The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-09-18
quay On MAINE.

The Philadelphia Times of Satur-
day has en- interview with Col.
Quay, Secretary of the Republican
Ltate Executive Committee, on the
"News from Maine.n
"The result in Maine" began Mr..
Quay, zig a Democratic defeat. We
gain five thousand votes, and the
Democrats lose twenty-four thousand.
Any obseryant man who chooses to
regard Maine as 9 political finger
board must see, therefore, that it in.
di ,ates q plurality for Hoyt of at least
one hundred Thousand. If the Dem
ocrats can get any comfort cut of
that, let them enjoy it.
"You would know the cause Of
this revolution in the East? The
overthrow of your opponents there
is but a natural beginning of the
winding-up chapter Of the debauched
career of Democracy, which began
in 1868, with Pendleton's theory
that greenbacks were a legal tender
for all Obligations Of the government
to the people and of the people to
the Government. They started up
on that theory and cluug to it, finally
adopting at Erie, in 1875, a platform
similar TO that more recently built
up by the National party. For years
the tendency of the Democratic party
has been toward the National goal
and it's approaching it rapidly.
Concerning opinions that have
been publicly expressed, with the re.
suit in Maine as their basis, declaring
that the Republican party is to be de
stroyed, We are happy to say that we
can probably bear the brunt of all
that kind of destruction. Thsre i:
no law in Pennsylvania, as there is
in Maine, to throw the duty of choos-
ing a Governor into the Legislature
when the leading candidate lacks a
majority Of all the votes cast, which
is the ease with Conner. Therefore
even though this revolution should
extend into Pennsylvania, and with
the same force which it extended in
to Maine, Hoyt would still be elect
ed by the large plurality indicated
by the Maine 6nger-board, as the
law Of Pennsylvania does not re.
quire q candidate to have q majority
Of the votes in order to be elected"
with results here proportionata
to those in Maine" in:erposed Mr.
Mackey, who sat close by, "Mason
would beat Dill, and Hoyt would be
elected by one hundred thousand plu.
rality."
YES" added Mr.. Quay, "and let
me go further. Even with the ex
~istence in this State of q law requir
ing a majority of votes, aud the ref.
erence of 9 plurality case to the Leg
islature, we would still be certain Of
Hoyt's election, because we are sure
we will have q majority in both the
House and the Senate. Bat | dc
not at oil expect that the Greenbacs
vote in this State will be as proper
tionately large as it was in Maine,
where il amounted to about thirty
five thousand, or over one-four.h oi
the aggregate vote, which was about
one hundred and twenty thousand.
Here the Nationals NAV reach one
fifth Of the total vote, but | dom
think that they will exceed that fig
ure.
at is q mistake to suppose that
the character of the Name election
was totally unforeseen. The Repab
lieans of that State knew that they
must be affected somewhat by the
crash which the Democracy had beer
inviting to come upon itself, but they
could not clearly fJresee the eXtenI
of the probable Injury, because, moi
having access to the proper sources
of information, they were not fully
able to Judge as to what might bt
the nature of the National inroad in
to the ranks OF the Democracy. 10
put the thing in a nut-shell-tht
Greenback movement is engaged 10
the work of annihiIa,ing the Democ.
racy. and, at the present rate Of
working, will succeed, without seri
ously ipjuring the party that is devo'
ted TO the best interests of The whole
people"