Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-03-10
CLARKSONS ESTIMATE
Of Senator Quay and His Way Of
Running a Big Campaign.
EVERYTHING HE DID ENDORSED.
ClarksOn Sends Copy Of Star Chamber
Speech to the Secretary Of the Pennsylvania
Republican Committee in Reply TO Re-
quest for Information as to What
He Thinks of the Ex-Chairman..

PHILADELPHIA, March Crank
Willing Leach, of this city, Assistant
Secretary of the Republican National
Committee, has received from j. 5.
Clarkson, under date of March 5, from
Asheville, n. c., letter which states
that in compliance with request from
some of Senator Quay's Pennsylvania
friends, that the Chairman put on paper
his estimate of Senator Quay's service
in the campaign in 1883, he reproduces
his remarks delivered at the meeting of
the National Committee in Washington,
November %, 1891.
These remarks were made in eXecu-
tive session and have never been pub
lished. "If l followed my own, wishes,
as the most OF you already know, l
would not accept of the chairmanship.
1t means not only TO succeed the great
est political general that the first cen
tury Of partisan American politics has
developed but it means to take up action
in a time of storm and calumny with a
plain warning, as shown in the case OF
Quay, that the Republican party does
not stand for the defense OF its leaders
who led in its hardest fights. who
can bend the bow of UlySsesY | would
not even venture to try.
"Only those OF us on the execu-
tive committee, who were with the
chairman from the first week in July
till the close of the campaign, know the
great and splendid work rendered to
the Republican party by the man Of
PENNSYLVANIA. His genius gave the
superior leadership and that gave the
victory. The Republican party Of
this day has never fully appreciated
either his power or his service. No
sooner was the election over than the
plan of beating Quay to the earth was
begun by the Democrats. 1t started in
Tammany Hall, the most corrupt of
political organizations known in
America, and was seconded by the
Democratic press.
THE Democrats knew at once, by the
light OF the election, that they had
more to fear from Quay than any other
American. They fear him more to-day.
They have followed him with IMPLYING
malice, with unceaSing calumny, and
with a cruelty which only politics could
either originate or perpetuate.
"The Republican campaign OF 1855
was conducted with entire honesty.
The whole genius of IL was to discover
and prevent Democratic fraud. In New
York State, where Tammany writhed
and still writhes under the defeat, the
Democratic plan was to throw quarter
OF a million Of money into the rural
counties OF the State and carry the cleo
- hxrh hill
eve discovered this, and all the power Of
the Republican National Committee was
invoked % defeat the daring attempt
and succeeded. This gave the Repub-
lican party victory.
II call on the other men with whom
served with Mr.. Quay, and all will bear
witness that Mr.. Quay's methods were
honoroble, straightforward, bold and
manly. am sure there is no member
OF this committee who would be so false
TO honor or friendship as not to hold up
his hand in open defense of Mr.. Quay
in the national campaign; OF his
methods and OF his victory. do not
pretend to speak as TO his affairs in
Pennsylvania, for l Know nothing Of
them.
The people of that Christian COM
monwealth judged him for all his weak
nesses and rewarded him for all his
strength. The Republican party and
its press might well initiate the Demo
cratic party and its press in this one re-
spect; that wherever a Republican
leader goes into the fire and defeats the
enemy he will not afterward be aban-
doned to the malice Of the enemy whom
he has defeated"