The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-02-29
OVAY, HASTINGS AND CAMERON
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According to the plans of Senator Quay.
Il is his intention to have Governor iias'-
mos nerform the nominating oratory ut
81 Louis. when Pennsylvania presents
the name of its "favorite SON to the ma
tional convention. Hastings distinguished
himself on the platform OF the ChlcaSo
auditorium eight years ago on pena'i Vi
John Sherman, to whom Quay hau given
most OF the delegates from inns state.
He will perform the function Tor quay
well If he shall do it with anything IKE
the vim and the ring which he put into
his speech for sherman. Yet II VIII De
one of the amusing episodes OF the con-
yention when the delegates stop to thlnN
of what the governor was trying 10 10
with QUAY as late as last August. Quay
however. is rarely vindictive: he believes
in converting his enemies rather than
furnishing them. and II the governor chiiHs
himself to the triumphal car OF the seha-
tor he will not be dragged In the dus'.
especially rs Quay has regarded MIN ana
has dealt with him from the iirst IN u
certain strain of maGnanirnity. some of
the staurchest Quay men in Pennsylvania
were those who enlisted in politics as his
onponpnts. His faithful personal servi-
tor. for example. Frank willing Leach,
fifteen years ago was rabld young re-
former denouncrg Cameron and quay
bv day and by night, and he Is only a
specimen of a score or more of bright poli-
,icians here and in the state VINO starteh
out against Quay, and VINO row, ds!uc
from self-interest which may have ori"i-
nally won them over, have something Ike
an honest admiration and even affection
for the man. The governor will thus have
plenty of companions who have been &d-
mittsd into the inner circle of the Quay
political household after ringing respect
fully at the front door bell when they
found that they could not break through
the back windows with Jimmy.
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And vet even Quay himself furnishes q
not disyimi!ar experience. lie had his
early training in politics under IN admin
istration 1t Harrisburg which fOnSlt far
longer and more vigorously than Hastings
against the machine which has dominated
the RcDubicanisn OF pennsyh tI.a for
rnr past th!riy-slX year,. He was IN al
srent of curtin. his persoa.l secretary
and political dependent, AMI an Il iSo'i&it
Of \. Is. MCClurc'a In the cdiiidc:tt" Of
tia. war governor in his hgats against the
elder Cameron. one e the reasons why
the Times has supported Quay dates tact.
to the friendship bCtwg N him and NJ
Clure when both were young dn'i.Ca!atr-
on hoU,lers at the state capital. AhCut
thirty yeGra ago, whea the who'll pCE-r
of the Curtin forces was rallied IL Or
garize the legislature against Cam crons
election 10 the senate. Quay. whO had
been elected 10 the lower house from Bel-
yer county was pJ: W as their candidate
for speaker. He was defeatcd-thc only
time. by the bye. he was ever defeated
as II candidate; the an'i-CamerOn Combin-
alton was broken; Quay went back to
Beaver to his country newspaper, and
from that time on he began his career as
a prop and pillar of the house OF Gamer
on. The rest of the Curtin men who didn't
take service with Cameron and the clan
afterward driftcd into the liberal moe
ment or became Democrats. quay
fhcnceforth became 4 Cameron man, who
never wavered, and who was faithful
urhlerling for fifteen years until the
primacy fell to him In the fulnass of time.
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When Quay will 20 to Harrisburg in
April to see that the delegation to 81.
Louis is perfectly stamped with the NJ.
s. o. trad amark, he will do pretty much
the same as Simon Cameron succeeded in
doing in the spring of 1860. The second ma
tional Republican convention was almost
as full of favOrite sons as the one next
June will be-Seward. Lincoln, Chase,
Bates, Collamer. Dayton, Mclean. The
fight between Seward and Lincoln was
as uncertain. and in its sectional and
political condition, as well as its uncer-
tainty, were not unlike that which is now
opening between Reed and Mckinley. 1t
was In this situation that Simon Cameron
set out his presidential fiower-pot with far
more audacity than can now be Justly
said of Quay by his worst n,my. Cam
eron's popular reputation as jobber,
briber and purchaser of the Democratic
votes that belonged to John W. Forney