Show QUAY AND HIS ACCUSERS The CourierJournal calls Senator Quay a penitentiary dodger and In replying the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle asks the CourierJournal by what right It uses such epithets toward i Mr Quay And It explains that uhln I the course of a political fight against Quay his opponents conceived the desperate des-perate Idea of < < getting him out of their way by sending him to prison In pur suance of tho plan they raked up somo charges several years old dressed them up In criminal vestments and procured an indictment The very lateness of the action proved its motive which was nothing more nor less than fierce factional hatred but the persecution came to naught for Quay was promptly prompt-ly and unanimously acquitted and he is no more a penitentiary dodger than who never arc any of his accusers went through a similar ojrdonl and the Chronicle closes by declaring that This Pennsylvania fight has evoked an astounding amount of blackguardIsm blackguard-Ism through Quas opponents to the disgust of everybody who loves decency de-cency and fair play Our own opinion Is that lnj Justice to Quay we ought to measure the characters charac-ters of those who are pursuing him > After years of abuse he submitted his claims to the people of Pennsylvania They by nn overwhelming majority sustained him To say now that Quay Is dishonest that he Is a penitentiary dodger is to say that a majority of the I Republican voters of Pennsylvania arc dishonest There Is a gentleman In Pennsylvania who attends church repr ularly also Sundayschool and posIng pos-ing as a Christian gentleman he has spent some tens of thousands of dollars dol-lars to down Senator Quay because he wanted to be Senator himself There Is not i turn of the road where we would not trust Mr Quay In preference to Mr AVanamaker |