The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-08-19
The Pennsylvania Senator Loses
Caste Among His Own
Party Spoilsmen.
willing to Sacrifice the Election
Monstroeity for the Tariff
Iniquity.
|outlaved " All Honest Men. Reprobated
by the Republican Press, In
Sad Plight


Tor Quay in introducing resolution post
|,oning for the session consideration by the
|,enate of pending measures save the tariff
lind few other specified bills. has met
with prompt and vigorous denunciation by
Ieveral leading republican journals in the
,ast.
The Tribune says Republican voter 8
throughout the country have one request to
make which their representatives in the
enate will surely not refuse. They ask
hat the yeas and nays may show exactly
which senators are willing to
abandon the bill to prevent fraud
the election Of congress-
|nen and to give the preference to the river
Ind harbor and other bills with money in
hem.' The names Of such senators will be
carefully preserved for future reference.
When they want republican confidence and
support hereafter they may be sure that
ome voters, who are republicans from con-
lotion and not for revenue only will re-
Ter to the record and conscientiously vote
against Them"
Mr.. Hamilton Disston and other Penn
ylvania manufacturers who have large ps-
uniary interest in the south, having invest
d millions in lands or works in that Sec
ion, are credited with the responsibility
or Senator Quay's combination with the
democrats to defeat the election bill.
ore the country sharply the ques-
ion whether personal and pecun-
hry interest shall prevail to pre-
snt government BY the people. Senator
Ruay's resolution surrenders the election
Fill in consideration Of withdrawal Of
hrif bill. Professedly it is prompted by
nxiety that the tariff bill should not be
eaten by delay. If Senator Quay had not
cen absent from his seat much of the time,
art of the delay would have been pre-
tented. The bill cannot be beaten or long
elayed without the assent of some republi-
Ian senator's.
The Republican party has no higher duty
han to reform elections SO that the will Of
be people may be clearly expressed and
aithfully recorded. Measures Of that char
cter are never pleasing to the corruption
Bts and rascals of either party, who make
living by their adroitness in dishonest
olitioal practices. The person who owes
II his political prominence or consideration
his faculty Of handling reporters OF buy
hg votes in ward or town, or is happy
hen the other party dominates for con-
ress in his district q man of large means
nd no scruples, quite naturally considers
sderal election bill particularly objection
BILE. Il 10 equally natural that any senator
be- of money, and who has no other claim
public consideration, should shrink from
bform Of election methods, and the coun-
y will note whether such senator votes
it'll the democrats to defeat tho election
n. Senators may DO sure that the honest
4 with deep interest. This subject will
pt cease to be agitated by the people until
pnesty shall prevail in the elections of rep
sentatives and senator's"
The Philadelphia Press under the lines:
Quay Assisting the Democrats" says ed
nate abandon the federal elections bill
disposed of for the present at least, by
reference yesterday to the committee on
les. II is hoped that it will remain while
ke republican senators do their duty, at
hatever Inconvenience. toward this essen
hl republican measure. Senator Quay
ay enjoy the satisfaction Of
bproval of the democratic party. They
ave nothing but praise for his betrayal Of
10 republican cause IN this prefer of his
|sistance to defeat the bill to secure hon.
u elections. They now approve as saint
Id statesman one whom but week be-
(rse. This may please MI. Quay-just
Pw it has the charm of novelty-but we do
Pt believe it will strengthen his position
th his party. Probably Senator Quay
Ids Washington very hot. No doubt
uising off Atlantic City would be much
easanter, but if the republican senators
40 are ten and twent, years his senior,
ndanoe at the sessions of the senate as
r. Quay has been constant in his absence.
n stand the August heat in the senate
amber, surely Mr.. Quay can keep up his
casional brief visits to his desk.
Trying as this protracted struggle is to
man endurance, senator's whose republi-
b faith is bottomed on earnest copvic-
pa do not propose to abandon their post
of mere WEAKNESS and give up the
use to which the republican party is COM
tied. Senator Quay pleads his desire to
We the tariff bill passed as his excuse for
andoning the election bill. The republic
ns have large majority in the senate
i and the elections bill both, they
not in control. Senator Edmunds
proposed a measure for reaching
to on the tariff bill. The same
can force a conclusion on the election
if the majority only choose to take the
tier in their own hands and exercise the
ntrol which Of right belongs to them. To
sion of congress, wherethere is hardly time
get through the necessary appropriation
Ia, is to abandon it altogether. Even il
re was prospect of taking it up then,
postponement subjects the election of
Fifty-second congress without check
all the fraudulent methods by which the
lthern democrats turn the election into
oe. We do not think the tariff bill needs
sort of an idea, or that Quay il serving
cause of protection by placing himself
opposition to the great bulk of his party
congress-. Though he may have persuaded
nself that the sacrifice of the election
is necessary to save the tariff bill, other
|ublicans whose senatorial experience is
greater and whose devotion to protec-
cannot be challenged, do not share in
opinion. The coprse he has chosen is
et.syal ct H. bus party s TO the I'd. democratic
ts left to defeat the proposal, and we
x with confidence to see it DONE"
Rum TWO CENTURIES OLD.