The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-08-15
THEY SPEAK FOR QUAY.


interviews were given two weeks be-
fore Saturdays election and for
want of space could not be publish
cd before. The interviews are as
follows =
Ex.Sheriff Bolender is of the fol-
lowing opinion l think any man
who occupies the highest political
nosition within the gift of the peo-
ple. ought to be satisfied and let
other matters alone. The Governor
received a splendid majority, but he
has no right to forsake the people
who elected him to engage in po-
l;tical quarrel. am for Quay.
Ex.Prothonotary Witten myer
saws: I am for Quay, first last aud
all the time and believe our people
will sustain him in his efforts to be
made State Chairman. In my opp>
ion the Governor should have kept
hands off. He has made mistake
JD. Winters 1t is dead wrong
for our Governor to mingle in such
matters. He ought to get out Of the
fight.
Beneville Smith Let us nominate
Mckinley for President. That viii
settle the whole matter.
Sheriff Specht has this to say
about the fight l think the Govern
or should have kept his hands off.
believe Martin and Magee are run
ming away with him. 1t was bad
piece of business for the Governor
to get mixed up in any fight and he
should have kept out of it.
While / deprecate any bossism,
it will be better for the party in the
State and better for the people if
Matthew S. Quay should gain a VIC
tory over the faction that is oppos-
ed to him at this time There is no
doubt but that Governor Hastings
is man of very high aspirations
and he doubtless thought he could
earlier realize them by linking him
self with Philadelphia and Pitts
burgh combines and if that faction
succeeds, the seeds of political cor
ruption whic', now are and have
been fourishing in the city of Phila-
delphia will be more or less strewn
and scattered all over our state to
the detriment of our party and Incl
dentally of the people at large. My
sympathies are with Senator Quay.
and it is a pity that man like Gov
ernor Hastings should find himself
in league with a faction which in the
end will politically destroy him.
DR.. A. NJ. Smith Beaver Springs
In the present contest / cannot ia
yor the Administration. l think
Senator Quay has done too much
for the Republican party to be set
aside for man like NJ. Gilkeson.
l like Governor Hastings very much
personally but when he goes in to
fight the battles for one of his favor
ties in his administration family, /
believe he is over reaching himself.
regard Senator Quay as a part of
the very bone and sinew of the Re-
publican party and for these rea.
sons l can earnestly support him in
his present fight. L am for Quay
and believe the people in my Sec
tion OF the county are for him.
Hon. Charles Miller of Penn Twp.
says; have not paid much atten-
tion to this fight between Senator
Quay and Mr.. Gilkeson, ! don't
know anything about Gilkeson, nev.
er knew there was such man
prominent in the State until Quay
had him appointed to an Office un-
der Pres. Harrison and since then /
believe he has been made Bank Com
missioner in Harrisburg and the
State pays him six thousand dollars
ayear to perform the duties of his
position.
1t seems to me he ought to resign
that office if he wants to become
Chairman of the State Committee,
Tor a sworn official of the Common
wealth owes it to himself and to the
people whom he is expected to
serve, not to neglect his responsible
duties for political honors.
For Colonel Quay, | can say
lhat | have known him personally
lor twenty years. He is the most
modest and quiet man in the State.
have always thought he was bash
lnl and he talks in a very low voice.
never believed that Quay would
night the Governor and | do not un-
aerstand that there is any contest
between tham now II ic hntu,n,,