Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-09-10
Representative Kennedy, of Ohio. on Sena'
for Matt. s. Quay.

Kennedy, of Ohio, on Sena-
tor Matt. s. Quay.
On Wednesday, the 3rd Instant, in the
House of Representatives, Mr.. Kennedy,
from o hio, pitched into Quay
not only without gloves, but without mercy.
In the course of his speech, referring to
Quay, he said:-
"When before in all the past history OF
legislation has one House of the Congress
deliberately put up on the other the mark
of it's derision and contempt? The consid-
Grafton of this measure was demanded by
every sense of decency and honor The
Senate of the United States will learn that
there is bar of public opinion, ard at that
bar it is now being tried. To have been a
Senator in the days of Webster and Clay
and Calhoun was to have been part of a
body that won and had the admiration of
the people of the North and South. To
have been Senator in the days of Wade
and Fessenden and Crittenden was to have
been associated with men whose sense of
honor would have scorned the purchase of
seat and would have denied companion
ship to one whose name was furnished over
by even a suspicion of infamy or corrup-
ton.
TIE SENATE DIsHONORED AND DIsaRACED.
eff the Roman toga has been bedragged
in the filth and the miTe of the centuries,
surely the cloak of senatorial courtesy has
been used to hide the infamy and the cor
ruption, which has dishonored and disgraced
body which was once the proudest in the
land. The cloak of senatorial courteay has
become a stencil in the nOstrils and a by
IN, kbo kho Of ho
Eens of the land. 1t makes cloak behind
which ignorant and arrogant wealth can
purchase its way to power and then hide its
cowardly head behind the shameless protec-
ton of senatorial silence. 1t means cloak
which shall cover up from the pnblic gaze
of an outraged people the infamies which
demand investigation and which merit the
punishment of broken laws and violated
statutes. It 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 its
dishonest head, while in secret it is trading
and trafdcing in the right and liberties of
the people. l. means cloak under which
not only the timid but the cowardly politi-
clan can cover up his tracks, and be either
| foul or fair, as the necessity demands. The
| The ox-team of senatorial progress must
give way to the motor of more enlighten-
ed and progressive and determined age.
Let the old and threadbare cloak of sena-
torial courtesy be hung up with the sickle
and the fail of by-gone day."
MATT. s. QUAY COMPARED TO JUDAS.
| Referring to the betrayal of Christ by
Judas Mr.. Kennedy said: SIT was meet and
o. T. A. -
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.
turtles, he should 60 out and hang himself.
History is repeating itself. The great par
ty of the republic, having lived for thirty
five years, has never yet assisted in riveting
the shackles upon human being. And
now when it was to be expected that il
would redeem its pledges and be faithful to
it's history, it is about to prove false, and
oft-repeated promises are not to be redeem
ed. 1t comes victorious from every field.
And if it fails now it finds in it's own party
those who are faithless to the trust reposed
in them. If it is to be crucified it is only
because its chosen leaders have bartered
away its principles for the tricks and petty
schemes of politicians. The Judas Iscario,
of 2, 900 years ago is to find a counterpart in
the Judas Iscariot of to day. The Judas
who took the thirty pieces Of silver and
went and hanged himself has left an exam.
pie for the Matt. Quays that is well worthy
of their imitation.
| A MAN CHARGED WITH CRIMES.
Some time since I stood upon my place
On this floor and denounced Senator from
my native State because, when charged with
corruption and branded with infamy, he did
,r,h io md Il o,oI
cation and inquiry that should establish the
purity of his actions and his personal honor.
One other occupying the high place in the
counsels 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
condemned under the laws of his State and
have had melted OUT to him the fullest meas
ure of its punishment. This man is re-
publican. Shall I 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 for vindication is republi-
can, and that republican the recognized
leader of my party7 Neither decency nor
honor would permit me to do 30. do not
know whether the charges made against the
chairman of the national republican COM
mittee are true or false, but do know that
they have been made by journals of charac-
ter and standing again and again, and I do
know that in the face of these charges Matt.
Quay has remained silent, and has neither
sought nor attempted to seek opportunity
to vindicate himself of them. do know
that as great republican leader he owed
it to the great party at whose head he was
either to brand them as infamies or to prove
their falsity, or he owed it to that party to
stand aside from its leadership. He has
not done either, and for this l denouuce
him. The republican party cannot afford
to follow the lead of a branded criminal.
He has failed to justify himself, and though
opportunity and ample time have been Civ.
en- him he remains silent.
| SILENCE THE CONFESSION OF GUILT.
! His silence, under such circumstances, is
the confession of guilt. An honorable man
does not long daily when his honor is as
sailed. He has delayed too long to Justify
the belief in his innocence, and he stands a
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 imperls. The
republican party has done enough for its
pretended leader. Let him be relegated to
the rear. It is no longer question of his
vndication; it is now question of the life
of the party ITSELF"
Supposed Horse Thief.
On last Saturday, rather good-looking
man rode up the blacksmith shop in Grab.
bottom and told the smith to shoe his horse