The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1886-04-02

cation from Mr.. Ii. ID. Cameron il
the Meridian Daily NeipS, comm.
as "the voice OF one crying in til,
wilderness"
WRONG AGAIN.
To the Editor Of the News:
In the PAsCAGoULA DEMocRAT-STaR o
the Goth INST, is an editorial styled, "Righ
Again" Toward the conclusion OF thi
article is the following statement AM
charge, to-wit:
Now the committee have shown hin
up, (alluding TO the State Treasurer OF
the question of ante-dating but the
question of their being negotiated. tal
hiding to the State bonds,) by one of the
surveyors, who proposed to date them
back to the first of January, when the yeai
was half gone is still open. We now
charge explicitly that Mr.. II. d. Cameron
was the man who did that very thing,
who had blank bonds with him Mt the
time, and we defy HIM or HemminEway &
Co, either to deny it," Now, this is a
pretty bold challenge for IA man to make
who has neither truth nor the shadow of
truth to sustain him. / hereby emphatic
ally deny having ever had in my possess
ion u State bond, nor can 1 now recall that
l ever saw one. hereby challenge Capt.
Mayors to produce the man on earth that
ever saw me with one, or who will testify
under oath in my presence that l ever
said that l had any.
The only connection l ever had with the
bond question (and this was nom at all, }
can be explained in II conversation had
with Capt. Mayors at Noys Hotel, in
Scranton. In q con 7ersation one evening,
the question OF State finances, bonds, etc,
came up between Capt. Mayors and my
self, aud during the con- e~rsatiop stated
that l was requested by the Treasurer,
that if in my travels l foand any one who
had money they would like to invest in
estate bonds" to let him know ; that he
was anxious to negotiate some, in order
to tide over the summer months. In reply
W AHlS HdA y Itlilull hCu tldb III uhu glbs-
600 in Louisiana State bonds and that if
he could sell them he would like to
invest IN Mississippi bonds and that he
would go over to New Orleans soon and
see about it. | then told him that if he
succeeded he might confer with the Treas
urer or let me know and | would sec about
it. That was the last Of Captain Mayors
Louisiana bonds, until l heard the question
discussed during the canvass,
Something was said in this conversation
about ''small interest" "shCrt time to
run" and "date OF bonds" and what l
then said was no more than what | under
stood from Treasurer Hemingway
proper and right. About this time | had
a similar conversation with Col. Rich and
Col. Payne, aul TO neither of those geu-
tlemen did | ever say l was authorized to
sell bonds, but simply inquired as to who
wanted to purchase, always referring
them to the Treasurer if they did.
HUGH d. CAMERON.
All, Cameron, you have an aw-
fully convenient memory. When
you were before the investigating
y on had almost forgotten
al about Lowry Island, but you
now catch onto u SHAW and seem
10 have a remarkable memory.
In reply to the above we propose
Mr.. Cameron tull justice.
When he talked to us he seemed
very anxious 10 get us to invest,
md that was the principal thing
that caused us to be- shy. 1t may be
hat he had no bonds with him, as
NJ Hemingway probably knew
Iim better than we did, aud we
,nly made that charge parenthetic-
lily, but had reason to believe that
t was correct. His propositions
we're made as of one with authority,
md we have no recollection of any
hing being said to us about what
'lr. Hemingway wonld do. The
hing seemed to be that / Game
'on) will give the citizeus II good
to make a spec. on the State.
We had no Louisiana bonds, and
lid not tell Cameron we had. We
lid say that we had investments
nd thought of buying Mississippi
While we were at BlOunt
IN August, 1884, we re-
eived "a letter from Mr.. NJ. b. 4,
Richmond stating that Mr.. Game
was here aud was anxiOns to
us to take bonds, and wanted {
n answer We can't say but what :
cameron was entirely too oficious, Z
ut We repeat, and Cameron wont
eny it, that he, acting as one OF I
he surveyors land it seems he had !
more authority to do that) he ;
egotlated for the sale of State I
Onds and proposed to date them c
ack to January LIST, when the year c
as half gOue. He not Ohly made n
be proposition TO US, but also To !
theirs, as shown by the statement
t Col. Payne below. If, after all
be pains he exercised, hunting up A
Of waiting to stumble upon
u~rchasers, as be preteuds, aud