The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-07-29
FORNEY ANSWERS CAMERON.
How Senator Simon Became Penn
sylvania's Political Dictator.
SWEET MORsELs FOR DEMOCRATS
Charges En- eros Of Corruption, Plumber
and Debasement Against the
Ex-MiniSter Of War.
FORNEYS PERSONAL STATISTICS
"Why Do the Icathen Rage, and Cameron
Tremble on the Verge Of the Grave"'
PALACES ON TIE sUsQUEHANMA.
Proud Towers Raised Through
Malfeasance to FroWn Down
Honesty and Truth.
Honest Old Abe'S Letter Dismiss
ing His Secretary of War.
THE EVANS FRA UDS.
The Man Who Would KNOCK He'll Into
Both Grant and Curtin"
Co
Proud Towers Raised Through
Malfeasance to Frown Down
Honesty and Truth.
Honest Old Abe's Letter Dismiss
ing His Secretary of War.
THE EVANS FRAUDS.
The Man Who Would Knock He'll Into
Both Grant and Curtin
Biographical HOdge-POdge for
the Million.
OFFICE OF TIE SUNDAY MORNING CHRONICLE
WASHINGTON, d. c., July rs, 1872

OFFICE OF TIE SUNDAY MORNING CHRONICLE
WASHINGTON, d. G., July rs, 1872.
To The EDITOR OF THE HERALD
IL is always profitable to record history, provided
you do It bravely and truthfully, and as Simon
Cameron, in his nervous anxiety to screen himself
from the penalties of long career Of political
wrong has sought to entange me in the meshes OF
his alsehoOds concerning the political situation in
Pennsylvania, propose to make revelation con-
corning that gentleman which will convince you
that he and the horde Of hungry ofice-hoders, fat
mule and-horse contractors, and State Treasury
pimps surrounding him are the sole ana only cause
OF the dissatisfaction now threatening disaster to
the republican party in Pennsylvania in October.
CAMERON'S ANTECEDENTs
General Cameron is the original author OF all the
corruption. debasement, plumber and prostitution
which have disgraced the elective franchise the
legislation and the management Of the finances Of
Pennsylvania. need not tell the readers Of the
HERALD how this man started in public life as an
Indian agent; how General Jackson spurned him.
how he plundered the Indians whom he was dele
gated to protect; how he polluted the Canal Board
OF Pennsylvania; how he won and abused the
confidence OF Governor George Wolf and Governor
David r. Porter, both Of whom abhorred him be-
cause he cheated them, betrayng the trust they
reposed in him; how he managed to have his
brother appointed superintendent OF motive power
on the railroads owned by Pennsylvania that
he might secure contracts for supplies how he
gagged in contracts while he was President OF the
Lebanon Valley Railroad, until the stockholders
drove him from the position; how, to this day, he
Is forced to dsgorge to make the losses OF some
of the sub-cOntractors on that road for fear Of
posure and criminal prosecution; how he and his
family fattened on the Northern Central Railroad
and how his business and financial acts, in every
transaction in which he has ever been engaged, are
stepped in corruption, blackened with suspicion
and deformed by shame 1t is not necessary for
me to revive any Of the serious charges which are
daily preferred against this miserable old man.
The country has heard them repeated 80 often, and
the archives of both State and national govern
ments contain enough Of his shame and rebuke to
make his name execrable while there Is being to
hear 1t in his native State.
Ny purpose is simply to reply to General Came
ron, who has sought to make 1t appear that the
political unrest in Pennsylvania and the certainty
Of defeat therefor the republican party in October
due to influences other than those arising from
the dissatisfaction with his corruption. General
Cameron's fierce struggle is not to save the repub-
Ican party Of Pennsylvania in October, secure
that State for Grant, but to save himself He Is the
pursued party in all the angry discussion in the
Keystone State, and his the record of shame which
monwealth down into the dust. He fears new
rule in the Auditing and Treasury departments in
that State, and, above all, he shrnks from demo-
cratic Governor of the Buckaew type because he
sees in that result the speedy realization OF doom
which he is certain to meet sooner or later.
Why DOES GENERAL CAMERON THUS TREMBLE
on the verge OF the grave and shrink with horror
rom having his record laid bare Let me tell you.
When he wasfrst elected United States Senator, in
IS45 he purchased the votes which secured him
success 1t was the first time Pennsylvania Leg
islature was debauched by the use Of money, and
he is the first man who bought seat in the United
States Senate. In 1857 he repeated fne same game,
and so intense was the indignation felt all over
Pennsylvania at thls act that the Legislature then
passed resolutions censuring the Senator elect and
asking the United States Senate not to receive
him. The second time Cameron was elected he
purchased two democrats, and threatened to
send the relative OF third to the peni-
Tertiary for robbing one Of his banks II he
refused to vote for him. His third attempt to
get into the Senate failed, because the democracy,
having majority Of one on Joint ballot in the
Legislature. went to Harrisburg in large crowds,
threateni ng to snoot any democrat who voted for
Cameron, the fact being well known at the time
that there was democrat In the Legislature who
had brbe from Cameron In his pocket, but who
was Overawed from voting Tor him by the revolvers
OF his indignant constituents pointed at his head
as he sat In his seat. In 1867, when Cameron was
elected the third time to the Senate-the term he is
now servingt cost $50 900 to secure the result and
that money was made by the State Treasury Ring on
deposits OF State money in Cameron's own banks,
which was loaned at usuri0us rates OF interest to
al classes OF desperate spectators. The venera-
BILE Thaddeus Stevens, ]. X. Moorhead, W. b. Mann,
A. G. Curtin and other distinguished Pennsyl-
vanianS went TO Harrisburg in the winter OF 1867
to mplOre the Legislature not to put the shame Of
Camer0n's election on the State and republican
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 Sec
Rotary OF War, Kept an open hotel in Harrisburg,
where votes were az publicly purchased for him
as cards are played at a Baden Baden gambling
saloon.
EVIDENCES OF REMUNERATIvE OFFICES
The result OF such a public career has been to
render General Cameron completely infamous
utterly odiOus in Pennsylvania. He Is regarded
there as at the head Of ring as villanous as that
of the Tammany IN New York. While he was Secre-
tary OF War his satellites were enriched II by
magic and any one familiar with the banks OF the
Susquehanna River fronting Harrisburg has seen,
in the palaces which rise in that neighborhood the
results OF the Cameron ring plumber while the old
rem0deled and refurnshed, purchased by the horse
and mule contractors, and presented TO him
suring his time in the War Department for
$4,000. His son occupies another mansion only
few squares higher up rhe river, the cost OF
whose banquetng hall would pay for the best farm
In Dauphin county, while Its proud tower frowns
with naughty dis,lain on an unfinished monument
which the citizens OF UarrisbprS srs no poor TO