St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-09-11
QUAY ROUNDLY SCORED.

IonaI Committee.
Congressman Kennedy of Ohio at
tackled Senator Quay in speech in
the House last week Wednesday last
ing just 40 minutes. Few represen-
tatives heard him and the speaker
never called him to order. Here are
extracts from his speech:
THE Senate of the United States
will learn that there is bar of pub
lie opinion and at that bar it is now
being tried. To have been Senator
in the days of Webster and Clay and
Calhoun was to have been part of
body that won and had the admira-
ton of the people of the North and
| South. To have been a Senator in
the days of Wade and Fessenden and
| Crittenden, was to have been asso-
ciated with men whose sense of honor
would have scorned the purchase of
a seat and would have denied COM
| paniOnShip to one whose name was
| furnished over with even a suspicion
| of infamy or corruption. If the RO-
man toga has been bedraggled in the
| filth and the mire of the centuries,
surely the cloak of Senatorial courte-
sv has become a stencil in the nOStrils
and a byword in the mouths of all
the honest citizens of the land. 1t
means cloak behind which ignorant
and arrogant wealth can purchase
its way to power, and then hide its
cowardly head behind the shameless
| protection of Senatorial silence. 1t
means cloak which shall cover up
| from the public gaze of an outraged
people the infamies which demand
| investigation, and which merit the
punishment of broken laws and vio-
| lated statutes. 1t means a cloak be-
hind which petty party chickering's
may barter away q party's pr1nc1-
plies and may play the demagogue in
| the face of the people. 1t means a
ness hides its dishonest head, while
in secret it is trading and trafficing
the rights and liberties of the people.
| 1t means a cloak under which not
only the timid, but the cowardly,
| politician can coverup his tracks and
be either foul or fair as the necessity
demands The hour for Senatorial
courtesy has passed. The OK 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
| Senatorial courtesy be hung up with
the sickle and fail of bvgone day.
1t was meet and fitting that Judas
should be paid the thirty pieces of
silver; it was still part of the eter-
nal fitness of things that, having
been guilty of the basest crime of all
the centuries, he should go and hang
himself. History is repeating itself.
The great party of the Republic hav
ing lived for thirty-five years, has
shackles upon a human being, and
now, when it was to be expected
that it would redeem its pledges and
be faithful to its history, it is about
to prove false and oftrepeated prom
Uses are not to be redeemed. ItcOmeS
victorious from every field. And if it
fails now it finds in its own party
those who are faithless to the trust
reposed in them. If it is to be cruel
| fed it is only because its chosen lead
ers have bartered away its principles
for the tricks and petty schemes of
| politicians. The Judas Iscariot of
1000 years ago is to find counter
part in the Judas Iscariot of to-day.
The Judas who took the thirty pieces
of silver and went and hanged him
self, has left an example for the Matt
| Ouays that is well worthy of their
| imitation.
Some time since stood upon my
place on this floor and denounced a
| Senator from my native state, be-
cause, when charged with corruption
and branded with infamv, he did not
arise in his seat and demand an in
vestigation and inquiry that should
establish the purity of his actions
and his personal honor One other
occupying the high place in the coun-
sells of the party to which belong
has suffered himself month in and
month out to be charged with crimes
and misdemeanors for which, if
guilty, he should have been con-
demned under the laws of his state,
and have had meted out to him the
| fullest measure of its punishment.
This man is a republican. Shall l
now remain silent? Is it just and
| honest to remain in my seat silent
| because one who is accused of crimes
and refuses to seek vindication is a
republican, and that republican the
recognized leader of my party
Neither decency nor honor would
permit me to do so. l do not know
whether the charges made against the
chairman of the national committee
can are true or false, but l 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 Matt Quay has
remained silent, and has neither
sought nor attempted to seek oppor
tunitv to vindicate himself of them
| do know that, as n great republican
leader, he owed it to the great party
at whose head he was, either to
their falSity, or he owed it to that
party to stand aside from its leader
ship He has not done either, and
for this / denounce him. The repub-
1ican party cannot afford to follow
the lead of branded criminal He
has failed to justify himself, and
though opportunity and ample time
| have been given him he remains 81
lent His silence under such circum-
stances is the confession of guilt. An
| honorable man does not long delay
when his honor is assailed. He has
DELAYED too long to justify the belief
in his innocence, and he stands a con-
victed criminal before the bar of pub
lie opinion. Under such circumstan-