The San Francisco call., 1896-03-17
Embodied in the Pennsylvania
Statesman and Man of
Letters.
VIEWS OF HON. W. Il. ANDREWS
He is Quay's Able Lieutenant and
Describes the Qualities of the
Keystone Candidate.

Hon. William H Andrews of Pennsyl-
vania, ex-chairman of the Republican
Committee of that great State, mem
ber of the present Senate and chairman OF
the investigating committee appointed by
the last Legislature TO investigate the city
affairs of Philadelphia and Pittsburg, and
who Is known as Senator Quay's nearest
friend and strongest lieutenant and who
made the great fight for Quay in the contest
over the State chairmanship there last
wear, is in California with Mr.. Ciarkson
and his party at the Palace Hotel. He is
the unique figure in Pennsylvania politics,
and Eastern politicians rate him as the
strongest fighter and the most successful
campaigner among the rising men in the
Republican party.
The Quay and Allison people seem to be
good friends, for Clarkson and Andrews
are travelling together IN this tour of the.
West. Clarkson is known to have it as
the cherished ambition of his life to make
Allison President. He says Iowa blood is
thicker than water, and that Allison is the
strongest man for the party as candi-
date and for the Republic as President. 1t
is also well known that he has an intense
admiration and unabating friendship and
devotion to Senator Quay. Clarkson was
Quay's chief lieutenant in the great fight
OF the National Committee to elect Harri-
son in 1888, and since that time the two
men have been the closest and best of
friends.
Mr.. Clarkson in talking yesterday said
that no one was so thoroughly misunder-
stood by the mass of American people as
Senator Quay. The very greatness of the
power and the victory of genius in politi-
cal generalship that he showed in over
whelming the Democrats in the great cam
paign of 1888 turned all the Democratic
papers of the country against him. They
saw that man had arrived who knew the
Democratic party in its weaknesses and
who could marshal the forces to defeat
that party even when it was intrenched in
National power. All their papers were
turned in to beat him into the earth.
Mugwump Republican papers Joined in it,
and for a while the Republican party
seemed to have the cannibal spirit to
devour its own leaders. Since then, how
ever, the demonstration of Quay's power
in the Senate, his great ability in states
manship and legislation and the diffusion
of knowledge concerning him personally
throughout the country have eontradicted
all these impressions, and he is snow known
very generally to the country as ripened
scholar. an accomplished legislator, man
of letters, of high-minded motives, the
popular leader of his State, trusted by
every leader of the party in every State,
and is generally considered as the strong
man at the helm of Republican affairs.
These were the views Mr.. Clarkson gave of
him yesterday.
Senator Andrews, who is fighter rather
than talker, and who has been educated
under the Quay axiom of never to talk,
but always to fight, said that he felt like
breaking over the rule for once in his life
to talk to the Republicans of the West.
He recognizes in them fighting men like
himself, and SO he consented to have an
interview on the subject of general politics
and Quay in particular. He said:
"I am in the West on business and to
see how broad the country is. We people
in the East forget that this is country
5000 miles wide. Senator Quay, who has
never been a sectional man, and who is an
intense American, has long comprehended
the greatness of this country, and has
always stood ready to defend the interests
OF every State, and he is one of the great
statesmen of this time who realize that the
Pacific Coast must be admitted into the
Government and into party councils
for larger share in public affairs and in
the distribution of public power. gained
my ideas of the breadth and strength and
generous spirit of the West from him. l
have come West to have it confirmed.
Pennsylvania has made itself rich by thrift
and industry and by the help of the Re-
publican party through the tariff.
"As | have travelled through the West
and seen your mountains loaded with min
erals in New Mexico, Arizona and Califor-
MIA, can see how several. of your States
are simply other Pennsylvania, only
needing the development of your mineral
and natural resources to become as rich as
we are. You have splendid climate,
you have thrifty people; you have many
things IN your favor even over our East
ern States, and l must express my delight
and find renewed pride in Americanism
over the things you have accomplished in
your youth and the greater things that