The evening times., 1898-10-08

nous telegram to Cashier Hopkins. There
will be no sleight-of-hand work done with
the letter from State Treasurer Hay
wood, promising a deposit of 100000 10
cover a loan to young Richard Quay.
There will be no disappearance OF the evil
dence against Senator Quay in this case.
Living witnesses might be bribed, cajo.ed.
threatened made away with. But the
letters and papers cannot be destroyed,
neither by man nor by flame. They are in
a steel vault in the Real Estate Trust
Companys fireproof building, in Ch. .stnut
Street. And the armed watchman stands
close guard.
Quay seems Alarmed.
Senator Quay himself seems alarmed
over his plight. His first cry and his only
defense was persecution for political ei-
feet" He has dropped that cry now, and
il is only heard in the far corners OF the
State, where his alarmed political lieu
tenants are wondering what next?'
Quay is saying nothing at all, except TO
his friends, but he Is working tooth and
nail and his vast, powerful machine OF
HOO State and Federal ottceholders, IS at
work
AS yet they are in the dark as TO who
their enemies are. They want to get
complete list for they suspect others be
sides the reformers, who a first got credit
for being the only ones connected with
the exposure and the details which led
up TO it,
Senator Quay came from Atlantic City
Yesterday with his son, and took up his
old quarters in the Hotel Walton He has
been clcseted with his lawyers, a. 5. l..
Shields and Rufus Shapley. nearly all the
afternoon. Last night he held conferences
with lieutenants of his who were hurried
oil nXrar
the State. The clubs and hotels and all
the public places where politicians con-
gregate were in a state OF excitement
such as never before seen in Philadelphia
save on the eve on an election.
There is more and worse to come than
has been made public, say many men, and
il is 10 try to head off these further
revelations. rather than to seek means of
defense against those already made, that
Quay has summoned his faithful ones
from every corner. A horde of paid de-
tectives is in the city. They mix with
the crowds in public places; they pick up
any chance remarks from a stranger or
a known anti-Quay man. and batch of
these reports is taken to the Hotel Wal
ton hourly. Quay is in sore straits, and
he breads the next blow. If any means
can be found to ward ii of-and the word
any IS used in its fullest significance
Quay's men will take that means.
Quay Detectives ON Hand.
An anti-Quay Republican, who owned
| newspaper for years, came here yester-
day. When a reporter met him last night
this man said:
IF I've seen one. I've seen fifty detec-
tives since ] came to the city today. Many
of these men ! know by sight. Quay has
used them before. Others have been
pointed out to me. The friend whom I
came to see would not talk to me in the
| hotel lobby, but insisted on coming TO my
room and closing the transom before he
opened his mouth
Cashier Hopkins letter-press book con-
tanning copies of all Hopkins replies to
Quay, Haywood and the rest, as well as
other letters which the unfortunate CASH
ier wrote, is likely to be produced. This
book is believed to be now in the posses
sion of District Attorney Graham. In fact
there isn't the slightest doubt of 1t in any
body's mind; only Mr.. Graham has refused
to say yes or no when questioned
In this book is probably letter sent by
the cashier in response to the mysterious
telegram from ST. ,Lucie. Fla, which
| said: "If you buy and carry thousand
Met for me l will shake the Plum Tree
NJ. S. Quay" Everybody is anxious to
see this particular letter of the dead
cashier, not so much to know what Met
means, but to get at the state of Hop
kins in relation to the plum tree. Pos
sibly a subsequent or previous letter viii
throw light on the plum tree allusion.
This letter-book of the dead cashier is
understood to contain much more start
ling and sensational and damaging evil
dence against the senior Senator from
Pennsylvania than any yet produced. 1t
| is expected not only to explain every let
! ter and telegram produced in the magis-
trate's court last Wednesday, but it will
! show, so Hopkins friends assert, that he
more than once protested against the use
which was being made of him, as we'll
the banks funds. 1t was not produced
before Magistrate Jermon on Wednesday
because District Attorney Graham un-
dertook to establish only 4 sufficient case
to hold the four prisoners for the grand
jury.
Hopkins Confession.
Before he shot himself Hopkins wrote
and addressed to the president of the
Peoples Bank, James McManes, a long
letter of confession. In this he explain
ed how he had been led astray by Rich
| ard Loper. Loper was a speculator in
! stocks, and is now under $4,000 bail. Me-
Names had been i'll for a long time, and
| that was why Hopkins did as he pleased
| in running the bank. McManeS has been
! taken i'll again, as a result of the recent
Quay exposures, and nobody is allowed
! to see him except his physician and
| members of his family at his house, in
| Spring Garden Street. Nothing, there
fore, could be learned from him as to
! whether the suicide in his ante-mortem
statement implicated Senator Quay or
any others besides Loper in the bank
| wrecking All that is known is that ST
| the time President McManes announced
| that Senator Quay didn't owe the bank a
| dollar.