Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-10-06
LANCASTER DAILY THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6 1881
QUAY.
THE rARDoN BOARD 1NrAaY.

| QUAY.
THE rARDON BOARD INFAMY.
Why aid Stone and Palmer Do IT,
From Wolfe's Philadelphia Speech.
The chief engineer of "the machine,
the ex-recorder and secretary of the com
monEealth, is one who, were his virtu
and his patriotism equal to his choice men
tai gifts and rare sagacity, would be a,
ornament of which our state might we'll b,
proud. But the base conditions which
ambition here exacts of all its votaries hav,
prostrated his noble powers and made hin
"A shining instrument to finish faultss illus
| triOuS.'
He i: is who relieves legislatures. con
ventions and state committees of all theil
functions and skilfully moulds them to hi:
own and his fellow bosses wills. There il
no spring, nor wheel, nor screw, nor cog
nor pinion in "the machine" with which
he is not familiar. The senatorial toga
had been reserved for him, bit his riot bill
iniquity and pardon board infidelity placed
it beyond his reach. To save himself and
his sel:-convicted friends-Kemble and the
other riot bill corruptionists (hissingl-he
himself was compelled to abandon the
much-sought prize.
When Lieutenant Governor Stone and
Attorney General Palmer had refused to
| concur in previous pardon; when the
doors Of the pcnitentiary were opening to
| receive the returned and sentenced out
laws from justice, and the furious Kemble
threatened dire vengeance in the expos
ure of his accomplices if the pardon board
did not grant immediate relief when the
alarmed Hoyt was screening himself be-
hind the convenient and determined non
concurrence of his friend and attorney gen.
eral, the solicitations of McAIanes,
Quay and others, as was at the time
well understood, furnish q motive suf-
ficiently strong to send him off in hot haste
to Wilkesbarre for the purpose of induc-
ing the obduratc Palmer to relent. 1t was
insisted by their closest friends and gen
orally hoped, if not firmly believed, that
in the keeping of Stone and Palmer the
honor Of the commonwealth was safe.
But, oh, what disappointment They do
concur. There is no hope from the gov
ernOr.
What could have induced Attorney
General Palmer, who but a short time be
fore had exhorted me, as one of the states
prosecutors, to =" hew to the limo and let
the chips falls fall where they may" and
the dignified and reputable Stone thus, in
violation of their own pardon board rules,
the express mandates of the constitution
and their sacred Oaths, to court public con-
demnation and execration? Some power
full incentive must have induced the ac-
tion. Reasons were indeed given, but they
were not such as any sane man could ac-
cept. The true reasons, of course, were
not proclaimed from the housetops. What
could the motive be ? We reasoned among
ourselves. We knew that Shakespeare
that keen ferret of human motiye-had
said
"Plate sin with gold,
Ana Inc strong lance of justice heart!ess
Arm 81 It in rags p'smy's straw doth pierce
Was it money. No. With those men
money could not pay the price. Was it
ambition Not if an outraged people were
to decide. If it was ambition it must be
such as "the masters" might gratify
against the peoples will.
In the summer of that year herculean
efforts were made to carry the Luzerne
and other Northeastern legislative dis.
tricts, either with or Without instructions.
for Governor Hoyt for United States sena
tor, but instead thereof the pardonius OF
Kemble and his associates was bitterly |
denounced and Grow instructions given. |
Lieutenant Governor Stone was actively
endeavoring to bring to his support for
senator the Republican representatives
from the oil regions, but he, too, found
that his pardon board faithlessness had
destroyed his former popularity and
prestige. and he utterly failed. The
whole Northern tier, from Erie to Wayne,
r bo oil roninnc orl &hD
were for MIR. Grow and were not willing
that the senatorial Office should be detilei
by riot-bill and pardon-board impurity.
Could Hoyt have, through local pride.
secured the representatives from tho
Luzerne region and Stone those from
The northwest, then the Philadelphia del
,gation, under McAIanes' orders, and that
rom Allegheny, under Chris NIagee's mar
aided by accursed caucus engine.
y, would have elevated Governor Hoyt.
covered with the slime of riot bill corrup
ion and pardon board disgrace, to the ex-
llted office of United States senator, and
he gubcrnatorial chair of PENNSYLVANIA
you'd have been occupied by Ona into
whose hands, above all others, the people
# this commonwealth confided the sacred
;ecplng OF her honor. but who, when the !
our OF trial and temptation came, igno-
ainlously betrayed her. Do you say this 8
) the figment OF diSordered ina agination :? !
.oOk ut the Philadelphia Press Of Decem =,
er =. lSoO, and there in an interview with
enator Herr, of counsel for the riot bill
ribers, you will ind confirmation of this :
cheme. Are these evidences not sufficient? ? ! J
It the proper time other and more conc!u-
We proofs may not be wanting.
But MIR. Grows strength and General
[oorhead S candidacy in the West rendered 7
lis scheme impracticable. Suddenly Mr.. l
liver becomes the "bosses :" choice.
Thy? Their old tactics are resorted to.
ooriead must be crushed in Allegheny.
Philadelphia and Allegheny, with con-
,nient dark horses as local candidates to
Did off votes from Mr.. Grow, may com >
'ss his defeat and eventually bring sue Z
IS to Oliver: But why Oliver Certain 7;
not especial fitness. Agreeable medi- N
rity and faithful service meet Senator c'
S views. Why did Matthew s.
uay insist SO strenuously upon his elec- i,
IN and refuse to listen to any other suc- +
stion? If the current rumors that his OF
Tsonal bank account was short $780, ID
0 as chairman Of the state COM o.
ittee in the Hoyt campaign and of a Il
rge deficit in the state treasury arising
,in the specalatious of Cashier Blake I'll
alters, Governor Hoyt and himself and I'll
e generosity Of Senator j. Donald Cam n
IN and Harry W. Oliver in making the ev
ficit good, are founded in fact, we can tn
IDLY find satisfactory reason for max. at
, Mr. Oliver his ra.Sidn,rv co,.t.:,I