The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1892-10-28


a clear ticket in the three first and
the Eighth Congressional districts,
and to help them elect a legislature
that would not only repeal the pres
ent election laws, but enable them
to establish a system that would
give the Republicans permanent
control Of the State. Continuing
he says:
Mcdowell, for the $4,000 and the
guarantee of support for the Senate,
stipulated and contracted to bring Buch-
anan out as an Independent candidate
fer governor, and to keep him in the field
until the close, delivering to us full con-
troll of the State
This was at first thought worth agree
ing to- We have paid--I mean the ma
tional committee have paid about, if
not quite, $4,000 of the money to date,
promising to pay the remaining $4,000
ten days before the election, Chairman
Carter not being willing to pay the whole
amount at once-a wise precaution, am
led to suspect.
We have complied with our part of
the bargain so far. Mcdowell has com
piled with his part as far as to place the
governor, who seems to be either help
less or plastic i'll his hands, in the field
as candidate,
He has broken faith on the Legislature
agreement by inducing OF permitting
populite candidates to come out in Re-
publican strongholds; thus showing his
untrustworthiness as we'll as his distrust
of the promise to send him to the Senate
He has placed Congressional eandi-
date in the Third District; there's a Peo-
pies party candidate in the Second, and
he has served notice that unless the Re-
publican candidate in the First District
comes to time on Legislative promises
he will put a candidate out there.
He has also made the impression upon
his immediate followers that Winstead
will yet Withdraw as candidate for gov
ernor and that Republicans will support
Buchanan. Many believe that he has SO
impressed Buchanan, but 1 do not join
in this last opinion.
dislike to believe the governor Of
Tennessee is in open league with Nc
Dowell; I believe Buchanan is a Demo,
GRAFT. / want to believe him an honest
man. But the circumstances are all or
that side mysterious You know there
was hitch in Buchanan's announcement
as an Independent candidate until the
payment of the first sum agreed upor
was made to Mcdowell; then came the
third party endorsement, manipulated
by Mcdowell.
After this, you remember, there was
another delay in the payments, and ther
came McDowell's th1eat to Chairman Ba
ker of the State committee that unless
the second payment was in his hands b,
a specified day and hour, he would talk,
Buchanan out of the race, It was thel
that you, Captain Baker, Hon. John G
Houk, and others hurried to New Yorl
to procure the immediate further actor
of the national committee. 1t was abou
this time that he visited the Nashvill
custom house officials and threatened t.
go into the Third District and beat th
= Republican nominee 1900 votes if thos
gentlemen threw any obstruction in tn
way of his receiving further money.
Nor is this all, On Sunday, Septem
Der IS, he was at Knoxville meeting
prominent Republicans and again threat
ened that Buchanan would withdraw tn
following Tuesday evening at 7 o'eloc
: unless more funds were by that hou
paid over to him. You and l had jus
returned from Nashville, where L learne
that Chairman Baker had procured froI
individuals and advanced considerabl
3 sum. Hearing this threat, and actual
= fearing its execution, and that Jack B'
I ker, my friend, would then lose his MOI
ey, On Monday and Tuesday wired Sc,
rotary Jeffrey and Chairman Baker I
hold things in statu quo until Taesda
: and repeated the same to our third pa
Y ty friend, Col. Tom Cain, at Morristowl
h whose sincerity 1 always trust. Meal
! time, at your solicitation, prepared
go to New York to see if Bakers none
could not7at least be saved, which trip
abandoned on kilograms from Secretal
y Jeffrey and letter saying it was unne
It essary, as the matter had been arrange