Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-16

polltlcdl Dattle Dy entlrely QlUerent routes.
Mr.. Mackey was a careful organizer and
looked we'll after the counties. If there
were differences cropping out in any locality
he was sure TO put on the salye Of confer
snce with fiattery or advice as the occasion
might require. It was often said of him
that he could settle local fight and both
sides would think they had won. He never
went into convention without knowing
exactly where he stood Mr.. Quay was
never a man of method. He always be-
leved in doing heroic things; many people
have called them arbitrary. When he was
school teacher or riding q 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 qualities which
would make him q superior bank pres
ident
QUAY's GREAT SELF RELIANcA.
When he succeeded Mr. Mackey in the oom-
mand 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 poll
tics that he felt he could handle in an hour
when the time came for action. This very
trait of character made him severe, and a
more self reliant man never lived But it
also led him into no end of trouble, when
controversies arose in his party which he
thorght be could settle with sledge-ham-
mer whenever ne chose, which he did for
wears, end his success gained for him the
deserved nickname of "Old Brains" He
had so long welded the scepter of power
unquestioned, that he believed there was no
end to it.
How many great men, both in peace 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 filleS by the re-
suits of the pending campaign. He is
looking around among some of the insur-
gents of last year for allies. I saw him in
Pittsburg few days ago engaged in his
missionary work, and he seemed as cheerful
as ever. When be left for his country home
IN Beaver, some 80 mileI distant, where he
began life as the editor of country
weekly and County Clerk after his return
from Texas, he said when asked about the
situation:
'T think it will be all right" He never
was fond of talking politics for the multi
tude, and less so this year than ever.
MR.. oUAY's LIFE AT BEAVER
Beaver is not much of place, and is
principally noted as the home of Mr. Quay,
and the place Chief Justics Gibson, one of
the greatest jurists this country ever pro-
duced, moved away from. Colonel Quay
goes there only as he goes fishing, to think
and to plan. 1t is so quist up in his rural
retreat that he is rarely ever disturbed, and
the townspeople 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 present emerA
gency that necessity for consultation and
ooDciGerafion for o+hers 4ho+ ba povar M
knowleGged before.
He has been so long in an ofics-holdins
life, and such a 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-
guire. There is no limit to expenditure,
either generously to reward friends or
amply punish enemies His one aim is sue
cess This has caused many attacks on his
personal character that have been over
drawn. Men of power viewed from a long
distance through microscope show many
defects that are never seen in closer con- J
tact.
WHAT MAGEE DID FOR PTTTsBURG.
Mr.. Magee is an entirely different type of |
n5n- Re approaches his political traps |
with caution so as not to lose any game, and |
sets them long before the season for the run |
begins Being engrossed in business affairs |
he has never spread out into the woods of |
State politics, except when conventions met |
md driving time began. Not wanting anv
Office for himself he has always been power
20 those whom he favored. He ALWAYS had
Hnd has the largest Pittsburg delegation at
his back, and has contented himself with |
using it for the benefit of his section with |
out undertaking to capture the State This |
has kept him solid with his people and a |
power in the State because his force is ever |
reliable.
Pittsburg is the cheapest governed city in |
the country of its size and one of the best |
managed for its taxpayers, and Magee is |
the absolute master Of the Republican ma |
chine, which is as supreme there as Tam |
many is in New York, and with exactly |
opposite results.
Roscoe Conklinc 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. |
CAN'T KILL, SO HE'LL COMPROMISE.
NJ Quay has found killing dangerous |
experiment and now takes up Mr.. Conk- |
ling's other view of the situation. Other |
great men have had to do it before him, but |
how long his views of compromise will last |
Is a serious question. 1t is hard to teach a |
master Of his age and character new lessons
Yet, Mr.. Quay is very able man, full of |
resources, ana 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 answer this
question, and Mr.. Magee will be here to
WaLch and wait.
Il 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 Convention next Wednes-
day. Unless there shall be some awaken
ing It looks as though the name of Cameron
would drop out Of politics as the lost rivers
OF Arizona sink into to the quicksand.
THE KINDLY METHOD IN POLITICS
The careers of Colonel QUAY and Mr..
Macee illustrate the difference between the
arbitrary and the kindly methods in poll
tics. Chris Magee learned some useful
lessons in the direction he has taken from
General Cameron, and has followed them to
good purpose. Living in the community
from boyhood, where be began life without
money or influence, he has drawn men to
him by acts OF kindness that are at times
far more potent tnan any mere party obli-
cations This was General Cameron's view,
ard there was not county in Pennsylvania
where by some simple act of kindness he
had not made friends outside of his own
party who were ever faithful to him in time
OF need
I have said this much about these two
men, who are to meet here next week in
political combat, and their lives because
their personality is so interesting. What is
sill more important at this moment is the
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