The age-herald., 1899-04-22
JOHN WANAMAKER
 TALKS OF QUAY Made Statement Relative to the Senator's
 ACqatital. APPOINTED TO THE OFFICE
To Which He Failed of Reflection "A
 Disgrace to the State.
ADDS A NEW CHAPTER OF SHAME
To Pennsylvania's History-A New Rec. ord of Failure in the Administra- tion of Justice That Will En-
 courage Corruption.

Philadelphia. April a.-7 < anamaker
 tonight made the foilowitsr .ment rela-
 tive to the acquittal ofsS~ ,nator ouay
 and the latter's appoRS 2 by the gov-
 ernor as senator;
 The acquittal Of seS tS Quay will be
 disappointment of 5 2 lover of justice
 and every friendSS ;ood government
 throughout the U~.S States It records
 with emphasis Y .s' eulty of eonvicting
 potent political se dants charged with crime, no matte4P Jw clear, convincing and overwhelming the evidence may be. l The story of the corrupt and specula- | ton in public money in Pennsylvania is | an old one and has been matter of notor- 1 ious accusation against long line of state treasurers and political bosses for many years.
 MT. Quay himself has been again and again accused of participation in treasury jobbing by the newspapers of this and other states with circumstantial detail. Hereto- fore however, the basis for the various
 actions largely consisted of oral testimony | and allegations by political opponents Founded on Documentary Proof The case which terminated today, unlike previous accusations was founded exclu- sively upon upon documentary proof in his own handwriting and that of his friends and confederates. The evidence of his guilt did not depend on the yeracity of any man or men, but supported exclusively by his own letter and written entries and statements recorded by his trusted friends and supporters.
 From the day the prosecution aganst him | was instituted until the verdict was re- l corded he has sought by every device to | delay and ob9 ict the efforts of the conn l monwealtf's ofncers to produce the written | evidence of his misdoing and to bring him l to trial for his offenses The removal of | the case from the lower court on the eve l of the day when 1t was first set down for l tr,al by extraordinary writ issued by 1 the supreme court. which that court sub sequently dismissed, was successful in talk l ing the prosecution away from the agree l ment of former District Attorney Graham, whose ability, effectiveness and zeal as a prosecutor had been demonstrated by eigh- teen years of service.
 Effort to Conceal Facts The same efforts to prevent full expo | sition of his acts as a public official and his connection with thhe private use of the | public money marked every step in the extraordinary line of the defense which | his skilful attorneys adopted during his | tral in resisting the zealous and able eff forts of District Attorney Rothermel to l introduce all the inculpating evidence in l possession of the commonwealth The "red book" kept by his trusted l friend MT. Hopkins, and which set out the l story of treasury corruptions, was over- l whelmingly corroborated and its veracity | established by the testimony and admission of his friend, Mckee, and by the sigma l ture of his friend and co-defendant B. J. | Haywood. Notwithstanding all this proof, 1 emanating exclusively from the lips and l the pens of himself and his friends and Tn | face of his own silence and failure to tes- l tify, he was acquitted
 New Chapter of Shame
 l This is a new chapter of shame for Penn- 1 sylvania, new record of failure in the | administration of justice that will do much 1 to encourage corruptionlsts and public l punderers generally throughout the coun- | try The first shout of defiant exultation | over his acquittal has proceeded from the 1 governor of the commonwealth, who has 1 promptly appointed him a United States l senator without authority and in violation | of law and In defiance of the will of the | people as expressed by the legislature. It 1 is fitting in every way that the cap-stone | should thus have been put upon the edihce l of boss rule and machine jobbery by tho l Quay representative Tn the governors chair.
 | We will thus see more clearly, 1t is to be | hoped the reckless disregard of right and l decency of public morality and political purity that characterizes the Quay ma | cnine now entrenched in office in Pennsyl- l vania. But friends of good government l should not despair. There are other indict- l ments undisposed of still hanging over | Quay, and whatever may be their fate, | even though 1t should be technical ac- | quittal, the contest against the degrading | forces practices and principles which Quay | and his machine represent will be carried I on until justice and right, morality and 1 honesty shall triumph.
 Must Continue Warfare l The friends of good government will re- enlist in this warfare today, and must con- l tinue unremittingly and uninchinGiy the strife against all wrong-dong and wrong l doers in any party and in all parties re- | gardless of temporary setbacks or defeats until the treasury jobbers shall be driven | from official power in the commonwealth. Today's verdict settles nothing but the fate of the single bill of indictment upon which MT Quay was tried. The facts of the treasury's peculation and iobbery elicited in his trial, and wholly unanswered by
 him or any other witness, cannot be ef-
 faced by the surprising verdict of today.
 They must be iterated and reiterated and laid bare in all their hideous deformity be-
 fore the people so a verdict in accordance
 with the trust may be reached by that lat
 ter jury before whom the special plead-
 ings of attorneys and the stolid silence of
 the accused will be unavailing. Quay has
 got his technical verdict. but the trial of
 corrruptionists and public plundercrs VIII
 still go on.