Arizona republican., 1899-02-09
MRS. MARTINS WAR
 AGAINST QUAY


 AGAINST QUAY
 Mrs. ''Dave" Martin has gone into
 politics. Matthew Quay wishes she
 hadn't Matthew Quay arose in the senate one day and said that Dave Martin wore Q collar with dollar mark on it. Afterward he stood up at his desk and took it all back about the dollar mark. Dave" Martin might have remembered the apology and for gotten the offense, but Mrs. Dave" :. Maltin never dreamed of dong such a thing. Sne watched MT. Quay's sub sequent career with a shrewd and un- f fCrgiving eye. When MT. Quay ran for the senate again she saw her chance and took it. She's a pretty, little, soft k voiced woman, with the laugh of a I light hearted child-but she has caused 1 MT. Matthew Quay, state boss" of Pennsylvania, some extremely uncom- | fortable quarters of an hour during his recent uneventful campaign. The pol 1 iticians of Pennsylvania do not hesi tate to say that Mrs. Martin went very near to defeating MT. Quay herself. MT. Quay is the T. c. Platt of Pennsylva mia and MT. Dave Martin is the ! "Dick" Croker of Philadelphia. Mrs. | Dave" Martin is just Mrs. Dave Mar k tiI. Of Philadelphia. She lives in Holmesburg. the prettiest part of Phil adelphia. She has a charming home, Ia lapful of pretty children and hosts of 1 devoted and admiring friends. She can talk politics with any man in America and her husband never thinks of taking any important step without i talking things over with her. He talked Matthew Quay over with her "a good many times.
 When Quay arose in the senate and made his memorable reference to the dollar mark and the collar MT. and Dave" said Mrs. Martin, well re- member this" we will" said MT. Martin.
 The thing they both promised to re- member happened back in 1895. It came about in this way:
 There was a big nayoralty fight on in Philadelphia The republicans were divided into containers and anti-com- biners. Senator Quay wanted Boies PeHrose, now junior United States sen ator from Pennsylvania, to be mayor
 Dave" Martin had acqMesced in Quay's plan. He talked Penrose on the very eve of the nominating con vention.
 But on the day of the convention Dave Martin threw his influence fer Warwick, and Warwick was nominat- ed for mayor of Philadelphia. Senator Quay was in Washington. He was mo- tified of the action of the convention by telegraph. He was dncensed at what he called 9 breach of faith. There was a debate in the senate that day on l1G Quay arose in the debate and said vari- ous stinging and vitriolic things which reflected directly upon the convention in Philadelphia, the men in that con- ventiCn and the manners and customs thereof.
 He said: ''Would it not be we'll in stead of smothering the names and sal | aries of employees of corporations un- der the income tax law, to compel the | publication in such form that the list l shall be accessible to the public? A circumstance which happened within | the last thirty-six hours has called my attention to the probable importance of something of this kind
 Tt happened that a gentleman who | is very high in political position in the ! city of Philadelphia. no less a person. | age than a national republican commit | teeman, in conversation with a distin- gulShed member of the other branch, of | the national legislature, a jud cia1 Of | ficer of the city of Philadelphia, and | one of the leading, probably the lead ing member of the Pennsylvania state ! senate, in giving as reason why he ! could net preserve plighted faith and could not do what ought to be done in regard to an important nomination made there, stated that he was under a heavy salary and had been under a heavy salary from a great corporation for the past three years-a salary large enough to maintain his family-and he was compelled to do what the corpor- ation wished him tc do and not what he himself desired and felt he ought to do. ...,...
 ''The amendment I suggest is perti- nent simply in this respect, that men in such Q position with hioh power for good or evil ought not to be permitted to masquerade as acting in the interest Of the public CT in the interest of any party when in reality they are serving these great corporate bodies.
 They ought to go about and meet their fellows fairly and openly with the dollar mark of the corporation on their foceheads."
 That speech was read in Philadelphia a few hours after 1t was made in Washington David Martin and his friends read it, and Mrs Martin read it. She never forgot it, and she saw to it that her husband never forgot it.
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