The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-02-28
Senator Quay has the Floor.

The New York World recently pub
lished biography OF Matthew Stanley
Quay which contains a terrible srraigu
ment OF the Senator from PENNSYLVANIA
both in his public and private relations.
Malteasance n Office, embeZZ emelt,
drunkenness, yeLslitY and profiigacy of
the most abandoned description are
categorically charged, and backed up
BY plausible array Of testimony. The
chief allegations affecting Senator
Qusy's honesty are as follows
TU4t IL 1867, when Ex-Governor Cur
tin contested with Simon Cameron for
the senatorial nomination. Quay sold
his influence to Curtin's friends for
Sl3 coo aud then betrayed Curtin for a
consideration Of $50, 900 received from
the opposition.
That il 1865. when Alex P Tuition,
supervisor of Internal Revenue for the
eastern district, was about TO seiZa al
irregular dIsti.lery in which Quay was
interested, the latter offered Tuition
81 600 week II De would refrain from
the seizure, hs (Qusy) expecting to
make al less, 5000 by cheating the
Government
Th8t he was the fOrmulator of the
- 600, 600 indemnity bill introduced
after The PIttsburg riots of 1871,
prompted the corrupt lobbying for
which Kemble and Petr0ff were sent 70
the peuItentiary. and had Kemble par
doned out, for fear of his making dams
gerCus revelations
That 10 1879. with the assistance of
J. B ske Walters, cashier Of the ; ate
Treasury, he and Others embs ZZled
$500, eco OF State funds. which. for the
honor OF the Republican party, was
paid back 10y wealthy politicians, J.
Doua'G Cameron alone putting up over
500 COO:
These are the gTavest charges. Out
of the IoLg list of others which ars OF
less gravity, but still very serious, we
cite the following
That ia 1867. At the close Of the Iegis-
iative session, when as Chairman Of he
Ways and Means Committee, it was
Quay's duty 70 prepare revenue bill.
covering The regular Stale expenses, he
was engaged in q drunken jam boree, let
the bill go by default. and OF tle last day
OF The session IaIlTOaded through both
HoGses shs e. of paper blank within,
aud inscribed on the outside with the
title of the revenue bill. the act uaI en-
ac ment not being prepared until sOme>
time aft rwdrds
That. in order 10 establish a TAT berth
for himself, he had the recOrdersbip OF
Philadelphia created. and himself elect
ed 10 the Office with emOluments ex-
ceeding $40, 600 year
That. ~ the time of the Pittsburg
/ riots in 1871, he catered 20 the railroad
I people by calling out the State militia
I in defiance OF the law Governor Har.
I tranft being absent from the State at
( the time
That be has been guilty of the most
t shocking orgies at Philadelphia, Har-
| risburg, Atlantic City and his home in
/ Bsaver-nOt incidentally OF OccssionaI>
/ ly. bu- as his chosen mode or life
That, during his first two terms in
! the State legislature, he earned enough
mOnev by corrupt methods to put up a
/ Sl3 600 building at Beaver
That, when the old PIttsburg Com
/ merciaI taxed him with the foregoing,
/ he sued Br CHAM, the editor. for libel.
/ the suit being before an alderman
coached by Bob Mackey, and eventn-
I atlng in The muZZling Of the defense,
| although Quay shreWsdly avoided let
ting the affair reach the courts.
The Leader has no specific Knowledge
Of the lTu of these charges, bnt we
I recoguiZs-and we believe that our
readers VIII shsre our cOnyictiOn-that
/ their open publication visits disgrace
upon the the State of Peuasy lvauia.
| which Quay represents in the Senate.
Senator Quay has only two courses
I open TO hum in the face of this assault
1 upon bis character, which is too formal
and comprehensive 10 be dismissed
with wave of the hand as political
clap trap He must either plead guilty
and submit 10 be expelled from the
Senate, or else he must prove them
fal Sc, by producing Interchangeable testi-
mony in his own vindication. II WON'T
do To quietly ignore these public
charges, which are now not only the
TAX on the streets or Pittsburg, but are
the leading topic of conversation in
political and high social circles in New
\ ork, Philadelphia and Washington
y briber, embt ZZ,er aud profiigate can
not be permitted to represent this great
Commonwealth in the Senate of tht
y Nation, and an upright citizen, repre-
senting the Commonwealth of Penn.
sy'vania ia the Senate, will not permil
himself TO be proclaimed to the world
as briber, embeZZ,er and profiigate
Senator Quay must take some action
It Is bis duty to bImseif and to III,
State be represents to do so. II b,
does not do so, then the Senate OF tht
United States hould.-PiuS5,rg Lead
er Rep.)