St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-19

won. He never went into convention
without knowing exactly where he
stood.
Mr.. Quay was never man of method.
He always believed in doing heroic
things; many people have often called
them arbitrary. When he was a school
teacher, or riding mustang in Texas,
long before he went into politics, lack
of system was always as apparent as
his ability to deal with strength with
any emergency that arose. In other
words, he has never shown those quail
ties which would make him a superior
bank president.
When he succeeded Mr. Mackey in
the command of the Republican forces
of this state he was as fond of pleasure
as any of the boys. He loved to enjoy
himself rather than bother with the
small matters of politics that he felt he
could handle in an hour when the time
GENE for action. This very trait of
character made him severe, and more
self-reliant man never lived. But it
also sled him into no end of trouble
when controversies arose in his party
viii CHI he thought he could settle with a
sledgehammer whenever he chose,
which he did for years, and his success
gained for him the deserved nickname
of "Old Brains" He had so long
welded the scepter of power unques-
toned that he believed there was no
end to it.
How many great men, both In pea ce
and war, have split upon this rock.
This year Senator Quay is allowing,
or seeming to allow, the people to have
their way about the offices to be filled
by the results of the pending campaign.
He is looking around among some of the
insurgents of last year for allies. | saw
him in Pittsburg few days ago en-
gagged in his missionary work, and he
seemed as cheerful as ever. When he
left for his country home IN Beaver,
some fifty miles distant, where he be-
gan life as the editor of a country
weekly and county clerk after his re-
turn from Texas, he said when asked
about the situation:
81 think it will be all right" He
never was fond of talking politics for
the multitude, and less SO this year
than ever.
How QUAY Lives at Beaver.
Beaver is not much of a place, and is
principally noted as the home of Mr.
Quay and the place that Chief Justice
Gibson, one of the greatest juriStS this
country ever produced, moved away
from. Col. Quay goes there Only as he
goes fishing--tO think and to plan. 1t is
so quiet up in his rural retreat that he
is rarelyever disturbed, and the towns
people never bother him about the
greater affairs of his life. He has plenty
to think of just now, and his ways are
much more careful at present than
they used to be. He finds in the
for consultation and considera
ton for others that he never
acknowledged before. He has been so
long in an Officeholding life, and such
rover-fOr he is rarely week in one
place-that he has never piled up many
dollars. He lives plainly, and has few
eXtravagances except what politics re-
quire. There is no limit to eXpend
iture, either generously to reward
friends or amply to punish enemies.
His one aim is success. This has caused
many attacks on his personal character
that have been ovcrdrawn. Men of
power, viewed from a long distance
through microscope, show many de-
tects that are never seen Ill closer con-
tact.
Mr.. Magee is an entirely different
type of man. He approaches his politi-
cal traps with caution, so as not TO lose
any game, and sets them long before the
season for the run begins. Being en-
crossed in business affairs. he has never
spread out into the woods of state poll
tics, except when conventions met and
driving time began. Not wanting any
office for himself, he has always been a
power to those whom he favored. He
always had and mas the large PittSburg
delegation at his back. and has content
ed himself with using it for the benefit
of his section without undertaking
to capture the state. This has kept
him solid with his people and power
in the state, because his force is ever re-
liable. PittSburg is the cheapest gov
erned city in the country of its size and
one of the best managed for its tax
payers, and Magee is the absolute mas
ter of the Republican machine, which
is as supreme there as Tammany is in
New York, and with exactly opposite
results.
Either Kill or 1mprOmise.
Roscoe Conkling used to say that the
| only way to get along with an enemy
was either to kill him or compromise
with him. Mr.. Quay is in that attitude
toward Mr.. Magee.
Mr.. Quay has found killing danger
| Gus experiment, and now takes up Mr..
| Conkling's other view of the situation.
Other great men have had to do it be-
fore him, but how long his views of
compromise will last is serious Ques-
| ton. 1t is hard to teach master of his
! age and character new lessons. Yet
| Mr. Quay is very able man. full of re-
| sources, and is apt at any moment to do
some courageous thing, but it looks now
as though he would not, this year at
least, play with buzz saw Yet the
| convention of next Wednesday can only
/ oya fhic nnoStinn and MIR MQOpA
will be here to watch and act.
1t is one of the marvels of this strange
situation that the name of Don Cameron
is rarely heard. His fathers name
awakened men like magic, but his sons
| Is rarely ever spoken. 1t is said that
the senator will not be at the state con-
vention. Unless there shall be some
awakening it looks as though the name
of Cameron would drop out of politics as
the lost rivers of Arizona sink into the
| quicksand.
The careers of Col. Quay and Mr..
Mayee Illustrate the difference between
the arbitrary and the kindly methods in
politics. Chris Magee learned some use
! full lessons in the direction he has taken
from Gen. Cameron, and has followed
them to good purpose. Living in this
community from bOyhood, where he be-
gan life without money or influence, he
has drawn men to him by acts of
kindness that are at times far more
potent than any mere party obligations.
This was Gen. CamerOn's view, and
| there was not a county i'll pennsylvania
where by some single act of Kindness
he has not made friends outside of his
own party who we're ever faithful to
him in time of need.
BY Moonlight.
Beautiful scenery, especially when
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