Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-30
HARRISON AND QUAY
The Senator's Brilliant Campaign
of 1888 Recalled.
WHAT SEPARATED TIE Two MEN
Claims Made by the Friends of
Both.
RECONCILIATION UNLIKELY

| Inc revival OIL ndtlOndl interest III Send-
| tor Quay brings up his brilliant campaign
of 1883, and also the fact that he and Gen.
Harrison did not long remain on cordial
year was declared. What was it that sep
arated them?
What Quay's Friends Say.
There are two answers 10 this question.
The friends of Mr. Quay assert that Gen.
Harrison proved ungrateful to the man
who had managed his campaign. 1t is
charged that Mr.. Quay was all but snubbed
at the White House. Gen. Harrison would
| receive the Senator, listen to his sugges-
ticns and then deliberately do the other
thing. Then came the attack on Mr..
Quay's conduct while treasurer of Penn
sylvania, and the Senator's retirement from
the office of chairman of the republican ma
toTal commIttee-a step Gen. Harrison was
reported as counseling. Be all of this as it
may, certain it is that about that time Mr..
quay ceased 10 visit a. the White House,
while his coileag gue Mr. Cameron refused
even to go there to introduce his aspiring
constituents to the President. Postmaster
General Wanamaker alone attended to the
interests OF pennsylvania.
The Harrison Side.
The friends of Gen. Harrison deny the
charge of ingratitude. and in doing so go.
ments that beset him when he came to the
White House. The chief of these was the
large number of men decorated with the
honor of having created" him as the party
leader. The friends of Mr.. Blaine claimed
the honor fer him, the friends of Mr.. Quay
for him. the friends of Mr.. Platt for linn,
and SO on. Gen. Harrison, naturally, had
his own views about this matter, and cour
aSeously acted up to them. He proceeded
upon the theory that no one man had made
I,
sides tine comment. Thou shalt have no
other he5e but me-" decided to have no boss
at - He made Mr.. Blaine Secretary of
Sta4e. but reserved the right to be Presi-
dent himself. He refused to make Mr..
Piatt Secretary of the Treasury, but did a
great deal for him otherwise. He gave Col.
ClarlSson a place commensurate. as he
thought, with the coloneIs deserts and
abilities In no instance, the friends of
Gen. Harrison ass,rt, did he fail to make
acknowledgment when in his power to the
men who had contributed 10 his success in
the presidential race. But he did this in
his own way, and necessarily according to
limitations that the office of President it.
self imposed upon him.
The Fight for denomination.
Things drifted along until the spring of
1892. Mr.. Blaine, although in the cabinet.
was seriously disgruntled. Col Clarkson
had thrown up his job in the Post Office
Department. and retired in the sulks to pri-
yate life. Mr.. Quay and Mr.. Platt, both IN
fighting form and mood were crouching
for spring, and things generally were
lively in the anti-Harrison camp. The cam
patsn against the President, who desired a
denomination, resulted in his victory at the
convention. But he lost at the polls, and
since then old animosities have been slum-
bering.
What Might Have Been.
1t is vain sort of speculation touching
what the anti-Harrison people would have
done had the republicans won in 1892.
Their relations with the President were
very strained, although many of them had
" orked for the success of the ticket. But
how much, or how little, Mr.. Quay, Mr..
Plat. and their associates would have in
fueuced events under four years more of
General Harrison in the White House is
beyond any mans power to say. Politi-
clans, though often fierce, are not always
walk of life is the power to adjust differ
ences, and wide apart as the republican
factions were in convention in 1892, they
could have been brought together after
election. Men opposed to each other then
have worked together since. But it Is held
in many quarters that the differences eN-
listing between General Harrison and his
old opponents are unusual, and therefore
hardly within the rule, and that in the
event of Harrison success in convention
next year Mr.. Quay could neither expect
nor desire to be called to conduct the cam
paign. Mutual and the most unreseryed
confluence must exist between the candi-
date and the chairman of the national
committee, and this, it is believed, would
be difficult, if not impossible, to re-establish
between the two men in question.