The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-20
THURSDAY, APRIL 20. 1899.
TWELVE PAGES,
Exit the Big Boss.

~ OUBTLESS there was great re-
TO- joicing yesterday at a good
many spots in PENNSYLVANIA
This feeling may not have revealed it
self in all instances in a demonstrative
way. but it was nevertheless, one may
we'll believe. feeling of deep down
satisfaction And it is true that some
thousands of Pennsylvania republicans
are the people who most enjoy the as
surance that the Legislature adjourned
and left Quay in the minority, this
company of republicans including a
large number of politicians; of editors,
of men who rank as statesmen, of citi-
zens who have packed their white
mans burden, in the shape of Quay,
10. these many years
The case of Quay has its peculiar
features. He has maintained himself
in supremacy in Pennsylvania repub-
licanism for nearly a generation, vet
during every. moment in these many
years thousands and tens of thousands
of men in his own party in his own
state have refused to believe that he
possessed the instincts of common
honesty Quay would have passed out
of sight and out of mind years ago,
If Pennsylvania had lacked it's over
whelmins republican majority; indeed
were that state a reasonably close one
at the polls, there is little likelihood
that Quay ever would have had a name
in national politics. Year after year,
he has been fought, on the ground that
he was faithess official, by some of
Pennsylvania foremost republicans.
But he had the machine; Pennsylva-
MAS immense preponderance of repub-
lican voters did the rest-and thus Quay
was carried.
Quay's long and disreputable supre-
macy is in witness of the stupidity of
blind craftsmanship. In spite however,
of the Quay record, his defeat entities
the legislature of Pennsylvania to hon
orable mention. Had it been a Mon
tana senatorship Quay would have been
elected-he could have commanded the
money he needed. In fact. he did not
lack money at Harrisburg. but there
were too many decent members: they
refused to sell to Quay. The result is
that, unless the sequel is special SEES
sion of the Pennsylvania legislature,
that state will have a vacant chair in
the senate. The vacancy will be more
eloquent, as an utterance for common
honesty, that all the words would be
, that the most gifted orator could
utter.
Up to the very moment when the last
Joint ballot vote was taken, there was
no assurance what the outcome at Har-
risburg would be. 1t was perfectly we'll
understood that if by hook or crook
the thing could be done, Quay proposed
to win, and there was no telling what
adroit coup might be played. The Joint
session will vote no more, and if in
Quay's case it proves true that it never
rains but it pours, the public may look
to see the legal proceedings now pro-
crossing prove to be another agency
that will expedite the dOwn-h hill Journey
of this fallen boss. Probably the defeat
In the legislature will serve to stimu-
late public interest in the Quay trial
now going on. As many Of the east
ern newspapers express it, Quay is at
tempting, in court, to make it appear
that he is the victim of a conspiracy in
which most of the honest people Of
Pennsylvania have ii in for him.