Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1901-04-18
POLITICAL.

When Major Brown was appointed
Recorder Of Pittsburg we took it for
granted that Qnay knew all shout it
and that there was nothing of the re-
ported split, but if Quay is trying to
force Don Cameron ON the party for
Governor we see very good reasons for
it. 1t will look odd, however, to see
Quay turned down by Penrose, and
Stone and Elkin-men that he has
made, politically-on account OF Don
Cameron.
Senator NJ S. Quay was in Pittsburg
Tuesday. He was also in trouble. Two
committees, one from the Pittsburg
Chamber of Commerce and the other
from the East End Board of Trade,
walked in on him unexpectedly while
he was in town and demanded to be in
formed of what was going on and what
was the meaning of the sudden shift IN
the Pittsburg recordership. To all in
quiries Senator Quay answered that he
didn't know anything about it.
A dispatch from Harrisburg dated
Monday, said
United States Senator Quay has not
been in view of the public for the past
few days. He succeeded in hiding him
self from the newspaper men who have
been anxious to talk politics with him,
or at least 10 have him talk a little
politics to them.
While in hiding from the general
public Senator Quay has not been idle
in the matter OF politics. He has had a
telephone conversation with ES-United
States Senator J. Donald Cameron, who
is considering the advisability of enter
ing the race for the Republican nomina-
tion for Governor.
The Quay Cameron chat over the
"phone" was a short one. Inquiries and
replies as to health were exchanged, but
political matters were not spoken of be-
yond the making of an arrangement for
a meeting at Harrisburg, when the
question of the Governorship will be
thoroughly gone over.
Representative Cooper, of Delaware
county, has an after engagement with
Ex-senator Cameron, and the presump-
tion is that the decision of Mr.. Cameron
will he made known to the public by the
redheaded and hopeful ex-chairman of
the Republican State committee.
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the wedge which will split the machine
in twain. Senator Quay has declared he
will support his old-time colleague for
the nomination should he see fit to enter
the race. On the other hand. Governor
Stone and all his followers are equally
pronounced in favor of the nomination
of Attorney General John P. Elkin.
Senator Quay will never desert the
Cameron banner. and Governor Stones
political future is dependent upon the
success of Mr.. Elkin's candidacy.
By the end of the coming week the
decision of Senator Cameron will be
made known, and if he has decided TO
enter the race from that time on the
political fur will fly.
A Dispatch from Philadelphia said
Mayor Samuel H. Ashbridge may in
terfere with Attorney General John P.
Elkin's plan to succeed Gov. w. A.
Stone. He my do this with or without
the cooperation of Insurance Commits
sioner |. w. Durham, although if Mayor
Ashbridge insists Durham will be with
him, either actively or in a passive way
With Thomas s. Biglow, of Pittsburg
at war against Elxin in the Western
end of the State and Mayor Ashbridge
interfering in Philadelphia county, the
indications are that the Attorney Gen
eral will have spirited run for his
money.
When Mayor Ashbridge was elected
two years ago he professed to have no
further ambitions politically. He has
declared repeatedly that at the expira-
tion of his term as mayor he intended
to retire to private life Since his
break with Senator David Martin sever
months ago Mayor Ashbridge has said
but little of his intention 10 get out OF
politics, and forming an alliance with
Insurance Commissioner Durham he
has put into operation plans to fortity
himself in every ward in Philadelphia
If Mayor Ashbridge decides to become
candidate to succeed Gov. Stone, and
all indications at present point that way
he will enter the field with a thorough
understanding with the Democratic
city machine. 1t is also looked upoI
as reasonably certain that Insurance
Commissioner Durham will stick tC
Mayor Ashbridge if the latter becomes
a candidate and insists on Durham'
cooperation.