The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-10-19
SENATOR QUAY
Has NO CHOICE
Gossip on Matters Concerning the
GOvernOrship.
RACE WILL PROVE INTERESTING.
It Will be a Go-as-Y -YOu-Please Race With
Pree Entrance to All, and with no
Particular Favorite For the
Coveted Prize.
RACE WILL PROVE INTERESTING


time of the political leaders to a mod
/ crate extent, it has not interfered with
| the laying out of plans for more i'm
/ portant and more aggressive work in
! the future In other words, with the
close Of the present state campaign
there will be an opening of vigorous po-
litical operations all along the line.
with the governorship and the United
States senatorship as the prizes that
are to be lost or won. 1t is reasona-
bly, safe to predict that the period ex-
tending from November, 1897, to jan
uary, 1899, will furnish the most in
teresting fourteen months that has
been ';nown in Pennsylvania politics
for the last ten years.
1t is a free for all fight, as the result
of which the best man will ultimately
occupy the gubernatorial chair at Har-
risburg. 1t can be said upon the very
best authority that Colonel Quay will
absolutely keep 'hands off, in the gov
ernorship contest. Every one of the
candidates, with a single possible ex-
ception, Is numbered among the po-
| litical and personal friends of the senior
United States senator, and common
sense and good judgment alone would
dictate neutrality upon his part If the
more sentimental ties Of friendship did
not compel him to do so. The senator
is getting along in years now, and when
he finally retires from the political
arena, in which he has been engaged
during the greater part of his natural
life, it is his hope and ambition to
leave the Republican organization in
Pennsylvania In such shape that contin-
ued victories may be an assured fact for
at least another generation. No one that
has any knowledge of the facts has the
slightest doubt but that Colonel Quay
will be easily r4-elected to the United
States senate at the expiration of his
present term. In the meantime, hav-
ing no personal ambition to serve, no
axes to grind. and no enemies to pun
ish, he has nothing to look after but his
own fame and the good of the Republi-
can party in Pennsylvania. In a nut
shell this means that the strongest and
cleanest candidate will receive the Re-
publican nomination for governor next
year, and that the person receiving this
nomination will be elected by a good
old time majority.
Those who have their own personal,
financial and political interests to serve
are hard at work trying to disrupt the
Republican organization, and thus far
after a labor of many months and the
expenditure of tens of thousands of dol
lars they have failed to make the
slightest impression. These lukewarm
Republicans and bitter personal an
tagonists of Colonel Quay have been
working secretly for many years, but
without results. A few months ago 2
certain clique, some of whom have been
masquerading as Quay men and stall
wart party workers, came out in their
otk -
to discredit honorable men and to Grip
pie the organization. 1t is needless at
{ this time to go over the Hastings-Mc-
, Cormick- Martin fiasco at Harrisburg.
Newspaper readers will recall how Gen
eral Reeder, the secretary Of the COM
monwealth, and John p. Elkin, the dep
uty attorney general, were forced to re-
sign their positions, and how this has
been followed up by the summary dis
: missal of Colonel Barnett, the deputy
secretary of the commonwealth, and
every other man on the "Hill" who Is
Q known or has been known to have
friendly feeling towards Matthew Stan
a ley Quay.
g What was intended as great polit-
ical sensation has turned out to be
the smallest kind of a fizzle. Reedel
and Elkln stand higher than ever in
I the estimation of the people, while the
men who made a deliberate attempt
to cast shadows upon their fair names
have been "sized up" at their true
worth by the honest Republican voters
Of Pennsylvania. The attempt to con.
ceal the plot behind the thin veil of q
3 reform mask has utterly failed. witt
the appointment Of David Martin as
4 secretary of the commonwealth thi,
ha lnap tb1agoIrr
and Governor Hastings and his polit
ical allies stand unmasked before the
. public gaze.
The candidates for the gubernatoria
nomination are becoming thicker thar
q flies In huCkeberry time. 1t seems as 4
. every active Republican leader In Penn
). | sylvania who has at any time In the
J.. past attained prominence in the pub
!. lie eye is now casting longing glancei
70 | at the chair of the chief executive OF
|, the state An enumeration of thos,
: whose names can be recalled at the mo
I, ment will prove the unusual degree o
activity that exists at this time. Charlie,
NJ Brumm, the energetic congressman
from Schuylkill county, has shied hi,
II pastor in the ring, and confidently look,
d for good results. Congressman W. c
n Arnold, OF Clearfield county, has alsC
70 placed nltnSell IN lne llslst anu closely
h following him comes Congressman
Thaddeus M. Mahon of Franklin coun
~. Some of Mahon's friends intimat,
\ that he is ready to withdraw from tn,
u gubernatorial fight and accept anothe
term from his constituents, but II viii
not do to place much reliance upor
withdrawals at this early stage OF tn,
game Colonel James B. Coryell OF Ly
s coming county, General Frank Reede
% OF Northampton, Charles W. Stone o
III Warren, j. d. Hicks of Blair, William
A. Stone of Allegheny, p. A. b. Wild
ener of Philadelphia, William Connel
NJ of Lackawanna. Henry Clay McCor
a mick Of LyeOming and ex-Congressma
n John Leisenring of Luzerne are fey
, Of the other men who feel that the
~ are competent TO rule over this grea
as commonwealth.
~ Colonel Quay, while not a participant
Is an interested observer Of the preser
situation He expects to return froI
his Florida retreat in time TO vote, an
At soon after that expects TO go to Wasi
inrtca- where he win remain until III