The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-20
The Governor and
Senator Quay

The Philadelphia Record offers an in
teresting opinion on the Hastngs-Mc-
Cormick attitude toward Senator Quay
by quoting high state officer who is
personally and politically intimate with
the governor, stood with him against Mr..
Quay in tho state chairmanship fight of
1895, and is still one of his strongest
friends. MY opinion" the governor 3
friend said, ''is that while, of course,
each Republican element sngaged in the
present skirmishing is aggressively seek
ing advantages for itself, each would
prefer to have peace in the party next
year. ] mean the elements represented
by such men as the governor and the
attorney general on one side, and by
Senator Quay and his lieutenants on the
other. / am not speaking of that other
portion of the Republican party, which
| antagonized Senator Quay in the Pen
-Wanamaker fight and during the
session of the legislature, and which. 1
suppose, will continue efforts to harass
him no matter what the present state
administration may do.
81 think that Senator Quays first move
upon his arrival home will be in the d.
rection of harmony. 1 refrain from ex-
pressing my preference among candidates
for governor, and am trying to keep this
| forecast free from bias. Some prominent
Republicans opposed to Quay are not
| eager to disrupt the organization. Among
them, think, are the governor and the
attorney general, though they stand for
what they deem themselves entitled to-,
and may carry their present aggressive
ness pretty far. But IL | mistake not.
| they expect Senator Quay to manifest a
spirit of compromise 10 a reasonable de-
gree. rather than enter another big fight.
| 1t may be questioned that the senator
could be induced to favor so pronounced
| an antagonist as Mr.. Mccormick for
governor. but perhaps the attorney gen-
eral may not insist upon that. Governor
Hastings has said, since the appointment
| of Secretary Martin, that he does not
know that Mr. Mccormick will be a can
didate for governor, and II will be re-
membered that there was no Mccormick
boom in the recent gubernatorial exhibit
| at the Williamsport convention of clubs.
| prefer not to comment on the theory
reported to have been advanced by the
Quay side that Mr.. McCormick's ulti-
| mate object is TO be retained as attorney
general by the new governor.
| o
| My point is that a compromise be-
| tween the Quay side and the Hastings
| Mccormick element on the nomination
for governor is not improbable. In re-
| turn Tor that Mr.. Quay may expect to
nave no formidable opposition TO his re-
| election as United States senator. The
senatorship is the thing that Mr.. Quay
| wants to settle. The administration
people might agree to let him go unop-
posed by them If satisfied on the COVER
norship. They probably realize that they
would hardly be in as strong a position
to fight him next year as they were In
1895, when they had the organization
but they believe that he may make con.
| cesstons for the sake of having the least
possible trouble. A fact that may contri.
| bute to the realization of this prediction
is that those whom the DISPUTE most con.
cern fear that much longer continuation
of this factional warfare may give the
state to the Democrats. While some anti
Quay Republicans may be willing to sec
that result. ] don't believe that any OF
the present state officials would go that
far' They feel that there had better be
a burial of the factional hatchet nrottl
soon in order to save the party"