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still Of The Belief That Quay VIII In the
Long Run be Reelected.
The Republican Opponents Of the
Senior Senator, However, As
sert That Quay Has Polled His
Strength, Fourteen Short Of
Election, and Has No Chance to
be Returned to the United
States Senate.

uatlOn.
MY opinion has not changed since I
expressed the belief after the action
of the caucus making Mr.. Quay the
nominee of the Republican party for
United States Senator, that he would
be reelected. His supporters have not
had break in their lines since that
time, and they have made gains. Penn
sylvania is Republican State and un-
less there are some serious reasons why
a regularly nominated candidate of the
Republican party in the State should
not be elected, it is usually safe to pre-
dict that he will win. More than two
thirds of the Republican members of
the General Assembly are already pub
licly committed to him. No one can
honestly or fairly question the regu-
larity of the nomination of Senator
Quay. The caucus was regularly called
and properly conducted. Stalwart Re-
publicans generally throughout the
the candidate of their party, and want
to see him elected.
1.-THE conspiracy case brought against
him in the heat of the campaign has
been fully ventilated, and the political
character of the proceedings is thor
oughly understood by the people. The
argument of Attorney Watson before
the Supreme Court clearly demon
strated that there was nothing in the
bills of indictment against Senator
Quay, nor in the testimony, showing
him to have violated any law. This
has been made plain to all, as has the
fact that his prosecution was inspired
and instituted for the purpose Of in
fuencing votes against Senator Quay
in the Senatorial canvass.
1T is not my purpose or intention to
quarrel with anyone who is opposed to
Senator Quay. That is his right and
privilege. But I do say that I believe
that, way down in the hearts of nearly
one-half Of a million Republicans In
Pennsylvania who voted for me for
Governor at the last election, there is a
feeling of sympathy for Senator Quay
in the present contest. He has been a
gallant, able and victorious field
marshal of the Republicans, not only
of the greatest and most bitterly fought
national contests ever waged in Ameri-
can politics. To him, more than to any
one else, as Chairman Of the Republican
National Committee, did we owe the
election of General Benjamin Harrison
to the Presidency. As a member of the
United States Senate he has watch
fully and zealously guarded the great
manufacturing and CONNER
cial interests Of our commonwealth. His
influence was potential, not only in ma
terially aiding in the passage of the
Mckinley bill, but, with the Democrats
in control of Congress, through his
close relations with his colleagues on
both sides of the House, and his states
manlike course on the floor of the SEN
ate, he saved Pennsylvania industries
from ruin by the amendments he had
inserted in the Wilson bill for their es-
pecial protection.
There should be no occasion for con-
Germ among the friends of Senator Quay
on account of the present deadlock on
the Senatorship. Public sentiment in
his favor is making itself felt among
the members of the Legislature II
Senator Quay's supporters stand firm,
as 1 am convinced they will, his re-
election will certainly follow In due
time. VIM. A. STONE.
FROM AN ANTI-QUAY POINT OF
VIEW.
HARRISBURG, Jan. 22.--van VAL
kenburg, who is managing the anti
Quay campaign, issued a statement to-
night in which he says the Senatorial
situation is no longer complicated nor
uncertain Mr.. Van Valkenburg claims
Senator Quay's strength was at high
tide when he received 113 votes, which
is Just IA short of a majority. Against
him are 139 votes; 81 are Democrats
and 50 anti-Quay Republicans
1.-The Quay managers have abandoned
all hope of securing single vote from
the anti-Quay ranks" he adds, "but
while admitting that no Democrat will
the contest, they assert with an air of
mystery rather than of confidence, that
at the proper time enough Democrats
will be found to supply the necessary
fourteen votes that Senator Quay must
have to elect him.
1.-The Quay machine is bankrupt in
the matter Of political patronage. All
the attempts of the Quay people to Gre
ate friction between the Democrats and
anti-ouayites have signally failed. Sem
ator Quay massed all his strength to
break the anti-Quay lines last We'd
nesday, and failed. He has given
orders that another effort must be made
To break them Tuesday, but he will
again fail. Senator Quay may be able
to prolong the deadlock, but re-elect
himself United States Senator from
Pennsylvania, never.
WEST VIRGINIA SENATOR.