Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-01-28
STATEHOOD CHANCES GOOD.
Senator Quay Has Made a Brave Fight
In The Senate.
SENATORIAL TRADITIONS UPSET.

Four propositions will be made in
open session by supporters of the
statehood bill. says a Washington dis.
patch under date of January %.
The first request will be for an
agreement to vote next Saturday. A
vote will be asked each Saturday fol
lowing until February 10. If the OPP
ponents of statehood are unwilling to
agree to n vote the supporters of the
bill will insist on continuous sessions
until a vote is reached, and will be
prepared TO sleep, IL necessary, in the
capitol.
Senator Quay has once more stag.
gered the senate coterie of omnipot.
ence. Monday night he gave a dinner
AT his home to the republican senators
Who are supporting the omnibus bill.
These tactics are altogether new in the
United States senate. The oligarchy
which depends on courtesy and a rec
ognition of senate traditions for its
power no longer conceals its indigna-
tion. Mr.. Quay is accused of introduce
ing the methods employed in political
conventions to accomplish his senate
purposes. What Is to become of the
United states senate n these methods
are TO be employed. Mr.. Piatt, Mr..
Hale and Mr.. Allison shake their heads
despairingly and wonder. Only the
other night Mr.. Quay and Mr.. Plat
were hobnobbing in the Arlington lob
by. Mr.. Quay took from his pocket a
list of senators and handed it to Mr..
Plat.
THAT list contains the names of for
ty-six senators who are going to vote
for the statehood BILL" said Mr.. Quay
n~onchalently. IF you think you can
get any Of them you are welcome to
try"
Not a word in reply. said Mr.. Plat.
Never before in his long senate serv-
ice had any one come to him with a
proposition Of this kind. He is unac-
customed to any such tactics as a tyro
in politics would be.
Quay Isn't Apoiogizing.
Mr.. Quay has not asked that any ex-
plantations or apologies be made for
him. He has reached the point in his
political life where he never offers
excuses. 1t can be said, however, that
the Pennsylvania senator did not in
the beginning contemplate the tactics
to which he is now resorting. He start
ed In to win and fight for the omnibus
bill. Early in the struggle he discov-
cred that clear majority of the senate
sympathized with him. His supporters,
however, were a hodge podge. They
included senators of all political be-
liefs who had nothing in common and
who were personally Indifferent to
each other. The opposition was com
posed exclusively Of republicans led
by the senate veterans whose word
has been law in all conferences of re-
publicans. The coterie of omnipotence
began to tamper with Mr.. Quay's
young republican followers. The news
papers secuted the possibility of Mr..
Quay or anybody else winning a fight
against such opposition. Mr., Bever,
idge, who is ALWAYS exasperating,
made a pilgrimage to the White house
and assured the president that II was
impossible for Mr.. Quay to win. He
told the newspapers that the omnibus
forces would crumble and that what
ever was done he and his committee
would do.
MI. Quay didn't try to beat the sen
ate experts at their own game. He
tried the game he knew the best ant
about which they knew the least. He
began picking up senators just as hi
picks up delegates at a national or
state convention. He brought to hi
support the best schooled republican
politicians in the senate. They wer'
not allies of the coterie of omnipot
ence, but were politicians who under
stood how to form combinations an
had won by standing by their prom
ises.. Mr.. Quay has left the democrat
severely alone. II they fail him the!
will only have their own political stu
pidity to blame. In order TO win the
senate must be made to comprehend
that the Quay organization cannot b'
bought by legislative plumber nor scar
ed by threats of a senatorial boycott
Mr.. Foraker has not hesitated to fol
low where Mr.. Quay has led. In hi
speech concluded Monday he inferen,
ly accused republicans who denied ad
mission to the territories of part
treachery. Adroitly he lifted the vel
and exposed New England and its pun
poses. He showed the attitude of Ne'
England by quoting from a speech de-
r T.
when he proposed to establish tn
state OF Louisiana. In that speec
Josiah, among other things, said:
Quoted Josiah Quincy.
at was not for these men that OF
fathers fought. IL was not for the
that the constitution was adopte'
You have no right to throw the libe
ties and properties of these people
with the wild men or the Missouri NJ
a. .g~ol tha,,ah mora rpcnanf