The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1895-09-20
QUAY'S
REFORM.
He Begins to Lay His Plans
for the Future.

UOlut pEaNtt anu neEUlG btnSS
then, and he has been keeping
itup ON the same line ever since.
In 1862, Gov. Curtin summoned
Col. Quay to take charge of the
military affairs in Pennsylvania.
He resigned as Colonel of the
18th Pennsylvania Volunteers,
but before leaving camp the bat
tie Of Chancellorville was on.
Quay could not lead his old com
mand, as another had been com
mlssioned in his place, and he
would not leave the field without
taking ahand in the battle.
II can carry a musket in the
ranks" was his manly and pat
riotic exclamation. A staff off.
GERS position was offered to him
and accepted, and the young of
ficer was severely wounded in
the thickest of the fight.
For his bravery and patriotism
Quay received from Congress a
medal of honor.
During the early part of 1885,
M. S. Quay concluded that the
United States Senate was within
his reach. He made up his mind
to get there. He knew that of
the score of PennsylAanians who
had sat in the Senate since 1910,
including Buchanan, Dallas.
Wilmot, Cowan, Buckalew, Scott.
Wallace, the elder Cameron and
his son, only one of them. Gov.
Bigler, had ever secured the en-.
dorsement of the people of the
Commonwealth by an election to
a State office.
After winning his nomination
against great odds, for the ground
seemed cove red before Quay en-
tered the race, and carrying the
election by 10000 majority
against still greater odds in a |
campaign of SANDER, vituperation
and calumny unparalleled in the
Senate, he sought and won his
election fairly to the Senate,
bearing onhis ordinary certificate
of election the prouder seal of
popular approval.
And now comes tie climax of
his starting career. Chris Ma.
gee, of Pittsburgh, and David
Martin, of Philadelphia, two of
the boldest and most successful
politicians III Pennsylvania, de-
termined TO eliminate Senator
Quay from American politics.
They enlisted the Governor with
his resplendent majority of GAL.
600 behind him, and his four
years of Office ahead of him. They
secured the supporter the great
est railroad corporation and the
largest oil company in the world,
and Of the greatest and wealth..
est city passenger railway com.
pany IN tins or any other coun.
try, with its President a candi.
date for Senator under the Ma.
gee-Marnn dynasty.
They had the cooperation of
john Wanamaker, also a candi-
date for Senator under the new
dispersion of Magee and Martin.
They brought to their support
the allied interests of six Su-
perior Court Judges, recently
appointed by the Governor, and
all seeking nomination for a ten
years term by the convention
called to dethrone Quay. They
had the vigorous support of hun.
dreds of newly appointed officials
throughout the State, and of
thousands of expectant candi-
dates for the offices held in abey-
ance until after the meeting of
the convention and the destruc-
ton Of Quay,
With all these forces against
him, backed by unlimited sums
of money and one-fourth of the
whole number of delegates elect.
ed in their interest, Senator
Quay accepted the gage of battle.
He called his trusted friends to
his counsel and invited the whole
people, Republicans and Demo.
Gratis into his confidence, and
publicly proclaimed his plan of
battle in a declaration of princi.
pies. The result is history and
speculation as to the future is
now in order