Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1892-01-22
POLITICAL.

Rodney A. Mercur. of Bradford county,
has announced himself as candidate Tor
| the Republican nomination for Senator IN
the Bradford --and Wyoming district, kand
| with his announcement he makes the public
declaration that he is opposed to the re- cleo
ton of Quay to the q. S. Senate. TINS Is
bold and manly on the part of Mr.. Mercur.
The people can thus have an opportunity
| of deciding, by accepting or rejecting his
aspirations, whether they desire the elec-
| ton of Quay to another term in the Senate
James Watts Mercur, brother OF Rod
ney, is also q candidate for Senator in the
Delaware district, but he has as yet made
no declaration on the Senatorial question.
Both are sons of the late Chief Justice
Mercur, who was one of the ablest and
most influential of the Republican politi-
clans of the North for many years.-Phila-
delphia Times.
Of course it won Id be impossible to find
any fair representative of Pennsylvania
Republicans who would not favor Mr.
Blaine's nomination, if he will accept
a nomination. No wire pulling is needed
to secure o Blaine delegation, least OF all
| by a man who has time and again done all
he could to prevent the Blaine sentiment
of the State from finding expression in
former Conventions.
But there ia general suspicion that MI.
Blaine will positively decline to be can
didate, and in that event Mr.. Quay would
like to have delegation that he can use to
his own advantage in the political market.
To secure such delegation it is of course
necessary to look closely after the appoint
ment of district delegates to Minneapolis
and OF delegates to the State Convention,
which is to name the delegates as-large.
No doubt this was part Of the work that
Mr. Quay's agent was engaged in over in
Bradford county, for it is evidently one
branch OF his plan for securing full control
of the State SO that he may be returned to
the Senate as his own successor.
1t is essential, then, if the Republicans
of Pennsylvania propose to be fairly and
honestly represented in the National Con-
vention as well as in the Legislature, that
they promptly wake up to full compre-
hension of Mr.. Quay's scheme and effectu
ally thwart it at the primaries. 1t is OF
the first Importance to see that men who
are opposed to Mr.. Quay's machine meth
DDS and who can be depended on to repre-
sent the will of their constituents shall be
sent to the Legislature this year, and it is
also important that Republicans of the
same sturdy stamp shall be selected prep
resent the party in both the State and
National Conventions. There is no doubt
that large majority of the Republicans Of
Tioga county are anxious to free the party
and the State from the domination of the
machine that brought upon us the political
disaster of 1890; but they must remember
that to effect this reform within the party
they must turn out at the primaries and
unite in selecting representatives who have
the political integrity and the personal ca
pacity and influence to effectually work
for the highest good Of the party by over
throwing the machine leaders who have
SO thoroughly demonstrated their incspac-
ity and unworthiness w ellsboro Agita-
tor.