Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-08-12
POLITICAL.

Attorney General Mccormick was
asked the other evening, if he had seen
the inter view with Richard R. Quay in
Philadelphia paper wherein the young
man said: Mccormick is the last man
in the the State whom my father would
support for Governor" The Attorney
General replied:
Yes; l have read it with much in
terest, because it bears evidence OF be-
ing authoritative.
DO you desire to say anything in re-
ply?'
Il cannot say that desire to do SO,
but think it only fair that in this pub
lie way 1 should acknowledge the com
pliment bestowed upon mel have never
considered the question of being can
didate for Governor, have not even talk
ed about it with my closest friends. L
suppose there must be million people,
more or less, eligible to the office OF
Governor of Pennsylvania, and to be
selected as the last man whom my
father would support as an unexpected
compliment, The man whom Senator
Quay supports for Governor next year
he will, as a matter of course, expect TO
control, and thus prevent independent
Judgment on the part of the executive.
This is price no self-respecting man
can pay for the Gubernatoral nomina-
ton. Hence the implied compliment
in being the last man in the State
whom my father would support
The Attorney General has never COM
promised and he stands on his record IN
the Combine fight. In this respect his
position is stronger than the Governors
AS the anti-Quay candidate for Govern
or the little Attorney General is sure
to be a factor in the battle next year.
In speaking of McClures statement,
John G.. Croxton, Treasurer of the
Business Mems League said:
1.-The interview given at Williamsport
by Attorney General Mccormack, an
nouncing his satisfaction at the antipa-
thy for any possible candidacy of his
manifested by the Quay family, l re-
gard as characteristic and thoroughly
manly utterance.
Mr. McCormick's previous record In
the field of politics and as moulder OF
public Office has shone him to be man
frankly opposed to the methods by
which Mr., Quay has SO long sought to
control the administration of the Com
monwealth 1t is well for the community
that there should be within its limits
such man as Mccormick. His inter
view was merely the expression of his
attitude toward all such politics as
Quay stands for.
AS Attorney General and as close ad-
wiser to Governor Hastings, Mccormick
has earned the gratitude of all the bust
ness men of the State by his constant
endeavors to secure the vetoing of the
bills which the Governor so recently
killed. These, as even the most casual
observer can discern, were the Quay
revenge for the business mems assault
upon his supremacy. Had they passed
they must have wrought incalculable
injury to all classes of citizens, and a
large share of the credit for rescuing
the State from the od1um and misfor-
tune they would have brought in their
train / am glad to freely accord to Mr.
Mccormick.
Dick Quays declaration that the At
torney General is the last man his
father would choose for Governor need
not, therefore, be traced very far if one
desires to ascertain the origin of
Senator Quays dislike. Mr.. Mccormick
has helped to upset too many promising
Jobs to be much endeared to the senior
Senator from Pennsylvania.
AT the Dauphin county Republican
convention, Tuesday, every candidate
for office before the convention was
nominated, owing to the harmonious
influences exerted by the leaders of the
party days before the meeting of the
convention, and a motion to indorse
Quay for reelection was tabled.