Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-03-09
Party Loyalty and State Lines.


The Cleveland Leader has long
standing reputation as party organ.
1t is an excellent newspaper, and its
location in Northern Ohio gives it
many advantages as a political guide
and oracle. When a member of the
Republican party, who is of sufficient
consequence, gets his heels over the
traces, he is sure to hear from the
Leader, and the scolding he receives is
of the continuous performance variety.
During the campaign of 1896 the
Leader was particularly severe on the
gentlemen who saw fit to walk out of
the st. Louis Convention and cast their
political fortunes with the party of
free silver, and when the last Ohio
Senatorial election was pending the
Cleveland paper exhausted its vocabu
larry of vehemence in treating those
Republican members of the Legislature
who declined to vote for Mr.. Hanna.
But the Cleveland Leader has evi-
IDENTIFY undergone remarkable change
of policy. Reaching over the State
line into Pennsylvania it turns its
former views wrong side out and gives
vent to the following utterance:
eff Senator Quay would withdraw in
Pennsylvania he could insure the elec-
| ton of good Republican to the Senate
without further trouble. Quay, ap-
pears to think, however, that he is of
more Importance than his party"
Perhaps we may be permitted to in
quire of the Leader why Senator Quay
/ should comply with its suggestion.
Mr.. Quay is a regular nominee of the
Republican party. A large majority
of the Republican members of the Leg
islature met in caucus and selected Mr..
Quay as the proper person to succeed
himself, and during the balloting they
have stuck to him most pcrsistently.
Not only this, but during the campaign
last year the voters of the State were
daily reminded by the Democratic
orators and Democratic newspapers
that the election of a Republican Leg
islature meant the return of Mr.. Quay
to the Senate, and he was as much of
an issue in Pennsylvania as Mr.. Hanna
was in Ohio in 1896. There are serious
charge against Mr.. Quay, and he has
been Indicted by grand jury. But
Mr.. Ha mas political opponents re-
sorted t. the same methods, and the
only difference is that they failed in
their efforts before the grand jury.
There are serious charges against Mr..
Hanna in the pigeon holes of Senate
committee-room, but the Post believes
they are without foundation and made
for political effect only.
t The law presumes that man is in
nocent until the contrary has been
duly established. Therefore from a
/ legal and moral standpoint Mr. Quay
occupies the same position as Mr..
Hanna, and is as much entitled to the
loyal support of his party organization.
Personal ambition inspired the virulent
attacks on the character of Mr.. Hanna,
! and personal ambition is the incentive
in the fight on Mr.. Quay. Had the
men who are fighting the Pennsyl-
vanian been actuated by motives to
which they lay claim, they would not
have waited until the eve OF the Sena-
torial election to invoke the machinery
Of the law against the senior Senator
The Post does not undertake TO try
the case against Senator Quay and
render verdict. That will be attended
to in the courts later on; but it believes
in giving all public men fair treatment
and without regard to State lines.
We fear the Cleveland Leader has
several different kinds of party loyalty
in stock. 1t denounces the Bushnells,
! the Kurtzes, the McKissons, the Masons,
the Burkes, and the other Republican
boilers in Ohio, and commends the
Wanamakers, the Martins, the Flynns,
and the remainder ofthe political bush
! whackers in Pennsylvania. Consis-
tency is not Cleveland Leader
speciality.