Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-12-15
OUAY'S ENEMIES
ARE HALTED.
Supreme Court Blocks the Game of
the Deperate Political
Conspirators.
CONFUSION IN THE RANKS.
Sensational Turn to One of the Most
Remarkable Cases in the Political
History of the Nation.


Philadelphia, Dec. 13.-At last the
true character of the political conspir-
acy behind the attempt to defeat SEN
ator Quay for recollection by the most
infamous and desperate tactics resorted
to in the history of this country has
been exposed. The supreme court Of
the commonwealth of Pennsylvania has
upon petition stepped in between Sen
ator Quay and those who have been
endeavoring to use the power of the
local judiciary in this city to strike at
him, besmirch his reputation and to
gain political advantage in the pending
contest for the senatorship. There is
every reason to believe that fair and
impartial hearing, without personal
spleen or political persecution, will now
be given to a case which has furnished
a startling revelation to the people as
to what extent men vested with au-
thority would use their positions to
accomplish personal ambitions or sat
isfy desire for revenge
Probably no more lucid and manly
comment has been made on the action
of the supreme court upon the appeal
of counsel for Senator Quay that the
case against him be withdrawn from
the common pleas courts of this city,
than was given by the editor of the
Philadelphia Inquirer Immediately fol-
lowing the announcement of the de-
cision of the higher court.
1.-TWO justices of the supreme court 4"
said the editor of The Inquirer, have
halted the conspiracy to ruin Senator
Quay, and their action will be COM
mended by all fair minded men. They
have taken into consideration the ami
mus behind the persecution-we de-
liberately say persecution, not prosecu-
tiOn-and they have agreed that the
case is of sufficient importance to be
reviewed by the supreme court itself.
This means that the warrants issued
by the district attorney, the finding of
the grand jury and the arguments upon
the demurrers will be passed uron by
the highest court in the state; that the
trial will be taken out of the hand of
the local courts, if the petition filed is
sustained, and that a senator of the
United States is not to be made the
mere football of a far reaching political
conspiracy which has in view not his
conviction-for conviction is out of the
QueStOn-Dut, to quote the reasons Of
ficially set forth, the intimidation of
the members of the legislature.
"The object of the persecution is to
defeat Senator Quay for recollection, not
to send him to jail, for he has commit
ted no crime, and none know this better
than the sneaking prosecutors who
have instigated the suit and who have
such poor opinion of themselves and
of their hypocritical cause that they
dare not face the public the courts or
Senator Quay himself and dare not
even permit their names to become
known.
"A more contemplate attempt to ruin
a man for purely political reasons and
TO satisfy the demands Of personal
sDitc and hatred is not on record. The
men who have sought to make use oi
District Attorney Graham as their too
and their shield from public scorn and
dcr.si0n have been frustrated. Mr.
Graham himself with all his venom
aEaius. Quay. disappears from the case