Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-07-24

LANCASTER, PA, July "a, 1889.


James Donald Cameron and Matthew
Stanley Quay, United States senators
ltoTn Pennsylvania, have been spending
. day together at the Donegal farms in
this county. The place Is the Inherit
ance of Cameron from his father, lately
deceased It was for many years the
scene of the elder politicians entertain
ment of his friends, and it was well
chosen, by location and associations, for
the meeting of the two senators to agree
upon policy for their followers. These
two nen--neither of them statesman
are the political leaders of their party in
Pennsylvania. They number in their
clans nearly all the active Republican
politicians Of the state. There was a
time when they trained together, and
against them were arrayed the inde-
pendent and more respectable ele-
ments Of Pennsylvania Republican
ism. Then came the split Of
1885, when Quay nominated himself for
state treasurer instead Of McDevitt,
whom he had agreed with Magee should
be the candidate. This move, merely
the skirmisb line Of his campaign for
United States senator, was taken with
out let or hindrapce from Cameron
and while the head of the former con-
trolling dynasty cautiously awaited
events, Quays greater daring and un-
blushing audacity pushed him to the
front as the leader of his party In Penn
sylvania and its executive head i'm the
country at large. Magee has made no
secret of his hostility to him, and of his
readiness to strike whenever blow may
be made effective.
Meantime Cameron has bided his
time, awaiting circumstances for which
he could not be held responsible to un-
horse Quay He no doubt expected the
complications arising from the distribu-
ton Of patronage to go long way in
this direction and was glad to go to
Europe to get away from them. His re-
turn, rendered necessary by his fathers
death, has brought him face to face with
his relations to Quay, to the national
administration and to the party at
large. He wants above all things to
succeed himself and to continue the sen.
atorial seat in the family and he is not
seeking quarrels.
1t need not be expected that Senator
Cameron will openly sympathize with
the implacable hostility of Magee t.
Quay, nor aggravate the resentmen,
which is said to burn in the breast OF
James McManes. He is, for the present
Mt least for peace and the signs are
that he has made it with Quay Iii.
colleague Is not unwise in maintaining
this relation. Cameron il just as SAT,
and congenial an associate In the Senate
~ Quay could have. Together they car
manage the party in Pennsylvania, ant
each get more out of it than If divided
They hold their followers with a prett,
strong grip, and their respective ma
chimes are about as well constructed n
the ordinary contrivance of that sort.
While what they talked about an,
agreed upon at Donegal is not reported
1t can be safely guessed that they hav
Strengthened the truce which has pre-
vailed between them that they hav
agreed TO divide the patronage in Penn
sylvania, and to use ii for Cameron's re
nomination and reelection that eacl
will look after and take care of his owl
followers, the other only reserving tn
right to veto offensive persons and oil
noxious propositions. The local poll
ticians who have been straining thei
ears to catch the echoes from the Don,
gal conference may rest assured its r,
frain was let us have peace"