The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-05-12
A CHALLENGE TO Mr.. QUAY
QUESTION OF HIS VINDIC4TION BY
THE PEOPLE,.
Antf-Quay Men Say the Strife Can he
Settled by His Going Before the Conn
for State Trensurer-Urged to Mako
the Issue Distinct and Direct


Philadelphia, May 1.-THE Business
Mems Republican league of Pennsyl-
forth special efforts throughout the
state to secure the election of anti-Quay
candidates in the legislature to-day is
sued an address to the people of the
state congratulating them upon the pro-
gress made by the forces of good gov
ernment during the past year. The ad-
dress says the majority Of the members
elected to the general assembly for the
first time in nearly score of years
Quay, "the head and front of that cor
rupt and vicious political system that
so long has been a reproach to the
state" This antiQuay body, the ad-
dress says, exposed and defeated all
forms of machine-conceived corruption
and legislative jobbery. Continuing the
address says that the appalling chap
ter of crime, as developed by the legls-
lative investigating committee showing
far-reaching conspiracy to corrupt
and bribe members Of the legislature to
vote for Mr.. Quay for United States
+ senator should alone drive from his sup
port every self-respecting voter of the
etate."
The principal state officer to be chos-
en- at the November election is state
treasurer, nominations for which Office
will be made at the approaching party
convention, and the leagues address, in
constituting, takes up this topic as fol-
lows: THE control of the state treas
ury, which has been the fountain-head
of corruption in the past, is not less
important now, though the passage of
the antiQuay interest bill compels the
payment of interest on state deposits.
The Business Mems league has never
placed in the field a candidate for any
Office and desires only that proper men
be nominated 1t is an organization of
republicans who wish to prevent party
disruption with the conviction that
nothing but heroic action will save the
party from ultimate state and national
disgrace and defeat.
'For the purpose of settling this con-
troversy before the presidential contest
OF 1900 we would make the following
suggestion as a means of terminating
the strife within the republican ranks:
Let Mr.. Quay himself become the ma
chimes candidate for state treasurer at
the ensuing election. Mr.. Quay has
boasted of his readiness to go to the
people for vindication. He, as state
treasurer, inaugurated and fostered the
system of personal profit by the use of
public moneys which has been an i'm
portant issue in this contest. He repre-
sents in every sense the evils against
which self respecting republicans have
revolted, he is the source and incarna-
tion of the evils of the system which
bears his name. Let him thus make the
issue-distinct and direct--leaving the
final decision to the people. If Mr..
Quay fears to submit his candidacy to
the people and in the face of his repudi-
alton by their representatives, insists
upon claiming a seat in the United
States senate, through the unlawful act |
of a subservient governor, he will inten-
sify and prolong the contest until he is |
repudiated by future legisla ture and |
precipitates defeat upon the other can
didates who bear the stamp Of his ma
chine"