The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1899-04-26
(sneclnl Correspondence.l

Especial Correspondence.)
Harrisburg, April 25.-The legisla-
ture of Pennsylvania having adjourned
without the deadlock on the United
States senatorship being broken, Gov
ernor Stone, within one hour after the
receipt of the news of the verdict of
the jury in the celebrated conspiracy
case, announced the appointment Of
Colonel Matthew Stanley Quay to fill
the vacancy in the United States SEN
ate, until the legislature shall elect for
the full term. The action of Governor
Stone is characteristic of the man. He
is always loyal and true to his friends.
No man better than he knew of the
desperate nature of the campaign that
had been waged against Colonel Quay.
No one was in position to be bet
ter judge of the facts of the case nor
to appreciate the force and vindictive-
ness of the political influences behind
the charges trumped up against Col
onel Quay, and of the extent to which
the men responsible for the prosecu-
tion would go. In his own canvass for
the nomination and election to the
governorship Colonel Stone had an op-
portunity from personal experience to
form an opinion on this subject The
governor had hoped that the dead
lock in the legislature would be
broken, but this was not to be. 1t has
been generally commented upon as
most significant that the case against
Colonel Quay should collapse upon the
very day upon which the legislature
adjourned. Knowing that they had no
evidence upon which to secure con-
viction, the men back of this trial
could not have timed the case better
for their own selfish purposes. Had this
acquittal come before the last ballot
sincerity of the men who said they
were holding out from supporting the
Republican caucus nominee because
there were indictments against him
would have been exposed to the world.
On the 18th ballot Magee and IS fol-
lowers broke away, but this did not
seriously affect the result.
INSURGENTS RESPONSIBLE.
1t is creditable to the Republicans
who acted with the majority that
they refused to temporize with a few
rebels. 1t is highly discreditable to the
insurgents that they followed the lead
ership of Finn and Martin and made a
spectacle of themselves which will not
soon be forgotten. These insurgents
made chaos out of the legislature. They
held up public business, defeated i'm
portant measures, made it impossible
to elect a senator and in general they
sought to produce party discord. In
seeking to dishonor and discredit their
party they brought discredit and dis
honor upon themselves.
And what did they get out of this
three months attempt at party wreck
age? Magee lost any chance he might
have had to go to the senate at some
future day. Martin, having deliberately
broken his pledge and brazenly dis
played his treachery, returns to Phila-
delphia from Harrisburg to find his
leadership a thing of the past. Flinr
is still the bulldozing Pittsburg bos;
that he will never rise above.
The insurgents grimly marched tC
their fate. They defied the Republican
majority in the state legislature, anC
they sought to destroy the basis of al
free government, the right of the ma
jority to rule. They must take the con
sequences of their folly and of thei
party perfdy.
THE LAST BALLOT.
While the Republicans who have tn
interest of their party at heart canno
but deplore the failure of the legisla
ture to elect Republican to the Unite
States senate, they all know where {
place the responsibility for the dead
lock. Those members who were electe
to represent the Republican party i
the legislature who have steadfastl
and consistently voted for the nomine
of the Republican caucus have made
record which will be approved by ever
fair minded Republican in the CON
monwealth. They will certainly be sus
tanned by the Republican organizatio
of the state, the integrity of which S
much depended upon their action. Th
senator's and representatives who vote
for Colonel Quay to the last could e
home to their Republican constituent
and command the respect and admire
tion of every true friend to the
party's caucus, while the guerrilla
who acted in defiance of the fundf
mental principles of the Republica
party. cannot present single sound {
valid excuse for their course which le
TO the deadlock and which made II
election of Republican senator at tn
session of the Legislature impossible
Colonel Quay has much to be pror
of in the vote he received on the fin
ballot, which was taken on Wednesd;
last While the record on this final ba
lot gives Colonel Quay SO votes, thr
of his friends were paired, so he tn
had sc Republican supporters to {
end The total strength of the insu
gents was but 20. They polled 60 vot
and had oneabsentee. This number W
largely made up of the followers of {
Martin machine in Philadelphia al
the Magee-Flinn organization in A
legheny. Among the others were m
who have no claim to recognition
Republicans, as they were elected ov
regularly nominated Republican ca
didates for the legislature, throu
fusion with Prohibitionists and Dem
Gratis. Conceding them all to be II
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