The evening times., 1899-01-09
ANTI-QUAY LEADERS
EXPEEF-TO DEFEAT HIM
DEsERTIoNs sFRoM HIS RANKS
Confident Friends of the Senator
Still Insist That He Will Have
Majority of Votes.

| Philadelphia, Pa, ,4Jan. 9.-The relative
| positions of the tWo forces in the Senator
| ial contest are ndt expected to change to
any extent before the supreme court hands
down its decision in the case of the peti-
| tion of Senator Quay, argument on which
| was heard Saturday. There is no sign
that any of the members who signed the
pledge to remain out of the Republican
| caucus until the court has vindicated
| Quay are weakening in the attitude they
| have assumed On the contrary, the anti
| Quay leaders claim that five additional
| members have appended their names 10
| that document, making the total number
| OF signers tifty-three, and leaving five
! Republican Legislators who remained out
| of the caucus still unpledged.
| The opponents to the senior Senator also
| assert that members who attended the eau
! Gus have deserted the Quay standard be-
| cause they do not regard 1t binding, mas
| much as the caucus was not attended by a
majority of the members-elec TO the leg
islature, and they will vote with the anti
caucus members when the ballot for Unit
| ed States Senator is taken next week.
| The names of the recent converts TO the
anti-Quay ranks are not divulged, though
! they probably may be made known next
| Thursday morning when the opponents
| meet in Harrisburg.
| a. <.
anti Quay campaign, claims that the Sen
! ator will not have 100 votes when the two
| branches of the legislature meet in joint
convention, whereas it requires l2S to
elect.
Quays lieutenants keep up the cry about
| the regularity" of the Senator's nomina-
| ton and affect the belief that no Republic
can who cares about his political future
! will fail to support the Senator when the
| ballot is taken in the legislature. They
| claim that they are assured of enough
| votes to elect Senator Quay and profess
| confidence in his success next week. They
feel that favorable opinion from the su-
| preme court would materially help the
Senator's candidacy, and decline TO admit
that which every one else seems to take
for granted, that an adverse decision from
that tribunal will be disastrous To his
chances.
The open and widespread talk of deals"
for this or that office for the purpose OF
| securing votes in the Senatorial election
is beginning TO attract the attention of
many citizens who think there must be
some basis Of fact fer such direct state
ments as have been published on the sub
iect.
Reports that W. W. Griest. the Repub-
licau leader of Lancaster is TO receive
The appointment of secretary Of the Com
monwealth, an office worth from Sl5. 600
10 $20,o00 year. now held by David Mar
tin, for getting the eight Lancaster Codn-
ey members in line for Senator Quay
have been spread broadcast. Another ru-
NOR is that District Attorney W. /. Schaf-
fer, the Delaware County leader, will be
made deputy attorney general il he can
deliver the four votes from his county TO
Senator Quay. Besides. there has been
almost unlimited talk of bsstowing other
State appointments upon individuals who
can control votes, which are gr, atty need
ed by the senior Senator.
An address 10 the Republicans of Penn
sylyaEia was issued last night by Chair
man Brady of the senate caucus and
Chairman Marshall, of the house caucus.
1t declares that Senator Quay's nomina-
uon for Senator was regularly made By
the caucus and that his enemies cannot
successfully maintain that the caucus was
not regularly constitute or fairly con-
Quoted. 1t is held that if all who are en-
titled to seats had attended the caucus
there would have been 16i present and So
would constitute quorum. The total
number of votes was 100, more than tw0-
thirds of all the Republicans who quail
fed the day the general assembly conven-