The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1892-03-16


TIONAL REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE, AND
Is ANXIOUS THAT IT SHALL BE GIVEN
TIE WIDEST PUBLICITY.
PHILADELPHIA, March Chairman J. S.
Clark kson, ofthe Republican National Com
mittee. has Just authorized public express
sion of his estimate of theserviees of Senator
Quay to the Republican party in the last ma
tional campaign.
In letter addressed to F. W. Leach, as
sisiant secretary Of the National Committee,
dated Asheyille, n C.. the 9TH inst, receiv-
cd in this city this afternoon, Chairman
Clarkson says:
Some Of Senator Quay's Pennsylvania
friends have requested me to put on paper
ms estimate Of the Senator's services in the
campaign Of 1855. know Of no better way
70 do that than 10 reproduce my remarks
delivered at the meeting OF the National
Committee held in Washington, November
%. 1901 As these remarks were made in
executive session, they have never been
published. | have dictated the speech as
accurately as can recall il, and you are au-
thorized to give il to the press. Ny health
has not improved, and leave today for the
Arkansas Hot Springs
Here is what Chairman Ciarkson dictated
ID his private secretary
cIARKsoS's ESTIMATE OF QUAY.
GeaileBiell Of tie Committee:
i'll followed my own wishes as the most
Of YOU already know, ! would not accept Of
the chairmanship. Even now l wish that
there might be some one else TO take up the
trust. and that may be released from your
command for service, for It means heavy re-
sponsibility, wearing work and constant
risk. Il means not only to succeed that
grestest political general that the first cen
tury Of partisan American politics has de-
veloped, but it means TO take up action in
time OF storm and oalumny, with plain
warning as shown in the case Of Mr.. 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
/. Il
For only those of Us on the Executive
Committee who were with ;he Chairman
from the first week in July to the close of
the campaign know the great and splendid
work rendered to the Republican party by
the man of Pennsylvania. Nesrly all of US
who fought with him were strangers TO him
until that time. The Democratic party was
/ serene, almost impndent, in its security OF
national power. The Republican party had
scarcely half heart in success. 1t took oour-
age to take up the doubtful cause, and at
tack the Democratic party, fortified in ma
tional power and unscrupulous in the use OF
every force in the scope OF government or in
the fury Of politics It did take more than
one man to lead the fight. For it took sew
eral men, those who understood thoroughly
the anatomy OF politics and the mathemat-
les Of details, in order TO accomplish and
maintain the complete organization which
vas effected But the victory could never
have been won without Senator Qusy. Hi:
genius gave the superior generalship, and
that gave the victory. The Republican par
" will never know, and il could never re
psy if it did know. the services rendered tC
it in such time of doubt and peril by Sena
tor Quay.
ouAY's SERVICES NOT FULLY APPREcIATED
The Republican party Of this day has new
er fully appreciated either his power or hi.
services. The Democratic party recognized
it Immediately and trembled before i
throughout the campaign and fell before i
at the election. And from the day Of th,
election Matthew S. Quay, the man Whose
genius had found the plan and whose couT
age had furnished the way to defeat th'
Democratic party, was a marked man. NJ
man can defeat the Democratic party OF ths
United States without being trampled down
in its malice if it be within the power of fury
hatred and calumny to accomplish it. No
sooner was the election over than the plar
of beating Quay to the earth was begun by
the Democrats 1t started in Tammany
Hall, the most corrupt Of political organiza-
tions known in America, and was seconded
by the Democratic press OF New York, the
willing servants Of Tammany Hall in all it.
meanness and malice. For few weeks af
ter the election every Republican paper in
the United States blazed with eulogies of tn,
great leader and the great chairman.
Soon this eulogy was crossed with th,
Democratic venom, and the Republican
press, instead Of seeing the motive ant
striking down the malice, began to loitel
and to hesitate, and then 10 apologize, and
finally some to turn about in the unworthy
work Of helping the Democratic party to de
stroy the great Republican fighter The
Democrats knew at once by the light of th,
election that they had more TO fear from
Quay than any other American. They feal
him more to-day. They have followed hin
with Implying malice, with unoeasinl
| calumny and with cruelty which Onl,
politics could either originate or perpetuate
TIE GREATEST POLITICAL GESERALsHIP.
So say, looking back at the great contes
of 1883, when General Harrison was electei
l President by the greatest generalship eve
shown in American politics, and speakin,
from my Own knowledge, that the Republi
can campaign was conducted with entir,
honesty I say that no man can succeed t.
the place Of Senator Quay without feeling
that the great party which he served il
such remarkable degree has failed 10 sustain
him when ssssiled by Democratic malice il
tarn. Those of US who fought with hin
know that the canvass was honorable
throughout. The whole genius of it was L
discover and prevent Democratic fraud
Thai is the genius of Quay as political or
ganizer and general. He has the wonderful
faculty Of detecting the weak places in tn
enemy's lines, of detecting it in wrong doinl
and of hurting masses of power upon ii Il
defeat il in such unworthy attempts.
This was the whole plan of the Republi
can national campaign Tor IS. Ia New
York State, where Tammany Hrithed an,
st;n writhes under the defeat, the Demo
cratic plan was 10 throw a quarter Of a mil
lion of money into the rural couNiies Of th
State and carry the election By bribery
Senator Quay squick eye discovered tbis, ans
ell the power Of the Republican NAiiona
COmmiuee was invoked 70 defeat the daring
attempt, and succeeded. The whole Repuo
lican fght. then and nov, is made success
fGl when you can poll the full Republican
vote and SOP slemocrat;e fraud. This va
the senias ofQusy. This he aia. This gav'
tie Republican party yictoTy. This mad
! Harrison President. and opened the Uaj