Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-10-13
MAD MATT QUAY.

SVioA0A VI u. quay VI I0uucylfduld II
Chairman Of the Republican Nationa
Committee. 1t is almost needless to ado
that he is a protectionist of the most
virulent type. Just now Chairman Quay
is intensely d~isgusted, and. in fact, an.
CRY. The caus of this condition OF
affairs is the tariff reform bill reported
by the Republicans to the Senate, last
week.
The New York Morning Journal" de-
clares that, from the first, Mr.. Quay
strongly opposed this measure. From
the first he claimed that the present
high protection should be the keynote of
the campaign and that it be sounded
early and late in the ears of working
men and manufacturers, with no side
issues, no personalities and no red-fre
enthusiasm.
He urged and commanded that the bill
be not reported, and that no tariff tinker
ing be allowed during the present ses-
sion. He promised the iron manufac-
turers of Pennsylvania that all tariff
legislation should be suspended.
And until his last visit to Washington
MIR. Quay believed that his advice would
DO taken. It was not.
Now the chairman feels that he is not
being properly supported, and that he has
many enemies among the most promi-
nent Republicans of the day-men who |
should be his friends.
He has grown distrustful and suspi-
ciOus, and with this have come his old
physical enemies, insomnia and dyspep-
STA, and the half dozen people whom he
does trust find him sullen and moody.
He has always been dictatorial, and he is
more so now.
And the distrusS is not all on one side.
There are a good many Republicans who
firmly believe that they made as great a
mistake in choosing as their national
chairman Mr.. Quay rs they did in Mr..
Jones in 1884.
lin short, they think the job is too big
for Mr.. Quay. They have come to the
conviction that his calibre is too small {
for the place he holds. II
In his own State Mr.. Quay is a dictator, ;
but Pennsylvania is a state with $4,000 8
Republican majority in off years, and '
there protection SC overshadows political /
policy that Samuel ]. Randall, a Demo d
erat. lis without an opponent in his can v
didacy for reelection to Congress in a t
Republican district. a
Political acumen in Pennsylvania is "
the still hunt before the primaries. Elec-
ton is a formality and Mr.. Quay has
made a record as a still hunter. ~
But there are Republicans who say that e,
Quay has no conception of the T
breadth or scope of this campaign; that IL
there are many Western States the wants CO
Of which are altogether different from W
those of Pennsylvania and in which the 70
local and peculiar political methods of y,
'he Keystone State are identical. fe
And this is what gals them. When
men who have grown gray in the party
work and who know these States as MIR. 10
quay knows Pennsylvania, have ap- F,
)roached him with advice or caution
hey have been met with such cold indif- CO
erence, ii they were able to meet him at in
Ii, that anything like cordial support Of
las been put out of the question. So
MIR. Quay has everything staked on the I
cal and has tried to play it all alone. Oi'
rom the first he antagonized every mem biz
er Of the National Committee except ex- !
'ension Agent Dudley. Afterward he fee
nd Colonel Clarkson anne to an under
landing, but a marked degree of luke pla
'armness has characterized his intimacy Ian,
18th Committeeman Fessenden, Davis. otl
.obart and others. General New found !
Is position SO distastsful that he dropped fro
Mt. lou
All of Mr. plo;,o,, Ro,
at least the leaders, have watched with
lagrin not unmixed with amusementl
10 efforts of Mr.. Quay to belittle the eff T
rts Of the great Maine statesman and at
'stroy his influence. eve
In no Presidential campaign for twelve sbir
airs has Hon. Thomas G. Platt taken so at q
part or been treated as of SO little z
lpOrtance, and it is a well fact ga,
at voluntarily Mr.. Quay has not called IS 10
to conference one Republican of ma II
nal reputation. sure
and the feeling is growing that Mr.. the
lay knows that, in homely parlance, he a
bitten off more than he can chew" 81.
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