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claim are behind the prosecution, bet
the Senator will not indicate what his
course in this respect may be.

course in this respect may be.
QUAY APPOINTED SENATOR.
HARRISBURG Pa.), April 21.-fm-
mediately on receipt of the news that
Senator Quay was acquitted of the
charges against him, Governor Stone
appointed him United States Senator to
fill the vacancy until the next Legisla-
ture meets and notified Vice President
Hobart as follows:
"Sir: BY virtue Of the power vested
in me as Executive of the State of
Pennsylvania under Article l, Clause 3,
Section of the Constitution of the
United States, I hereby make tenn
porary appointment of the Hon. Mat
thew Stanley Quay to be United States
Senator from Pennsylvania until the
next meeting of the Pennsylvania Leg
islature, to fill the vacancy now existing
in this State. Very respectfully,
civilian A. STONE,
Governor of Pennsylvania
Governor Stone said that in appoint
ing Colonel Quay he felt that he had
done the fit and proper thing. He
thought it would make the issue, and
is better done now than after waiting
for weeks
The authority quoted by the Governor
says that the Governor of any State
may make temporary appointment dur
ing a recess to hold until the next Leg
islature meets
A STATEMENT FROM JOHN WANA-
MAKER.
PHILADELPHIA, April 21.-John
Wanamaker has made a statement re-
lative to the acquittal of ex-senator
Quay and the latter's appointment by
the Governor as United States Senator,
in which he says:
"The acquittal of Senator Quay will
be disappointment to every lover of
justice and every friend of good gov
ernment throughout the United States.
1t records with emphasis the difficulty
of convicting potent politicians,
charged with public crime, no matter
how clear, convincing and overwhelm-
ing the evidence may be. The story of
the corrupt use and speculation in
public money in Pennsylvania is an
old one, and has been a matter of no.
torious accusation against a long line
of State Treasurers and political bosses
for many years. Mr.. Quay himself
has been again and again accused of
participation in treasury jobbing by
the newspapers of this and other
States. Heretofore, however, the basis
of these accusations largely consisted
of oral testimony and of allegations by
political opponents. The case which
terminated to-day, unlike previous ac-
cusations, was founded exclusively
upon documentary proof in his own
handwriting and that of his friends and
confederates. The evidence of the guilt
did not depend upon the veracity of
any man or men, but was supported
exclusively by his own letters and by
written entries and statements record
ed by his trusted friends and support
ers
The first shout of defiant exultation
over his acquittal has proceeded from,
the Governor of the commonwealth
VINO has promptly appointed him Unit
ed States Senator, without authority
and in violation of the law, and in de-
fiance of the will of the people as ex-
pressed by the votes of the Legislature
1t is fitting in every way that the cap
stone should have thus been put upon
the ediice of boss rule and machine
jobbery by the Quay representative in
the Governors chair. We will thus see
more clearly, it is to be hoped, the
reckless disregard Of right and decency,
of public morality and political purity
that characterizes the Quay machine
now intrenched in office in Pennsyl-
vania
But friends of good government
should not despair. There are ether
indictments to be disposed of still
hanging over Quay, and whatever may
be their fate, even though it should be
a technical acquittal, the contest
against the degrading forces, practices
and principals will be carried on un-
til justice and right, morality and hon
esty shall triumph. To-day's verdict
settles nothing but the fate of the sin
gle bill of indictment upon which Quay
was tried