The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-01-12
KEYSTONE POLITICS
An interesting Article from a New
York Newspaper.
s PREslDEETs DIPLOMACY.

How He II Said 70 Have Humtitatcu
the Pennsylvania senator who
Openly Opposes His Candidacy Tor
: jccond Tcrm-Dalzeil and tho
Senatorial Contest.
NEW YoRK. Jan. la.--The Evening
Post publishes the following special dis
patch from Washington; "Thc president
has evidently reached the conclusion
that indirection Is political game two
can play at. II Mr.. Blaine persists in
his present policy Of permitting the use
Of his name a q candidate for tho pres
idential nomination, and at the same
time doing nothing which win warrant
his being invited 10 leave the place in
the cabinet from which he can engineer
his boom under his chiefs very nose.
Mr.. Harrison feels TINT self respect de-
inands that he shall parry this most ex-
asperating form Of hostility. His move
against the Quay column In the Phila-
delphia collectors Office Is an indirect
stroke at Blaine, though ostensibly II is
only the beginning OF a campaign for
getting Mr.. Quay out Of the senate and
Off the boss pedestal.
Just now the talk Is all Of ,Dalzelfs
designs upon the leadership Of the Re-
publican party in Pennsylvania. There
Is good reason for saying. however, that
/ Mr. Quay Is not afraid Of Dalzell. In tho
first place the Pittsburg representative
| has shown too little force in opposing
Quay heretofore. He has allowed OPP
portunity after opportunity to slip by
i him when he could have made q splen-
did fight, and, even If he had not won,
could at least have shown that he had
winning metal in him, and inspired the
discontented members Of the party with
confidence In his future. In the second
place Dalzell comes from the wrong part
Of the state. BY general admission the
man to take Quay's toga away from him
Il Philadelphian. Complaint ID made
that Philadelphia has not had q citizen
In the senate chamber since George ID.
Dallas left the vice presidents chair on
March 4, 1640. This Is getting uncom
fortably near to half, century Of wait.
ing, and, in view Of the relative import
i ance Of Philadelphia among the cities Of
the keystone state, Is too long.
Nobody was present at the meeting
Of the president and Senator Quay TIL,
I other day, but II the gossip which ha
! been going around since Is founded q
: all ON truth, there must have been in Il
! decided humiliation for the senator
There Is very good reason to believe thai
he brought himself to the point of re
Questing mercy for his henchmen in the
collectors Office, and accepting with
: gratitude any concession he could get
Il is not likely that he will abate little
of his opposition to Mr.. Harrison rs d
} presidential candidate on account of tbs
executive 1enity extended to some OK the
offenders; the president knew his mar
{ too well to expect anything of that sort
! But it Is probable that Mr.. Harrison
i idea was to make him feel that the tianis
Of the present chief magistrate OF the
nation is not Blaine or Quay, whatever
the name of the next may be.
1T Ia understood that the overhaulinp
, Of the collectors Office Is Of one piece
with the recent shake up in the Phila
delphia postofice, and that all that il
going to happen in the latter Institution
has not yet been made known. Along
the entire line Of federal office holders
in Pennsylvania the word has been
passed to prepare to choose between
Harrison and something worse If il
had not been for the attitude of the Re.
publican bosses in that state towards the
head of the administration 1t is believed
that the choice of Judge for the new
circuit court of appeals in the Third
circuit would have gone toa Republican.
Under the circumstance the president
saw chance to do two things at one
stroke, win reputation for non-partis-
anship in dealing with the judiciary,
and pick ont man from the opposite
party under the very nose Of senator
who has persistently flung contempt in
his face