Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-10-11
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TUESDAY EVENING. OCT. IL, 1881.
Silence will Not Do.


could readily Withstand the force of
Wolfe's rebellion of one forgot how he
was armed against them by a knowledge
of their Erie practices and how he could
command the ear of the people in relat-
ing them, as one who had been of their
household and knew of what he spoke.
The serious charges which Mr.. Wolfe
brings against the state office-holders
have often been substantially made by
Democratic speakers and journalists,
though never perhaps with so great par
ticularity and boldness in naming names.
From us these charges have been evadcd
as prompted by partisan malice. But
Wolfe, with his declaration in favor OF
the publication of his party, is obviously
working up to the support of his princi-
pies in expressing what he knows of the
wrongdoing of those who have taken his
party in charge for the profits they can
make out of their management of it.
When Wolfe got up in the oil region
at Titusville on Saturday night to tell
why he was an independent Republican
candidate it was evidently very Oppor-
tune time and place for him to say what
he knew of the dealings of the officers of
the state in oil and he declared that
Governor Hoyt, Secretary Of State Quay
and the Democratic cashier of the treas
ury had been in partnership in the puf-
chase of large quantities of oil with the
state funds, in anticipation of a rise i'll
value instead of which came fall and
a loss to the operators which was made
good by Don Cameron and Henry W..
Oliver which was the reason of the
strenuous advocacy Of the election OF
Oliver to the Senate by Quay Hoyt,
who would like to have been Il CALI
didate himself, being obliged to support
Oliver. Nothing is wanted to make
that statement specific. And of course
it needs to be met. Chairman Cooper
was wise in considering that the best
way to treat Wolfe was not to
notice his candidacy but it evidently
won't do to refuse to notice his charges.
Of course that involves IL notice of
his candidacy; but it is a difficulty of
the situation which cannot be avoided.
If the Republican leaders were but
panoplied in innocence there would be
no difficulty at all as they would blow
Wolfe out of water Is soon as they
showed that his accusations were false.
If they can do this they have no time to
lose in the demonstration and even
though they can't, they may make up
their minds that the policy of silence
about Wolfe will not work undcr exist
ing circumstances and that they are
bound to try at least to make him out to
be malicious slanderer of better men
than himself. Governor IOyt has a good
reputation for his friends to plant them
selves on to start with. People generally
will not be inclined to believe that he
has been unlawfully speculating with
the money of the state in collusion with
the cashier of the treasury. Noaccusation
of that kind against Quay will create
any surprise, but Hoyt has decenter
reputation. Still when we remember the
fact that Kemble controlled the COVER
nor, and compelled him to control the at
torney general, to grant the pardon which
they did not wish to grant him, we must
suspect reason for this influence and
an obvious one would he the desire OF
the governor to avoid an exposure that
Kemble threatened. 1t may not have
been of his speculation in state funds :;
it may have been of something very diff
ferent and even worse something for
instance about his Mollic Mcguire con
nectiOns. But whatever it is, crooked
ness of some kind is naturally supposed
to be at the bottom of it and Governor
uoyt does not stand before the people so
panoplied as to make him impervious to
Wolfe's teeth. He will be a sadly used
up governor if he don't come out to do
battle for bis fair name and knock Wolfe
on the head if he has the strong staff
for the work. AS to Quay it really don't
matter. He can afford to be quiet and
follow Chairman Cooper in not noticing
Wolfe. His reputation for honor and
honesty is too poor to he made much
poorer. Cashier Walters, of the treasury,
of course needs to speak il he would
save himself; and, being a Democrat, he
is not deferred 10y any fear Of increasing
Wolfe's Importance by noticing him.
The Harrisburg Patriot declares that
whatever may be the truth of the allega-
tiOns as to the abuse of the treasury
frauds, State Treasurer NOycs had no
knowledge of them, and of course its
meaning is that the cashier abused not
only his trust, but the confidence of his
chief. These are serious charges. We
are glad to have the Patriots assurance
of the innocence of the treasurer but it
cannot mean that he remained in igno-
rance when hc came to transfer his Office
to his successor for it is well known
that the latter objected to the chara ctcr
of the securities; and it is altogether prob.
able that tie modification I'd the anN-
iety brought down the gray hairs Of the
aged treasurer in sorrow to the grave,
even though he was innocent and lost
nothing.
But what must be the management of
the state treasury when its cashier can
dispose of its funds SO that they shall be
out of the knowledge of the treasurer
For wears the money Of tho state has