Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-01
WITH Mr.. QUAY.
What He Proposed to Pitts
burgers Yesterday.
HE is ALL FOR HARMONY
And Then Against John Neeb, fof
Allegheny's State Senator.
THEFLIRTATIONS WITH WIN. FLINN.
All These Signs of the Times Give Some
People the Idea
HE is ALL For HARMONY
THEFLIRTATIONSWITH WIN. FLINN.
THAT QUAY is FOR THE PRESIDENCY

SO that he can bea candidate for President
in 1892, and consequently is for peace, " said
Appointment politician last night.
The announcement, at first blush, may
seem startling and Mr.. Quay may even deny
that he is q candidate-now. Mr.. QUAY has
made similar denials before, and the author
ity for his candidacy for the Presidency is
politician who has aided in times past to
elect Mr.. Quay TO other positions for which
he was not candidate before the nomina-
ton was ripe enough to pluck. Continuing
the gentleman said:
''Mr. Quay,'it will be remembered, was
Senator Sherman's ardent supporter for the
Presidency at the Chicago Convention, and
stuck to him until the Sherman boom had
gone glimmering into the land of booms
that have been. Senator Sherman has been
a candidate for President many times, and
it is reasonable to suppose that his last fail
ure has convinced him that his ambition in
that direction is to remain ungratifed. In
that case, whatever influence John Sherman
retains ought, in the nature of things, to go
to the man who was faithful to him if that
man desires it. 1t is stated that Senator
Quay not only desires just that thing, but
the Sherman machine in the South is al
ready in his hands and is being repaired for
his own use in 1899. He expects, it is said,
that the first demand for Quay for President
will come from the Southern protectionists,
and that the North will then re-echo the
cry.
PITTsBURG PLAYING A PART.
''This is why Mr.. Quay has been bending
his best efforts so strongly of late in the
direction of harmony. He was in Pittsburg
to-day on a mission of peace. but owing
to the large number of callers, negotiations
did not proceed much further than a gen.
eral understanding of what Mr.. Quay was
here for. Of course, Mr.. Quay wants
enough harmony in the party this fall to
elect Henry X. Boyer State Treasurer, but
Mr.. Boyer is merely one item in the gen.
eral plan, though no inconsiderable one.
His election will be of great
service to Mr.. Quay in next years Guber
material and Legislative campaign. and that
election will have no small influence on Mr..
Quay's hopes for greater things further
along. The olive branch that Quay has
been ostentatiously holding out to Mr.. Nc
Names in Philadelphia just at the time
when everybody thought the Beaver states
man was laying his plans to crush the
Quaker City leader does not seem SO strange
a thing in the light of the former gentle
mans reported ambition. The peace that
was patched up with so much labor between
the Malone and Brady factions in Virginia
also takes on a different appearance in the
same illumination"
Yesterdays CONFERENCE.
On the surface yesterday more attention
was paid to the differences of opinion be-
tween the friends of Mr.. Speer, of Allie
gheny, and those of Senator Rutan as to
which should be the Quay candidate for the
Republican nomination OF State Senator
next fall against John Neeb. Really, how
ever, the thing nearest Mr.. Quay's heart
was the general healing of the factional
differences in Allegheny county, and it is
reported that he is willing to go
to great lengths to secure this. Mr..
strength here last May and discovered that
it was something not to be too lightly es-
teemed. 1t is true that Quay men predomi-
nate the delegation to the State Convention,
but the Magee men said they made no fight
for delegates, as the conventions nominee
was bound to be Boyer. But they did fight
for the local organization, with what result
is we'll known. Since then steps have been
taken to assault the Quay strongholds in the
county. Arrangements are being perfected
to give Colonel Bayne the hardest
fight of his life TO retain his
seat in Congress. Quay Legislative
districts have been looked on with
belligerent feelings by the Magee men and
the last straw was the determination that
John Neeb should contest Rutan's Sena-
torial district, which determination was ar
rived at, it is said, at conference of Magee
leaders that determined at the same time to
place ex-Postmaster and Mayors Clerk Nc
Cleary in the field for Sheriff. All these
things, coupled with many threats that Mr..
Magee would 20 into the State next year
determined on Quay gore, indicated some
very lively times ahead and decided the
Beaver county Napoleon to come here to see
what could be done about it.
QUAY AND FLINN.
1t is reported now he is here that he is
willing to make many concessions to the
Magee people, and so told Mr.. Finn yester-
day when that gentleman met him by re-
quest. How far Mr.. Quay is willing to go
with his concessions cannot be fully told,
but there are rumors that he is willing the
Magee men shall have all the subordinate
made to his having the principal places
such as the Postmastership, Surveyorship of
the Port, etc. in other words, Mr.. Quay is
willing to retire from all contests for
ascendency =. in Allegheny county if
the mere semblance of supremacy
is conceded him. He wants this appear
ance of power for use in other parts Of the
State and for use outside the State. This,
with the fact that the Allegheny county
delegation to the State Convention embraces
a majority of Quay men can be turned to
good account by that gentleman in places
where it can do him much good.
Another story of yesterdays negotiations
is that the kind of a peace Mr.. Quay was
trying to negotiate with Mr.. Finn was of a
nature that might place Mr.. Magee 'in
the SOUP" In short, it contemplated the
delivery of Allegheny county to Mr..
Quay by Mr.. Finn, in return for which the
latter should control the Federal patronage
of the county. Persons close to both Mr..
Finn and Mr.. Magee denied that there was
any probability of any such bargain. They |
said the county wouldn't permit itself 10 be
delivered in that way; chat
MR.. MAGEE's PERSONAL FOLLOWING
was too strong for anything of the kind to |
be made a success, and that if Mr. Quay |
and Mr.. Finn should make any such bar |
gain the latter would have by far the best of |
it, for Mr.. Finn would have every |
thing and Mr.. Quay would have |
nothing. 1t was noticeable that |
Quay men were not taking exactly that view |
OF it. They cling TO the hope born during |
the May contest that Mr.. Finn is able to
throw Mr.. Magee overheard if he will and /
that he is quite likely to do it if Senator
Quay will only hold out the proper induce
ments. The Quay people have IL is certain.