amounts col.
lected from the General Government
had never been returned TO the treas
ury of the State until | had brought
the matter TO their attention, which
was more than three wears after the
appointment of the agency. leave
lie inference to be drawn from snch
NEGLECT 10 the people. and whether
they think that The present candidate
far Governor. who was then, as now.
the Auditor General of the State is a
a, man 10 be continued in mower in
tho face of an official NEGLECT or ienor.
nnee of a duty that was very near
ieoparding the entire amount of the
war claim, three million dollars and
until nv public exposo of the use that
was bcipg made of these claims, not
one dollar of them was paid into the
State Treasury. This amount of ser.
vice should en,ille INC to more credit
tban eensure. but as General Cameron
| is endeavoring to make political
capital out OF il for himself can well
afford to give him the benefit OF it, as
all the use he can make out OF it vii
never disturb my slumbers, or, in thJ
minds of honorable men, injure my
reputation.
When / was in Harrisburg, few
weeks ago, General Cameron followed
my brother, Wien Forney, and myself
to the railroad depot, while we wer,
on our way to Lancaster city, decar
ing that he wanted to see us both, ant
insisting that we call upon him. W.
consented TO do this, and when W,
went we found him in his library en-
gagged in conclavc with somo OF thu
lowest and worst political character
of Harrisburg--of the old Fagin school
Bill Sykes and Artful Dodgers--in
stead OF, as a statesman should hav'
been engaged, and particularly th'
chairman OF the Committeeon ForeigI
Relations, with his books, with Vat
tells Law of Nations AT this solici
ted meeting on the part of Genera
Cameron, he proposed TO me to sc
|, Colonel Forney to change his cours
of opposition, but declined TO inter
fere, reminding Cameron of how oite
| had tried to make peace for him i
that quarter, ,andhow repeatedly he ha
violated its honorable compacts.
/, called to his recollection his conduc
at a private dinner given by Colon(
Forney, just before the Bcpubica
| National Convention, at which h'
Z Senators Chandler, Anthony, Speake
t Blaine, Secretary Robeson, and other
Q were present, when he, Cameron, r'
Q plied TO proposition to make Andre
Il. Curtin the candidate for Vice Pre-
0 ident, that "if that were done he woul
e knock hell into both Grant and Gu
!. tin" repeated, in reply to Came
;. on's urgent solicitude, my unwilling
# ness to interfere between him an
n Colonel Forney, while he coniessc
3 that The Press was power in PEN
sylvania; that John W. Forney cou
y have anything he desired if he onI
h stopped fighting Hartranlt; that the
! would take Allen off the ticket, at
i allow Forney TO name successor.
:, "lndced, said the WHY old tricks'e
re owe had almost frightened Allen in
j. declining, but he has been stiIiencd
40 somebody, and is now resolved
ID stick on Tue ,lcHet. ticket ,, lo a'' ,,'...,', .n,s
ID merely replicu 'nat Oo'onel lorn' ,
knew his own business ana coulu 90 20
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= ! was concerned, l intended 70 .ai slal
y by my own plooa IN a'l tneir .''.a no.o' ~
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