The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-02-13
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
Tribune Bureau,


Washington. Feb. 1e.
State Treasurer Ben Haywood was here
the other day and after several confer
ences with Quay he gave out what he
desired understood TO be an authorized in
terview from the junior senator. In this
interview Mr.. Haywood stated most en-
phaiically that Senator Quay was a can
didate for the Republican presidential
nomination.. and that the solid delegation
to the st. Louis convention would be Il
unit for him. Doubling the veracity of
Mr.. HaywOod'S interview l called on Sen.
ator Quay today and asked him IL he had
authorized the statement. Senator Quay
said:
Il did not authorize Mr.. Haywood to
make any such statement"
But are you candidate" ! asked.
NO. replied the senator.
"lf the Pennsylvania delegation pre-
sents your name to the convention will
you decline to accept it's vote?"
We'll. now. that is a different PROPOSE
ton" said the senator smiling. "lf my
friends think they can secure solid del
egation from Pennsylvania for me let
them go ahead. In my opinion however,
Il thing"
you will he able to control a majority
of the delegates. will you not?" | asked.
"Oh, yes; there Is no question about
that, but I have my doubts about being
able to control solid delegation"
The report of his candidacy was dis
Pennsylvania. majority of the members
were not inclined to believe the story, but
We're or the opinion that II Senator Quay
We're a candidate the solid delegation
ought to vote for him.
1t IL understood that the combine will
not oppose Quay II he Is Il candidate him
self, but they will not allow him to hand
the solid vote of Pennsylvania over to
anybody he may choose unless his candl-
date suits them.
\ Il \
My old friend ex-Lieutenant Governor
Chauncey j.. Black. the sage of York. is
in town. He is opposed to the nomination
Of ex-Governor Pattson for president.
Governor Black IS also opposed to Boss
Harrity's pernicious unit rule system, and
says an effort will be made at the state
convention to knock II out. If they fail
there, n fight against 1t will be made on
the floor of the national convention.
"It Is not fair to compel a delegate to
vote against his own wishes or those OF
his constituents" said the ex-lieutenant
governor rather hotly. "Under Mr.. Har-
vote Of the solid delegation. The indi-
vidnal delegate is like bound boy at a
husking-has nothing to say am in IA
vor of allowing each and every delegate to
vote for whom he pleases. If am dele.
gate I want to do my own voting, and II
! am not permitted to do so l am going
to enter a vigorous protest"
Governor Black voices the sentiment
of all fair-minded Democrats In Pennsyl
vania. and every liberty-loving delegate to
the next state convention ought to vote
against Mr.. Harrity and his gag rule. His
tyrannical methods have so wrecked the
party that there is scarcely enough left Of
it to make decent corpse.
Speaking of the late Congressman Grain,
of Texas l am reminded of a tribute once
paid him by DR.. Everett. who was u mem-
her of the F'iftvthirj congress from
learned gentleman. having occupied a
chair in one of Massachusetts institutions
of learning. He said that Mr.. Grain had.
in his Judgment the best command Of the
English language of any man in the Fifty
third congress. l heard Mr.. Grain make
his last speech in the house. 1t was only
few days before he died. II was an ap.
peal for charity-an appeal for an appro-
priation with which TO maintain an asy-
lum for destitute children In the city of
Washington. He delivered 1t with an elo-
uuence that was. indeed. pathetic.
"Going back thirty or thirty-five years"
said he. "a war was waRed for the disso-
luton Of this Union Soldiers innumera BILE
on both sides of Mason and DiyOn's line
flocked to the standards of what they con.
sidered right. The reverherations of cam
non echoed down the valley of Virginia
Swords and muskets asserted their SUI
premacy. Brother fought against brother:
soldier on one side against soldier on the
other. As the soldiers went down on the
side Of the Union. there came upon the
battlefieids the white-winged messengers
of peace. rObed in the raiments Of mercy
and charity. and many a parched tongue
and parched throat accepted the minis !
trations of those pure. beautiful creatures
who. protected by soldiers and officers. ~
well az by the president Of the United
States. the great. grand and larnented lin |
coin. came and ministered TO them. Was
there any question then on the part OF the |
gentleman from Nebraska as to granting |
those ernissaries Of mercy commission |
10 frlfll their er-and to those soldiers? |
Did he then. or did those whom he now !
represents. rise in their might and pro-
test against the charitable work Of those |
angelic forms in human shape? No. Mr.. |
Chairman. not one word of protest was |
uttered then. Yet. the representa- tives of |
the descendants of the men who We're as
sisted bv those lovely women come he~a |
TODAY and protest IN the pane of what? |
1nfidelity against religion"
Il Il u
William W. ~dv. OF Nicholson. Wvom-
ing county. has heen gra nted ap Increase |
Of nension. and Mary Cullen. of Jovpiton. |
wyoming county. has been granted an |
original pension. w. r. b.