Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-07-11
GIVES ONLY A HINT
Quay Says Nothing About
His Retirement.
REFERS TO OLD SPEECH
STATED THAT he WOUED NOT BE
A CANDIDATE AGAIN.
Why He Delays Announcement That
He Will Not Stand for Reelection
Conditions in Pennsylvania.

Whenever Senator Quay goes to his Flori-
da fishing camp returns, or when he
goes to the Maine woods or gets back there
from. the event is made the occasion for an
interview on politics. Senator Quay is a
hard man to get an expression from; peo-
pie who had to do with him when he was
chairman of the national committee
member the rule he set and to which in
general he still adheres.
1t is only when he is going on or coming
from fishing trip, therefore, that he un-
looSens. All of which is preliminary to
saying that he got back to his Beaver Falls
home yesterday from a Maine trip and i'm
medately the wires brought an interview.
correspondent of the Philadelphia Press
asked If the report about his intended re-
tirement from the Senate was true. The
senator replied:
Il must refer you to my Academy of
Music speech at Philadelphia in 1901
Announcement in 1901.
That wasn't much Of an interview, but is
made more intellgible by reference to his
speech delivered the night of May Is,
1901, after his reelection, the preceding
January, to the United States Senate. He
said:
MY political race is run. It Is not to be
unOeTSlOOQ lldl IOQ y sworn Is Drawn
mediately against my life, nor that my seat
in the Senate will be prematurely vacated,
but that, with the subscription of my Off
cial oath on the 18th of January my
politics ceased, except In so far as l may be
committed to certain measures pending in
the present legislature.
Il will never again be candidate for nor
accept any political position. 1 have many
friends to remember; / have no enemies to
punish. In this regard l put aside the
past"
Senator Quay's term expires March g.
1905. 1t is the general understanding among
his friends that he will not stand for re-elec-
ton. but that he defers absolute announce
ment of his intention, in order to prevent
the inevitable scramble for his place which
would follow and which might unsettle poll
tics in Pennsylvania Furthermore, 1t is sus-
pected that he intends to make the way
easy for successor Of his own choosing.
Conditions in Pennsylvania.
Republican politics in Pennsylvania have
been in better shape in the last few months
than they have been for years. Lions and
lambs are lying down beside each other in
perfect amity, and tapping from the same
trough. The republican party is composed,
alert active aud aggressive and Senator
Quay is it's master.
II he should pose now as an intended quit
ter there would be half dozen ambitious
men anxious to succeed him and within a
month they would have their factions or
ganized and their knives at one anothers
throats.
1t is said that Senator Quay has a hand
yet to play in the presidential game With
his dear old friend Senator Platt of New
York he intends to have word to say in
the republican national convention and to
make that word effective he must be the
absolute master Of the Pennsylvania dele.
cation.
Feud With Hanna.
Senator Hanna is one of Senator Quay's
marks. There is feud yet to be settled
between these two Warwicks and If there is
possibility Of blocking any of Senator
Hanna's plans in the next convention Sem
ator Quay proposes to do 1t.
Senator Quay and Senator Platt were
responsible for the nomination of Mr..
Roosevelt to be vive President True, they
kind Of missed the mark of their intentions
-overshot themselves-but anyhow they
showed their power.
Senator Quay is getting ready, 1t ts said.
to resume operations at his old familiar
stand in national conventions and Senator
Hanna he claims as his meat. He wants
to humiliate him some way, IL possible.
either by making him do something he does
not want to do. as in the last convention,
or prevent him doing something he wants
to do.
When Senator Quay does get out of poll
tics he will If possible entail his leader
ship. He has before him the horrible exam
pie Of a great boss departing without se.-
ting his political estate in the case of
New Jersey.
The Case Of Senator Sewell.
There was Senator Sewell as absolute a
boss as ever breathed. He had New Jer-
sey republican politics under his hand and
1t was iron hand. Why, those Jersey
men would no more think of making a
move without asking Gen. Sewell's rermis-
sion, than they would Of putting their hand
in the fire. Since his death they have not
found man strong enough to bear the old
warriors armor and the result is a patch
work of small factions where once existed
a compact and powerful army
What has happened in New Jersey would
not be a circumstance to what will be the
case in Pennsylvania If Senator Quay does
not select. equip and mount his successor.
There can be more kinds of factions and
nastier in Pennsylvania than in any other
state, as shown by experience.
Senator Quay's political life has been one
big battle. When he was not fighting the
democrats he was called upon to fight
factional quarrels in his own party which
were more bitter and more deadly often,
than the others. He has whipped the state
into semblance of peace now and 1T is
said he hopes to keep peace, so that is
why he only hints at what his friends
known to be his ultimate intention.
Army Orders.
Can't Charles F. Parker, Artillery Corps.
has been ordered to attend the annual meet
ing of the Association of Electrical Engi-
neers, to be held at Niagara Falls, N. Y.