Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1892-04-01
From last weeks CITIZEN.
"The Citizen and the Senator
Ship"

Under the above caption, last
week, Quay's literary friend of the
Eagle, attempted to controvert
our exposure Of his "Snake Sto-
ry," and let us see with what sue
cess.
In the first place he seems anX-
ious, exceedingly anxious, that we
cease connecting the names of
Cameron and Quay. He says
"that at the present time we are
not discussing the claims and
qualifications of Senator Cameron
to a seat in the Senate.
All; indeedl But co-partners in
crime are often tried together, and
why should not these co-partners
in political trickery and subterfuge
be exposed together, that the jury
in the case, the Republicans of the
county, have full knowledge of
what they are now asked to do'
Let us look at these political
co-partners as they stand to-day.
If there be a self confessed, self
convicted traitor in the Republi-
can camp that man is J. Donald
Cameron-and had Matthew Stan
ley Quay been true to his party,
and true to as capable and patri-
otic an administration as the Re-
publican party has yet given the
country, Cameron would not now
have a vote in the Senate, to the
disgrace of the party; and with
which to antagonize the admins
tration and favor his southern
friends. And what excuse do
Ouay's friends make for the action
of himself, his friends and his son
in the Legislature last winter
This and only this-the treasury
defalcation. If ]. Donald Came
ron did not save Matthew Stanley
Quay from the penitentiary or from
suicide, in that matter (as publish
ed) then Quay is without excuse
for his action in the premises.
Cameron owns Quay. The
two men are necessary to each
other. United they stand, and
divided they fall; and they have
been in office and in power SO
long that they have been enabled
to build up an organization in this
State, ostensibly Republican, but
really neither Republican, Demo-
cratic or Prohibition-a cancer on
the body polite, with rootlets in
every voting precinct in the State,
and with it they control or annoy
every Republican National admin
istration that does not submit to
them.
They antagonized Garheld's ad-
ministration, they antagonized
Hays administration and now |
they are antagonizing Harrison's.
And why' Simply because they
cannot control him.
Cameron and Quay are now
plotting for the defeat of Harri-
sons denomination. They want
a man who will be under great
Obligations to them. Harrison has
cast them off, and they seek a
weaker and more subservient man.
And Quay wants to be re-elect-
ed United States Senator, and
wants to take "Quay delegation
to Minneapolis; and the only rea-
sons that his adherents can give
for continuing him in an Office for
which he is unfit is that he served
a few months in the army, and is
a skillful politician.
Garfield was a soldier, Hays
was a soldier and Harrison was a
soldier. Garfield's memory is re-
vered; Hays and Harrison have
war records, long and good, and
our soldier friends in this county
who are now being misled by the
cry of "Comrade Quay" should re-
that every vote they cast
for him is a shot at soldiers who
have better records than he.
Give Quay all credit for his
brief military career, and all credit
for his political work ip 1888 and
the facts remain clear and bold
he is utterly unfit for the Office he
now holds; he has already held !