The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-24
OF NATIONAL INTEREST.
Senator Quay and Chris Magee
Fight Every Inch of
the Ground.
SEEKING THE sENAToRsHIP.
Even Presidential Preferences Will
Be Sacrificed to Carry
Off the Honor.

NEW, YORK, N. Y, Jane PA Wash
ington special says: No political contest
| of recent years has attracted greater inter-
est in Washington than the one which is
now going on in Pennsylvania between
Senator Quay and Chris Magee
1t is known that before Quay left Wash
i1gton he regarded the struggle in which
he was to engage as more fertile in posi-
bilities than any previous struggle in his
career.
Those members of the Republican party
in the State who challenge his leadership
have fallen in line behind his longtime
opponent, Magee, and hope by debating
the name of the chairman of the
State Committee to control the organization
preliminary to the election of a United
States Senator to succeed Don Cameron,
with whose present political fortune Quay
is understood to be identified.
Not only the Senatorship, but the COM
plexion of the delegates to the National
Republican Convention in 1896, is involved
in this contest, with the curious result
that the names of various presidential
possibilities are being considered as little
on their own account as on account of the
effect which they may have upon the
question OF local supremacy.
Magee has been credited with leaning
somewhat toward Mckinley and it is re-
ported that there is considerable feeling
among the manufacturers of Pittsburg and
among Republicans generally throughout
the western part of the State favorable to
the ambitions of the aggressive Ohio can
didate.
In order to meet this supposed attitude
of his Pittsburg opponent, Senator Quay
has adopted a Enthusiastically shrewd
device. Personally Quay is favorable to
the candidacy of Mr.. Reed, and believes
that the strongest sentiment among Penn
sylvania Republicans is behind the big
man from Maine.
He is not, however, in position yet to
declare himself positively for any candi-
date and realizes that any serious talk of
other candidates before Speaker Reed has
shown what he can do with the next Re-
publican Congress is out of the question.
But IN the meantime he is playing for
the control of the Pennsylvania State Com
mittee and the coming Pennsylvania
Legislature, and therefore at his sugges-
ton Senators Boise and Penrose, who are
recognized as his ieutenants, have come
out conspicuOusly in an interview declar-
ing that Governor Mckinley ought to be
the choice of the Pennsylvania Repub-
licans.
A very prominent Republican, whose
relations with Senator Quay are close, as
sures the correspondent that this inter-
view was put out with the direct purpose
of cutting the ground from under Magee.
If by any chance McKinley's strength
should not have been exaggerated the PEN
rose interview helps the Senator in the
way of reaping the benefit from it. If it
should not prevail, Quay's preference still
remains unannounced, and when the time
comes for selecting delegates to the Ma
tional Convention, he can consistently
place himself in the van of whatever proves
to be the predominant sentiment among
the Republicans of the State,