The San Francisco call., 1896-03-17

tIcuCHeo III Otdtc auu city pOWc-, III
also had the help of the money of
the importers. He saw the way to
victory, took his party along it, and by his
great ability gave the country Republi-
can President. In that he gave to the
people of the Nation a touch of the
power that is in the man as we have long
known him in our State. While Quay has
been the tower of strength to the indus
tries of Pennsylvania, while even in time
when every other State failed he held the
free-trade Senate of the United States to
protection for Pennsylvania, and while he
has ever been the leader of the strong
public and industrial force of the State, he
is even stronger with the common people
and is intrenched in the affections of all
classes in our State. No man in the State
has ever been 80 much loved by the COM
mon people nor so completely trusted.
He is as strong with all the better and
higher elements, independent of party, as
he is with the masses of his own party.
He is not an ambitious man. Honors
have come to him as duty seemed to call.
He has held many public places, led in
many fights and never been defeated. He
is Republican through and through, and
President who would strengthen its party
and make it invincible."
"This is interesting. Of course Senator
Quay is not so we'll known outside of Penn
sylvania as in it. Is he sincere in his can.
didacy for President?"
las sincere as any man ever was, and
the people Of Pennsylvania are as sincerely
for him as the people. of Ohio are for Nc
Kinley. or Iowa for Allison. or Maine for
Reed. They know he has the ability to
be President. They know he has the de-
votion to the peoples interests to make |
great President. Commercial classes and !
manufacturers, farmers, workingmen |
and bankers and business men know |
that the public interests would be safe in |
his hands, while the people know that he |
would be true to their interests. As to |
protection. no Mckinley and no other |
man surpasses him in devotion to its prin-
ciples or power TO defend its interests. |
Beyond that he has broader ideas than |
any man in the field. When asked few |
days ago as to his platform by some re-
porters as he was leaving the Capitol, he |
replied offhand: More tariff, more money,
more employment for labor, more in
ternal improvements, more American
shipping on the seas, more mar.
kets for the surplus of American
farms and factories, more trade with South |
America and Mexico, more seacoast de-
fenses and stronger navy This is a
winning platform. which would bring
good times. Quay could inaugurate and |
carry it all out. Any idea that he is not |
as trained in scholarship as he is expert
enced in craftsmanship is wrong. He is
literally educated. has the best library in
Pennsylvania, is the best read man in his
tory and literature that know. And as
to practical reform he has inaugurated in
Pennsylvania movement for municipal
reform, which is more needed than any
other reform in the Government, and thus
has proposed an actual reform which is |
needed most and can best be carried out
Ae was q gallant Union soldier, was voted
a medal by Congress for bravery in battle
is a lover of books, is popular in all
the homes of Pennsylvania and last
year in the great fight that was
made against him so unexpectedly the |
churches and the church people were the
first to rally to his support and the strong
est in staying with him till the victory
was won. This is the kind of man that
Pennsylvania knows Quay to be, and they |
know that he would make as great and
true and able and popular and faithful
President as the Republic has had. Penn
sylvania will go to st. Louis in dead
earnest for him and he is developing
strength all over the country. He is broad
enough to be believed in in the South. He
is National enough to understand the
West; while every interest in the East
knows that all its legitimate rights would
be protected by him.. He could be elected
trium phantIy. He would rally the party |
as it never has been rallied since Grant.
He would sweep the enemy before him,
and he would go into the White House
with a sweep of power and more than full
fill to the people of the Nation every thing
that Pennsylvania says Of him now