The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1892-10-28
FIFTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS
THE PRICE OF M'DOwELL's PERFIDY.
Proof of the Shameful Contract Confirmed
by Letters Published.

cans for the third party vote has at
last come to light, and there is con-
sternation in the Republican and
third party camps in Tennessee.
The deal has been an open secret
for some time past, and the subject
of considerable bad blood between
Republicans in East Tennessee,
many Of whom have been heard to
declare with emphasis that they
would not support Winstead if they
thought he was a consenting party
to the trade with Mcdowell.
John Houk denies that he took
any part in the deal, but a large
number Of Republicans favor and
defend the deal, and say that if Nc
Dowell and his gang are in the mar
ket, there is no reason why they
shouldn't be bought by the Repub-
licans as well as by anybody else.
But the better element of the party
are almost unit in opposition to
the trade, and say that it is almost
certain to drive away all the repu-
table elements Of the party and
make its future growth impossible.
Hints of this internal strife have
leaked out time and again, andithas
many times required all theskilland
diplomacy of the cooler-headed to
prevent an open explosion.
The Democrats have been quiet
ly but intently watching for an out
burst of the hidden fame, and it has
come at last, and with it the secret
of the deal between Mcdowell and
the Republicans.
It transpires that the Republican
National Committee has paid Nc
Dowell $4,000 for his influence in
carrying Alliancemen over to Har-
rison by the Weaver route.
The evidence Of it is in some let
ters that have passed between two
prominent Republicans.
10. J. WINS, editor of the Knox.
vile Republican, wrote to George
W. Hill, Republican member fol
Tennessee of the Republican Ma.
tional Committee, and in his letter
WINS expresses grave doubts as t.
whether they haven't made mis-
take in not making a fair, square
fight instead of paying Mcdowell
$4,000 to help them break up the
Democratic party.
In substance he says that "tht
distracted condition Of Democracy
led us easily into a combination
with an element in that party rep
resented by Mcdowell and Buch
anan for the overthrow Of the reg
lar Democratic organization, "tha
element being now known as tn
third party or populites," But in
stead of this dissatisfied element
being weak in numbers--comingt
the Republican party without coax
ing, "we have gone to them an,
paid them (that is, paid Mcdowell
$4,000 in money through our ma
tional committee, Of which you ar
\ amember, togain their help in over
p throwing the regular Democracy i
n this State, and to give the State
S Harrison and Reid"
: After stating that he was person
h ally gratifed to see how earnestl
i Hill had sought to do that whic
8 would break up the solid South an
= bring success to the Republica
party, WINS continued:
L know you have sought to do on,
" that which you believed to be right, b.
: 1 appeal to you now to say, upon refe
], ton, if we have not gone too far in Il
q compromise of principles; if we are n
diserediting the Republican party viii,
70 has been held together by the fxedne
10 of principles, and are We not wanting
d fidelity to those principles when we OPP,