New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-01-04
OUIGG AND RAINES.

the columns Of the Platt-Quigg organ during
the last campaign with daily forecasts OF Gen
eral Tracy's triumphant election. combined with
vigorous denunciation Of Republicans who
thought differently. has returned to his task OF
unifying the party. column article on the
first page Of Mondays issue OF the organ bristles
with the earmarks-long ones-of the writer
who used to tell day after day what the ne
nublican campaigrers" were thinking about and
in what profound contempt they held all ke-
! publicans who did not agree with them Inc
! present contribution relates how Platt, Quigg
! and O'Grady took counsel together on sunday
| night as to the programme to be followed at
! Albany during the session. and what slngu-
| lar unanimity Of sentiment prevailed Platt
/ Is not q member Of the Legislature; neither Is
| Ouigg: but O'Grady Is, and hopes to be elected
Sneaker Of the Assembly The combination OF
United States Senator who Is always DUMP
on the floor Of the Senate. n member OF Con-
gress who is never dumb anywhere. and hope
full candidate for Speaker OF the Assembly
oucht 10 give assurance that the programme
they laid down for the State Legislature to fol-
low Is fairly bursting with political wisdom and
craftsmanship Of the highest order. 1t Is not
often that the talent Of three such legislative
bodies Is condensed and put on tap for the ex-
elusive benefit Of one
The most important measure agreed upon
by these distinguished persons, the wrter-who
is evidently one of the three-says will be a
bill providing for local option as to liquor-seIi
ling on Sundays In all Of the cities of the first
land second class in the State" That there
may be no doubt that the party Will be a unit
on this question, the writer-who Is himself a
unit Of the most extraordinary multiplying
power-says: President Quigg OF the Repub-
'1ican County Committee and all the RepuD'
cleans eminent in the management or the
"party's affairs In the new New-York City are
heart and soul for this localoption measure
Then he goes on to say that 1.-The Republicans
"of this city who have had charge of the party's
affairs for the last ten years have never agreed
with the Raines law" that "they have protest
ed morning noon and night against It, land
against all legislation OF character which
would tend to sacrifice the personal liberties
"of the people on this highly important ques-
'tlon." that Senator John Raines did not pre-
pare the Ranes law or the later Raines amend
"ments" but only introduced 1t, and that John
Raines, taken altogether, Is an exceedingly
reprehensbe person. SO reprehensibe, IN fact.
that he actually had the audacity to tell Platt
in 1896 that he ought not 10 take the nomina-
ton for Governor because he would be too
"heavy n load for the Republican party or the
estate to carry" Plat "grinned at this at the
time" continues the writer, "for the reason that
che never had the slightest notion OF accepting
"the nomination for Governor
This contemptuOus shifting at John Ralnes Is
very funny Quigg doesn't like John Raines.
He once undertook to read him out of the party,
but only succeeded in reading himself out of
place and his employer into libel suit. For
that reason Quigg who Is described by THIS
gifted writer as eminent in the management
OF the partys affairs"-witness the only cam
paign he ever managed.-is heart and SOUL
for this or any other measure that John Raines
is interested in. Indeed the reading between
the lines Of the whole article Is not so much
a recommendation Of an amendment to the
Raines bill as a series Of backhanded slaps at
Raines The writer. for instance, goes out or
his way to say that when Raines during the
closing hours OF the late campaign turned up
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel Hackett and QulgS
protested against his appearance, and ne was
induced to leave NewYork City by the next
train" He adds that 1t was said at that time
that seventeen words from Senator Ralnes at
1.-The time would have cost General Benjamin f.
Tracy 10000 votes" The Renaissance is not
particularly pertinent TO a discussion OF the
Raines law amendments, but Is interesting
nevertheless. The wonder is, in the first place
what the seventeen words could have been, and
second why, when Qugg had Tracy elected
10 a dead certainty by from 10000 10 10000
majority. he should have been so exercised over
a little matter Of 10000 votes.
Besides the Ranes law amendments which
the three eminent statesmen agreed upon with
singular unanimity Of sentiment they decided
TO pass some sort Of law regulating primaries
and another making the libel law more strn
gent in which there will be a clause concern
ing cartoons. The funniest part Of the article
is where under this head the writer speaks Of
1.-The Evening Post The New-York Tribune
1.-The New-York World and other yellow jour
mails" which "habitually infringe the libel
law" That's enough to make horse laugh
Almost as funny is the serious statement that
while the men in public life do not care espe-
'cially for the attacks of irresponsible news
papers the lbels have become so vicious
against people in private life that something
must be done to check the perpetrators of these
'lbels or the moral tone of the whole State will
suffer" Think Of Plat and Quigg sitting up
nights with O'Grady working out a libel law
10 save "the moral tone Of the State. Oh,
Qulgg. Quigg. You are so funny when you
do the ostrich act, and with your head in the
sand conceal your personality as 1.-THE Repub-
lican campaign managers" or as an eminent
party manager whack John Ralnes over the
head with proposed Raines law amendments.
You are not an eminent manager but you are
just as funny as you can De.