PARTY TRAITORS Wanamaker's Democratic Fusion Scheme Meets With Gen eral Condemnation. REPUBLICANS ARE LOYAL. Tin* Awful FntoTliat Hefdl the lender of tho Trenditions Sdiome Ajxninst Senator Ilimnn In Ohio Recalled l>y l'eniis.vl vail inns. (Special Correspondence.) Harrisburg, Dec. 13. —The presence of quite a number of members of both branches of the legislature in town dur ing the last few days, looking for ac commodations at hotels and boarding houses, setting posted as to the method of allotment of seats and other matters Which the wide awake member or sen ator always wants to know about, re minds us that the opening day for the state legislative mill is near at hand. Contractor Allen B. Rorke, of Philadel phia, who is in charge of the construc tion of the new capitol building, is rushins the work at a lively pace, and though he has but a few days left to complete the job, he promises absolute ly that everything will be in readiness for the opening of the session. Of course, interest continues to center in ' the caucus for the speakership of the i house of representatives. The Repubii- ! cans will undoubtedly dispose of this ' matter in the caucus in an entirely harmonious manner, and the caucus nominees for speaker and the other of ficers of the house will unquestionably lie elected. A REPUBLICAN ADMINISTRATION. The triumphant election of Colonel Stone to the governorship and the bis Republican majority in both branches of the legislature insured a Republican administration through and through in both the executive anil legislative branches of the state government. There has been no change in the situa tion on the speakership. It is still a free for all race, despite the rumors that this fellow or some other fellow has been slated by the party leaders. Voorhees of Philadelphia, Bliss of Dela ware, McClain of Somerset, Farr of Lackawanna and Marshall, Ford and Hosack of Allegheny are all got their lightning rods up, eagerly waiting for the prize. The best evidence that there is to be no friction in the organ ization of the legislature, or in the election of the United States senator, is found in the harmonious relations that exist between the influential lead ers of the Republican party in tho state. Governor-elect Stone has al ready shown his capacity for leadership in his announced determination to con sider all elements of the party in mat ters affecting hi administration. The fact that Senator Quay has been In consultation frequently with Senator C. L. Magee, of Pittsburg, and Senator elect David Martin, of Philadelphia, has brought about an unexpected peaceful condition of affairs, in view of past differences. They will all abide by the caucus action on speaker anil United States senator, anil the Wana maker - Van Valkcnberg-Rlankenburg outlit will have but one thins to do, take their natural place with the De mocracy. They were opposed to Stone for governor, and in every way sought to disrupt the Republican or ganization. They have taken them selves out of the Republican organiza tion and they are everywhere regarded as allies of the Democracy. The fusion scheme which is being nursed by the Wanamaker bureau is bound to fail. The first step, the call - ing of a conference in Philadelphia last week, was a complete fizzle. Repre sentative John H. Fow, author of queer legislation and one of the slickest cus tomers that ever sat in a legislative body, is working up the Democratic end in conjunction with the Wanama ker campaign, to line the Democratic members up to follow his leadership. The Wanamaker managers could not have made a more unfortunate selec tion. It is notorious that Fow is al ways looking after Fow's personal in terest, and the old time Democrats have refused to follow his leadership, as they would never know when Fow would be "doing business with the other side," in order to lie taken care of himself on choice committees which the Republican speaker will have to name. Fow. too, is looked upon as representing the Gordon Democracy, which is an annex of the Wanamaker machine, and the Guffey men positive ly refuse to have anything to do with him politically. REPUBLICANS ARE TOGETHER. While the Democrats are at odds, the Republicans are together, with a few exceptions. It has been demon strated tha the Democratic machine cannot be delivered over to a Wanama ker candidate for speaker. It is known, too, that nothing like one-half of the number of Republicans, 29, necessary with all the Democrats being together, to make the 10:' votes required for an election for a speaker, can be drummed into any fusion scheme. The principal reason for this is that there is such an intense prejudice among Republicans asainst bolting the party caucus, and particularly against the bolter. The politicians of the pres ent day have not forgotten th>- famous bolt of 1881 and its results. After all their scheming, the bolters failed to carry out their program, a man in whom thev had no snecial Interest *vns elected U.oi'e I States senator, r n 1 be was never any use to any of ttiem. Besides, their action resulted In the practical ostracism >■ 112 nicest every man among them. Tin -<■ par !• i -i In * ' s hi ho ii ■ v p nr t in ti i if party P- fitly inly i<- ; by their constituents and they were forever afterwards barred from partic ipation in party councils and in the en joyment of future honors at the hands of the organization which they had be trayed. A TRAITOR'S FATE. A more recent and even more strik ing case is that presented by the polit ical situation in Ohio last year, when a desperate, though unsuccessful, ef fort was made to defeat the re-election of Senator Hanna, who. as chairman of the Republican national committee, was largely responsible for the election of President McKinley in 1896. His ex perience in many respects may be lik ened to that of Senator Quay's, who as the field marshal in the campaign of 1888, brought victory to the banner of Republicanism in the election of General Harrison to the presidency. Senator Hanna had to meet the work of a Republican traitor, and he tri umphed in the end. In the Ohio stat" senate the Republicans had a majority of one. Senator Burke, an antl-Hanna Republican, combined with the Demo crats and organized the upper house in their interest, thus depriving his party of the power and patronage to which It was justly entitled. In spite of this fusion Senator Hanna was elected and returned to the United States senate to uphold the administration of President McKinley, while State Senator iturk" was from the day of his treacherv a marked man, not only in his home dis trict, but throughout the entire com monwealth. He has been repudiated not only by his party but by his fellow members of the legal profession. Charges assailing his professional in tegrity have since been made by the Law association of Columbus, and the matter is still pending. All indications are that there will be few Republicans in this state who will attempt to follow in Burke's footsteps. Republican members of both branches of the legislature will stand loyally by their party colors. There will be a straightout Republican speaker elected who will co-operate with Governor eleet Stone. Senator Quay will be re elected to the United States senate, and the legislature, under conservative and wise leadership, will redeem t.n> pledges of the party and make a clean and economical record, which will re dound to the credit of the Republican party and protect the interests and ad vance the welfare of thecommonwealth. QUAY'S ENEMIES ARE HALTED. Supreme Court Blocks the Game of the Deperate Political Conspirators. CONFUSION IN THE RANKS. Sensational Turn to One of the Mont Remarkable Cases in tlie Political History of tile Nation. (Special Correspondence.) Philadelphia, Dec. 13.—At last the true character of the political conspir acy behind the attempt to defeat Sen ator Quay for re-election by the most infamous and desperate tactics resorted to in (he history of this country has been exposed. The supreme court of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania has upon petition stepped in between Sen ator Quay and those who have been endeavoring to use the power of the local judiciary in this city to strike at him, besmirch his reputation and to gain political advantage in the pending contest for the senatorship. There is every reason to believe that a fair tnd ! mi i.iial hearing, without personal spleen or political persecution, will now be given to a case which has furnished a startling revelation to the people as to what extent men vested with au thority would use their positions to accomplish personal ambitions or sat isfy a desire for revenge. Probably no more lucid and manly comment has been made on the action of the supreme court, upon the appeal of counsel for Senator Quay that the case against him be withdrawn from the common pleas courts of this city, than was given by the editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer immediately fol lowing the announcement of the de cision of the higher court. "Two justices of the supreme court," said the editor of The Inquirer, "have halted the conspiracy to ruin Senator Quay, and their action will be com mended by all fair minded men. They have taken into consideration the ani mus behind the persecution—we de liberately say persecution, not prosecu tion—and they have agreed that the case Is of sufficient importance to b.? reviewed by the supreme court itself. "This means that the warrants issued by the district attorney, the finding of the grand jury and the arguments upon the demurrers will be passed upon by the highest court in the state; that the trial will be taken out of the hand of the local courts, if the petition filed is sustained, and that a senator of the United States is not to be made the mere football of a far reaching political conspiracy which has in view, not his conviction—for conviction is out of the question—but, to quote the reasons of ficially set forth, 'the intimidation of the members of the legislature.' "The object of the persecution Is to defeat Senator Quay for re-election, not to send him to jail, for he has commit ted no crime, and none know this better than the sneaking persecutors who have instigated the suit and who have such a poor opinion of themselves and of their hypocritical cause that they dare not face th>* public, the courts or Senator Quev himself, and dare not even permit their names to become known. "A more eont mptlble attempt to ruin a man for purely political reasons and to satisfy the demands of personal spite and hatred is not on record. The men who have sought to make use of District Attorney Graham as their tool and their shield from public scorn arid derision have b en frustrated. Mr. Graham HP: •-'elf, v.ith all his wnor.'i zgrtlri: ' Quay, dir. '.rip -p. rs from tht case. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THUSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1898. On the 7th of January the supreme court will assume Jurisdiction, anil this means that there will he a fair trial, anil with a fair trial Senator Quay has nothing to fear—absolutely nothing. "What has Quay done?" he continues. "Let us draw a comparison between him and that great and pure and hon orable man, John Wanamaker. "The Keystone National bank receiv ed deposits of public funds from the state and the city. Mr. Wanamaker was a depositor, as he had a perfect right to be. Mr. Wanamaker was also a heavy borrower, so heavy a borrow er, as a matter of fact, that the comp troller of the currency at Washington wrote several letters demanding that the loans be reduced. The capital of the bank was $500,000, and under the law Mr. Wanamaker was entitled to borrow one-tenth of the capital stock, and no more—sso,ooo. Me * ery largely exceeded this amount, and he was a public offi cial, a member if the cabinet of the president of the United States, at the time, and most certainly should have been among the first to uphold the law. "But this was not all. Mr. Wana maker entered into a joint transaction with the president of the bank, Mr. Lucas, for a stock gambling specula tion. Later the failed, and it was a disastrous failure. Ao,/. no one has charged Mr. Wanamaker with crime. He has not been hauleil into court by political enemies. He has been permit ted to conduct his bargain counter un molested. He has posed as the great exemplar of all that is pure and good, and he has posed before the public as an honorable man. We have no charges to bring against Mr. Wanamaker. He did not rob the bank. Let us take him at his own estimate of himself. Let us agree with him that he is an honorable man. "Now for the comparison. "The People's bank received deposits of public funds. Senator Quay was a depositor, as he had a perfect right to be. He may have borrowed at times, but he was not a heavy borrower, and the banking department was never forced to write letters of complaint. As a private citizen and public official he respected the law. He bought stocks, but not in a joint arrangement with the president. He simply made use of the cashier, an old personal friend, as a medium of communication with the brokers. The bank failed, but Senator Quay does not owe it a single red cent. What is more, the bank paid in full every dollax deposited by the state, and not a singm, solitary depositor has lost a dollar. Yet he has been charged with crime. Political enemies have hauled him into court, and he is denounced by his persecutors as the personification of all that is evil. We say that it is out rageous, and we look to the trial to re veal to the public the whole story of a dastardly political conspiracy. "Judge Gordon, who was reversed time after time by the supreme court, and who was a politician rather than a judge, is mentioned in the petition to the supreme court as an instigator of the prosecution. The trial should show the truth or falsity of this statement. Judge Gordon was a candidate for the nomination for governor, with the in dorsement and backing of John Wan amaker. The Wanamaker bargain counter statesmanship was agreeable to the attempt to deliver Pennsylva nia over to the Democrats in this crit ical year of the nation. Judge Gordon knew all about the affairs of the Peo ple's bank. It is believed that he had access to the papers and letters upon which the prosecution is based, and that this fact will be proved. The bank failed in March. If Judge Gordon really believed that crime had been committed it was his bounden duty to call the attention of the district at torney to the matter. He did no such thing. Mr. Graham was kept in ignor ance of bank matters, and it was not until October, just before the election, that some persons who have not had the courage to reveal their identity communicated with the district attor ney. The latter apparently grasped at the opportunity to further the scheme to destroy Quay, and the warrants were issued. The district attorney went before the grand jury. So Ilimsy were the charges that, in spite of Mr. Graham's presence, but 12 out of 20 jurors coukl be obtained to support them. The change of a single juror would have discarded the bills. It was apparently the intention of Judge Gor don to sit upon the bench and rule upon the demurrers. Had he done so he would, in all probability, have been humiliated by the supreme court. He resigned, and just in time. Had he re mained on the bench, as sure as the sun rises he would have been impeach ed. "It is charged in the petition that Gordon holds Quay responsible for his defeat by the Democratic gubernatorial convention, and that his animus is thus accounted for. We have nothing to say on that point, but we do say that it is queer indeed that a judge should permit six months to pass before calling attention to a crime. Either the judsre was untrue to himself and to the public, or else no crime was committed. Strange it is, indeed, that not until October,was any move made, and this fact alone is sufficient to show the political plot behind the prosecu tion. "We make no charges against any body. We are content to say that the prosecution is persecution: that it is a political plot; that it was instigated by men who dare not reveal their identity; that the sole object is to affect the sen atorial election, and that personal spite and malice and a desire for personal revenge are the sole motives for the most outrageous political conspiracy of modern days. That the district attor ney, with all his known venom against Quay, should lend himself to the pros ecution is beyond comprehension. He has got what he deserves. He has been eliminated from the case, in the furtherance of justice. "The supreme court justices who have penetrated the hypocritical and politi cal surroundings of this case are to be commended for their sagacity. They have declared by their decision that personal spleen and spite shall not pre vail. They have made it possible for strict justice to be vindicated, and we are greatly mistaken if, as a result of this ilastardiy persecution, the mask of hypocrisy is not torn from the faces of the political conspirators, and public contempt will not In the lot of those who, to satiate a greedy appetite for revenge, would bring reproach upon the commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Upon the high and honorable office o' T'nited States senator." RuaiiiesM Cards. B. W. OREEN, ATTO RNE Y-AT-LA W, Emporium, Fa. 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