Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-07-01
ANfI.CEsARISM.

Rurnor that Cameron and Foraey
h@ve Jetned Hands for ~ Crusade
Awskmst she laird Term-BlRiRe for
the white Heuse and Rorney for the
senate.
A strange ruInor has just reached
this city that "a reconciliation has
been effected between Senator Simon
Cameron aud Colonel John w. Forney,
the long time better fues, and that ia
political affairs they will hereafter
steadily pull tOgethet.'
tits needless To reproduce the circum-
stances which vstraugrd from each
other these two we'll known political
characters. III the last presidential
and guhsrnatorisl campaign Mr.. Can
erou and MIR. Forury directed their
talent aud energy TO men and meA-
ures diam trlcdily autagOnistic.
The ON. carried his point by stu
pendous maturity, and the other retired
with a CALLING aud humiliating defeat.
Since that hour but little political sym
pathy has been wasted between them.
As a matter of course n report of their
reconciliation creates no little sensa-
ton. Among the many reasons AS.
signed for its truth the following is
given by prominent gentleman of this
city:
THE IDEA OF CEsARIsM
has been burlesqued and ridiculrd !;
but recent events prove its approach 10
be stealthy and Inevitable. II II like
the approach of Coggia's comet, which
as yet we can but vaguely see, but
which we shall soon behold in it, full
proportions and strength. The Gun.
ming projectors of the idea, holding the
resources of power in their hands, and
also ability to convert the national
treasury into campaign fund, will
not only be able to satisfy the few
wavering ones in their own ranks, but
will also rush into silence, or subdue
into conservatism many of those who,
even at this moment, are most vehe-
ment when confronted by the ghost of
Cesar. believe that Senator Came
ron appreciates the probability of these
circumstances fully, but there are be.
culiar reasons why he can not assist in
bringing them about. l believe that
he regards the Inauguration OF third
term as unlicensed by the constitution
and the principles of our government
and dangerous to it's 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 Republicanlsm.
OF course the rumored reconciliation
has more subtle significance than the
sbrogation of bitter quarrel and the
abandonment of an old feud. l think
that if this part of the rumor Is true the
other is true also, viz: that Senator
Cameron is preparing the way for the
nomination of
MR.. BLAINE FOR THE PRESIDENCY
Of the United States, and that by as
sistlng him to fulfill this scheme,
Colonel Forney will receive the entire
support of the Cameron faction in
securing a seat in the Senate, which,
IL is said, he much Desires
Nine. Rumor then begins where my
informant leaves off and continues her
conjectures to the utmost limits of
probability. With Blaine as President,
Don Cameron, the Senator's son, will
receive the appointment of Secretary
of the Treasury. Thus she goes on in
a way too rapid to attempt to follow.
AS an offset TO all this, however,
your correspondent has heard, upon
reliable authority, that Colonel Forney
is soon to sail for Europe with the
view of withrawing from the vortex
| of politics for the term of two years,
a project which, provided the recon.
Citation rumor Is true, can not Well be
carried out.-PhiLd. Letter, Jiise 81. TO
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