The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-07-17
A TRIBUTE TO Quay
Important Meeting Of the Hastings
Club Last Night,
THE RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED.
Governor Hastings and His Admins
tration and Candidacy Endorsed,
But a Line Drawn on the
Fight Against Quay.

record as to the tight that is now going on
for state superiority within the party
lines. The call published in the HERALD
for a meeting of the Gen. Daniel H. Hast
ings Club last night met with a hearty re-
spouse and a glance at the list of some Of
the people present shows there was a grand
union of Republicans who have in past
years been identified with various factions.
There was a grand rally to protest against
the attempt to depose Hon. NJ. S. Quay,
the leader who has so frequently jumped
into the breach to lead the Republican
party to victory.
The resolutions adopted are of clean cut
and ringing character. The club declares
in unmistakable language that, while it
endorses Governor Hastings and his
administration, it does not approve of the
attempt to %supplant Senator Quay with
Gilkeson as the state leader of the party,
and %denounces it as unadvisable and
suicidal to thep arty's interests.
The meeting was held in one of the new
and elegantly furnished rooms in the
Titman building on East Centre street and
the apartment was crowded. The pro-
ceedings were conducted in a perfectly
harmonious and unanimous spirit and not
a dissenting voice was raised against the
sentiments of the resolutions.
President William N~eiswender, at whose
instance the meeting was called, was I'M
able to be on hand at the early part of the
meeting on account of a pressure of per-
sonal business, and after waiting some
time the club elected e~x-Councilman A. B..
Lamb chairman and Town Clerk w. j.
Watkins as secretary.
Chairman Lamb stated that the object of
the meeting was to have the club express
its sentiments on the issue in the Repub-
lican ranks as to the craftsmanship of the
next state convention and the chairman
ship of the state committee. Leading or
CARNATIONS in all parts of the Common
wealth had already asserted themselves
and the Gen. Daniel H. Hastings Club of
the largest town in Schuylkill county
should delay no longer in placing itself on
record.
The remarks of the chairman were i'm
mediately followed by a motion of Borough
Treasurer 7. j. Davies, that a committee
on resolutions be appointed, whereupon the
chairman appointed Councilmen T. j.
James and James McElheuny and ex,
Deputy Clerk of the Courts b. j. Yost.
Following the appointment a recess wa;
declared and the committee retired to pre-.
pare resolutions. Upon its return it sub
mitted the following report, which was
unanimously adopted.
WHEREAS, A struggle for the control OF
the Republican organization in this state is
now being waged between the supporters OF
Governor Hastings on the one hand and
Senator Nj, S. Quay on the other, and
WHEREAS, All conflicts of this charac.
ter nave q tendency TO weaken and dis.
organize the party, therefore be it
Resolved, That while we, the members
of the Hastings Republican club of Shen-
andoah, deprecate all movement that have
a tendency to disrupt or disorganize the
party, we deem it our duty to the organiza-
tion and TO Governor Hastings to endorse
his candidacy of the coming State COnven-
ton. And be it further
Resolved, That recognizing as we do the
invaluable services rendered to the Repub-
lican party and the principles which il
represents by Senator Quay, we deem it
inadvisable, not to say suicidal, to attempt
to depose him from the leadership of the
party on the eve of perhaps the most i'm
portant Presidential contest the party has
ever engaged. We, therefore, most earn
estly and unequivocally endorse the
candidacy of Senator Quay for the chair
manship of the state committee, and
urgently request the delegates from this
district to the State Convention to give
him their support for that position.
JAMES M~CELHENNY,
b. j. YOsT,
T. j. JAMES,
Committee.
Among the prominent and active
workers in the Republican ranks in at
tendance were ex-Councilman A. B.
Lamb, ex-Councilman Daniel Neiswender,
Councilmen T. j.. James, James NOEL
benny and @. T. Straughn, ex-Deputy
Clerk of the Courts B. j. Yost, Borough
Treasurer T. j. Davies, Town Clerk w j.
Watkins, School Director T. r. Edwards,
ex-Borough Treasurer NJ. H. Keller, ex-
Chief of Police John Blaker, o. A. Keim,
H. H, Zulick, Daniel Sterner, William
Jefferson, Milton Troutman, Harry Rich
ards, ex-Supervisor d. H. Llewellyn and
Charles T. Gibson.