Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-10-20
WHOLE NO. 2,3OS.


/ Inns. And who do you suppose
n Rollins? Senator Rollins, Of New
# Hampshire, is Jay Gould's privat
/. secretary, or Secretary of the UniOI
!, Pacific Railroad, which is the sam,
: thing. 1t was wittily said that JAY
e Gould had got very tired of keeping
: a confidential agent in the lobby o
5 the Senate, so he ordered his Secre
a tary Rollins to just move his desh
I into the Senate chamber, inside the
e railing, where he could transact bus
i. iness more conveniently. And II
I was done. Laughter and applause.
. Ohio-Stanley Matthews. Well,
/ you all know him-I heard him de
nOunce Grantism in the Liberal
: Convention of 1872, and a few weeks
} later Grants Administration re-
: tained him in some case and gave
: him a fee of $4,000. A few weeks
, after that Mr.. Matthews made
speeches in favor of Grants re-elec-
tion, 1t was Matthews who pulled
the Returning Board through all
J their difficulties in stealing the vote
of Louisiana. Ii was he, too, who
did a large part of the work before
the Electoral Commission. IL was
he, too, who effected the bargain
with the Southern members by
which the Inauguration of Hayes
was secured. l will do Mr.. Mat
thews the Justice of admitting that
there is no man in Ohio who can do
more dirty political work, and do it
| more ably, than he. OF course, YOU
all know that he received the Sena-
tOrship as reward for his services,
and is the mOuth-piecc of the Adj
ministratiOn. Applause.
Oregon-JOn III. Mitchell (his real
name is Hipple). Laughter. He
changed his name when he left
| Pennsylvania, and nobody knew of
it in Oregon until his election to the
Senate brought it out. have heard
this Republican statesman charged
with excess of matrimony, by some
called bigamy. | have also heard
very amusing story about the man.
ner in which Hipple-Mitchell got
his seat in the4Senate. Still, Nipple
Mitchell was not expelled; on the
contrary, stands high with his Re
| publican colleagues is Chairman of
| the important Committee on Rail-
roads, acting Chairman of the Com
mittee on Privileges and Elections,
and member of many Others. Mr..
Hipple-Mitchell is an ardent reform
er, and a friend of Mr.. Hayes. APP
plause.
Pennsylvania. Don Cameron,
son of Simon Cameron. Simon, as
you all know, has represented Penn
sylVania for over generation, has
swayed political power in his State
almost as absolutely as a German
Grand Duke fifty years ago. You
remember how Lincoln was COM
PEELED to kick Simon out of his Cab |
met for notorious jObbery, that even
Republican Congress during the
war was forced to pass resolutions Of |
severe censure on CamerOn's corrupt |
conduct, and that the Record of the |
Legislature of Pennsylvania still |
contains the following resolution
"Resolved, That the Governor be |
requested to instruct the Attorney |
General of this Commonwealth toi in |
stitute criminal proceedings against |
Simon Cameron. Applause.
This was for the clearly proven |
attempt on the part of Cameron to |
buy his election to the Senate. A |
few months ago Simon Cameron |
suddenly resigned his seat and his |
son Don took il. The manner i'm |
which this change was effected, con- /
sidering that Pennsylvania still /
claims to have republican form of
government, was most eXtraOrdina- |
ry. A Webster, Benton or Dallas |
would have given the public reasons |
for so unusual step, would have |
perhaps addressed a letter to the |
people not so with Simon Cameron;
not word did he write. A man of |
honor and dignity would have per- !
formed the act of resigning a great |
trust, hOnorably and like a man
not SO Simon. Anybody worthy of |
the name of Senator would, out of |
gratitude, if for no other reason,
have given the people a chance |
to select his successor; not so Simon. |
Any other man would have sent |
that resignation to the Governor of |
the State, as the law required /; not |
so Simon. Like a burglar hands |
his tools to his accOmplice i'm the |
dark, Simon gave his paper contain
ing his resignation to his son Don, /
keeping the matter a profound Sc |
cret. Don left for Harrisburg. The |
Republican caucus was called. Don |
absolutely satisfied himself there |
was no doubt whatever about his |
succession. But only when he had |
the regular nomination i'm his pocket |
did he hand the resignation TO the |
Governor at all. Applause. As |
to the sovereign people of Pennsyl- !
&, oh 10
do with the election as the people Of
ROumania had to do with the cleo |
ton Of the obscure German Prince |
whom one morning, to their utter
surprise, they found on the throne at |
Bucharest. Applause. There is |
one difference in the comparison the |
dynastic system in ROumania is not |
as firm and fixed as it is in Pennsylva- |
MIA. For during the last thirty years |
in which the Cameron dynasty pre-
served its power, the people of ROu- |
mania changed their dynasty fire. |
quently. Indeed, the Camerons |
seem to be far better off than many |
European mOnarchs who lived In |
their time for, while the Kings of
Hanover and Naples lost their /
crowns, and now live i'm exile; while |
the BOurbons were driven from /
their thrones in France and Spain;
while the Princes of the ancient |
house of Hapsburg lost their thrones |
i'm Italy; while even the Pope was
stripped of his political temporal |
powers, and Napoleon the Fourth |
must eat banishment's bitter bread,
the house of Cameron still flOurisbes |
in Pennsylvania Great and pro-
longed cheering and laughter |
How proud old Simon must feel,
having succeeded, wherein both |
Napoleons failed, i'm the transmits
sion of power to a male descendant.
How proud he must feel in remem- |
bering that while, during his reign,
France alone had seven distinct |
changes of government, there has |
been none in his reign. On the |
contrary, the power Of the Cameron |
dynasty is greater to-day than 1t |
ever was, Laughter. There is
not solitary office-hOlder in the |
whole State who does not look up /
to Don Cameron as his new master. !
Republican members Of Congress |
told me, only few days ago, that |
there was a most perfect under
standing and harmony between Mr.. ]