Arizona republican., 1899-04-20
He Held His LieutenantS With
 Too Tense a Rein.
MARTIN AND MAGEE'S
The Local Bosses of PIffS5ura and Philadelphia Resented Their MaSfer and Teachers IRferfer- enCe in Local Politics and Joined fhe Great Conspiracy 10 Crush Him.

Harrisburg, Pa, April 19.-Of all
 that has been written in relation to the strange senatorial contest in pro-
 gress here, nothing has been published
 which throws any clear light upon the
 creation of existing factions, which
 has led up to the present crisis in the career of Senator Matthew Stanley Quay. Upward of fifty republican leg islators have steadily cast their bal lots for an anti-Quay republican, leav-
 ing the ex-senator less than thirteen votes short of reelection. But the
 real independent, the conscientious. anti-machine vote is almost nil. The
 opposition to Quay is almost wholly factional, the leaders of it, Film of
 Pittsburg. and Martin of Philadelphia.
 having history redolent of political
 cunning and manipulation, and rich in political profit.
 Quay's dilemma does not tin the
 least result, therefore, from any new accession of political piety among the people CT the legislators of Pennsyl- vania, or to any influence of the priestly layman and merchant prince. MT. John Wanamaker. The ex-sena-
 tors wrecked political fortune. if thar
 be the finale. is solely due to the an
 tagonGsm, bitter and unrelenting, of men who few years ago were mem bers of his own political family. eat
 ing of his bread, drinking of tls fine wines, absorbing from most intimate association such worldly wisdom as has made the machine" Tn Pennsyl- vahia since the early career of cd Simon Cameron the most compost or1 ganization of it's kind in the whole country
 For long years, up to 1877, when Don Cameron was first elected to the United States senate, his father re- signing upon a Saturday. and Don's election being made good the follow ing Tuesday Gone of those cunning coups for which the old man was mo- torious), Bob Mackey had been man. ager Of political affairs for Cameron. and manipulation of legislatures for all those influences which sought to con- trol legislation. Mackey was a child of the alleys, where ancestry was ob- scure, but he came by mere accident under the tutelage of Cameron. and developed into the shrewdest manip- ulator of men and measures ever known to the state. and his equal has proDably never lived in the United States. Slight of figure, almost skeleton, for years before his death gasping for breath, a prey to consump ton, sitting in chair or often lying in bed to direct the politics of agreat state, his eyes glaring from their deep sockets like coals of fire. he seemed the very incarnation of LucifeT
 In that day Quay was something of a factor, but only by grace of Mackey and of his patron Cameron. Magee and Film were but youths, learning the trade of politics, happy in success ful manipulation of wards of Pitts burg. Martin had not grown beyond the day of swaddling clothes. Quay usually managed to keep to the front in office. however, and with the retire ment of Simon Cameron from active politics, followed by the death of Bob Adackey, he came to the head of affairs as the engineer of the old Cameron machine.
 Don Cameron was as reserved and exclusive and sullen as his father had been suave, genial and insinuating. Knowing his unsocial qualities would make him unpopular he refused tr mix with the people. The active mark of maintaining conrtoi being left to Quay, it is no wonder that he soon took the reins wholly into his own hands, and from that time for years the silent man from Beaver dominated everything: and even Cameron. though often restive and rebellious. became mere puppet in Quay's hands
 Many of the lieutenants of the elder Cameron had reached the age O. and Quay cast about for young. clever. and aggressive men to renew the vigor of his organization. Magee and Finn became the masters of politics, state and municipal at and little later Martin and Penrose, young men all, at Philadel- phia. The names of Chris Magee. Billy Film, Dave Martin and Boies Penrose soon came to be as well known in the state as that of Matt Quay. In their cities these young knights soon put all antagonists o rout in the political tournament. No municipal contract could be given without their sanction. Whatever