Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-06-26
ANTI CRSARISM.
Cameron and FOrHey join Hands
Blaine for the White House and For
ney for the Senate.

Eey 1Or the senate.
Philadelphia Letter, June p, 20 y. Y. Herald.
4 strange rumOr has just reached this
city that "a reconciliation has been effected
between Senator Simon Cameron aid Col.
John W. FOrney, the long time bitter foes"
and that in political affairs they will here
after steadily ''pull together"
IL is needless to reproduce the circrm-
stances which estranged from each other
these two well-knOWn political characters.
In the last Presidential and Gubernatorial
campaign Mr.. Cameron and Mr.. ForDey di-'
rected their talent and energy to men and
measures Numerically antagonistic.
The one carried his point by a stupen-
dOus majority, and the other retired with a
CALLING and humiliating defeat. Since
that hour but little political sympathy has
been wasted between them. As a matter
of course a report of their reconciliation
creates no little sensation. Among the
many reasons assigned for its ruth the fol-
lowing is given by prominent gentleman
Of this city:
THE IDEA OF C.EsARIsN
has been busleSqued and ridiculed; but re-
cent events prove IFS approach to be Sfealthy
and inevitable. II is like the approach of
Coggia's comet, which as yet we can but
vaguely see, but which we shall soon be-
hold it its full proportions and strength.
The cunning projectors of the idea, holding
the resources of power in their hands,
and also ability to convert the ma
tiOnal treasury into a campaign fund,
will not only be able TO satisfy the few
wavering once in their own ranks, but will
also rush into silence, or subdue into con-
servatism many Of those who, even at this
moment, are most vehement when on
froHted by the ghost of Cesar. | believe
that Senator Cameron appreciates the
probability of these circumstances fully,
but there are peculiar reasons why he can
not assist in bringing them about. l be
lieve that he regards the Inauguration Of a
third term as unlicensed by the constitution
and the principles OF our government and
dangerous to its perpetuity, and that he
will oppose, with his full power, this idea,
which is the gross offspring Of political
corruption, and an agent destructive of
genuine republicanism. Of course the
uImored reconciliation has a more subtle
significance than the abrogatiOn of bitter
quarrel and the abandonment of an old
feud. | think that if this part Of the rumor
is true the other is true also, viz: that Sen
atOr Cameron IS preparing the way Tor the
nomination of
MR.. BLAINE FOR TIE PRESIDENCY
of the United States, and that by assisting
him to fulfill this scheme, Col. Forney will
receive the entire support of the Cam
eron faction in securing a seat in the Sen.
ate, which, it is said, he much desires"
Nine. Rumor then begins where my in
formant leaves off, and continues her con-
lectures to the utmost limits of probability.
With Blaine as President, Don Cameron,
the Senator's son, will receive the appoint
ment of Secretary Of the Treasury. Thus
she goes OIL in a way, too rapid TO attempt
to follow.
As an offset to this, however, your cor
respondent has heard, upon reliable author
ity, that Col. FOrney is soon TO sail for
Europe with the view of Withdrawing from
the vortex of politics for the term Of two
years, project which, provided the recon
ciliatiOn rumor is true, cannot well be car
ried out.