The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-01-11
IT LOOKS like A Battle
Senator Quay's Attack on David Mar
tin Signifies a Good Deal.
POLITICIANS THUNDERSTRUCK
But They Soon Recovered Enough to Ad.
init That There Will Be Plenty Of
Fireworks in State Politics
in the Near Future.
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lie introduced several bills and refused
to discuss the Philadelphia mayoralty
incident for publication. To personal
friends, however, he intimated that he
might have good deal to say, later on
His friends say that the Traction and
railroad interests had better prepare
for fun. If he is anything the young
Philadelphian is q fighter, and there
was a broad look in his face tonight,
when a friend asked him if he pro-
posed to retaliate.
1t would not be surprising to see Pen
rose turn in against Porter's bill and
anything that Martin may favor, and
as he has been on the inside heretofore,
he is in position to do them very ma
terial damage. The speech of Senator
Quay in the United States senate in
which The denounced Martin created the
greatest sensation here. One promn-
ent Republican state official remarked
that more important political history
was made in Pennsylvania yesterday
than has been made since John Stewart
and Charles S. Wolfe bolted the Re-
publican party in 1882 ana formed the
Independent Republican, party. The
defeat of Delamater, he said, was not a
marker 10 II IN importance.
Watres Stock Takes Boom. /,
Those who fook into the future pre-
tend to see in the disruption of the COM
bine the inevitable defeat of Senator
Cameron for reelection. Senator PEN
rose has always been friendly to Cam
eron; but his first obligation is now
to Quay. Whomsoever Martin favors
for United States senator in 1897 it is
regarded as certain that the Quay and
Penrose faction will be found in oppo-
sition. Martin is known to have strong
Cameron leanings. The result will be,
according to those who take this view
of the situation, that Senator Quay will
he strengthened by a force of circum
stances into opposing Cameron for re-
election. in which event no person is
believed to stand better chance of
wearing the toga than Lieutenant
Governor Watres. His stock today has
taken a boom among the keen polti-
clans here who have studied the men
and the conditions concerned in this
present and prospective battle for the
mastery.
Quay and Martin Compared.
The central topic of discussion today,
in the capitol and about the hotels, was
the Quay-Martin break. Mr.. Martin
was expected here today, but he did not
come, having ostensibly been detained
by illness. This latest move of Martin
will, in the opinion of many, have a
tendency to make Harrisburg an un-
pleasant winter home for him. 1t has,
according to friends of Senator Pen
70 har
in the light of having deliberately
"sold" a fellow-member "out," as the
expression goes; whereas, in all that
has been said against Matthew S. Quay
during the years of his prominence
in state politics. it has never been
charged that he had failed in frank
ness or open dealing. The men that
he has fought have been told frankly
of his antagonism and the promises
made by him have, it is asserted, been
kept to the utmost limit of his ability
to keep them. This fact is conceded on
every hand by those on the inside of
state politics, and it puts Mr.. Martin
at a decided disadvantage. 1t is also
pointed out that the Philadelphia dele
cation may be dwarfed to some extent,
and the country districts command
proportionately larger prestige by rea-
son of the break" inasmuch as the
prospect of the Philadelphians here
after acting as a unit is perceptibly di-
minished. Altogether the member who
irreverently remarked, today, to group
of friends that Seventeen different
kinds of blue sheol would soon be on ex-
hibition at Harrisburg probably ut
tered more truth than poetry.