Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-10-25

be lodged and thereafter safely kept in
the Republican column. The scheme,
appropriately enough; has for its chief
sponsor Matthew Stanley Quay, the
chairman Of the Republican National
Committee, and recognized now as the
most corrupt person in his practices,
influences and suggestions, in the whole
range of American politics.
The man in whose fertile brain the
plan originated, and who has acted as
the recognized agent of the Republican
National Committee in carrying out its
"details, is Daniel Med. Lindsey, a
North Carolina Republican, party
worker familiar through long and varied
experience with colonization methods.
This scheme teStihes at once TO the
ingenuity of Quay and his agent, and
10 the supreme contempt in which
QUAY holds the lawful and beneticent
purposes of the institutions of his
country. 1t likewise explains in a
large measure Quay'S action in forcing
on his party poStponement of the Force
bill. which 10 many of his former aSSo-
ciates and party friends, has been the
most inexplicable of all his public per-
formances. To their minds the meas
IRE was one which, because of its ar6i-
trary and inquiSitorial character, ana
the tremendous power and advantage IL
would give TO the party, would strike
him with great force and favor. But
10 their unSpeakable establishment and
chagrin he actually led in the
movement TO lay the bill aside,
and thereby deprive the party
of the benefit of the iniquitous
measure at the approaching Congress
sional elections. They labored with
him long and earnestly. They even
threatened him. They told him in the
blunteSt fashion that the poStponement
of the Force bill until the next session
of Congress at his instance, would not
only cost him his place at the head of the
National Committee, but his whole in
fuence with his party besides. He re-
fused 10 yield an inch, however, and
held on i'm the course he had taken and
sent the Force bill over. as he had plan
ned TO do.
WHY QUAY WAS so SERENE.
1t now appears that Quay'S serenity
under the terrible ordeal of party crit
icism and. arraignment through which
he has passed was, in a measure, owing
to the new plan of carrying elections
which he had had in hands for more
than Il year. He might have Silenced
many of his critics by taking them into
his confidence, for they, like himself,
had only ultimate success in view and
could have been won over to any plan
of party procedure that promised sat
isfactory results. Their object in press
ing the Force bill was not in the hope
of rendering elections any more fair,
but because they considered it es-
Sential 10 the bringing back of the
South TO the Republican fold. Quay,
not a whit more ScrupulouS than they,
simply had a plan of his own for keep
ing the party in pOwer-a far better
plan. he thought, than theirS-and being
afraid TO let too many people into the
secret, kept his peace but pushed his
plan aud submitted to the attaks OF his
party friends in silence. He could see
that the main point of the game was to
keep faith with manufacturers, pass the
Tariff bill and make sure of another cor
ruption fund. The other part of the
programme could then be carried out
somewhat at leisure, but in ample time
TO effect aud even definitely shape the
result in the next National contest.
Hardly was Harrison warm in his
chair before Quay began plotting for
1892, though it does not appear that he
had HarriSOn'S success again in view.
Even a man of Quay'S resources has his
limitations, and doubtless the great cor
ruptor Of the people in 1855 felt that he
could not hope 10 achieve success again
by the same methods and precisely upon
the same lines employed before. 1t
would be safer TO move in different
way Ibis new iniQuitieS to perform. "
An attempt to repeat his old manevreS
might be followed by exposure and diSas-
ter. 1t must have been with something of
delight. therefore, that he received the
proposition of the man Lindsey, who
pointed out how easy it would be to
make the doubtful States reliably Re-
publican simply by a transfer of Il few
thousand Republican negroes from the
South, introduced into the different
localities TO take places as laborerS.
According TO the correspondence
which follows, Quay was instantly
struck with the suggestion, arranged
10 see Lindsey at an early day, put
him at once in communication with
Dudley and Garrison, and requested
the payment of a sum of money to
Lindsey, 10 aid in the early Inaugural
ton of the movement Quay unQueS-
tiOnably felt that the much desired
secret of how 10 continue his party i'm
power had been found, and that simply
by putting wheels on the suffrage, so to
speak, in several States, he could roll
enough impecuniOuS people about the
country tOmakc the result in November,
1S92, in every way satisfactory to the
Republican party. As for the situation
i'm the extreme South, where the Force
bill was intended to operate he cared
nothing. All he desired was to stock
the doubtful states with Republican
cOlOred voters. and insure National Re
publican success again, and Force bills
and all other bills not yielding fat from
the manufacturers might 90 to the
winds.
The man Lindsey, who appears as the
originator of this scheme, was so great
ly encouraged by Quay'S approval and
adoption of it and by Quay'S promises
of pecuniary assistance that he seems
TO have pushed it with great energy.
According to his own statement, he con-
ferred with Republican Congressman
from three different States sought to be
influenced politically by his methods
Indiana, Connecticut and West Virginia
and in every case was met with words
of praise and encouragement. All of
the Congressman consulted thought his
plan for inSuring Republican success
an admirable one, and several of
them went so far as 10 PIT him in
communication with prominent party
workers at their homes, whose assist
ance it was thought necessary to obtain.
\ notable conversion, according to the