The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-01-12
KEYSTONE POLITICS.
An Interesting Article from o
New York Newspaper.
The PRESIDENTS DIPLOMACY.

the Pennsylvania Senator Who
Openly Opposes His Candidacy for
jccond Term-Dalzell and tho
Senatorial Contest.
NEW YORK, Jan. 12.-The Evening
Post publishes the following special dis
patch from Washington: "The president
has evidently reached tho conclusion
that indirection is political game two
can play at. If Mr.. Blaine persists in
his present policy of permitting the use
of his name as a candidate sor the pres
idential nomination, and at the same
time doing nothing which will warrant
his being invited to leave the place in
the cabinet from which he can engineer
his boom under his chiefs very nose.
Mr.. Harrison feels that self respect de-
mands that ne shall parry this most ex-
asperating form of hostility. His move
against the Quay column in the Phila-
dolphin collectors Office is an indirect
stroke at Blaine, though ostensibly it is
only the beginning of q campaign for
getting Mr.. Quay out of the senate and
off the boss pedestal.
Just now the talk is all of Dalzelrs
designs upon the leadership of the Re-
publican party in Pennsylvania There
Is good reason for saying, however, that
Mr.. Quay is not afr aid of Dalzell. In the
first place the Pittsburg representative
has shown too little force in opposing
Quay heretofore. He has allowed OBJ
portunity after opportunity to slip by
him when he could have made splen-
did fight, and. even If he had not won,
could at least have shown that he had
winning metal in hilnsstnd inspired the
dlscontented members of the party with
confidence i'll 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
Is Philadelphian. Complaint is made
that Philadelphia has not had a citizen
In the senate chamber since George NJ.
Dallas left the vice presidents chair on
March 4, 1919. This is getting uncom-
fortably near to half century of wait
ing, and, in view of the relative import-
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 the
other day, but if the gossip which has
been going around since is founded at
all on truth, there must have been in it
There is very good reason to believe that
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
1t is not likely that he will abate title
of his opposition to Mr.. Harrison as a
presidential candidate on account of the
executive lenity extended to some of the
offenders; the president knew his man
too well to expect anything of that sort,
But it is probable that Mr.. Harrison's
idea was to make him feel that the name
of the present chief magistrate of the
nation is not Blaine or Quay, whatever
the name of the next may be.
'lt is understood thatthe overhaulinp
of the collectors Office is of one piece
with the recent shake up in the Phila-
delphia postoflice, and that all that is
going to happen III 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. II it
had not been for the attitude of the Re-
publican bosses in that state towards the
head of the administration it is believed
that the choice of a judge for the new
circuit court of appeals in the Third
circuit would have gone to 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 out a man from the opposite
party under the very nose of a senator
who has persistently flung contempt in
his face"