The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1882-06-21
That Yarn About Cameron.

Franklin Independent Press.
Col. VIM. M. Bum, Of Philadelphia,
who furnished the only Information
upon which a reporter of a Philadel.
phia paper founded the sensational
report Of Senator Don Cameron's
alleged threat to the manufacturers
and business men of Philadelphia,
came out on Monday with a circum-
stantial account of the matter and
denial that Cameron ever made any
such tariff threats as has been put into
his mouth and persistentlY circulated.
Col. Bunn's statement shows clearly
that the whole story was based on the
talk of an outside person, magnifed by
reporter and emphasized by the
press. His explanation, coupled with
Mr.. Cameron's positive denunciation
of the story as "a falsehOod, and very
thin one at that" ought to be conclu.
sive. Bat as the story is circulated
more for the purpose of injuring the
Republican party than Cameron, it is
likely to be reported aud enlarged by
those papers whose real object is the
defeat and disruption of the party.
We quote from Col. Bunn's published
card:
About noon on Saturday, May q,
l was standing in the corridor of the
Continental hotel, when Mr.. Robert.
son, of the Evening Telegraph, came
up to me and asked, "What was wrong
in Mr.. Cameron's room ?" | answered,
II have not been up there yet to-day,
l am just from my Office" He then
asked me eff knew how many gentle.
men were with Senator Cameron" I
told him there were, or at least l
thought there were, Mr.. Disston, Mr..
Cummins, Mr.. Crouch, Mr.. Patterson,
Mr., Cochran, Mr.. Dobsou and Mr..
Dolan, and that understood some
others we're to call later in the day.
We talked about the gathering and l
think we were joined by a representa-.
tive of the Press. ! said: Cameron
ought to tell those gentlemen that
when business men fight the Republi-
can party they fight their own inter-
ests, and that he having three years in
the Senate yet, would fight every tariff
measure that would come up; that if
their friends persisted in fighting the
ticket they were really fighting the
tariff, and be ought to have some of
the fun after be and his father had
done so much Of the work." This is
certainly the substance of what 1 said
and | am ready to swear to it. Mr..
Robertson either misunderstood or
made my language Mr.. Cameron's to
make a sensation for the Telegraph. 1
prefer to believe the former, yet how
he figured it out that 1 could be down
stairs With him and know what Mr..
Cameron was saying to his visitors up
stairs, is rather beyond me.
l was not 10 Mr.. Camerou's room
before the above named gentlemen
called. l was not there during the
call or within three hours after their
departure. l therefore could not have
had the slightest possible knowledge
of what Mr.. Cameron said to them. 1
don't think there was one chance in
twenty thousand that he used threat.
ening language of any character to
them. Indeed the denial made by all
the gentlemen who were present don't
leave one chance in million of his
having given utterance to any threat
against the tariff. Hereafter when I
want to express an opinion it will not
be to frst.class newspaper reporter
who can build so much from so little.
| really thought it good thing to let
MIR. Cameron's blatant opposers know
that he was in position to make it
lively for them if they were detsrm-
ined on defeating the party, and for
that reason said he ought to talk to
them as l suggested.