The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-26
AS WASHINGTON SEES It
Failure of the Pennsylvania
Legislature to Elect Quay.
THE CAMPAIGN OF 1900
Bryan Is Much Stronger in the East Than
He Was in 1896 President Nc
Kinley May Not Come to
Montana This Year.
washington Bureau of the Standard,
No. 1145 & Street N. W.

Washington Bureau of the Standard,
! No. 1145 Street N. w.
washington, D. c.. April 22-The eS-
| pected has happened and PENNSYLVANIA
Tor the first time in h,r long history has a
! senatorial vacancy not caused by either
death or resignation. Quay is at last out
of the senate, but it is doubtful if his
| prestige and power in the state are in
any material respect diminished He will
easily remain in the saddle. and the fu-
ture senators and state officers from that
commonwealth will b. Quay men or DEM
ocrats. TO judge by the bitter expressions
OF pennsylvania public men and news
papers, the republican feud will easily re-
suit In the election OF democratic legis-
lature in 1900. The Quay men are partic-
ularly bitter. The anti-Quay men took
the position anybody but Quay" to
winch the Quay meu replied, Quay or
nobody and persisted to the end in their
position.
The democrats held nobly out to the
close of the fight in The honorably indie
pendent attitude of IA plague on both
their houses" They made no attempt to
meddle in the affairs Of the other political
party, III this respect Offering a fine ex-
ample to the republican legislators of
Montana and Utah. who conceived it to
| be their especial duly to settle differ
ences in the democratic party.
The highly honorable course taken by
the Keystone democrats is very likely 90
result IN the return of democratic sena-
tor from Pennsylvania. This state has in
times past sent some exceptionally strong
democrats to the senate, including Charles
X. Buckalew and William A. Wallace 1t
Will be subject for congratulation if as
good man as either of these can he
sent to Washington in 1901.
The extreme bitterness of the republican
factions in the state renders such a result
very probable. There will be red-hot
| lights over legislative nominations in all
| districts and ''razors will be flynn through
the air in every district. no matter which
side is successful. fair sample of the
| Vitrlolc expressions of the partisan press
Is given in the following language from
| this mornings Philadelphia Inquirer (pro-
| Quay:
| THE insurgents have marched to their
| fate. Now let them meet it manfully
| lheE nave been warne time and time
again by the republica voters at the
! various county primaries. They have re-
| fused to take the warning. They have de-
| ned the republican majority in the state
| and legislature, and they have sought to
destroy the basis of all free government,
| the right of the majority to rule and now
| let them take the consequences of their
| folly and of their party pertidy. They
have refused to permit the election of a
| United States senator, and they will dis
| cover their worse than error in the over
| Whelmlng popular condemnation which
| Will oVertake them. What have they ac-
| complished after many months of recent
| less, bitter and INSCRIPTIONS campaigning
| the sacrifice of principle and manhood
| and the blighting of the political careers
| OF many misguided and unfortunate re-
publican, who has bindly followed guer-
rilla leadership that has been actuated
| solely by ambition and revenge
From the standpoint of Democratic con-
temptation one of the pleasantest features
OF the Pennsylvania situation is the SOL
idlty of the democratic organization for
| the Chicago PLATFORM and, incidentally
Tor Bryan. The man for whom the DEM
ocratic members of the legislature voted
SO loyalty was George A. jerks. who was
the silver democratic candidate for gov
ernor last fall. The state democratic COM
mittee has just been recognized and is
fully controlled by the Chicago platform
democracy. led by James F. Gutfey of
Pittsburg, who was a heavy contributor
to the Bryan campaign fund and a loyal
sunnortar of the rae,,Iar da,,oor,t;o ASA;
date in 1896
Ii is plain that the pennsvIvania democ-
racy will send practically = solid Chicaao
platform delegation to the convention
| next year. This, of itself, will dissipate all
the much yaunted homes some pola man
have of sending = solid hast to TIA COW
Vention against Bryan.
The result in Pennsylvania is sure to be
troll Of the senate After tho a1ootiors ,f
1898 it was boastfullv asserted nv renuh.
lican leaders that tbera uas M ,,ossih;1it,,
that the democrats and silver mon cou1a
regain control of the bodv within civ
wears Vet the ovarconfden+ ron,,hl;oa,c
who think that even If q frca silver nrasi-
dent should he elected in 1000 no uo,Ia Ia
HELPLESS to accomnIish fnanria, 1egis,,-
tion. because the sonate would he for
sound money durino tho ar.ira four ,,aars
of his term. woull do well to remember
that the senate has cb.nead lie on,,,,r,.