The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-07
Ouay's Ambition.


Tho republican state convention Of Penn
sylvania meets at Harrisburg to-day to
nominate q candidate for state treasurer.
It seems [ - be understood tnas there vii. be
no contest for the nomination. Senator
QUAY, the boss of the party. has, it is said,
selected the candidate and prepare 81 tue way
for his nomination.
In connection with the meeting Of the
Pennsylvania republican convention the
report is quite generally circulated that
Senator Quay is a candida q for the pre- /
Dental nomination Of his party in 1892. 1t
would not be at all surprising if this repO t
were well founded. Senator Quay Is very
ambitious, and is one of the a1lest of
the republican leaders, 50 far as
party management IS concerned. lie is
not a statesman, nor man who is ftt'd to
make his mark as a legislator. 81 ce he
has bsen in public life he has done nothing
that shows that he is wall informed re-
speeding ths leading questions bsf're Ie
country. AS a rArty boss, however, he has
been very successful
Senator QIay's methods as a political
manager are not those which command the
respect of ri ht thinking people. T ac-
cOmplish his purposes he does not hest ate
to use secretly means that he would not
dare 10 u,e o Ienly. In the last national
republican campaign, the manageme II of
which was entrusted TO him, vast amount
of money was spent. 1t has been freely
asserted, and never succ sssfully denied, that
the greater part of it was distributed among
purclasa5le voters.
The Postmaster General, Wanamaker,
was chiefly instrumental in collecting
several hundred THOUSAND dollars. The
Wanamaker con ribution, however, was,
it is believed, only small part of the cam
paign fund, which Senator Curry had at his
command, and wIich was SO placel a TO
be productive of pr ctical results What
was done with the money is shown pre- ty
Gle ,rly by the celebr at "Dloc<s # tivs"
letter. That letter, it will be remem Jered,
pointed out tho way to purchase the float
ing vote of Indiana.
Senator QIay was not regarded with
favor by very large part f MS party IN
Pennsylvania when he succse led in getting
the n animation for trea urer OF that stat.
The leading repIbl ca organ of Puilalel-
phia condemned him in unmalsure1 terms
and spoke OF him as man Who ought not
to be trusted. He was elected, however,
and soon aftervard was sent
to the United States Senate. He
was chosen to manage the national cam
paign of his party last fall because, per-
haIs of mis- reputation as n cOrruntiOn II
The republicans believed that the could
win, if tley could win at all, only by an
extravagsnt use Of money, aud they knew
of no man SO well fl ted 20 conduct
doodle" campaign as Senator Ouay.
Senator Quay's nomination for Pres: lent
in 1892 is by no means improbable. The
Republican party has not a very high sense
of honor. Its pu p rse is to remain in co l.
troll of the government, and it doesn't care
if 1t has to resort to corrupt methods to do
so. That beng the character Of he party,
why should it not look with favor upon
Senator Quay as presidential candidate
They are in harmony on the question of
party management. 1t could not be said
that he was better than his party, nor
worse, for that matter.
Senator Quay is a typical republican.
He has all his party's vices. If it had any
C nspicuous virtues he might pretend to
have them also. He knows his party thor
oughly, AMI, kno wing it as he does, he is
not making mistake, pro ably, in seeking
to be his party's candid ,te for the presi-
dency.