Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-04-19

The case against Senator Quay
continued all last week before Judge
Biddle in Philadelphia. The battle
before the court was on the admis
sion of letters and book called the
red book. The book was called red
because it was kept in red ink. The
book Was not found among the books
OF the bank where the bank books
were kept, but it was found in o pri.
vate desk of the dead cashier with
private letters from Quay. The sen.
ator's lawyers did not want to allow
the book and private papers to be
brought before the court and jury,
because thsv declared them not bank
books and papers. The judge how
eyer ut the moment of adjournment
ON Saturday ruled them in as bank
papers. Tie book taken from the
desk il mutulsted, by whom mutilat-
cd is not known. .Mutilated books
and papers do not as rule figure
much in q case in court. How they
may do in this case remsius to be
seen. What effect will it have that
the red book and private letters from
the private desk were in the hands Of
ex.iudge Gordon and other bitter po-
litical enemies during period Of six
months. In that time some of the
letters were photographed and pub
lishsd in Philadelpbia newspapers
and during that time State Senator
Martin and ex-Post- as.er.General
Waunamaker, and State Chlirman
Gnffy the political high priest Of the
democracy examined them line for
line, figure for figure and Gordon
and Guffey made q Sunday trip on
the cars to- New York and while on
the journey nosed and spectacled pa
pers over and over. What did Cor
don and Guffey want in New York.
We're they the men who inspired the
shocking publications against Quay
that came from the slum and gutter
publications of Gotham, publications
that the publishers of Philadelphia
would not touch. Gordon and Guf
~ can answer the questions whether
they inspired the nasty publications
that were peddled about during the
State campaign last fall when Quay
and the machine was the whole text
for the speeches of jerks, Wanamak-
er and Swallow. Gordon was working
for the democratic nomination for
Governor. and Guffey was. he thought
to help him to the nomination. How
much are bank books and other pa
pers worth when searched over by
Tom, Dick and Harry for politicsl
purposes. So then the red book
goes in with the other books. The
probability is it was the best thing
TO do. If the red book had been left
out tha prosecutors would have made
q contention all the time because the
book and letters had been left out.
What if the book does show that in
terest was paid on state money de-
posits. It was a custom Of banks to
pay interest on deposits. Banks pay
interest on deposit to- day and it was
only Legislature or two ago that
passed law declaring that interest
money on state deposits shall be paid
into the State Treasury. Previous
to the passage of that act by a re
publican legislature there was NO
law on the matter of interest on
State deposits and the custom was
that the man who deposited the
money received the benefit of the
interest,". As to the dealing in stocks
and 90 forth that cashiers and ccun-
ty treasurers and township treasu-
rers are forbidden under the act of
1860. does not apply to the s1plod-
cd bank. That Oank worked
under a special charter that allowed
that allowed it to engage in such
monied and business transactions.
How much Colonel Quay was inter.
-ssted in trading money and paper
With the bank remains to be found
ont. It was his right to deal with
the bank and 30 far there 10 nothing
to show that his transactions were
unlawful. That the bank closed is
of no account in the case. Hundreds
of others have been rulnous failures,
1snks that Colonel Quay never heard
of and hundreds of others that he
knows nothing of will fail in the
years to come. Neither the state or
individual depositors lost a cent by
she failure of the exploded bank.
The men at the head of it maintain
ed their individual honesty and honor
and dignity and the integrity of the
concern by paying all it owed,