The Anaconda standard., 1899-01-23
IN PRAISE OF MATT QUAY
Governor Stone Urges Republi-
cans to Vote for Him.
HIS ELECTION is CERTAIN
Lively Times Are Expected in the West
Virginia Legislature-No Fall
ing Off in Grants
Support. -5..

Harrisburg, Pa. Jan. Ex-Governor
Stone gave the following signed state
ment this evening on the senatorial sit
uation:
My opinion has not changed since I
expressed the belief after the action of
the caucus making Mr.. Quay the nomi-
nee of the republican party for United
States senator that he would be re-elact-
ed. His supporters have not had a
break in their lines since that time and
they have made some gains. Pennsyl-
vania is a republican state and unless
there are some serious reasons why
| regularly nominated candidate of the
republican party in the state should not
be elected it is usually safe to predict
that he will win. More than two-thirds
OF the republican members of the gem
eral assembly are already publicly COM
mltted to him. No one can honestly or
fairly question the regularity of the
nomination of Senator Quay. The eau
Gus was regularly called and properly
conducted. Stalwart republicans gem
orally throughout the commonwealth
have accepted him as the candidate of
| their party and want to see him elected.
Ihe conspiracy case brought
against him in the heat of the campaign
has been fully ventilated and the politi-
cal character of the proceedings is thor
oughly understood by the people. The
argument of Attorney Watson before
the supreme court clearly demonstrated
that there was nothing in the bills of
indictment against Senator Quay nor
in the testimony, showing him to have
violated any law. This has been made
plain to all, as has the fact that this
prosecution mr. ipS
for the purpose of influencing votes
against Senator Quay in this senatorial
canvass. 1t is not my purpose or in
tention to quarrel with any one who is
opposed to Senator Quay. That is his
right and privilege. But do say that
believe that way down in the hearts (
Of nearly one-half Of million republi-
cans of Pennsylvania Who voted for ,ine
Tor governor at the last election there
IS feeling of sympathy for Senator
Quay in the. present contest. He has
been brave soldier in the hour of his
country's trials; he has been a gallant,
able and victorious field marshal of the
republican party. not only in local and
state campaigns, but in one of the
greatest and most bitterly fought ma
tlonal contests ever waged in American
politics. To him, more than to any one
else, as chairman of the republican ma
tlonal committee, did we owe the cleo
the presidency. AS a member of the
United States 'serate he has watchfully
and zealously guarded the great indus
trial and commercial interests of our
state. His influence was potential not
only in materially aiding in the passage
of the Mckinley bill, but with the dem
ocrats in control of congress, through
his close relations with his colleagues
on both sides of the house and by his
statesmaniike course on the floor of the
senate, he saved Pennsylvania ind1ls-
tries from ruin by the amendments he
had inserted in the Wilson bill for their
especial protection.
There should be no occasion for con-
Germ among the friends of Senator QUAY
on account of the present deadlock in
the senatorship. Public sentiment in his
favor Is making itself felt among the
members of the legislature. If Senator
teuays supporters stand firm, and am
convinced they will, his reelection will
certainly follow in due time
WILLIAM A STONE
p. A. Vanvalkenburg, who is man.
aging the anti-Quay campaign issued
a statement tonight, in which he says
the senatorial situation is no longer
complicated nor uncertain. Mr.. Van
valkenburg claims Senator Quay's
strength was at high tide when he re-
ceived 113 votes, which is Just IA short
81 democrats and So anti-Quay
The Quay managers have abandoned
all hope of securing a single vote from
the anti-Quay ranks he adds. But.
While admitting that no democrat will
vote directly for Quay at any stage of
the contest, they assert with an air of
mystery rather than of confidence that
at the proper time enough democrats
VIII be found to supply the necessary IA
votes that Senator Quay must have To
elect him. The Quay machine is bank
rupt in the matter of political patron-
age. All attempts of the Quay people to
create friction between the democrats
and and-Quayites have signally failed.
senator Quay amassed all his strength
to break the anti-Quay lines last
Wednesday and failed. He has given
orders that another effort must be made
to break them next Tuesday, but he will
again fail. Senator Quay may be able
to prolong the deadlock, but re-eleet
himself United States senator from
Pennsylvania, never"