Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-12-11
STAY IN QUAY CASE,
Rule Granted on Petition for
Writ Of CertiOraTi
EFFECT IS TO GUST GRAHAM.
One Result, at Least, is TO Carry Case
Beyond His Term.
TRIAL PUT BEYOND ELECTION, TOO
Legislature VIII. I'm All Probability,
Have Either Reelected Quay or
Chosen His Successor I'm the Sem
ate. Before Case Is Concluded.

PHILADELPHIA, December W.-Su-
preme Court Justices Green and Williams
to-day granted a rule allowing the de-
PENDANTS in the Quay conspiracy case
to argue a petition for writ Of certiorari.
removing the proceedings from the Court
Of Quarter Sessions to the Supreme Court.
The rule is returnable January 7th. and
all proceedings are stayed in the mean
time.
one Of the results Of tho rule granted
by the Supreme Court will be to carry
the trial over beyond the term Of office
of District-Attorney Graham. which Will
expire with the present year. Mr.. era
ham has been active in pushing the case
and in asking the court week or ten
DAYS ago TO fix an early date for the
trial he expressed to the court a desire
10 dispose of the case during his official
term of office.
The delay occasioned by the action of
the Supreme Court will also, in all prob
ability. have the effect of carrying the
proceedings. or at least the conclusion
of the trial. beyond the date for the cleo
ton by the Legislature of a United States
senator to succeed Senator Quay, who Is
a candidate for reelection. The Legis-
Iattire will vote for senator on January
18th.
The Senator and his attorneys do not
hesitate TO admit that their object IN Sc
curing delay Of the trial Is to take the
case Out of the hands of District-Attorney
Graham. Mr.. Graham, they say, is an
enemy of the Senator's, and has displayed
great eagerness in unjustly prosecuting
him and his co-defendants.
CHARGE AGAINST JUDGE GORDON.
In support of their prayer TO the SUI
preme Court. the defendants aver in part
that the prosecutions were instlgated ana
inspired chiefly by James Gay GorGon,
late a Judge OF the Court of Common
Pleas of Philadelphia, acting in concert
with other open and avowed enemies or
Senator Quay's, and that Gordon, as prl-
vate counsel for James McManes, Iresi-
dent OF the Peoples Bank, obtained pos
session of letters written by the petition
ers. relating solely 10 their own private
business transactions, and OF private
memoranda alleged 70 have oeen made
bv Cashier Hopkins These letters and
memoranda
of using them for political purposes, Cor
don being then a candidate for the Dem
ocratic nomination for Governor; that, al
though Gordon had possession OF this m
formation about the oath day Of March
last and although the information was,
from that date, also in the possession of
Thomas w. Barlow, as receiver of the
Peoples Bank, and as special First AS
sistant District Attorney Of PHILADELPHIA
county. yet no complaint Of any Kind
whatever was made against the petition
ers until the third day Of October last.
when warrants were issued charging the
petitioners with the offences; that the
warrants were issued shortly before the
recent State election, which involved the
election, not only OF a Governor, but of
members Of the Legislature. who viii be
called upon TO vote for United States
Senator to succeed Mr. Quay, who IS a
candidate for reelection; that, In insti-
eating and procuring the warrants Cor
don was inspired by express and person
al malice against Quay, as Is evi1enced
by the fact that Gordon publicly charged
him with having been instrumental in
preventing his nomination for Governor
at the Democratic State Convention, and
that, on or about November 23d last. Cor.
don resigned from his office as Judge.
INDICTMENTS UNDULY PRESSED
1t is further ayerred that further pro-
secution of the indictments is now being
unduly pressed, not in the interest Of jus
tice, but by a conspiracy of the political
enemies Of Matthew s. Quay, for the sole
purpose of unduly influencing prejudicing
and intmidating the members OF the Gem
eral Assembly in their vote for a sue
cessor TO Senator Quay in the United
States Senate.