The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-29
oIIay PEOPLE MAKE THREATS.
,,,CAN SENATOR'S PUT ON
THEIR BLACKLIST.

Observation-Disclosures Gives tn e
ocrats some Hope in PennsyI-
,ia. But This Speculation Is
,ob1v Premature-Quay's Re-
,+ion Predicted.
washington, April 2S.-The Quay poll
,us are threatening all sorts of dire
&c in the hour of their bitterness over
49, sanates rundown. of their 'favorite.
T1-hte they are particularly sore on Sem
- tranna for his failure to come to the
'1taf Of the Pennsylvania boss, they have
4 IN also for certain other leading Repub-
,t,are who win be high up on Senator
orav's black list if he should get back
=, bis old place, as his most enthusiastic
~.rovers now express confidence that he
iii When he comes, if he does come,
,,- AIdrich of Rhode Island, will be on
nc list and the name of julius Caesar.
Burrows win be there in large capital
letters,
They are unkind enough to charge that
Senator Burrows, whom nobody has here
tofore credited with possessing any very
great respect for the constitution, went
| far ont of his way in making a personal
matter of his fight against Quay, and that
no did SO because of the peryersity of his
nature rather than because of any partlc-
mar respect for Senate precedent. 1t Is
| true that Mr.. Burrows took strong
stand against the admission of Mr.. Corbett
in an almost similar case, but they are
unkind enough to suggest that this was all
6ue to personal friendship with Senator
| Mitchell of Oregon, Mr.. Corbett's enemy,
and that the link of friendship was Col.
Mat Mckay of lobby fame, who has had
warm place In the hearts of both Mitch
Hi and Burrows.
The people. who say these things, it is
well to repeat, are eminent Republican
brethren and not bold bad Democrats.
They Quay supporters seem to find ulte-
/ rior motives in the act of every Repub-
| ncan who voted against the Pennsylva-
MAN and they are not the kind of people
who hesitate to express their opinions.
Effect of auay's Defeat.
There is naturally much gossip about
| the possible effect of this Quay rundown
| upon Pennsylvania and upon national af-
fairs. The anti-Quay people believe ID
/ means the end of the little old man."
They are already counting on another
deadlock and failure to elect by the Leg
1 stature, which is being nominated now
/ and which is 90 be elected in November.
Quay they say, was thirteen votes 'shy"
IN the last Legislature, WHICH Idlleu TO
elect, and they claim that in the nominal
ton so far made, the insurgents" have
gained seventeen. This they figure as
total of thirty, which, however, they ac-
| knowledge will probably be reduced TO ten
when the legislative nominations are made
In Philadelphia. They are disposed 10
concede Quay a gain of ten, or a total
change of twenty, as the result of the
nomination of Foerderer for congressman
at large. But they persist in the belief
that in the end Quay will fall short of
a majority as he did before and that the
\ best he will do will be to force another
deadlock. They profess to believe that
the only chance the organization has of
electing a Quay man as senator will be
by taking up some man like oliver of
1 Pittsburg, to whose election the insurgent
element would probably agree.
Democrats Have Much Hope.
Quay's lieutenants laugh at such sug
gestion. They profess to believe that
the old man" is stronger now than he
ever has been, and that his defeat by the
Senate insures his election by the Legis-
lature.
In the midst of all this speculation the
Democratic leaders of Pennsylvania pro-
fess to see an excellent chance for profit
to themselves. Former Congressman Jim
Kerr, who is secretary of the Congress
sional Campaign Committee and who will
nc clerk Oh the next House IL IL Is DeInO-
cratic, is one of those who believes that
a Democratic United States senator is
among the Pennsylvania possibilities. ID
is known that a part of the insurgent plan
of campaign is to run no candidate in
counties where Quay man has been
nominated, but to quietly work for the
election of his Democratic opponent Mr..
Kerr seems to think that there is good
chance of this resulting in the election to
the Legislature of enough Democrats to
control things. Other Democratic lead
ers are more inclined to take the other
end of the proposition and to believe that
deal can be made with the Quay people
by which the state may be swung into the
| Democratic column in the presidential
contest.
They Are After Hanna.
! This sort of speculation seems wild, to
gay the least of 1t. but Pennsylvania poll
cs is something unique unto itself. The
ate has more than once gone Democrat
and 1t is figured that with a proper
TT OF understanding and with some DEM
"at like former Gov. Pattison as Bryans
nng mate, deal might be made by
en-, in return for the election of Quay
the Senate, the state would put its
Felectoral votes in the Bryan column. The
quay people believe they could do this
ana right now they are undoubtedly in
ne spirit to do all sorts of things to the
chlhley administration. In their eyes
anna Is the administration and they
ould like to give Mr.. Hanna a feeling
ecoliectlon Of the sensations experienced
tnat famous chicken who put his, or
II, Jugular vein up against the ak. They
ulu nave condemned the administration
M thelr resolutions adopted at Harrisburg
, .au NOT a few cool heads held them in
me i Ihey are making all sorts of threats
Just now but the probability is that their
IMAGINATION will cool as the campaign pro-
eresses, and that they will not attempt to
oorhthit political hari-kari by letting their
umn.