Evening star., 1899-01-04
HE NEEDS NINETEEN VOTES
Senator Quay Receives Caucus Nomination
With Some Absent.
Opponents Declare the Absentees
Will Not Vote for Him I'm
Joint Session.

At the caucus of republican members OF
the Pennsylvania legislature at Harrisburg
last night Senator Matthew Stanley Quay
fell nineteen votes short OF securing ma
jority. There are 161 republican votes in
the Legislature. OF this number 100 partici-
pated in the caucus. 1t requires l2S votes
on joint ballot to secure his reelection to
the United States Senate. On the first and
only ballot in the joint caucus Senator
Quay received - votes; B. F. Jones of PITTS
burg received s, and c. l.. Magee received
votes. After the announcement of the
vote Senator Magee moved that the nomina-
ton of Senator Quay be made unanimous,
and the 100 votes in the caucus were cast
for him.
The following special kilograms to the
Philadelphia Press from Harrisburg last
night give the views of the leaders in the
! hsht as 10 Senator Quay's chances for re-
election:
In signed telegram John Wanamaker
says: Mr.. Quay Came here to make him
sen United States senator. He has not
uone II because he could not get the las
votes he and his friends boasted they
owned
They got IS votes by dint of tremendous
pressure and persistence of a thousand
| lords of the Offices
They have had the new state admins
tratlon backing them at every point and
est government maintain the stand they
took today.
Ninety eight votes for M s. QUAY in
tonight $ caucus out of 254 members of the
legislature Is the exact number that was
conceded to him the day after the Noyem-
Der election by the anti-Quay people on
Monday morning last the Quay machine
IN active operation in Harrisburg defiantly
claimed that but twelve members of the
legislature would stay out of the caucus
whereas hfty-eight did not go in and of
those VINO attended the caucus many are
said to have been dragooned by Influences
ana propositions of which something NAV
be heard hereafter
The vote of tonight says plainly that
TINS legis ature Will not blinuly follow
dlScredited leader. The old members are
not to be menaced and the new members
are not willing to marry into the QUAY
political family at the present time The
opposition TO Quay rule grows. The op-
poserS are not men of straw but calm
determined, fair and resolute people who
rove the state better than its offices Be
iooilnS the people by claiming Quay vic
Tory upon 9s votes when it takes lbs to
make majority to elect and when the
utmost pressure has been used for weeks
TO get the 16I republicans into caucus
without avail, is sheer folly. For those
who are screaming for regularity a rump
caucus for the purpose of serving one man
when hard driven is only an injury to the
entire apparatus known as the Quay ma
chine. Nlnety-eight men out of 254 cannot
resent pennsylvania for six years more"
Quay Seems Hopeful.
Senator Quay made this statement at
midnight Il am entirely satisfied with
| the result of tonight's caucus A number
| of members of the legislature who did not
agree to enter the caucus tonight have as
sured me of their cordial support when the
assembly meets in joint convention.
These votes will be more than sufficient
| to elect me. l am absolutely confident of
my success.
DalzeII Sees Defeat.
Congressman John Dalzell OF Pittsburg
| in discussing the result of the Quay caucus
held last night. said:
| 1t is useless for any one to claim that
| the action of the 109 republicans who gath
cred tonight and undertook to make re-
publican nomination for United States SEN
ator is anything else than a Quay Water
loo. To call the gathering a caucus is
misnomer 1t takes lbs votes to elect.
Mr.. Quay got % votes out of 80 in the sem
ate and 73 votes out of 20i in The house.
When he summoned the so-calied caucus
it was for the purpose of getting l2S votes.
When he got only 100 he fell short of his
arhounced purpose 10 votes. and the So
called caucus therefore amounts to nothing.
The motive for tonights gathering
either because Mr.. Quay believed that he
would succeed in getting the necessary
number of votes to elect him, or for the
purpose of attempting to throw dust in the
eyes of the public and make it believe that
he was successful, when, in point of fact,
he was defeated. To be successful Mr..
Quay must get 10 votes either from the
democrats or from the republicans who re-
maineI out of tonishts meeting. He is
more likely to lose many that he has.
Senator Films Opinion
Senator Finn of Pittsburg said last
night:
m. S. Quay will not be elected United
States senator until the charges against
him are disposed of, and not then, unless
he is found innocent. Secretary Martin
agrees with me in this