The Evening post. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1888-1889, 1888-11-09
now anRNAN TnILEp.



Tho Democratic nrht WIS IN the hnnds
0f its i.st manaeor Gen hmum wis
the financial mcmhcr of the dincting
firm iic supplied tho iunds Kept The
onICe-h0lders in liuc au1 attended 90 such
work as aih 20 thc Doc OF she financial
hcad uf ans business concern.
Arthur a. Gaman was che head and
body of tln campaign mona gcmcnL and
whatever credit a. due belongs O. him.
From room in thr tinl Avenue Hotel
thc Democratic oammIgn was directed
hF thr senator frUm Maryland. All
delegations sought h.ms Hu conferences
werr with him. and f Soc lnss uf th.,
nght is tn hc ATTRIBUTED to "a lack of rN-
crutiyo ability. the slmwd Arthur T.
Gufmnu must come in Coz thr Hons share
OF blame When. iB isst. senator Cor
man sent throughout tin country a. mcm-
OMhir mUsslHe 20 thn faithful tnnt
Cleveland bad been elected. he received
shout on tbo puiso Tor tho victory. a.
| TINT time che election had not hrcn d.
| cidCd, Bnd apparently there wis no real
foundation fnr she claim But us 10
niterwurd turned out That Cleveland hni
/ won by % plurality Of less tun t.ioo
| votes The rank and dle generally Crrd-
| it'd Gofmnn 40 thlt time with The uhil-
/ held Go q victory achieved Ills rrputa-
| tion ns politician was grcHt not only
| In his own State. but throughout tho
| whole country
! To-day senator German Is nmonF
the defeated. OF Oh those wLo laNo
| felt the pangs Of defeat Gorman fces
them the most kccnlY. Cleveland was
I like Napoleon Ia man ot destiny. The
trcnchman saw his Waterloo, aud the
proud paccr of Buffalo has stumbled in
/ Kings County while Gormun, whose
name four years ago was the signal
for applause, has gone down under tlc
superior gcncmlship Of % pcnnsy ylyania
Senator. Luck sometimes leaves it's
fHvoritcs. Destiny fails 70 dostinc. Tho
supposed shrcwdcst Democratic politi-
clan in this country has failed 20 elect
his party candidates, and perhaps from
now ON but little will be heard of the
unconquemble sagncity Of tine Maryland
Senator.
Now, II we Judge by the results. Cor
man must have been weaker than the
head of the Republican Campaign Com
mittcc. Indeed, in so FAR ns the results
prove anything, Quay alone seems TO
have been stronger than the Democratic
Ombination-GOrman, Brice aud Bar
mum. With the fall OF German as a
national manager comes the rise OF Scna-
tor Quay. The Republican national
party owes Senator Quay inestimnblc
gratitude. From very early hour N
the morning till q very late hour OF the
night, he has been at his desk Unless
he POSSESSES great power Of recupctation,
Chairman Quay's health has been seri-
ouslY impaired. Three weeks ago he
said:
IL wish the election was near at hand.
| am worn out and sicltn
lie looked like an OverwOrhcd man,
,,,1 I.F Lot $40. Ton mo ssftN
Professions passed the building in which
the chairman sat, but he did not even
raise the curtains TO look out. Distin-
guished Republicans sought him in vain
Reporters called and learned nothing
Unreasonable partisans charged him will
every political crime, with the single
, exception of murder; hut the cool, cal
culating chairman merely worked harder
, lie was to be arrested. but he anticipated
, no defense. lie was to be way laid, but
r his usual route from the Everett HousS
to headquarters was not changed. NJ
: such a character had ever been lSnowI
, to the other members of the committee
! He volunteered nothing. lie gave every
: man his ear, but few his tongue. Through
all of the campaign, while Bricc wa
4, strutting the corridors of the F1ftl
Avenue Hotel, there was no one whC
/ could point out the Republican chairman
He was never seen about the hotels, anC
seldom seen at all.
Nothing perplcXed him, nothing. sur
; prised him. He was never Jubilant
never depressed. He conducted the cam
: paign successfully against many, odds
lie was always without the funds nee
: cssary to conduct a vigorous fight. Thn
|. was the only discouraging feature of tn
q Republican campaign. He had thousand
a of money against him, but he did III
5 level best and to-day Matthew 5. Qua,
stands the prominent figure of the hon
as political manager. Besides Chair
man Quay had stalled all of his earthl,
c possessions, with trifling exception
t upon the result of his work. " If W
n lose the fight" said ono of the clerks
! our chairman will have to walk &
5 Philadelphia | hear he has everythin
: but his hat on the result" IL is sai
n TO say that Chairman Quay has won
G ,.rcat reputation and about 100000 o.
r the fight
It just as in 1884, there are now
# dozen different combinations claiming
IS the credit of the victory. The pluralit
Y is lust small enough to convince eac
= faction that its vote was the decidn
1t lactor.-N. Y. Cor. Baltimore American