The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1888-11-17
QUAY AND GORMAN.
The Managers of the Two Great Parties
Compared.
Ne,c York Letter.

Nec York Letter.
Arthur p German was the head and body of
hecampaign management, and whatever credit
is due belongs to him. From room in the
Fifth Avenue Hotel the Democratic campaign
was directed by the senator from Maryland.
All delegations sought him. All conferences
were with him, and if the loss of this fight is to
be attributed to a lack of executive ability, the
shrewd Arthur p. German must come in for
the lions share of blame. When, in 1884, Sena-
tor German sent throughout the country
memorable message to the faithful that Cleve-
land had been elected, he received about all the
praise for the victory. At that time the cleo
ton had not been decided, and apparently there
was no real foundation for the claim. But as
it afterward turned out that Cleveland had won
by plurality of less than l, 100 votes, the rank
and file generally credited German at that time
with the ability that won, and the determine
ton that held to victory achieved. His repu-
tation a politician was great not only in his
own state, but throughout the whole country.
To-day Senator German is among the defeat
ed. OF all those who have felt the pangs of de-
feat, German feels them the most keenly.
Cleveland was like Napoleon La man of des-
tiny. The Frenchman saw his Waterloo, and
the proud PAGER of Buffalo has stumbled in
Kings county, while German. whose name
four years ago was the signal for applause, has
gone down under the superior generalship OF
Pennsylvania senator Luck sometimes leaves
its favorites Destiny fails to destine. The
supposed shrewdest Democratic politician in
this country has failed to elect his party candl-
dates, and perhaps from now on but little will
be heard of the unconquerable sagacity of the
Maryland senator.
QUAY WAS TOO MUCH FOR HIM.
Now, if we Judge by the results, German
must have been weaker than the head OF the
Republican Campaign Committee. Indeed, in
so far as the results prove anything Quay alone
seems to have been stronger than the Demo-
cratic mbination-Gorman, Brice and Bar
mum. With the fall of German as national
manager comes the rise of Senator Quay. The
Republican national party owes Senator Quay
inestimable gratitude From very early hour 91
in the morning till a very late hour of the
night, he has been at his desk. Three weeks
ago he said:
II wish the election was nearer at hand. am
wornOut and sick"
He looked like an overworked man, and yet
he never let up for moment PROFESSIONS
passed the building in which the chairman sat,
but he did not even raise the curtains to look
out. Distinguished Republicans sought him
in vain Reporters called and learned nothing.
Unreasonable partisans charged him with every
political crime, with the single exception OF
murder; but the COOL calculating chairman
merely worked the harder. He was to be ar
rested, but he anticipated no defense. He was
to be waylaid, but his usual route from the
Everett House to headquarters was not changed.
No such a character had ever been known to
the other members of the committee. He vol
unteered nothing. He gave every man his ear.
but few his tongue. Through all of the CAM
paign, while Brice was strutting the corridors
of the Fifth Avenue Hotel, there was no one
who could point out the Republican chairman.
He was never seen about the hotels, and seldom
seen at all.
Nothing perplexed him, nothing surprised
him. He was never jubilant, never depressed.
He conducted the campaign successfully against
many odds. He was always without the funds
necessary to conduct a vigorous fight. That
was the only discouraging feature of the Re
publican campaign. He had thousands of
money against him, but he did his level best
and to-day Matthew S. Quay stands the promi-
nent figure of the hour as political manager
SINCE THE election of General Harrison he
has been the recipient of many thousands of
congratulatory letters and kilograms from peo-
pie in almost every walk of life. Many of
these he has felt it his duty to answer and as
might be supposed this has been no small task
Referring to the President-elect press cores
pondent says: "He has the most punctilious
regard for the observance of what may be term
ed the proprieties of life. both politically and
socially. During the entire campaign and, in
spite of the invidious personal attacks made
upon UlIll III 1HOldlld, nc uCNcI OllCC, III Ills
seventy-nine speeches, degenerated into person.
alties of any kind, either directly orindirectly,
although the occasion in one or two instances,
to his friends, seemed to justify some reference,
but he followed his own dignified discretion,
and continues now to be governed by the same
considerate impulses"
THE CUMBERLAND (Md.) Daily Ne,cs, in a
highly complimentary editorial, brings forward
rename of Major William Mckinley, of Ohio,
for Speaker of the next House of Representa-
tives. The Necs says intellectually She peer
of any man now in American public life he is
still a supplemented unaffected gentleman.
A man of unhinching bravery and filled with
the courage of his convictions, heis kind in his
treatment of political opponents. When the
North was to send its fraternal words to the
South, and withal to justify the North's faith
in the idea of Protection, he was called upon to
deliver that message" That Major Mckinley
is one of the foremost men of the Republican
party to-day no one for moment doubts and
that the party would honor itself by honoring
him is a selfevident fact.
AN ESTEEMED old friend who, although a
lifelong Republican, had for a few years been
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