Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-01-24
0uay's Triumph.


Times, ''is reported to be exceed
ingly pleased with his 'vindication'
secured through his reelection to
the United States Senate. -
Well, why should he not be?
But the Times goes on to remark
that "of course, in no rational and
honorable sense has he been vindi-
Gated at ALL" And it adds: Gun
doubtedly his election is a disgrace
to the State of Pennsylvania"
We submit that this New York
journal insults the people of Penn
sylvania when it gives vent to its
spleen in this manner.
The ignorance displayed by the
New York newspapers of all things
outside of the narrow confines of
Manhattan Island is proverbial.
They do not even know the boun-
daries of their own farm lands and
truck patches that constitute the
so-ealled Greater New York. Ac-
customed to being robbed and
plundered by Tammany Hall, they
think themselves to be the spokes-
men of patriotic and self-sufficient
people. When they comment on
matters outside their own back
yard they are woefully ignorant.
The New York Times knows just
about as much about Pennsylvania,
the greatest State industrially and
the best educated State in the I'm
ion, as it does about life in the
planet of Mars. What right does
it possess to call Pennsylvania to
account for electing Quay to the
Senate? Pennsylvania looks after
her own interests. Quay saved
Pennsylvania in the Wilson bill
fight when the New York Times
was an advocate of destruction.
We know what we are doing over
here, and we are not disposed to
take the criticisms of an ignorant
New York newspaper as gospel.
The facts about Quay are these:
He was a candidate before the Leg
islature of two years ago, and he
was beaten because the new "re-
form" movement threw tens of
thousands of dollars into the fight
to buy votes against him after he
had won. Since that time the
State has been thoroughly canvass
ed. There was a contest for the
election of delegates to the State
Convention of last April, and that
contest resulted in a four-to-one
majority for Quay. Hewas named
as the Republican candidate for
Senator by that convention. He
went before the people-personally
appealed to them in various legis-
lative districts. Wherever he spoke
he won against all that his adver.
saries could do. Never has he lost
when he went directly to the peo-
pie. He carried the State by near
ly 300, 900 majority, and that ma
jority carried with it $50 pledged
votes in the Legislature when, in a
full Legislature, he needed but 1877
to elect him. He did not get his
$50 for the very good reason that
Doodle was again in evidence and
that man after man was bought
with cold cash. You do not dis
cover any great movement on the
part of the anti-Quay boilers to
secure Senatorial investigation,
do you, Mr.. Times? No! nor will
there be any from that quarter.
The reason is plain. There is not
an Insurgeut leader that dares seek
an inquiry, for they all know full
well that among their followers are
men who have taken the cash of
bribery in exchange for their
treachery to their constituents.
Senator Quay was elected by the
people, and he has had to fight
against the most corrupt campaign
that this State has ever known.
That he has triumphed over Doodle
in such vast quantities is little less
than marvel, but he has triumph
ed, and he has the endorsement of
very great majority of the voters
of Pennsylvania. Could he run for
the Senatorship tomorrow by pop
ular vote he would be elected by
the greatest majority ever given a
candidate for any Office in Pennsyl-
vania. His victory is exceedingly
popular. He has been maligned
and vilifed, and if there is one
thing that an American citizen
hates it is persecution-and espe-
cially hypocritical persecution. Of
course, Quay's New York malign-
ers cannot understand that. An
American citizen-the genuine