The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-12-28
= RUMPUs IN PENNsyLyAN1.

There is merry row on in the state
of the placid Quakers. It is said that
when rogues fall out honest men get
their due, and it is when these bandits
fall out that the unsophisticated pub
lie get view of their true inwardness.
the motives that actuate them and the
methods they adopt. OF course Senator
Quay is in the row, the storm center
of it, in fact, but this time, instead of
the Hastings crowd, fighting Quay to
get his power, it is the fellows of that
Manufacturers club with whom Ouay
has been cheek by jowl for years, and
for whom he put up that wonderful and
unfinished cyclopaedic speech with
which he held up the senate during the
agony and sweat of the tariff struggle
Of "a
1t all rose out of the desire of these
manufacturers to have one of their
own kidney in the senate, and Quay's
desire to have one of his own kind
there, fellow named Penrose. who
could be the same sort Of understudy
TO MIN that Gibson is to German and
Murphy to Hill. The Manufacturers
club, expanding itself into the Ma
tonal League of Business Men" want
ed that pious old fraud John Wanna
maker, who had shown his dizziness in
the campaign Of 1883 by getting an In
dianapolis banker to advance S4S. 900 on
Johns representation that the national
committee would repay it, and who left
the banker in the lurch when the
committee knew not John. The money
was used in marshaHng Dudley's IA
nous blocks of five. A man who could
thus bunco an Indiana banker is lust
the kind Of man these manufacturers
want in the senate to help play the
bunco game on the dear public that
Will be opened March Is next.
The row opened when Thomas Do
Ian, he of the plush factory branch of
the game, said that the business men
were in great demand to furnish the
slneWs Of War-otherwise the "fat'-in
campaign but were summarily dis
missed when it was over. Now they
proposed making themselves heard
Mr.. Mckinley is likely to listen to the
friends who helped through his nomi
nation and election" he wound IN
Then Quay took the bat. EThe basic
theory of this National Business Mems
League, he said, us that organized
wealth shall dictate high office and so
take possession Of the government.
*The promoters of this league in
woke class against the masses and all
other classes. SENATORS are need
ed who have no specialties. but who
act for the best interests of the coun-
try in gross without special affinities."
1t is the farmers, the small storekeep
ers, artisans and laborers who need
Legislative protection" II go into the
barricade with the bourgeoise and the
men in blouses," quoth Quay, with
flashing eye and swelling breast.
Then the league Numbered in a pro-
nunciamento. Quay is a communist;
he out Popocrats Bryan; he was
against Mckinley, but the foundations
of his (McKinley's) campaign had
been laid too solidly among the business
men of the land" he affects alarm at
millionaire senators and yet elected
Cameron; he is a chronic officehoIder.
1t is true the business men have con-
tributed largely to campaign funds.
but Quay knows whether they were
coTruptly used or not, and the brutum
fulmen elimination is a letter from
MIR. Mckinley to the league saying
that the purposes of the league are
such as appeal to the patriotism and
good sense of all citizens" So "BilI'
Chandler and tom" Platt were accu-
rate when they made their kick against
Hanna's assessment Of the business
men for funds to help On McKinley's
campaign for q nomination. and the