Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-03-26
a rRIsurE TO QUAY.

a rRlsurE TO QUAY.
Chairman Clarkson Tells WHAT the
Republican Party Owes Him.
Philadelphia, March 10-Frank Wall
ing Leach, Of this city. assistant score
tary Of the republican national commit
tee, has received letter from J. s.
Clarkson, chairman of that body, which
under date of March 5, from Ashveille.
N. c., states that in compliance with q
request from. some of Senator Quay's
Pennsylvania friends that the chairman
put on paper his estimate of Senator
Quay's services and in the campaign OF
1888, he reproduces his remarks delivered
at the meeting of the national committee
in Washington. November %, 1891.
These remarks were made in executive
session, and have never before been pub
lished.
'sIf followed my own wishes. as the
most of you already know, I would not
accept the craftsmanship. It means not
only to succeed the greatest political
general that the first century Of partisan
American politics has developed, but 1t
means to take up action in time OF
storm and caiumny, with a plain warn
ing, as shown in the case of Quay, that
the republican party does not stand for
the defense of its leaders who lead In
its hardest fights. Who can bend the
bow of Ulysses? I would not even
venture to try.
"For only those OF us in the e1ecu-
tive committee who were with the chair
man from the first week in July till the
close of the campaign know the great
and splendid work rendered to the re-
publican party by the man of Pennsyl-
vania.
"His genius gave the superior gener-
alship that gave the victory. The re.
publican party will never know, and 1t
could never repay if it did know, the
service rendered to it in such time OF
doubt and peril by Senator Quay.
1.-THE republican of this day has never
fully appreciated either his power or bis
service. The democratic party recog-
nized it Immediately and trembled be-
fore it throughout the campaign and fell
before it at the election.
(, "And from the day of election Mat
thew s. Quay, the man whose genius
has found the plans, whose courage had
furnished the way to defeat the demo-
cratic party, was, a marked man. NO
sooner was the election over than the
plan of beating Quay to the earth was
began by the democrats.
at started in Tammany hall, the
most corrupt of political organizations
known in America, and was seconded by
the democratic press of New York.
The republican press, instead of seeing
the motive and striking down malice,
began to loiter and to hesitate and then
apologize, and finally seemed to turn
about in the unworthy work of help
ing the democratic party to destroy the
great republican fighter.
:'The democrats knew at once by the
light of the election that they had more
to fear from Quay than any other Amer
lean. They fear him more to-day. They
have followed him with Implying malice,
with unceasing calumny and cruelty
which only politics could either originate
or perpetuate.
1.-THE republican campaign of 1888
was conducted with entire honesty. The
whole genius was to discover and pre-
vent democratic fraud. That is the
genius of Quay as political organizer
and general. He has the wonderful fac,
ulty of detecting the weak places in the
enemy's lines, of detecting it in wrong
doing and of hurting masses of power
to defeat it in such worthy attempts.
GIN New York state where Tammany
writhed, and still writhes under the de-
feat, the democratic plan was to throw
quarter of million of money into the
rural counties of the state and carry the
election by bribery. Senator Quay's
quick eye discovered this. and all the
power of the republican national COM
mittee was invoked to defeat the daring
attempt, and succeeded.
'The whole republican fight, then and
now, is made successful when you can
poll the full republican vote and stop
democratic fraud. This was the genius
Of Quay. This gave the republican
party victory.
"It is much easier to shock than to
defend q friend in this latter time. 1
have none of such timidity.
81 call on the other men, with whom
I served with Senator Quay, and all will
bear witness that Mr.. Quay's methods
were honorable. Straightforward, bold
and, manly. There are no men on the
national committee willing to commit a
penitentiary offense for the republican
party and God, grant there never shall
be.
81 am sure there is no member of this
committee who would be false either to