The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-30
,,.nranw srANLEY oUAY.
T. the Willy Pennsylvania Boss Aiming
for the Presidency
rom the INeic York sun

= the Willy Pennsylvania Boss Aiming
for the Presidency?
From the Nei0 York sun.
u.pprsBUEG, Aug. 2+-Whenever Sena-
o,ov makes a clearly defined move in
rolitics the public may rest assured that 1t
- bean deliberately planned for tie pur-
DSs ~ reaching a specific object. HIS very
po5;oaIs and startling move IN the Senate
To- much more in it than appears upon the
SUI I4 foti' Cen. Harrison became President
SENATOR Quay never realized how small
- couId be nominated for President by
anv party, or elected 70 Ina1 oInce. IL was
yagsIetion to him. The senator knew
80 his colleague. Senator Cameron. who
no ~ vears in the Senate with Harrison,
SS,Io-ad Hsrrison's nomination and thought
LID not be elected, and even If
Lo 20 elected. no good could come of
:. sshecause be was chump, hat
avar that may be; but Quay believed that
Cameron. who is always so extremely con-
so-1otive was In error; that be must have
s sei ",U,,raindced, and that Harrison. whom,
. - - that time, Quay had never met. could
up Iosaihlv be a 'cnump." It would IN
IorhptadIv be the most interesting and
.,i[Ir,s ntterance Matthew Stanley Quay
oI,a9 made. we're he, in the light OF recent
wants. to declare his revised opinion OF
Gen Harrison. o..
that the Republican party, oelng surieleeo
NTH BENJAMIN Harrison, VIII demand the
''ou7ination of a straighout republican of
~ sltogether different stripe. A leading
PENNSYLVANIA politician has just said to me-
1.TaI-o tbe whole field IF repu blican posi-
h1itias and iuspect them critically, weigh
tbern accurately, and exercise them freely
in front of the grand stand, and, with the
excep.ion of Robert I. Lincoln, Matthew
Stenley Quay and James G. Blame, who
ooIId show gait or condition to warrant
tbe.r entry for the presidential sweepstakes
said that Quay's serious purposes are
ia iberately planned, with clearly de-
fined object in view. and until we'll de-
veioned, perceptible only to Matthew Stan
lev Quay Let me give an instance: when
Onav ran for state treasurer of Pennsyl-
vania in 1885, it was for the purpose or en-
ahling him to make a canvass for senator
two Years later; but no one, except Quay,
looked beyond the goal of the treasury.
For a year or two previous to 1885 Q lays
character mad been violently as
sailed. Only the year before
Senator Cameron had endeavored to
humiitate him publicly by making
Chris Magee, a local politician of Pitts
burg, his (Jameron's) proxy as national
of 1884 @ nay felt that intended snub
most keenly, and he then and there deter
mined upon two things: l. To sit in the
Senate as Cameron's equal, and, secondly,
TO dethrone the head of the Lochiel can.
The first object has been attained; the other
may have been reconsidered, but the time
for its fu,filment, if still held under advise
ment, would te next January, in the capitol
building, whe | am now writing.
\ inc Of IN
quit square with his political enemies scat
tered throughout the state, by daring to
face and fay them in contest before the
people Senator Cameron earnestly, vehe
menty advised Quay not to run for state
treasurer, but Qnay's purpose had been de-
lberatelv formed and was irrevocable.
Cameron was paralyzed at his audacity,
but that he should not be identified with the
disastrous defeat that he believed was GER
tain to fallow he left for Los Angeles the
day Quay was nominated for state
treasurer, in June, 1885, and re-
turned to Harrisburg one hour be-
fore the polls closed in November fol-
lowing, Just in time to cast his ballot fol
Quay. Cameron's absence from the state
makas it impossible for me to describe the
actual state of his mind respecting the anti
clpaled defeat of Quay; but Quay made nc
ooncealment of his feelings in the matter
umphant election. Sincere friends of both
Cameron and Quay trembled for the house
OF Cameron. Ia tnat contest the independ-
cots, mugwumps and anti-Quay republi
cans fought Quay with a malignitv un.
paralleled in the history of Pennsylvania
politics, but despite it all Quay was elected
by nearly $1,000 majority.
Not five men in Pennsylvania, beside:
myself, knew that the Senate was Quay's
Interior object. With his certificate OF
popular confidence he went before the
legislature asking for the seuatorship, and
when doubtiDg Thomas stood aghast
quay pointed to his commission as state
treasurer, and reminded him that since the
year 1880, with the single exception of Gov
blgier, no senator from Pennsylvania
carried commission ''of the confidence anc
esteem OF the people" with him to tbs
United States Senate, although George M
Dallas, James Buchanan, Daniel Sturgeon
SIMON Cameron, Richard Brodhead, David
Miinot, Charles r. Buckalaw, William A
wallace and J. Donald Cameron wer,
among the senators chosen from Pennsyl
Vanla since 1880
were the President his cabinet or the
grave senator's to sheer at NJ. s. Quay, be /.
JuSU the man to remind Harrison that h,
never possessed the seal of confidence of hi
s1aUe until 1t was secured for him by Dud
KY that Wanamaker, Window, Miller anc
necy OF the cabinet, and such emineu
Eglators as Sherman, Evarts, Edmuuds
thlscock, Hoar, Dawes, Blair and Spoonel
naIe yet to possess such a commission Of
popular confidence
mat Matthew Stanley Quay aims for the
PRESIDENCY Presidency may be denied, but that he is a
bb 1iI Strateglst of marvellous ability,
~ sven 10 recklessness in his purposes.
and still ambitious, seems not to he nnder,
$1,000 by Harrison, the cabinet. or the
s sn OF the antique order, cobwebbei
d! over from thirty years waiting for the
p pre- Ei to come their way If Quay il
I 800 himself a candidate for President ir
IooE' watch him closely to see if he does no
, ~ Nm IN the direction of Robert T. Lincolr