The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-07-31
QUAY'S desperate TACTICS
Holds Secret Conference With David
Martin and Sues for Peace.
AMSO TRIED TO HOOK WARWICK
Then Made u Personal Appeal to Cover
nor Hastings. Hoping TO Split the
Combination Against liim-All
These Negotiations Fail.

Philadelphia, July 30.-The Press to-
day printed an amazing chapter of po-
litical history which carried consterna-
ton to the Quay forces and caused
more talk than any other publication
in a decade. 1t occupied nearly four
columns, and In substance was that
Senator Quay, after consenting to the
withdrawal of Penrose as the slated
candidate for mayor after private
canvass, taken a few days before the
Philadelphia city convention, had
showed that Penrose could not be elect
ed, without a hint Of his purpose went
back to Washington and delivered his
famous senate speech arraigning David
Martin, thus repudiating his own &C.
quescence Of two days before.
The disclosure reviews the subse-
quent steps in Quay's fight to down
Martin: how he called for the appoint
ment Of q so-called LeXOw committee to
be used as a club over Martins head; /;
how he tried to browbeat the governor
by his fight on apportionment, which he
won only by an alliance with the DEM
ocrats, and then decreed that Gilkeson
should be unhorsed because he had
stood by the governor and the constitu-
tion; and finally how. as a last recourse,
Quay himself announced his candidacy
for state chairman, hoping to utilize
his personal popularity az a club where
with to bulldoze the entire Republican
administration and all its friends.
The Startling Climax.
The Press article concludes as fol-
lows: "Finally, having precipitated
unnecessary and unprovoked war on
every hand where there had until then
been unity and peace, and set him
self against all his former friends who
would not agree that friendship must
mean unquestioning servitude, Senator
Quay undertook to set those whom he
had assailed against each other by Sc
cret deals and treaties with them indi-
vidually. To intimate friends who
talked with him he said:
81 cannot win against this combina-
'tion. hut l can break it up and win.
will pull Warwick o.ut OF 1t. If cannot
l cannot get him, l will pull Hastings
out of 1t. If l cannot get him, I will
pull Magee out of IT.
Pursuant to This design Senator
Quay came to Philadelphia and had a
private l-,terview with Mayor War
wick. Failing there, he sought an in
teryiew with David Martin--oame to
Philadelphia and had secret interview
wi II Mr.. Mart,n-and made PROPOSE
tiCr: for his support which were abso-
lutely declined. Still pursuing this de-
sign he went to Harrisburg and had a
personal interview with Governor Hast
i,.gs. The governor then frankly as
s,ured him thaic he had not changed his
views upon apportionment. or the sup
that he would be a candidate for dele
gate to 'ihe convention and for chair
man of It solely in the interest OF State
Chairman Gilkeson's reelection.
From the foregoing plain, straight
forward and i:ruthful narrative of the
facts-how Penrose came to be beaten,
the declarations that the 'Lexow' COM
mittee was meant merely as a club. the
successful Quay alliance wi n the Dem
ocrats in the legislature which defeated
the Republican apportiommert bills, the
proclaimed plan of breaking up the ele-
ments which Senator Quay's course had
combined in support of the governor
and the successive attempts to carry
out this p.lr by secret deals-Republi-
cans can judge for themselves the char
acter ofl'his contest