Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-21
TFRoM A STAFF CORRESPONDENT,

PHILADELPHIA, June 20.-Mr. Nc
Names remarks have hardly ruf1ed the
surface. Politicians here are disposed to
treat them with good-natured indulgence
MeSsrs. Lane, Leeds, Disston and Martin
apparently pay little attention to them, but
at the same time they will not lose track of
the movements of the old leader. Mr.. Nc
Names left town again to-day after ringing
the changes on the statement published this
morning. remarking bluntly that Mr.. Quay
had placed the party in bad position. Col
lector Martin, in the course of a few re-
marks to-day intimated that Mr.. McManes
was not getting all he thought he ought to
have these days, and was in consequence
feeling trihe sore about 1t. Mr.. Martin
had no idea that Mr.. McManes would do
anything wicked to the party.
'Do YOU think, i" he was asked by The
DISPATCH correspondent, ''that the result
of the prohibition election will hurt the
Republican party this fall?''
81 don't know that it will, ;" Mr.. Martin
automatically replied. He was then re-
minded of an admission made by Mr.. Quay
early in the spring, that whichever way the
election went, the party majority would be
cut pown for a time.
THE REPUBLICANS ALL RIGHT.
81 don't think, " he replied, ''that the de-
feat of prohibition will hurt the party as
much as would its success. The Republican
party is all right. 1t was pledged to the
submission of the question to the people,
and it has acted in good faith. 1t was not
pledged to support prohibition. That and
submission are two different things"
"When will Mr.. Quay be here?"
Il can't tell. l expected him here last
Friday, but he didn't come. He is at his
home in Beaver"
David Martin is fine looking man, of
medium height and strongly built. He is
dark complexioned and wears small but
vigorous looking mustache. His eyes are
bright and steady, his glance penetrating
and his mouth firm. Decision of character
is plainly one of his distinguishing traits,
coupled with calm, even temperament
He is the kind OF man one would readily
pick out for the position,he fills in politics.
Evidently Mr.. Quay has made no mistake
In binding him to his political interests and
making him his Lieutenant in Philadelphia.
A MAN AFTER QUAY's OWN HEART.
1t is only recently that Mr. Martin has |
become figure of more than local promi- |
nenee, and Mr.. Quay is the man who recog-
nized his ability and brought him out. He |
has been well known in local politics as |
the leader of his own ward, the Nineteenth,
and one adjoining ward also owned his |
sway. Collector Martin is thoroughly |
practical There is no sentiment mingled |
in his politics. He is young and vigorous /
and man after Mr.. Quay's own heart, or.
perhaps. it would be better to say, head
Senator Cooper is confident that the Col |
lectorship OF Customs will be his the first of |
next month. 1t is said he has all his ar
rangements made to take the place Hon.
C. Wesley Thomas, who is at present a
member of the Legislature, was long ago
chosen for Senator Cooper's private secre-
tary, when the latter should become Col
leetor Cooper, and it is said the ever-hopeful !
gentleman has his full staff of subordinates
nicely arranged in his mind, besides having
his bond virtually ready against the time
when the President shall invite him to take
his seat at the Federal board.
EVERY MAN HIS OWN TAXPAYER.
Edwin H. Stuart will 60 to Pittsburg on
Saturday to rejoice with his brother Masons.
While there he will arrange for the Septem-
Der meeting in Pittsburg of the State
League of Republican Clubs. Mr.. Stuart,
now that the suffrage amendment has been
defeated, proposes that the next Legislature
shall pass law to compel each man to pay
his own tax as preliminary to voting. He
also wants a law directing that the proper
authorizes shall, on the morning of each
election day, place in the hands of the Off
GERS of each precinct a complete list of
those who have paid the tax that entities
them to vote. Mr.. Stuart recognizes that
there is great evil in the present system
and that the payment of the poll tax of
voters is great and growing burden on
political parties. =
Hon, William L. Scott, of Erie, arrived
in town late last night and was gone again
to-day before it was known he had been
here. Hr. Scott declined to confine himself
to the pent-up limits of. the city he honors
with his residence, and spread himself on
the hotel register as from Pennsylvania" /"
SCOTS LEADERSHIP NOT WANTED.
Ex- CONGRESSMAN r. Milton Speer, who
consented to an appearance of harmony in
the'last Democratic State Convention, has
been here tor several days past, and promises
not to be SO tractable this year. He says
that as a leader Mr.. Scott must 60.
1.-The convention must not be run by him
this fall, he saws, "nor the party's candi-
date named by him. We must 90 into the
hight under different circumstances. 1t is
time for change alter the disgraceful and
humiliating conditions of last year. Some
AOn Iuob DC ScHb 10 Ine rear, ana men set
aside last tall will be needed in their old
places"
Horace Geiger, Chairman of the Prohibi
ton or Constitutional Amendment CITY
Committee, to-day caps the climax of his
past campaign utterances with an address
In which he,,e1horts Prohibitionists to ioin the
Union Prohibito-y league and enlist afresh
in the battle for prohibition. He again
blames defeat on the Republican leaders
and calls them short-sighted. He closes
with the assertion that "as sure as there is a
God, the time will come when the last dis
.illery, brewery and saloon in Pennsylvania
will be closed"
SURPRISE TO POLITICIANS.
It is significant of the rapidity with which
ye move that Mr.. Geiger's circular is con-
idered chestnut. Yet the election was
nly the day before yesterday, and up to
hat time all Mr.. Geiger had to say was con-
idered interesting by Philadelphians. Just
ow the defeat OF prohibition is lost sight of
D the wonder expressed at the defeat of the
oil tax and suffrage amendment. 1t was
D such high favor among the politicians
ere that they can't imagine what went n
rrong in the State. No one had heard any n
ak against il, and even its few ioes here ri
id not anticipate its defeat M
"You can't tell what may happen between al
ow and the State Convention Of next year." al
smarked Republican worker this evening.
In the last Gubernatorial convention Nc al