St. Paul daily globe., 1892-06-10
GOOD TO THEIR men.
Secret of the Hold "Me Too"
Platt Has on New York
Republicans.
He Was Loyal to Conkling,
and the LatteP'S Friends
Cling to Him.
Quay and Platt Both Have a
Liking for the Young
Men.
"Wood-Pulp" Miller and His
Nicarauga Canal-Building
System.


friends pay in all walks of life, but in
none more than in politics. The big
conyen ton now in session at Minneap-
oils is filled with examples of this. and
there are many men sitting there as
lie aderS who owe their positions their
prominence and their influence to their
loyalty to friends. The man who
forgets his friends in politics will not
long be in position where it will make
much difference to these friends bow he
acts and feels toward them. Platt,
Quay. Magee, Fassett, Malone, Foraker.
and, in fact, all the men who are cred
tied with great influence in this conven-
ton, are noted for their fidelity to the
men under whom they first entered pol
iticS.
The Memorable Contest.
between the late Senator Roscoe Conk-
ling and President Garfield over the ap-
pointment of BIaine's man, Robertson.
TO be collector of the port of New York
city vividly recalls the part taken in that
by ex-senator Platt. Mr.. Platt had just
taken his seat III the senate. He had no
contest with Garfield and Blaine, but he
owed his election TO Senator Conkling,
and when the latter resigned his seat
and appealed to the Republicans of
New York for an Endorsement of
his course his colleague promptly
followed suit and resigned. This earned
him the sobriquet of ME Too" Platt,
but no one has ever heard MIR. Plat
complain about this. on the contrary he
rather regards it as one CT the brightest
pages of his career. He was true to his
friend, and that friends followers have
been true 10 him. And this is the rea-
son Mr. Platt retains his hold so easily
on the Republicans of the Empire state.
Matt Quay,
the Junior senator from Pennsylvania.
may have his faults, but they are not
those of ungratefulness or forgetfulneSS
of the men who have stood by him. He
commenced his remarkable political
career under the tutelage of the el1er
Cameron, and his first lesson WAS upon
the duty of caring for his friends, which
it is needless to tell the friends and ac-
auaintances of the silent man, that
he has never forgotten even for
a moment. Mr.. Quay was capable
lieutenant, and he was rapidly advanced
by the Clan Cameron, until, when old
Simon became too old to manage the
machine, Mr.. Quay virtually succeeded
to the leadership. He has had the
power OH two separate occasions to de-
feat Senator Don Cameron for reelec-
ton to the United States senate, even
when he could have strengthened him
self by so doing, but he has never even
permitted the attempt to be made. Simon
Cameron as we'll as his son had done
much for Mr.. Quay, and he is loyal to
the fortunes of the present senator, as
he was to the elder, And these are
some of the reasons why Mr.. Quay re.
tains his grip on the Republicans OF
Pennsylvania.
Both Platt and Quay are far-seeing
men, as will be evident to any man who
will observe the makeup of the Penn
sylvania and New York delegations.
Among the nearly $50 delegates from
these two states are more young men
than in any other OH the floor. Young
men fresh from college and just enter
ing public life are given chance by
these veteran leaders, who know that
the best and strongest political machine
made cannot long exist without gaining
the support and sympathy of the young
men of the country. No one ever hears
of young Republican revolt in
New York or Pennsylvania, because
the young Republicans there are given
representation. Gov. FOraker's strength
in Ohio comes largely from that numer-
GUS class of men who have grown up
since the icy John Sherman went to
Washington.
The venerable "Dick" Thompson, of
Indiana, who commenced his political
career as a Whig, and who has been
Republican since the organization OF
the party and all of this time one of its
leaders, was given handsome compli-
ment by the convention over