Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-10-31
AN ELASTIC CONSCIENCE
Remarkable Case Of Goray, Demo-
cratic Nominee for Treasurer.
TWELVE YEARS WORKING OUT
After Enjoying the Benefits of State
Money, Funds Are Returned to the
state Treasury When He Became
An Asplrant for Higher Public Office
Especial Correspondence.) }

Harrisburg, Oct. 29.-Conscience Is
mighty power.
1t has caused the return of thou
sands Of dollars into the public funds
of every nation Of the globe-it has
fession for crimes which they had
committed, and its terrors have been
pictured in the reality and on the
stage as long as man has had con-
science.
But in all the cases of embezzle-
ment and murder, and the return of
stolen funds, this article, Conscience,
appears to have had a time limit.
It's workings have not always been
instantaneous, but have been reasona-
bly, prompt.
A year or two or three, or even five
years has generally sufficed to bring
the guilty man to the appreciation of
the Nervousness Of his crime. When
q Conscience shmbers beyond that
rated, hardened, so to speak. and to
lose that fine sensibility which ap-
peals to the ordinary mind.
But there is case now confronting
the people of Pennsylvania which
breaks the record-a case in which
Conscience has slept for IL years, and
has finally awakened at an opportune
time (WHEN IT'S POSSEsSoR IS
SEEKING A PUBLIC OFFICE) and
has become quite a lively factor.
This is the case of Hon. E. A. Coray.
NOT A POPULAR CANDIDATE.
Mr.. Coray has been an Insurgent-
Wanamaker Republican for some
years He is now running for state
treasurer on the Union party ticket
and on the Democratic ticket, al
though thousands of Democrats have
announced their intention not to vote
for him.
CORAY AND STATE FUNDS.
In the year 1889, Mr.. E. A. Coray
was a member of the house of repre-
sentatives of Pennsylvania.
AS such, he received AND RE-
CEIPTED FOR TO THE COMMON
WEALTH, the sum of $26035, as ex-
penses while he was upon the COM
mittee on appropriations, in visiting
and examining the schools, reforma-
tories and prisons of the common
wealth. This charge against MIR.
Coray appears upon page 232 of the
auditor generals report for 1889.
In 1891, Mr.. Coray was a member
of the appropriation committee of the
house Of representatives, and as such
received the sum of 1921, according to
the official statement which appears
on page POI of the auditor generals
report of 1893.
1t was popularity supposed at the
time that these committees of which
Mr.. CQrey was a member made their
Investigations, that the members OBJ
tanned free transportation from the
different railroad companies, and that
the sergeant-at-arms paid the actual
living expenses during the various
trips made by the committees. This
idea may have been a mistaken one.
but nevertheless it was and is firmly
migrated upon the public mind.
Mr.. Coray has had a change of
heart
In IL years from the time he re-
ceived the first payment, and in ten
years from the time he received the
last payment his Conscience has
awakened
The result of it is found on page
242 of the auditor generals report of
the year 1900, by which it appears that
he has refunded cash paid him for
the expenses aforesaid, amounting to
s561.35.
The case is cited as one in which
Conscience does not appear to have
Travelled by the limited express trains.
1t probably got switched off on to
some side line during the COS, and was
awakened only when it's possessor
made up his mind to seek a public
office in 1901.
1t does not appear to have been a
complete awakening, because the use
of over Five Hundred Dollars of the
state funds for about ten years GER
tainly entities the commonwealth to
some interest
DID NOT RETURN INTEREST.
A fully awakened and thoroughly
aroused Conscience would have re-
membered this fact, and have also re-
turned an adequate sum for interest.
1t is fair and natural assumption
that any person who would be guilty
of retaining state funds which did not
belong to him for over ten years, would
have very little scruples in spsculating
with the money.
Possibly Mr.. Coray may not have
INDUCED in the purchase and sale of
stocks or grain, or other speculative
commodities, but en- the other hand,
armed with a margin OF Five Hundred
Dollars, wLo shall say what opportuni-
ties might not have opened during that
length of time to bold investor.
How is it possible to draw the line
upon the guilty Conscience, or to say
what its possessor shall do with money
which he holds?
If there were any accruing products
from such sources, Mr.. Coray has for
gotten to turn them over to the state