Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1900-08-23
Anti-Quay Victories.

The Anti-Quay political tide in Penn
svlvania is still rising. The sweeping
anti-Q aay victory in Bradford county
which gave Quay's opponents a State
Senator and three Representatives
pledged TO stay out of Senatorial eau
Gus, if necessary, TO compass quay
defeat: was followed on Saturday by a
complete anti-Quay sweep in the TWO
Republican counties of Miffiin and
Perry and a partial anti-Quay victory
in the fairly debatable county Oh
Adams. The net result Of Saturday
primary elections will be the gain OF
one anti-Quay Senator and one anu
QUAY Representative from districts rep
resented by Quay men in the last Legs
lature and a certainty that -four Dem
ocrats will be succeeded by Democrats
or anti-Quay Republicans.
The Thirty-first Senatorial district
composed Of the counties OF Perry, NIL
fin and Juniata, was represented IN the
last State Senate by William Hertzier,
Of Juniata, Quay Republican MI
Hertzler will not represent the district
this year. He has carried his own
comfy. which is usually Democratic
and been beaten in Miffiin and Perry,
the two Republican counties OF the DIS
trict. Ex-Representatiye Gruber d.
Bell has carried Miffiin and james W.
Mckee has carried Perry. Both are
anti Quay, and one or the other Will be
nominated and elected In the last
House Miffiin was represented by Sam
mel Rothrock, Democrat; Juniata by a.
Fisher, Jr Democrat, and Perry by ).
Harper Seidel Quay Republican. Jun
iata will probably elect Democrat TINS
year and Thomas B. Reed, anti-Quay
Republican. has been nominated IN
Miffiin and John A. Arnold, anti-Quay
Republican, in Perry. The entire
Tbirty-first district, with one Senator
and three Representatives, is hopelessiy
lost to the Quay cause. The district mas
for years been Quay stronghold.
The battle in Miffiin and Perry on
Saturday was determined largely by the
same causes which contributed to the
QUAY overthrow in Bradford. Miffiin
and Perry are largely agricultural coun'
ties and the farmers, angered by the
unwarranted veto by Governor Stone OF
a part of the school appropriation and
the evident collusion between the Re
publican machine and the oleomargar-
inc dealers, smote the Quay candidates
for State Senator and Representatives
hip and thigh, changing the district
from a rock ribbed Quay district to a
pronounced anti-Quay one. In the
county of Adams, which was represent
ed in the last Legislature by two Demo
Gratis, the reports indicate stand off
between the forces, one Quay and one
anti-Quay Republican having been
nominated.
Above and beyond and Of more i'm
portance than the sure gain Of two votes
for the anti Quay cause, the primaries
of Saturday indicate that the conditions
which overthrew the Quay machine in
Bradford exist in every agricultural
county. and that they will lead TO the
nomination Of anti-Quay representatives
In all the sure Republican counties that
are yet to make Republican nomlna-
ffona while In all close COMMITTEES Demo.
cratic or fusion Legislators will be re
Turned Saturdays primaries have
only rendered Quay's hopeless canvas:
more hopeless than ever -Phil'a a Times
THIS has been record-breakl ng year
for the California orange crop. Th'
yield will, it is thought, be about $500,
900 boxes, or IA, 800 carloads. The tota
investment in California orange groves
now amounts to $44 900, 900.