Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-27
AN ATTEMPT AT PEaCE.mAk1NG.

AN ATTEMPT AT PEACE-MAkING.
The report which came In the special
Washington correspondence of The DIS
PATCH yesterday, that the fight between
Emery and Delamater will be smoothed
over by making Emery the Republican Con-
gressional nominee, may be taken as evil
dence that the powerful Junior Senator from
this State has become convinced that it will
be wise to extend his policy of conciliation
from national to State politics. The evidences
that this report represents only the willing
ness of Senator Quay to hold out the olive
branch are carried on its own surface. Mr..
Emery has no headquarters or authorized
representative at Washington, while Sena-
tor Quay is located there. Therefore, the
appearance at Washington, on the very day
of Congressman Watson's death, of plan
to settle matters by making Emery his sue
cessor and hushing up the charges which he
is making against Delamater, is evidence that
Senator Quay is desirous of placating Emery
and has permitted the publication of this
feeler.
Senator Quay's willingness to adopt the
conciliatory policy when it is necessary in
stead ofrelying on the policy Of force mqjeure,
as some of his predecessors have done, is
new proof of fswhat The DISPATCH has
often said of his clear sightedness and
superior ability as political tactician. 1t
also affords evidence that the hysterical as
sertion of some of the Republican organs,
that Emery's attacks are an actual benefit
to the Republican ticket, does not receive
the Endorsement of Senator Quay. But it
must be said that the presentation of plan
for compromise of this sort, on the part of
the Senator, evinces a lack of perception in
the line Of political morals, which must be
entirely ignored to suppose that after mat
ters have reached the present stage such
compromise would be possible. The i'm
possibility of such an agreement with any
preservation Of the credit OF either party to
it appears in q double sense.
The most manifest inability to accept
such an agreement is on Senator Emery's
side. We have no doubt that any such
proposition will be promptly rejected by
him, because he clearly sees that to do SO
would be wholly destructive of his public
reputation. 1t is just week ago that he
gave the best proof of his comprehension of
this fact by an open letter in which he asserted
that his function in this campaign, is to
prove the corruption and subservience to
the corporate interests of the Republican
nominee for Governor. He cliuched that
position by declaring: my acceptance of
nomination for Congress, from any source
however laudable, would impair the force of
my effort to defeat Delamater who in my
opinion is corrupt man." II, after re-
peatedly and in the most public manner
taking this position, Mr.. Emery could per-
a Congressional nomination, his public rep
utation would become thing too light and
vain to be weighed by any known standard.
There is no danger that Senator Emery will
commit any such act of suicide. While he
may have earned an eccentric reputation, no
one has ever been able to accuse him of
disposition to sell out SO cheaply.
But the impossibility of any such COM
promise on the part of the Republican or
ganization, with decent regard for public
morals, constitutes still more vital weak
ness in the proposition. Here are two men,
one of whom has repeatedly and persist
emily declared that the other is corrupt
and corporation agent in politics. 1t is
evident that either Delamater is corrupt or
Emery is persistent vilifer of an honest
and worthy reputation. Yet it is brought
forward as a satisfactory adjustment of this
trouble, that both of them shall be nomi-
mated to positions of the highest and most
responsible character. 1t is impossible to
give that idea in any other meaning than
that for the sake Of preventing further
ventilation of the charges, the Republican
management is willing that two men shall
go into high public position, one of whom
by the very nature of the case must be CON-
pletely unworthy of public confidence.
There is no escape from this dilemma. The
attempt to exalt Mr.. Emery's sincerity at
the cost of his intelligence. by the idea that
he is unable to distinguish between bogus
afidavits and bona .Jide evidence, can make
no difference on this score. Either he is
totally unfit to be q Congressman or Della
mater is entirely unworthy to be Governor.
The indication that the Republican manage
ment has reached the pass where it is willing
to quiet an ugly quarrel by an arrangement
which puts either corrupt man in the
Governorship or reckless vilifer Of public
reputation in Congress. is the last proof of
the absence of principle from practical
politics.
1t is hardly necessary for Senator Emery
10 deny his adhesion to any such political
sale as this; but the denial will be undoubted-
ly prompt and conclusive. The report repre-
sents the strait of the Republican manage
ment rather than the peccability of the Be
publican insurgent
CHICAGO lost one of her handsomest the