Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1902-08-14
PLANS FOR CAMPAIGN
Senator Quay Temporarily An Inva-
lid at the SeaShOre.
URGED FOR NATIONAL CHAIRMAN

Solid Front to the Enemy.
(From Our Own Correspondent
Philadelphia, Aug. 12.-Contrary to
expectation, State Chairman Senator
| Quay did not take charge of head
| quarters here in Philadelphia ycstcr-
day He is sitting in secOnd-story
| front room of an Atlantic City cot
| tage, with his right foot swathed in
bandages and resting on a chair. It
will be at least a week or ten days
| before he will be able to abandon this
position.
The senator is suffering from a
painful but not serious burn. The
whole top of the right foot is blistered
and hole burned into the flesh. He
was about to take a foot bath in
smooth porcelain tub with four fau-
| Gets. In the semi-daTkness of the
room he turned on the hot water and
could not get out of the way of the
boiling torrent quick enough.
1t was announced several weeks
ago that Senator Quay would take
| charge Of Republican state headquar-
| ters about September l. He started
for the Maine woods to recuperate and
| fish, but found the streams swollen
and the land marshy. Then he tried
to compromise on the Adirondacks,
but the raw air threatened a return
| of his old cough, and he came down
to Atlantic and rented a cottage.
From here he will take up his resi-
dence in Philadelphia till Penny
| packer is elected.
An interesting piece of gossip has
been floating around Washington the
last few days. 1t is that President
Roosevelt is strongly disposed to urge
Senator Quay for national chairman.
There is a very logical basis for this
story, too.
QUAY FOR NATIONAL CHAIRMAN
If President Roosevelt is nominal
ed, and he is certain to be according
to the belief of Senator Quay, Sena-
tor Hanna will not care to serve as
| national chairman, although his per
sonal relations with the president are
perfectly harmonious and pleasant.
Besides, Senator Hanna's health is
not good.
The New England contingent want
to make Governor William Murray
Crane, of Massachusetts, Hanna's sue
cessor. The western people are
clamoring for Senator Dolliver, of
Iowa, young man like the president
himself The older heads in the party
are looking for a man of ideas and
experience combined, and they have
selected Quay.
OF course it is a long way ahead
yet, and a great deal of the talk
about a national chairman is largely
speculative. but that Senator Quay is
being urged for the place by men
like Platt and Kean, of New Jersey,
contingent always on the dropping
out of Hanna, is a fact Quay's com
bination with Platt put Roosevelt on
the ticket with Mckinley. His mag
nificent management of the first Har-
rison campaign made him nationally
famous, and it Is perfectly logical
now that he should be urged for ma
tional chairman two years hence
PATTISON ORGANS IN A HOLE.
"The hardest blow that the Demo
Gratis have sustained" said a Pitts
burg visitor to state headquarters
yesterday, was the action of the
Citizens party leaders in Pittsburg in
placing the name of Pennypacker and
the other state candidates on their
ticket. The Democrats in Allegheny
county expected to have PattisOn
endorsed by the Citizens party.
This would have been big
card for Pattison all over the
state, but the Citizens party leaders,
all Of whom are Republicans decided
to fall in with all the other Republicans
of the state and stand by the colors."
The Democratic newspapers of the
state are following out a plan of battle
by which they hope to direct attention
away from their own demoralized con
dition. 1t consists in claiming that the
Republican party is still rent by dis
sentions and that cut-thrOat policy is
to be pursued by the dissatisfied This
is all bosh II is a wall of despair,
INDEPENDENTS ALL BACK HOME.
The interview with Ex-Postmaster
General Charles Emery Smith publish
ed last week in these dispatches set
e,
most conspicuous Independents in the
state. Others like Ex-Governor Hast
ings, Senator Alex. Stewart, Of Frank
lin; Senator Drury, of LuZerne; Sena-
tor Robert w. Edmiston of Bradford
Senator Hampton W.Rice of Bucks,are
all supporting Pennypackcr. And yet
they were in the forefront of Indepen-
dent battles for years along with Rep
resentative Robert KYOung,of TiOga;
James Clarency and Elias Abrams, of
Philadelphia; all the Allegheny county
delegates, the Bradford county dele
cation and representatives from a
score of other counties who are now
firmly fastened by loyalty within party
lines
AS for the Independent newspapers
In the state there is not one that is not
supporting the whole Republican tick
ct. This includes such conspicuous
daily journals as the Philadelphia
Press" the Wilkesbarre Record the
York Dispatch" and a hundred and
more interior daily and weekly iourn-
als whose influence has always been
felt on which ever side they took their
stand.
All talk Of Republican dissatisfaction
is too puerile TO merit consideration.
Scars are inevitable in politics There
was never a time when some one did
not carry them. There are fewer this
year than for eight years past The
leaders who differed with the organiza-
tion In the last state convention are
now foremost In fighting the common