Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-05-10
CAKES AMEs.

The announcement of the death of Cakes
Ames, of Massachusetts,, made in another
column, will not be unexpected in view of
the previous information of his dangerous
illness.
He was born in Easten Massachusetts,
January 10th, 1904 He was born of poor
parents, and in early life had only such
chances for education as the public schools
of that day afforded. At an early age he
engaged in the manufacturing business,
and at one time was partner in
one of the largest and most profitable
manufactures of the East. His attention
having been attracted to the Pacific Rail-
road soon after the project was first dis
cussed, he became interested in it and at
one time was amongit its foremost operators.
It..was in this enterprise that he became so
seriously involved, about two years ago,
as to threaten him with bankruptcy.
His public life began in 1901, when he
was chosen one of the Executive Council
of Massachusetts,. In 1868 he was first
elected a member of Congress, a position
he filled up to last March.
His notoriety began with the exposure
of his Credit Mobilier operations. Of his
connection with that disgraceful affair, all
well-informed readers are familiar.
The death of both Brooks and Ames,
the two members whose expulsion from
Congress was recommended by the Poland
Committee, so near together and so soon
after the adjournment of the Congress that
censured them is a coincidence that will
certainly attract attention and afford a SUBJ
ject for comment from those who believe
in special Providences.
EVERY good citizen, whether Republic
can or Democratic in politics, must, and
does look upon the disturbed condition of
affairs in Louisiana, with feelings of the
deepest concern. Where peace and quiet
should prevail, we see a state of affairs
bordering upon anarchy, and the most de-
plorable confusion. And the reports re-
ceived from there are SO conflicting as
to be utterly unreliable. 1t is next to
impossible to form any sort of idea as to
who is in the right or who is wrong. 1t
appears to us that there may be something
wrong on both sides. There evidently is.
McEnery and his crowd are the satellites
and strikers of Warmoth, who has done as
much to unsettle affairs in Louisiana as any
other man. He is ambitious and unscrupu-
lous, and the men who are now doing so
much to stir up strife there, are only car
rying out his programme. They care
nothing for the welfare of the State, if
they cannot succeed in controlling the
State Government. They would rather see
the entire bodied, arms-bearing por-
ton of the State arrayed in hostility, and
Louisiana drenched in the blood of her
own people, than to see her prospecting un-
der any other administration. 1t is the
dregs of the rebellion still existing there, and
being stirred up by interruptions fellows
or elsewhere. III
We do not pretend to urge that the KEEL
logg party is right in every particular.
Wrongs and excuses may have been COM
mitted, but as we said in the outset, INTEL
ligence from there is of such contradic
tory character, that we can hardly under
take to say how that is. We trust
that common sense may yet have some
thing to do in the settlement of existing
troubles. We trust that passion may give
way to reason, and that instead of unbri-
died ambition, patriotism may prevail,
and prevent serious results.