Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-03
THEPRESIDENTSHAND
Guided the Attorney General In His
Letter of Instructions.
A FREE AND AN HONEST VOTE
The Policy Mr.. Harrison Desires for the
Coming Election.
SENATOR QUAY QUIET AT THE CAPITAL.
rrRoM A STAFF CORRESPONDENT,

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WASHINGTON, Nov. 2-Senator M. S.
Quay and the Hon. Richard Quay arrived
in the city at about o'clock last evening,
and SO quietly reached the big mansion on
the corner of Nineteenth d streets as to
avoid making their presence known to any
one except the members of the family.
Later they slipped over to Chamberlain's
and met Senator Cameron and one or two
other friends, and spent some time talking
over the political situation.
The Senator and ex-Representatlve re-
mained quietly at home to-day receiving no
callers, the Senator getting the first real
rest he has had since he first went to New
York. He is very much tagged out with
his visit to the metropolis He rooms at
the Fifth Avenue, where day and night he
is invaded by stream OF callers, VINO
would scarcely permit him to either eat or
sleep, and the wonder is, that in his condi-
tion of delicate health, he is not entirely
broken down.
Certain of Harrison's Election.
He will remain here for q day or two in
perfect quiet and will then probably go on
to Beaver direct and remain until after the
election. The Senator said to-day that
while there was possibility that he would
return to New York, there was little prob
ability, as he was not needed in the least
He has no doubt that Harrison will be
elected, and that the work has been already
accomplished toward that end without
further effort
The Senator stated to his friends, how
ever that the stories that he was running
around with from $40, 900 to $50, 900 in his
pocket to bet on the elections is not true.
He has no money to bet this year, and is not
putting up a cent on the elections.
Nothing that has occurred since the be-
ginning of the campaign has aroused so
much excitement in political circles as the
opinion, announced this morning, of At
torney General Miller in regard to the en-
ployment of deputy marshals and super
visors at elections. No such radical and
sweeping construction of the Federal cleo
tion laws has ever before been made, and
with this construction in operation, force
bill of greater scope could hardly be de-
vised. At least this is the opinion of
lawyers with whom the correspondent of
THE DISPATCH conversed on the subject
to-day.
Serious Trouble Is Predicted.
The express stipulation that in cases
where there is a conflict between the State
and the Federal laws in regard to the con-
duct of Congressional or National cleo
tions, the Federal law shall be held to be
supreme, sets at defiance all that has been
claimed by the advocates of the rights of
the States on the opposition to the passage
of ''force' bill.
Advices received in this city from al
most every part of the South and from New
York show that the construction put upon
the election laws by the Attorney General
has excited the greatest CONSERVATION, and
serious trouble is predicted if any extended
effort be made by the minority parties in
the South to put the vast machinery possible
under it into operation. The matter be-
comes all the more interesting as it is con-
sdered to be quite certain that, while the
voice is that OF the Attorney General, the
hand is that of the President.
One Of the close friends OF the President
said TODAY that though this was the act of |
the Attorney General it was the thought of |
the President singlv and alone. The order |
of President Cleveland to Attorney Gen. |
eral Garland, and of the latter to the Mar |
shal at Nashville, Tenn, published quite |
fully in these kilograms in THE DISPATCH
some four or five weeks ago, gave the Pres
ident the opportunity to declare his view
with tenfold emphasis, and had i: not been
for that order it is possible the opinion of
Attorney General Miller never would have
Dteu NIilltu- Az ledSt, IL Is pOSslDle IndG
such a strong construction would not have |
been put upon the laws
One of Harrison's Bold Strokes.
This friend saws that the opinion is one of |
those bold and fearless and self-confdent
strokes of policy of President Harrison
which has its counterpart in the ringing
ultimatum to Chile and to Great Britain. |
The only weak part of it is, that it comes
too late to be used as it might have been |
mad it been placed before the Southern peo- |
pie at a time when the crushed-out minority |
parties might have made general demand |
Tor the employment of marshals and super |
visOrs.
1t is a fact, however, that something of |
the kind has been expected all along, and |
there is little doubt that the Independent |
party in Alabama through c. L. Magee, |
has been prepared to put the full machinery |
of the Federal election laws into thorough
and far-reaching operation. In New York, |
also, there is no doubt that there was a |
clear understanding among the R epublican |
leaders that something of the nature of the |
legal construction issued by the Attorney |
General this morning, would be promul- |
gated at the proper time to enable them to |
s cure such supervision of the polling as |
would ensure free and honest vote, one |