The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-08-24
Illustrated in the Different Methods
Employed by Quay and
GARRISON.
Two Men Who Have Been Raised
BY Merit to Bad Emtn-
ence.
Quay the Moro Successful of tho Two
Clarkson the Less Dishonorable
in His Methods.

~ quay Ullu SldIf SUI haNc bcch 0o AOhk ~
ISOLATED together on the national republi
can committee. and have been SO ofts
mentioned in connection with the leadiu
events of the campaigns in which both hav
been workers, that Clarkson has won SOM
of the reputation that has been largely du'
to the chairman whose place he has no,
taken. Should Clarkson remain the chair
man, political events will show whether il
is to him or to Quay that his party has beel
indebted for its victories and defeats.
While both men are politicians, they ar
in many respects different. Quay's silence
which may be attributed in part to his con
scious lack of grace in breaking silence, i
born also of experience and the conviction
that men who do not know are not apt tt
tell, says the New York Times. As 4 matter o,
fact, he is not q ~reoluse by any manner Of
means. With his intimate friends he il
convivial, generous, laxative, and some
times confidential. Clarkson is 4 man of
even temper, not at all conviyial, not given
to sport, or even playf full as Quay is away
from the restraints of business. If there
had been two such politicians in Plutsrch's
day he would have had a fine time embody-
ing them in one of his parallels. The story
WOuiu MOI l2Ch vi duiaL luCloOAAeSs put II
illustrations would be apt to be too sombre,
having a surplusage of shade.
The contrast between Quay and Clarkson
is not q vivid one. Both are, and have
been for man years, politicians and
bosses. Both have won reputation as
bosses rather than leaders, Quay's oppor-
~tunities being incidentally forced Upon him
earlier than those which made Clark
son a prominent man, because Of the fact
that the parties in Quay's state have been
divided at times. while in Iowa, where
Clarkson was boss for years, any boss could
have been equally successful. Both men
we're soldiers of the army of the union, from
which it might be assumed that both were
patriotic and brave. But Quay, at the be-
ginning of the war, was in Texas, and he
was inclined to take arms with that state
and against the union. 1t was no lack of
bravery that led him to choose the other
side. but q careful consideration of the re-
sources Of the south, and the chances of
success led him, at the last moment, to get
abnard a steamer and come north to enter
the army of the union. Clarkson was never
tempted to go south to join the confederaoy.
He 10 a sentimental man, and like most men
of a s~entirrontal nature, he was aroused by
the patriotic u%tterances of his neiRhborhood.
CIarkson was already better known, in
ANoOS "Aoh Raoy "aS 5bAlA GA
manipulation of the none of the state of
Pennsylvania, than was Quay in the ma
tionRl conventions. Success in Iowa, where
Clatkson was registering opinion that had
nodded him. brought him forward, and the
wedding out of the party managers of 1880
Quay had not reached out fer national con-
troll, but Clarkson, governed by a sentiment
tally that is one of his marked qualities,
urged the friends of Mr.. Blaine to give him
a chance to see how easily his iowa expert
ence would enable him to carry a southern
state for Mr.. Blaine. who had little faith in
his ability north or south. Quay would
never have exposed himself to the
sneers of Blaine for such a venture.
He is not a sentimentalist. He does
not believe, or pretend to believe, as CLARK
son does, that education may be a force in
elections. Quay is a business man. His
experience in Pennsylvania has taught him
that it is Il better reliance to stifle public
opinion by money or political favor than it
is to argue it away. He would never have
suggested carrying Tennessee by an educa-
tional campaign, but with a liberal supply
of money he might have contracted to de-
liver its vote for the party providing the
purse.
While Clarkson does not like corrupt
methods in politics, he lacks the strength
of character demanded to denonnce them.
He does not figure as an ingenious con-
AANSA VI NOAA0A AkoA IL Observation-Disclosures,
which were public enough to be recog-
nized by everybody, but he did not refuse
to allow his name to appear upon the let
ter which Quay's assistant pirate, Dudley,
sent to Indiana as the rule of life to the men
who were conducting 2 business campaign
under the management of Huston. There
was no ingenuity or boldness in his pur-
chase of the mailing list of the Voice, and
Quav thought the transaction lacked sense,
10 Quay that was a trivial and amateurish
undertaking. Quay's Indifference to popu-
larity is a contrast to Clarkson's desile for
approval. Quay did not care, for himself,
that Harrison was unwilling, after Wanna.
maker had advanced the money necessary
to pay the last of HUston's bribery bills in
Indiana, to make Wanamaker postmaster
general, and he did not conceal his dislike
OF Harrison when he declined to acknowl-
by permitting him to pat his creatures
from Pennsylvania in federal Of
fees of trust and profit. Quay desired Of
hoes for the power they gave him to control
the getting of more offices. and. perhaps,
some incidental profit to himself in the get
ting of them. Clarkson loves office princi-
pally for the prominence it gives him, and
not for the profit. He desired to go into
the cabinet; but the president found it easy
and safe to disregard his desire for a high
office and to put him off with a mpar
lively obscure one-that of assistant to
Wanamaker.
Quay would not have accepted the office
OF first assistant postmaster general. While
he has no quarter for his victims, and in that
respect is a true political pirate. he has a con
tempt for the smaller details of office distri-
button TO which Clarkson was willingt to lend
himself after he had been already sufficiently
Inundated BY the gift of a place he did
not want. Then he did not appoint his
own men; he carried out, without hesitation.
tho orders from the White House, even
when they hurt his brother in campaign
ing, Quay, and at times he WAS put to the
disagreeable necessity of declaring upon
his word, as a gentleman, that he had not
written letters promising that he would do
the contrary thing. and was then confront
ed with his own letter proving that he
might be forgetful. Quay is retlcent, and
Is apt, for that reason, to be exempt from
the charge of prevarication. When the con-
gressional campaign of 1890 was in pro-
gress, and he Was raising from Clarkson's
postmasters a great deal of money on GER
tifcates at 80 each, the possession of
which is regarded by the holder as a warrant
to hold the Office until another subscription
is asked for and refused, Quay could
not be induced to say he was not receiving
money, or to make any admission concern
ing it, and Clarkson was constrained, out
OF that respect he has for pu olic approval
and party discipline, to refrain from impli-
eating himself in the matchmaking by re-
vealing the whole business.
from this it might be supposed that
Clarkson Is apt to be q more prudent man
than Quay and more far seeing. But to
reach that conclusion would be entirely
erroneous, ClarEsou was n booc IN . ,+,to