Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1892-03-11
A. MCDOWELL,
CuAS C. Town
Reasons for Quay's Retirement.

No man possessed of average common
sense who recalls the recent political his
tory of this State can feel any doubt that
Mr. Quay's retirement from the Senate
and from political prominence would be
advantageous to the Republican party.
The campaigns of the last two years eff
fectually demonstrated that the party is
strongest when the Senator's methods are
disregarded and when his personality is
kept in the background. 1t was the stu
pid effort to "vindicate" him that led to
the disaster of 1890, and it was the inde-
pendent action of last years Conv ention
in disregarding his wishes that insured
the triumphant election of the State tick,
ct. That experience was enough to show
every man of ordinary political sagacity
that Mr.. Quay had become a load too
heavy for the party to carry with safety.
This fact alone is enough to justify act
i've and organized opposition TO Mr..
Quay's reelection, without regard to his
political or personal character. Even
those who hold that he is sound Repub-
lican are forced to acknowledge that he
is disliked and distrusted by 80 large a
section of the party voters that his lead
ership endangers the success of any tick
ct he is understood to favor; and every
politician understands that q leader who
drives away votes is leader to be deposed
at the first possible opportunity if the
party is to live and grow. 1t is evident,
then, that the highest loyalty to the Re
publican party prompts vigorous opposition
to Mr.. Quay's continuance in position
where he is an undoubted cause of party
loss.
The Republicans Of the State who have
joined themselves together to oppose Mr..
Quay's reelection to the Senate can at
least claim that they have done their party
a service in calling the voters attention to
numerous reasons for his retirement. We
publish their address in another column,
and we ask the Republicans of Tioga
county to consider carefully and dispas-
sionately the argument made by this as
sociation of Republicans. The address is
written in an evident spirit of fairness; it
contains no personal attack on the Senator,
and its most pointed criticisms of his
official and political conduct are simple
statements of fact which are within the
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public affairs
Every voter in the State knows that at
the last session of Congress Mr.. Quay help
ed defeat the bill Intended to secure free
vote and fair count all over the country
a measure to which the whole party was
pledged by its National platforms and to
which every Republican in Congress was
committed by party caucus. This act
alone stamped Mr.. Quay as fsithless rep
resentative of his party and betrsyer of
its fundamental principle, and it should
insure his prompt retirement from the po-
sition he has shown himself unworthy to
hold. But this is only one of numerous
good reasons given by this Republican As
sociation for Republican opposition to the
Senator's reelection, and we think no
candid man who reads the address will
fail to see the necessity of placing in
the Senate man who has the ability and
the political integrity to become fit rep
resentative of the sturdy Repubhcanism
of our great Commonwealth Wellsboro
Agitator.