Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-09-04
A BROADsIDE AT MIR. QUAY.
a Republican Member Makes Q Sting
ing Speech I'm the House.


of their failure to act on the federal election
bill. Tho election bill" he said. has been
killed by republicans, or pretended republi-
cans Without fair treatment" ho went on,
''tne bill which tho House Of Representatives
Said imperatively demanded for the preser-
Walton Of its own honor and for the safety and
stability of its honor and the protection Of the
whole country against outrage and intimidation
and violence is deliberately put aside without
hearing and without opportunity Of considera-
sion.
When before in al the pas. history OF legis-
lation has one house OF the Congress delib-
erately put upon the other the mark of its de-
rision and contempt? Tho consideration OF
this measure was demanded by every sense of
decency and honor. II was demanded by the
House Of Representatives that its floor might
be purged of those who are enabled to enter
by reason Of violence and murder. The Senate
of the United States will learn that there is a
bar OF pubic opinion, and that ut that bar it is
now being tried.
To have been Senator in the days Of Web
ster and Clay and Calhoun vas to have been q
part of a body tina. won and had the admira-
ton OF the people, north and south. To have
been Senator IN thu days OF Wade and Fes-
sender and Crittenden was to have been asso-
Grated with men whose sense of honor would
have scorned the purchase of a seat, and would
have denied cOmpanionship to one whose name
was furnished over by even suspicion of in
fanny or corruption. II the Roman toga had
been bedra1ged i'll the filth and miro OF the
centuries. surely the cloak of Senatorial cour-
tesy has been used to hide the infamy and cor
ruption which has dishonored and disgraced
body which was once the proudest in the land
SENATORIAL COURTESY"
The cloak of senatorial courtesy has be-
come a stencil in the nOstrils and a byword in
the mouths OF all the honest citizens Of the
land. 1t makes a cloak behind which ignorant
and
power anu then hide its cowardly head behind
the shameless protection of senatorial silence
II means Il cloak which shall cover up from the
public gaze OF an outraged people the infamies
which demand investigation ami which merit
the punishment of broken laws and violated
Statutes. 1t means n cloak behind which petty
party bickeTCrs may barter away party prin-
clpies and play the demayogue in the face of
the people. 1t means a cloak behind which
pretended fairness hides Its dishonest head
while IN secret II is trading and trafficking in
the rights and liberties OF the people. 1t means
cloak under which not only the timd but the
cowardly politician can cover up his tracks and
be either foul or fair as the necessity demands
The hour for senatorial court esy has passed
The on team of senatorial progress must give
way TO the yalor of the more enlightened and
progressive and determined age. Let the old
ard threadbare cloak OF senatorial courtesy be,
hung up with the sickle and the fail Of q BY
gone day.
REFERENCE TO JUDAS.
at was meet and fitting that Judas should
be paid the thirty marks OF silver. 1t was still
part of the eternal fitness of things that
having been guilty of the basest crime of all
tie centuries he should go out and hang him
seN. History is repeating itself. The great
party OF the republic, having lived for thirty
hye years, has never yet assisted in riyetiug the
sLackles upon human being, and now, when
II was to be expected that it would redeem its
pledges and be faithful to its history lit is about
10 prove false and oft-repeated promises are
not TO be redeemed. 1t comes victorious from,
every held And If it fails now it finds in its
own party those who are faithless to the trust
reposed IN them. II il Is to be crucified il Is
only because its chosen leaders have bartered
away its principles for the tricks and petty
schemes of politicians.
The Judas Iscariot of 900 years ago is to
find counterpart in the Judas Iscariot of to-
day. The Judas who took thirty pieces of
silver and went and hanged himself has left an
example for tine Matt Quays that is well worthy
OF their imitation. Some time since [ stood
uron my place on this floor and i denounced
q Senator from my native state because, when
Charged with corruption and branded with in
fanny, he did not arise IN his seat and demand
Investigation and inqiry that should establish
the purity OF his actions and his personal
honor.
One other occupying the high place in the
councils OF the party TO which belong has suf-
Tered himself month in and month out to be
charged with crimes and misdemeanors for
which, il guilty. lie should have been con-
demned under the laws of his state and had
meted out to him the fullest measure of its
punishment. This man is a republican: shall
new remain silent! Is it Just and honest to
remain IN my seat silent because one who il
accused Of crimes and refuses 10 seek for vim
dlcaticn is republican. and that republican
She recognized leader of my party?
SILENCE.
Neither decency nor honor would permit
me TO do so. L do not know whether the
Charges made agains. the chairman of the M
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 90 know that in the face of these
Charges Matt Quay has remained SILENT and
has neither sought nor attempted to seek op-
pOrtunlty TO yindlcate himself of them do
know that as great republican leader he
owed II 10 the great party ut whose head he
was either 10 brand them infamies or to
prove their falsity. or he owed it to that party
g. sand aside from Its leadership
He has not dore either, and for this de-
nounce him. The republican party cannot af.
ford to follow the lead of a branded criminal
lie has failed to justify himself. and though op-
Portunity and ample time have been given him,
he remains silent. His silence under such cir
eumstanees Is the confession OF guilt An
honorable man does not long daily when his
honor Is assailed.
He has delayed too long to justify the be-
III IL MS "hOCcHce, AMI ne stands q convicted
criminal before the bar Of public opinion
Under such circumstances he should be driven
from the head of party whose very life his
presence imperils. The republican party has
done enough for its pretended leader. Let
him DO re!egated to the rear. 1t is no longer a
question OF his yindication; it is now a cues
ton Of the life of the party itself"
Low RATES TO DEER PARK AND OAKLAND
During the present season the Baltimore and
Ohio l;GIlroad Company will sell excursion
tickets from Washington TO Deer Park Noun
tain Lake Park and Oakland for the Friday
night ana all Saturday trains each week at rate
OF IS for the round trip. The tickets will be
valid for return passage until Monday follow
ing day OF sale. Tickets to Berkeley Springs
and return will be sold under similar condI-
tons at $3.50 for the round "trip.
Excursion tickets, Rockville fair, 81 round
trip.
hIiied by Lightning From n Clear Sky.
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