St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-04
Boss Quay Roasted to a Turn
by a Republican Con-
gresham.
Representative Kennedy Saws
That Quay Has Betrayed
His Party,
Besides He Is a Criminal in
the Eyes Of the
Public.
Tanners Successor Squirms
at the Questions Put by
Investigators.

WASHINGTON, D. c.. Sept. SIN the
mouse to-day the on-Breckinridge
contested election case came up after
routine, and in the discussion upon it
Mr. Kennedy, the Republican repre-
sentative Of the Eighth Ohio district,
made the most sensational speech of the
session, denouncing his party for con-
senting to the shelving of the force bill.
and branding Boss Quay as a criminal.
In the course of his speech he said. That
the election bill has been killed by Re-
puDllcans or pretended Republicans is
true. Without fair treatment the bill
which the house of representatives said
lmperatlvely was demanded for the
preservation of its own honor and for
Its safety and stability, and for the pro-
lection OF the whole country against
outrage and intimidation and violence.
is deliberately put aside without hear
ing and without opportunity of consid-
Grafton. When before in all the past
history oflegislation has one house of the
congress deliberately put upon the
other the mark OF its deriSion and con-
tempt? The consideration of this meas
ure was demanded by everv sense of
decency and honor. 1t was demanded
by the house of representatives that its
Hoor might be purged Of those who are
enaDled to enter by reason of violence
and murder. The senate of the United
States will learn that there is
Bar of Public Opinion.
and that at that bar it is now being
tried. 10 have been a senator in the
days of Webster and Clay and Calhoun
was to have been part of body that
won and had the admiration of the peo-
pie. North and South. To have been a
senator In the days of Wade and Fes-
senden and Crittenden was to have been
associated with men whose sense of
honor would have scorned the purchase
OF seat, and would have denied com
panionship to one whose name was tar
nIshed over by even suspicion of in
famy or corruption. If the Roman
toga had been bedraggled in the filth
and the mlre of the centuries, surely the
cloak OF senatorial courtesy has been
used to hide the infamy and corruption
which has dishonored and disgraced a
body which was once the proudest in
the land. The cloak of senatorial
courtesy has become stencil in the
nostrils and by-word in the mouths of
all the honest citizens of the land. 1t
makes a cloak behind which ignorant
and arrogant wealth can purchase it's
way to power, and then hide its cow
ardly head behind the shameless pro-
lection of senatorial courtesy" It
means a cloak which shall cover up
from the public gaze of an outraged peo-
pie the infamieS which demand investi-
CATION and which merit the punishment
of broken laws and violated statutes. 1t
means cloak behind which petty party
chickering's may barter away a party's
principles and play the demagogue in
the face Of the people. 1t means cloak
behind which pretended fairness
Hides Hts Dishonest Head
While in secret it is trading and traffick-
ing in the rights and liberties of the
people. 1t means cloak under which
not only the timid, but the cowardly
politician can cover up his tracks, and
be it either foul or fair as the necessity
demands. The hour for senatorial
courtesy has passed. The ox-team of
senatorial progress must give way to
the motor of more enlightened and
progressive and determined age. Let
the old and threadbare cloak of senate
rial courtesy be hung up with the sickle
and the fail of bygone day. Referring
to the betrayal of Christ by Judas, MI.
Kennedy said: 1t was fitting that Judas
should be paid the thirty marks of
silver, it was still part of the eternal
fitness of things that, having been
guilty of the basest crime of all the cen
turies, he should go out and hang him
self. History is repeating itself.
The great party of the republic
having lived for thirty-fve years,
has never yet assisted in riveting the
shackles on human being, and now
when it was to be expected that it wOnld
redeem its pledges and be faithful to
its history, it is about to prove false,
and its oft-repeated promises are not to
be redeemed. 1t comes victo-
rious from every field, and if it fails
now 1t finds in its own party those who
are faithless to the trust repOsed in
them. Ii it is to be crucifed it is only
because its chosen leaders have bartered
away its principles for the tricks and
petty schemes of politicians. The Judas
lscariot OF 1900 years ago is to find
counterpart in the Judas Iscariot of to-
day. The Judas who took the
Thirty Pieces of Silver
and went and hanged himself has left
ali example for the Mat Quays that is
well worthy of their imitation. Some
time since l stood in my place on this
floor and denounced senator from my
native state because, when charged
with corruption and branded with in
fanny, he did not arise in his seat and
demand an investion and inquiry that
should establish the purity of his
actions and his personal honor. The
other. occupying high place in the
councils of the party to which l belong,
has suffered himself month in and
month out to be charged with crimes
and misdemeanors for which, if guilty,
he should have been condemned under
the laws of his state and have meted
out to him the fullest measure
of its punishment. This man
is Republican. Shall I now
remain silent2 Is it just and honest to
remain in my seat silent because one
who is accused of crimes and refuses to
seek for vindicatiOn is a Republican,
and that Republican the recognized
leader of my party?> Neither decency
nor honor would permit me to do so.
[ do not know whether the charges
made against the chairman of the ma
tional Republican committee are true
or false, but do know that they have
been made by journals of character and
standing, again and again, and do
know that in the face of these charges
Mat Quay has remained silent and has
neither sought nor attempted to seek
opportunity to vindicate himself of
them. I do know that as a great Re-
publican leader, he owed it to the
great party at whose head ne was,
either to
Brand Them as Infamies.
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