Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-04-23
Quay in a Quandary.

THE "woRLD's' CHARGES OF CORRUPTION
AGAINST HIM INVESTIGATED BY THE
s'EvENING PosT'' AND FOUND TO BE A
TRUE BILL.
A New York special to the Pittsburg
Post says The EUenmg Post of this city
to day prints the folowing:-
The New York World nearly two m nths
ago printed series OF accusations of very
serious character against Matthew Stanley
QUAY, United STATES Senator from Penn
sylvsnia. The story filled between 10 and
is columns of the World, and was il eight
chapters, the first seven chapters being
printed on February 10 and the last chap
ters on March 3. 1t was apparently COM
plete history of the Pennsylvania poll
tician's life from his birth to thu present
time. Specific charges of criminal conduct,
embezzling the moneys belonging to the
State, bribery and attempted bribery we're
made against him. Particulars we're given
to the stolen money being restored through
the generosity of United States Senator
Don Cameron. and of Qnay's being thus
saved from the penitentary. Numerous
other charges of general political corrup-
ton, treachery, Drunkenness and dehauchery
we're made at great length. In conse-
ouepce, however, of the generally untrust
worthy character of tho Worlds stories,
little or no attention was paid to the mat
ter; the newspapers throughout the coun
try barely mentioned it.
This and other influences led US to make
an Independents Investigation of the charges
preferred against Quay by the World, and
we have found on unim peachsble testl-
mony lin many cases the testimony of
Quay's own friends) that these charges
were substantially true. AS to the charges
of embezzliug Stase moneys, and the use
of State money for speculation, the evidence
in detail Of guilt is overwhelming. The
main facts contained in the World story,
therefore, together with other essential de-
tails, are according ely reprinted in the
Epening Post.
| The EUenang Post then goes on to fill six
columns with the details of its investga.
ticn of Quay's record. Commeating on
this expose the Plttsburg Post says:
We can add one or two important dis
closur IS to what has beer uncovered by the
World and the EDening Post. The gentle
man who found Quay in the Lochiel house
at Harrisburg in the early spring of 1880,
desperately drunk and threa eniny suicide,
with treasury defalcation of $3.50, 900 star
confession to Senator Cameron at Washing
ton, and at the Senator's request returned
to Harrisburg and verified the default by
an examination Of the treasury books, was
Mr.. G. L. Magee. of Pittsburg. At that
time he and Mr.. Qnay were close personal
and political friends, but it is due to Mr..
Magee to say that he lad no part or inter-
est in the treasury speculation and defa!cs-
ton of Quay and Walters: and know moth
| ing of it until the drunken confession was
made to him at Harrisburg.
Mention is aleo made of ga well-knOwn
lawyer, gentleman of distinguished repu-
tation and who once filed cabinet office, -
who was engaged by Senator Cameron to
arrange the settlement Of tie embezz'e-
ment, the repayment of the stolen money
and receive from Quay such securities as
he owned. This gentleman was no other
than Wayne MacVeagh, ex,attorney- gen
eral of the United States, and brother-in-
law of Senator Cameron.
hIr. Lea, in his recent letter to the Presi-
dent urging him 10 unload Quay, said ''If
the accusations are true, Senator Quay
ought to be in the penitentiary. If they
are false, he is q cruelty iibelad man; his
accuser is journal of the highest financial
standing, and no jury of his countrymen
Wooiu ioiuso A'Lu oAV'p aiS u"ni''So' ~
would put him hey md all future reach of
want" The well known and eminent
gentlemen we have indicated if placed on
the wi5sess ssts1d 7-N0old convict quay,
andGerein we have the reason the Republ-
Gan boss declines the invitation to go into
court and vindicate his character. He re-
lies on 2 muzzled Republican press, OF
which the Pittsburgh Gazette and Phila-
delphia Press (well knowing his guilt are
types, and idiotio chaff and dust for the
people as that the exposures are born OF
free trade to damn protection.