Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-07-30
QUAY AND DUDLEY.
Two National Republican Com
mitteemen Step Out.
THE L0NG-EXPECTED TAKES PLACE.

Both Gentlemen Tender Their Resigna-
lions to the Executive Committee and
They Are Accepted with Eulogistic
observation-disclosures Takes Control of
Matters Until Next November, When
the National Committee Will Meet
4 Collector Erhardt, of New York, Also
Resigns, Being Thereunto Incited by
Dissatisfaction.
WASHINGTON, July 3O-Behind the
closed doors of the room in the Arlington
House, where the executive committee of
the Republican national committee held
: its session last night, Matthew Stanley
Quay rendered his resignation as men,
Der and chairman of both the executive
committee and the national committee in
note containing the information that he
had sent to the Pennsylvania state COM
mittee his resignation as the representa-
tive of that state in the national organiza-
tion. w. W. Dudley, treasurer of the ma
tional committee. also rendered his resig-
nation of that Office, and the executive
committee adopted eulogistic resolutions
setting forth the services of Senator Quay
and General Dudley and expressing regret
at their action.
The members of the executive commit
tee had been informed of Senator Quay
resignation and there was no surprise
manifested when Secretary Fassett, soon
after the session opened. read the follow
ing communication, dated Washington,
July 20, and addressed to Hon. j. Sloat
Fassett, secretary of the national Repub-
lican committee:
DEAR SIR: This is to inform you that I
have to-day forwarded to Hon. William
II. Andrews, chairman of the Republican
state committee of Pennsylvania, my res
ignation as the member of the RepCb-
lican national committee from that state.
Yours truly, NJ S. QUAY.
Wrested Victory Out of Defeat.
sThe committee then adopted the follow
ing resolution: Resolved. That we accept
against our own judgment and with much
doubt as to the wisdom and eXpediency of
it for the party's interest, the action of
Senator Quay in his resignation as chair
man and member of the national commit
tee. In submitting to it with so much of
reluctance and regret we desire to express
from our own knowledge of the facts of
his pre-eminent service to the party, our
sense of the deep obligation under which
he has placed the Republican party and
cause of good government and patriotism
in the United States. He undertook the
leadership of a doubtful cause in time
when the Republican party was disheart-
ened and the Democratic party confident
in the power of supreme control IN the
government and the nation, and when the
odds of the contest were against our party,
and by his matchless power, his uuequaled
skill in resources his genius to command
victory, won for his party an unprece-
denied victory in the face OF expected de-
feat.
Won the Fight by Fair Methods.
ave know, as no one else can know, that
the contest which he waged was one of as
much honor and fair methods as it was
of invincible power and triumph, and that
it was won largely by the power of his SUI
perior generalship and his unfailiug
strength as political leader. In the great
contest of 1888, in the months of severe
effort and in the years of those personal
associations with him we have learned to
know the nobility of the man, and we de-
sire in this conspicuous manner TO place
on record for the present and for the fu-
ture, as an enduring answer to the parti-
san assaults of a defeated enemy, our tes-
timony in appreciation of his public serv-
ices and his personal worth"
Colonel Dudley CompIimented.
Following this, by prearrGngement,
came the report of the committee on audit
in the following terms: Your committee
appointed TO audit the accounts of w. W.
Dudley, treasurer of the national commit
tee, would report that ON a thorough in
spection of the books and accounts we
are enabled to state that all monies re-
ceived by the treasurer are actually and
fully accounted for and sustained in
every particular by vouchers and proper
receipts. We are enabled from this ex
animation to approve of the treasurer's
accounts and to express to the committee
our sense of its great obligation to the
treasurer for his faithful and efficielt
service to it in this capacity This is
signed by ]. 5. Clerkson, Garrett A. Ho-
bart, Samuel Fessenden, committee.
DUDLEY'S LETTER OF RESIGNATION.
Clarkson Elected to the Chair-FulI Com
mittee to Meet in November.
The chairman then read the following
letter. dated Washington, July 20, 1891,
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