The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-22
Pennsylvania REPUBLICANS.


Republican circuses in state and con-
gresslonal conventions are by no means
confined this year 10 the colored provinces.
Inc struggle for representation at Mime
apolis, which ordinarily might be supposed
| to account for any unusual interest in
presidential year, appears to have very
little TO do with it. Whether this is be-
cause the nomination of HARRISON is a
1oregone conclusion. or whether it is q
foregcne conclusion that the Democrats
are going TO win. whomsoever the Repub-
Means may nominate it is unnecessary to
inquire. All the fight is on the retention
Oh their places by the present CROSSES" of
the party. This is so in New York, Louis
lana, South Carolina, Iliino dis, Pennsylva-
ma, or wheresoever you may turn. The
question to be answered is, ''what shall it
prcht the Republican party to gain the
whole country and let the control lass cut
OF the hands of QUAY, H1scocK, PLATT,
CLARKsoN and the rest9'' Such was the
burning question at Harrisburg last
wednesday, and sorry mess of it was
made in the effort to dispose of it.
mere are great many honest, con-
keystone state. Many Of them are Quakers
or quiet people who have little to do with
manipulating primaries or helping to stock
conventions. These are disguised with
the political methods of men like MATT.
quay and CHRIS. MAGEE, the we'll known
interruptions leaders of the Republican
party there. Other Republicans mildly
protest against the ways and means of
these men and their satellites, but have
come to regard their style of doing things
as indispensable to success. And the
push" who look after the ballot stuffing
and delegate-txiug as pay for corporation
jobs, appointments on the police and fire
departments and pap" generally, are al
ways wild for the bosses. There are two
great philosophical ideas that are maxims
of both big and little political heelers. In
homely English they are: Sugar catches
more flies than vinegar Does" and Zone
hand washes the other" There is no SEN
timent in practical politics; it is the com
mercial principle which prevsils-so much
Tor SO much, with discounts for large lots
and inside terms for the long haul. And
thus the Republican party of Pennsylva-
MIA was on day before yesterday knocked
on to 'QUAY & MAGEE, Negotiators of Po-
itical Mortgages, Beaver and Pittsbure.
PAP
HE HERALD only day or two ago had a
notice of the call Senator Quay made upon
president HARRISON at the executive man
sion. Press notices for long time had
been referring to the irreconcilable diff
ferences between the Senator and the
President. and it was even telegrsphed
that B. H. had chided the postmaster gem
eral for being inclined to be friendly with
the man who got. him his place in the
cabinet. On Wednesday the convention.
which was as much the property of QUAY
as the pocket-knife with which he whit
tied his tooth-pick, adopted a most OBJ
sequeous resolution indorsing HARRISON.
1t appears that the offered resolution
eulogistic OF the Beaver statesman was
little too highly favored for the weak
stomachs OF some of the delegates who had
sneaked into the convention in spite of the
bars, but it finally went through, modified
to merely glorify Quay for his earnest
public and party services
But perhaps the most amusing thing in
the whole circus was the way in which
CHRIS. MAGEE did his bulldozing. The
business before the house was the nomi-
nation of candidate for justice of the
supreme court-an office Of great dignity,
as regarded in the west There were half
dozen aspirants. On the seventh ballot
one HENDERSON was declared to
have received III votes, whereupon
MAGEE, who was for man named DEAN.
declared excitedly there was cheating
around the board, and demanded tellers.
The hext ballot showed 122 for HENpER-
SON. gain of five, 1877 being necessary to
choose. But MAGEE had shown his hand
and the friends Of HENDERSON, seeing fur
Their contest was useless, withdrew his
name, and, as the report says, sEthe nomi-
nation of DEAN was made unanimous with
a hurrah, bringing to close one of the
most exciting contests for judicial nomi-
nation ever witnessed in a convention in
Pennsylvania
The ordinary casual reader wonders
why the election of a supreme Judge in
pennsylvania should possess an interest so
absorbing to man neither lawyer nor liti-
CANT. The political boss rarely NEEDLES
where there is nothing in sight t isn't
necessarily, nor indeed, usually the case.
that these things are done for a monetary
consideration. But it is sometimes curious.
when great cases, in which big corpora
tons or big interests of some other char
acter, are involved, how closely decisions
can be guessed at by men who never
opened law book. And yet, in this case,
the favorite may merely have done MAGE
favor in some convention IN the past by
turning over to him delegation or so.
There is much to learn by Pennsylvania
politics