Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-20

Industrial Commission.
Fairbanks column has been
summoned and F'lagler with his
achievements, like Sheridan, is
only twenty miles away.
Let the people tremble. The
Hessians of the trusts are hasten
ing to the scene of action. But
amid all this evidence of trust |
heroism one man fails. Guffey |
has deserted How painful Gen
eral Archbold will mot soon for
get Guffey s course in this whole
matter Guffey has the remains
of a conscience and so is no fit !
soldier for the Standard Oil.
But what is the latest news from
the front?
December 10, 1899.
My Dear Senator:
I have been doing what ! can
and hope that some influence has
gone especially to Senator Fair
banks that will have some effect.
just at this moment had call
from our friend, General Charles
Miller, of Franklin, Pa, who has
asked a personal friend of his
from Indianapolis, Ind, who
knows Senator Fairbanks very
we'll, to go to Washington at once
and see what he can do.
most earnestly hope that mat
tiers are progressing more favor
ably than the newspaper accounts
seem to indicate.
Very truly yours,
JNO. D. ARCHBOLD.
Hon. Boies Penrose,
Washington, D. G.
When congress assembled after
the holidays the committee of five
which had the Quay case in hand
reported against permitting Quay
to take his seat. The report was
based on purely constitutional
grounds and made no reference to
the treasury scandals in which
Quay had been implicated or to
his corrupt relations with the
trusts.
On January ), after the receipt
of the report, Archbold wrote Pen
rose. saying:
Sorry to learn today of the
committee report in the Quay
case, but still hope for favorable
action in the senate. -
The Oil Trust had good reason
to hope for the senate, but Sena-
tor Hanna s presidential ambi-
ton saved the day for decency in
that body
Senator Hanna, whom the Oil
Trust thought it owned, and whom
it had owned to the moment of his
Quay revolt, ran off to Ohio, leav-
ing the Oil Trust lacking just one
vote in the senate to reseat its dis
credited representative.
Depew, whom the Oil Trust
reached through the New York
Central, was in favor Of Quay.
Senator Fairbanks, whom we have
seen Archbold trying 50 desper-
lately to reach, voted for Quay SO
did Deboe, as delivered by Nor
gan s man Smith. SO did Foraker,
Penrose, Platt, Scott, Sewell, Nc
Laurin, Spooner, all of whom have
appeared or will appear in the list
of Standard Oil proteges or pen
sioners.
Quay went back to Pennsyl-
yania, and, supported by Standard
Oil campaign funds, started
movement to get control Of the
legislature in manner which sur
passed in insoIence, in outrage, in
audacity, all of his previous cam.
paigns Of corruption.
The result is a matter of history
today. Quay and his supporters
made a majority out of mi
nority At what material cost is
known only to the dispensers and
the recipients. At what moral
cost is known to every citizen of
the state
Quay s return to the senate
was scene Of triumph Great
quantities of American Beauty
roses adorned his desk and his
chair. Senators of both parties
and trust lobbyists who knew no
party crowded around him. and
Deacon Archbold sent him the
following letter with his benedic-
ton and a more material contri-
button enclosed:
26 Broadway, New York,