Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-20
QUAY KEEPING COOL
Despite Another Accession. to the
Ranks of His Opponents.
HIS HINTS AT A COMBINATION
Of the ether Senatorial Candidates Are
Immediately Denied.
PLANNING TO THWART TIE CAUCUS
trRoM A STAFF CORRESPONDENCE

fFRoM STAFF CORRESPONDENT
WASHINGTON, Dec 19.-Although the
Senate was in session only few minutes
to-day, and closed with solemn adjourn
ment on account of the death of Senator
Gibson, the time was long enough to give
opportunity for good deal of gossip in
CONNECTION with the advent of District At
torney Graham, of Philadelphia, as candi-
date for the United States Senate in oppo-
sition to Senator Quay, and, for that mat
ter, in opposition also to Candidates Dali
zell, Huff, Robinson, and any other gentle
man who chooses to announce himself pre-
vious to the evening of the Senatorial eau
Gus at Harrisburg.
Senator Quay was rallied good deal by
his friends in the Senate at the new opposi-
tion that has sprung up to annoy him, and
it was suggested that there was combine
on tap to encompass his defeat. The Sena-
tor took all the badinage that was going in
the best of humor, and insisted that nobody
owned the State of Pennsylvania, and that
any citizen of proper age, black or white,
had the right to announce himself, or get
some good friend to announce him, for the
Office of Senator.
0uay's Suggestion of a Combination.
To the correspondent of The DISPATCH
the Senator said thatshe had no intimation
of the purpose of Mr.. Graham, and was
only Informed of his action by the news in
the morning papers As far as could be
Judged from the reports in the newspapers
it looked as though Frank Ritter was the
handspring of the movement He had been
told that Ritter was opposed to his re-elec-
tion, and if that was the fact it was natural
that Mr.. Ritter should desire to have can
didate for whom he could conscientiously
vote. He could find no fault with that,
though he might indulge a feeling of sur
prise that the gentleman from the Tenth
Legislative district in Philadelphia could
not make selection from the array of dis
tinguished Congressmeh already in the
field, Mr.. Dalzell, Mr.. Robinson or Mr..
Huff The Senator had no doubt that any
of the gentlemen, including Mr.. Graham,
would make good Senator if elected.
The suggestion of combine among the
candidates, aside from Quay, for the pur-
pose of defeating the latter, was so exciting
that it led the correspondent of THE DIS
PATCH into a vigorous chase after the
facts.
The Combine Vigorously Denied.
Mr. Huff, with that frankness which
characterizes all his conduct, assured the
correspondent that the candidacy of Mr..
Graham was as much of a surprise to him
as it was reported to be to Senator Quay.
If there were combine he had been left
out. He was not candidate in the sense
of his having been formally announced.
Some of his friends had mentioned his
name, and he had assurance of support
from his own county, from Armstrong, In
diana and other counties, even to Dauphin
county If members of the Legislature
wanted to vote for him he could not stop
them, but he was neither seeking the office,
nor was he in any scheme to defeat anybody
else.
Jack Robinson, the handsome Congress