The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-03-02
auAY,s COMING TRIUMPH.

While the country remains aroused to q
condition of considerable excitement on
the important subjects which have been
receiving congressional consideration for
some weeks past, the cause of Matthew
Stanley Quay proceeds noIselessly on its
way toward success. 1t is not at all In
the plans of politicians of the Quay va
riety to indulge In what is commonly
called "a splurge." They are too wise to
draw any more attention to themselves or
their official or political operations than
cannot safely be avoided There is no
sense. according to them, In borrowing
trouble, and the most = inexhaustlble
source from which trouble can be pro-
duced is, of course. newspaper publicity
This they are prepared at all hazards to
evade.
How well Senator Quay and his man
ayers have managed this latest little I'M
dertalrng of theirs is shown by the
reflection that. while ordinary persons in
and out of political life have been grow
ing red in their faces owing to the extrem-
ity of the views on the Puerto Rico tariff,
the few gentlemen who look strictly after
business and leave all sentiment in poll
tics to be cultivated by others have man.
aged to get report and a vote which
is virtually equivalent to comforting the
coveted seat on the Mephistopheles of
| Pennsylvania politics.
| AS a matter of information 1t may be
stated. for the benefit of those readers who
have not recently been thinking Of this
not insignificant member OF the great
imperial triumvirate of Hanna, Plat and
! Quay that the senate recently took a
vote on the question whether the Penn
! sylvania statesman's case should be con-
| sldered. The result OF that vote was an
agreement to consider 1t, and the vote
| Itself revealed even greater strength for
| Quay when the final action comes to be
/ taken which will decide his right to his
seat. Many senator's who voted against
consideration of his case and were anx-
! ious to see 1t stand over further will GER
tainly vote to allow the appointee of the
governor of Pennsylvania to retain his
seat There may Of course be some fill
clustering INDUCED in. but the best opin-
ion is that the state of William Penn is
in no danger whatever of losing the serv-
ices Of its senior senator, who has done
So much during his public career to mold
and characterize the prevailing standards
In that state Of public morality and re-
sponsibility.
1t Is quite as well that 1t should be
known thus early what course the ma
jority Of the senate propose to adopt In
this particular case. While yet Ciark's
case Is under consideration, 1t Is well thai
| a decision should be reached In tina case
of Quay. AS the evening imperialist or
gan Of this town recently so laboriously
| portrayed the radical difference which
| prevails between the character and meth
DDS Of the two men in political life, il
seems eminently proper that the imperial
list majority in the senate should show
| their rigid adherence to abstract righi
by openly adopting Quay while they re-
! pudiate the corruption of his non-in-
| perialist associate, Clark. The sooner
this demonstration of political righteous
ness is made the more satisfactory IL Will
be. No doubt Mr. Quay is deeply con-
! cerned at the present moment over the