The times., 1899-05-04
Quay.

sort of concern a Quay newspaper is ike
IL to bel sets up the interesting claim
that the Senate owes it to civilization TO set
aside all precedents which make against the
acceptance of Governor Stones appoint
ment and formally seat the repudiated
Pennsylvania statesman when he presents
his worthless credentials at the opening
session of the i'ifty-sixth Congress.
Mr.. Quay. it seems, has been both ma
Hgned and prosecuted. The Legislature,
overwhelmingly Republican in bota
branches, which positively declined to re-
elect him, was lured by base men and
baser influences into a deed so dark and
deviiish that nothing but a robe OF honor
conferred by the Senate in solemn con-
elave will tend to yindieate the meek and
lowly victim of SO frightful an example OF
political chicanery. II is of no consequences
that the Pennsylvania Legislature after
many weeks of balloting refused to choose
a Senator; it is as nothing that the Senate
has declared time and again that in such
circumstances q Governor has no right to
appoint;-Mr. Quay has been betrayed by
the men he trusted most. even if they did
in the future from such a serious frae-
ture of the Federal Constitution, his claim
TO a seat in the Senate must be recognize ed
for the sake OF humanity and common de-
cenry.
1t may seem strange to the intelligent
reader that in such saturnalia OF legisla-
tive treaehery and criminality as this
fri if,,tf-
politician of Mr.. Quay's experience and
perfectly well-known reputation should
appear as the one praeticed upea, but whsn
Quay newspaper is set at work it allows
neither facts nor logic to interfere with its
arguments. In this particular case the
saving sense of humor was also absent
and the fervid writer rushed on to his
fate. Quay, the simple. the holy. had been
crucified by WanamakeT the arch-fiend OF
pure politics. and the Senate must resur-
rect him Civilization demanded it.
The Legislatures Of Utah, Delaware, and
California set the example which Penn
sylvania foilo~ed in refusing to elect
Senator this spring. and it might be as
sunled that If Quay is seated the gentlemen
who will at once be appointed by the Gov
ernors Of those States will be seated also
Here the Quay organs scent danger. The
Governors OF California and Utah being
Republicans, will naturally appoint Re-
pablicans. though the Utah Legislature is
Democratic. But the Governor of Della
ware is Democrat. Shall he be allowed
TO appoint a Democrat when the r pub
hcan Legislature failed to elect Repub-
lican? Shall Quay be held responsible for
this merely because ne sesks vindicatio1?
Not so, shrek the ousyites. and here, the
stage being cleared of the serio- comic ar
tist whose effort we have just considered,
tSe Quay orgsn-in- chief. the -'rh lzde phi
Inquirer" appears behind the foctlights
and gives being to this pearl OF price:
u IS argued by some OF his opponents th,.
while IT might be easy task TO seat 1,p,y an
personal grounds, YET il hc we're serted. the Cor
ef1aoTs OF Delauarc. California. aud Utah must he
conceded the right 10 appoint claimed by t.ax
ernoT stone. This is not necessarily So for each
case must stand upon its own ground II could
hardly be ciaiHeai. for instance, that the Demo-
cratic Governor Of Delaware should be entitled to
appoint Democrat when there is 4 Republican
Legislature.
or course not; but who would be so das-
tardly as TO suggest that there could be
anything wrong in the Republican Gov
ernor Of Utah taking such a liberty with
the Democratic Legislature he, SO unfo.tu-
nately, has on his hands? Certainly not
the Democratic Senators who united in a
letter some time ago begging the Pennsyl-
vsnia solons 10 rally around Quay as the
man who of all Republicans. came nearest
TO being Democra;;-God save the mark,
So il Quay is seated the Senators appoint
ed from Utah and California will be ad-
mitted also. but the Democrat who wi
come from Delaware will be set aside.
Far from being a martyr and Republican.
he can be nothing but Democrat, seeking
TO enter Quay's society under false pre-
tences.
And we think Quay will be seated,
There Is magic in the name of any man
who for twenty years can absolutely defy
public sentiment and crush down all op-
position from a seat In the Senate of the
United States. The new Senate Is Repub-
lican by large majority All the Admin
istration followers will support Quay, and
the votes he loses from Republican Sena-
tors who allow the Constitution to stand
between friends" just as they invoke it
against the country's enemies will BE- made
up by those OF Democrats from the South
and West who admire Quay not only for
what he Is, but what he stands for.
So. after Quay. the deiuge. and perhaps
even Alger and Eagan. No man can read