Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-09
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LANCASTER. JULY o, 1885.
Quay's Candidacy.

Il
ew Stanley Quay has carried out
nd of its first stage the bold policy
le marked out for himself when he
ced his self-instituted candidacy for |
publican nomination of state treas
Exactly why he took this course is |
of varied conjecture but that he 1
n earnest from the beginning, and |
e always meant to make it a eight |
finish, admit no longer of the doubts |
lich his intentions have been subjected.
ere is quite enough in Mr.. Quay's po-
al relations of the past few years TO
explain and 1gomIilis from lis 'pniut of political
view, to justify his candidacy. His had
long been the guiding spirit and the con-
trolling hand of his party in Pennsylvania.
Gifted with strong intellect, a courageous
spirit and the most daring unscrupulous-
ness in public affairs, Mr.. Quay has made
the fortunes of most of the leading men of
his party in this state; he has held the Re
publican councils in hand and has shaped
and controlled the legislation of the state
during nearly twenty years of his power.
That power began to decline aboLt 1873,
when it seemed to have reached its food
tide in IIoyts election under his manage
ment. Much of the responsibility for the
bloody and expensive results of tue Pitts
burg riots lies upon the issuing of bogus
executive proclamation, fabricated when
Gov. Hartranft was out of the state and
when Quay was his secretary. The raid
organized upon the state treasury to rob it
offour million dollars-part forthe railroad
part for the boys the bribery of the
legislature, the conviction of the bribers
and their pardon, constitute a shameful
picture of the degradation Of Pennsylvania
politics and legislation, in all Of which Mr.
Quay was the foremost figure. His par
was unSOncealed and his bad eminence i
is 0hdenied. IL he was no worse thar
~'thers he was at least bolder Th
quickened moral sense of the common
wealth restrained him for the time from tn
goal of his ambition. He found littl
satisfaction in the emoluments of lucra
tive Office created for him by a corrup
legislature, lavish in its benetices : and h
turned over at least the title of the Phila
~.delphia recordership TO one of hi
creatures. The popular demand for tn
abolition of the Office again weakened him
The neglect of his party organization to re
imburse the pecuniary losses in its man
agement the modification of having bee
tricked and defeated by Cameron and Ma
gee in the state convention of 1883 tn
failure of his business enterprises and pc
litical ventures in Philadelphia, his defea
for the congressional nomination in his oil
district, and the whispered scandal of hi
part in a conspiracy to despoil the stat
treasury and debauch the public servic
under the last Democratic administrator
of the treasury-all Of these circumstance
had combined to transfer the sceptre G
party leadership from Quay to Magee, VIII
has had absolute control of the late
conventions and the last legislature.
Now Magee's wave of success is broke
on the strand; and Quay has another fo'
in his favor. With the courage of
desperate man, who had all to win an
naught to lose, Quay proclaimed himself
candidate for the office which of all in til
state he is most untitled by Temperament
habit, associations and antecedents to fl
Throughout the progress of his canvass, a
well in all the proceedings of the CONVEX
ton, it was plainly TO he seen tina
personal sympathy and a senseof individua
obligation were the only influences direct
ing his nomination. A plastic body of wea
men was moulded to execute his pre-
gramme, just as he laid it down and th
few strong men in the body, whose head
shook with apprehension at the forecast @
their cooler judgment, were paraly2ed b
cowardice into silence.
No such danger has threatened the CON
monwealth in long time as would ensll
from Quay'S election. One clear, stron
@S,e6iiee In his own party could have avcrte
il. That opportunity having passed III
improved, the responsibility now lies wit
the Democracy, which has until Aug.
to deliberate upon the strength and tn
weakness of the Republican nomination.
One thing may be taken for granted
Mr.. Quay will not be the nominee on bot
tickets not this year.
Railroad Combinations.