Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-08-14
PLANS FOR CAMPAIGN
Senator Quay Temporarily An lnva-
lid at the Seashore.
URGED FOR NATIONAL CHAIRMAN
Democratic Newspapers Vainiy Try
ina to Make Votes BY Misrepresen.
tation-RepubIicans Are Presenting
a Solid Front to the Enemy.

tation-RepubIicans Are Presenting
a 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 yester-
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 chair. 1t
will be at least 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 burnsd into the flesh. He
was about to take a foot bath in
smooth porcelain tub with four fau-
Gets. In the semi-darkness 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
dSO llldl StIldloi "ouiu LoNS
charge of Republican state headquar-
ters about September 1. 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,
of his old cough, and he came down
to Atlantic and rented cottage.
From here he will take up his resi-
dence in Philadelphia till Penny
packer is elected
An interesting piece of gossip has
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 Hannas 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
~, fNr pF
Iowa. young man like the president
himself. The older heads in the party
are looking for man of ideas and
experience combined and they have
selected Quay.
OF course it is 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
rson 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 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. 1t is wall of despair!
.rI HOMIE