The Globe-republican., 1892-03-24
TRIBUTE TO QUAY.

| Republican Party Owes Him.
Philadelphia, March 10-Frank Wall
ing Leach, of this city, assistant secre
tary of the republican national commit
tee, has received a letter from J. s
Clarkson, chairman of that body, whicl
under date of March 5, from Ashveille
n. c., states that in compliance with
request from some of Senator Quay
Pennsylvania friends that the Chairman
put on paper his estimate of Senate
Quay's services and in the campaign o
1888, he reproduces his remarks deliveret
at the meeting of the national COMMITTEE
in Washington, November %, 1891
These remarks were made in executive,
session, and have never before been pub
lished.
IF I followed my own wishes, as tn
most of you already know, I would no
accept the craftsmanship. It means no
only to succeed the greatest politica
general that the first century Of partisan
American politics has developed, but il
means to take up action in time O
storm and calumny, with plain warn
ing, as shown in the case Of Quay, that
the republican party does not stand FOL
the defense of its leaders who lead in
its hardest fights. Who can bend the
bow of Ulysses" I would not even
venture to try.
For only those Of us in the e1ecu-
tive committee who were with the chair
man from the first week in July till the
close of the campaign know the great
and splendid work rendered to the re-
publican party by the man of Pennsyl-
vania.
His genius gave the superior gener-
alship that gave the victory. The re-
publican party will never know, and it
could never repay if it did know, the
service rendered to it in such time of
doubt and peril by Senator Quay.
1.-THE republican of this day has never
fully appreciated either his power or his
service. The democratic party recog-
nized it Immediately and trembled be-
fore it throughout the campaign and fell
before it at the election.
"And from the day of election Mat
thew s. Quay, the man whose genius
has found the plans, whose courage had
furnished the way to defeat the demo-
cratic party, was marked man. No
sooner was the election over than the
plan of beating Quay to the earth was
began by the democrats.
at started in Tammany hall, the
most corrupt of political organizations
known in America, and was seconded by
the democratic press of New York.
The republican press, instead of seeing
the motive and striking down malice,
began to loiter and to hesitate and then
apologize, and finally seemed to turn
about in the unworthy work of help
ing the democratic party to destroy the
great republican fighter.
''The democrats knew at once by the
light OF the election that they had more
to fear from Quay than any other Amer
lean. They fear him more to-day. They
have followed him with Implying malice,
with unceasing calumny and cruelty
which only politics could either originate
or perpetuate.
''The republican campaign of 1888
was conducted with entire honesty. The
whole genius was to discover and pre-
vent democratic fraud. That is the
genius of Quay as a political organizer
and general. He has the wonderful fac
ulty of detecting the weak places in the
lines, of detecting it in wrong
doing and of hurting masses of power
to defeat it in such worthy attempts.
"In New York state where Tammany
and still writhes under the de-
feat, the democratic plan was to throw
quarter of million of money into the
rural counties of the state and carry the
election by bribery. Senator Quay's
quick eye discovered this. and all the
power of the republican national COM
nittee was invoked to defeat the daring
and succeeded.
1.-THE whole republican fight, then and
now, is made successful when you can
poll the full republican vote and stop
democratic fraud. This was the genius
Of Quay. This gave the republican
party victory.
1T is much easier to shock than to
defend a friend in this latter time.
nave none of such timidity.
II call on the other men, with whom
[ served with Senator Quay, and all will
bear witness that Mr.. Quay's methods
we're honorable. straightforward, bold
md manly. There are no men on the
national committee willing to commit
offense for the republican
party and God, grant there never shall
DO.
II am sure there is no member of this
committee who would be false either to
honor or friendship, as not to hold up
1is hands in open defense of Mr.. Quay
n the national campaign, of his methods
Ind his victory. I talk of him only as
We know him when he came to US at ma
ional headquarters.
II do not pretend to speak as to his
lffairs in Pennsylvania, for I know
nothing Of them. The people of that
Christian commonwealth judged him
or all his weakness and rewarded him
or all his strength.
1.-THE republican party and it's press
NIGHT voll initiate the democratic narfv