Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-04-27
Especial Corrcspondence.)

HafflSDurg, April 25.-The legiSla-
| ture of Pennsylvania having adjourned
| without the deadlock on the United
States senatorship being broken, Gov
ernor Stone, within one hour after the
receipt of the news of the verdict of
the jury in the celebrated conspiracy
case, announced the appointment of
Colonel Matthew Stanley Quay to fill
the vacancy in the United States SEN
ate, until the Legislature shall elect for
the full term. The action of Governor
Stone is characteristic of the man He
is always loyal and true to his friends.
No man better than he knew of the
desperate nature of the campaign that
had been waged against Colonel Quay.
NO one was in a position to be bet
ter judge of the facts of the case nor
TO appreciate the force and vindictiyc-
ness of the political influences behind
the charges trumped up against Col
onel Quay, and of the extent to which
the men responsible for the prosecu-
ton would go. In his own canvass for
the nomination and election to the
governorship Colonel Stone had an op-
portunity from personal experience to
form an opinion on this subject. The
governor had hoped that the dead
lock in the legislature would be
broken, but this was not to be- 1t has
been generally commented upon as
most significant that the case against
Colonel Quay should collapse upon the
very day upon which the legislature
adjourned. Knowing that they had no
evidence upon which to secure a con-
viction, the men back of this trial
could not have timed the case better
for their own selfish purposes. Had this
acquittal come before the last ballot
on the senatorship was taken, the in
sincerity of the men who said they
were holding out from supporting the
Republican caucus nominee because
there were indictments against him
would have been exposed to the world.
On the 18th ballot Magee and 13 fol-
lowers broke away, but this did not
seriously affect the result
INSURGENTS RESPONSIBLE.
1t is creditable to the Republicans
who acted with the majority that
they refused to temporze with a few
rebels. 1t is highly discreditable to the
insurgents that they followed the lead
ership of Finn and Martin and made a
spectacle of themselves which will not
soon be forgotten. These insurgents
made chaos out of the legislature. They
held up public business, defeated i'm
portant measures, made it impossible
to elect a senator and in general they
sought to produce party discord. In
seeking to dishonor and discredit their
party they brought discredit and dis
honor upon themselves.
And what did they get out of this
three months attempt at party wreck
age? Magee lost any chance he might
have had to go to the senate at some
future day. Martin, having deliberately
broken his pledge and brazenly dis
played his treachery, returns to Phila-
delphia from Harrisburg to find his
leadership thing of the past. Finn
is still the bulldozing Pittsburg boss
that he will never rise above
The insurgents grimly marched to
their fate. They defed the Republican
majority in the state Legislature, and
they sought to destroy the basis of all
free government, the right of the ma
jority to rule. They must take the con-
sequences of their folly and of their
party perfdy.
THE LAST BALLOT.
While the Republicans who have the
interest of their party at heart cannot
but deplore the failure of the legisla-
ture to elect Republican to the United
States senate, they all know where to
place the responsibility for the dead
lock. Those members who were elected
to represent the Republican party in
the legislature who have steadfastly
and consistently voted for the nominee
OF the Republican caucus have made a
record which will be approved by every
fair minded Republican in the com
They will certainly be sus-
tanned by the Republican organization
of the state, the integrity of which so
much depended upon their action The
and representatives who voted
for Colonel Quay to the last could go
home to their Republican constituents
and command the respect and admira-
ton of every true friend to their |
partys caucus, while the guerrillas.
" no dCleu III ue1ldUCe OF tBG funG2-
mental principles of the Republican
party, cannot present a single sound or
valid excuse for their course which led
to the deadlock and which made the
election of Republican senator at this |
session of the Legislature impossible.
Colonel Quay has much to be proud |
of In the vote he received on the final |
ballot, which was taken on Wednesday |
last. While the record on this final bal |
lot gives Colonel Quay 90 votes, three |
of his friends were paired, so he thus |
had 90 Republican supporters to the |
end. The total strength Of The insur-
gents was but 70. They p0llnd 90 vot 4s |
and had one absentee. This number was |
largely made up Of the followers Of the !
Martin machine in Philadelphia and |
the Magee-t'linn organization in Al |
legheny. Among the others were mel |
who have no claim to recognition as |
Republicans. as they were elected over |
regularly nominated Republican con-
didate5 for the legislature, thro. J. |
fusion with PrOhibiti0nists ana D.. -