The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-06-26
ANTI CESARISM.
RUMoR THAT CAMERON AND
FORNEY HAVE JOINED
HANDS FOR A CRUSADE
ON THE THIRD TERM.
BLAINE FOR THE WHITE HOUSE
AND rORNEY FOR THE SENATE.

philadelphia letter. June ~. to \. Y. Her
add
A strange rumor has just reached
this city that "a reconciliation has been
effected between Senator Simon Cam.
eron and Colonel John w. Forney,
the long time bitter foes" and that in
political affairs they will hereafter
steadily "pull together
1t is needless to reproduce the cir
cumstances which estranged from each
other these two well known political
characters. In the last presidential
and gubernatorial campaign Mr.. Cam
eron and Mr.. Forney directed their tai
ent aud energy to men and measures
Numerically antagonistic.
The one carried his point by stu.
pendous majority, and the other re.
tired with q CALLING and humiliating de.
feat. Since that hour but little political
sympathy has been wasted between
them. As matter Of course report
of their reconciliation creates 10 little
sensation. Among the many reasons
---:s--i - "a ..-sh che lvnQYunT lS
city:
THE IDEA or C.EsARISM
has been burlesqued and ridiculed but
recent events prove its approach to be
stealthy ard inevitable. 1t is like the
approach of Coggia's comet which as
yet we can but vaguely see. but which
we shall soon behold in its full proper.
,ions and strength. The cunning pro.
jectors Of the idea, holding the resources
Of power in their hands, and also abil.
ity to convert the national treasury in
to a campaign fund, will not only be
able to satisfy the few wayering ones in
their own ranks, but will also rush into
silence, or subdue into conservatism
many of those who, even at this mo.
ment, are most vehement when con.
ironted by the ghost of q Caesar. |
believe that Senator Cameron appre.
ciates the probability of these circum.
stances fully, but there are peculiar rea.
sons why he cannot assist in bringing
them about. | believe that he regards
the Inauguration of a third term as un.
licensed by the constitution and the
principles Of our government and dang.
erous 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
rumored reconciliation has a more sub.
tie significance than the abrogation of
a bitter quarrel and the abandonment
of an old feud. think that if this
part OF the idmor is true the other is
true also, viz: that Senator Cameron
is preparing the way for the nomina.
ton of
MR.. BLAINE FOR THE PRESIDENCY
Of the United States, and that by assist.
ing him to fulfill this scheme, Colonel
Forney will receive the entire support
OF the Cameron faction in securing a
~ 1910. .shirn. " Is said, be
much desires"
Nine. Rumor then begins where my
informant leaves of, and continues her
conJectures to the utmost limits Of pro.
liability. With Blaine as president,
Don Cameron, the senator, will re-
ceive the appointment Of secretary Of |
the treasury. Thus she goes on in |
way too rapid to attempt to follow.
As an offset to all this, however.
your correspondent has heard, upon re.
liable authority, that Colonel 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 reconcilia. |
'ion rumor is true, cannot wel1be car.
ned out.