Nevada County picayune., 1890-04-23
MIR. I.EA's LETTER.


 "SIR-No graver scandal has dark ened our political history than the charges brought against Senator Quay by the New York World in it's issues of February 10 and March g.. It would be useless here to recapitu- late them further than to say that. with full details of names and places and dates, the World asserts him to be man whose political career has been a succession of hagrantly dis honest acts, including the temporary abstraction from the State Treasury of S260,000 at one instance and of i $400, ,000 in another.
 "No such accusations, involving iniquity so varied and so continuous, and supported by such an array of minute detail, have ever before, be- lieve, been brought against politi- elan so conspicuous. If they are true, Senator Quay ought to be in the penitentiary. If they are false, he is a cruelty libeled man; his ac- cuser is journal of the highest finan- cial standing, and no jury of his countrymen would refuse him eXem- plary damages that would put him beyond all future need of want Vindication and profit both await him as incentive to prove his inno- cence; but although two months have elapsed since the gravest of these charges were made public, neither solicitude for his character or desire for gain has prompted him to break silence. It is his own fault if the public should regard him as ac- quiescing in the truth of the charges.
 ''It is true that the crimes alleged against Senator Quay are connected only with his career as Pennsyl- vania boss, but your close connec- ton with him has rendered the sean dal national. You were duly warned in advance from friendly source of the dangers of such an alliance, yet by accepting his man, Mir. Wana- maker, as a member of your cabinet, you assumed responsibility for both of them. In pursuance of this alli- ance, you have enlarged Mir. Quay's importance, by virtually giving him control of the Federal patronage in Pennsylvania, thus rendering him the dictator of the Republican party in the State.
 'He boasted of your subserviency to him, when in explaining his tri- umph over Representative Dalzell, in the struggle for the Pittsburg postotlice, he publicly said that the President, though very anxious to gratify Mir. Dalzell, for whom he has high esteem, could not, under all the circumstances, well avoid to com ply with my wishes. Even Mir. Quay's remarkable silence under the accusations of the World, does not seem to have lessened his influence over you. He signalizes his return from Florida, a week or two since, by capturing the Pittsburg Surveyor ship of Customs, against candidates urged respectively by Secretary Blaine and Representative Dalzell.
 Indeed, his power would seem to be as great in Washington as in this State, for the party organs now tell us that he has been endeavoring to buy off the superiluous candidate for the Governorship with an Assistant Secretaryship of War. In thus en- tering into a political partnership with Mir. Quay, you must share the losses as we'll as the gains of the venture. It is not Pennsylvania alone, nor even the Republican party alone, that has right to protest; every citizen of the land must feel humiliated at the smirch thus in-