The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-01

maintained his hold upon 1t until he
was appointed census commissioner
in 1890.
Quiggs REIMBURSEMENT Of the Press
was directly the result of his opposi-
ton to the nomination of Mckinley
for President in 1896. Quigg stood for
Thomas Bracket Reed, and long after
most of Mr.. Reeds strongest and clos
est friends. had seen that he was too
far east ever to command the election,
even if nominated, Quiggs eyes were
still blinded
There is a tradition that it was
Chauncey M. Depew who opened the
eyes of a. lot of New Workers. origi-
Tally against Mckinley. Mr. Depew
took a trip through the Northwest and
up and down the Pacific slope. From
day to day he made speeches in which
he mentioned the names of all the Re-
publicans who were possible presiden-
tial timber. And as he mentioned the
names he took note Of their reception
by his audiences Reeds name always
brought out cheers; so did Foraker's
and Morton's and the names of half a
dozen other prominent aspirants to the
chief executives chair. But when he
mentioned William Mckinley the
crowds went wild and cries of bill
mighty choruses.
This led Depew to reason that from
the view point of desirability McKin-
ley was the man to nominate. He was
the only man, he said, whose name
everybody in the land-men, women
and children, people unfamiliar with
public questions as well as politicians
seemed to recognize at once. The
fact that Mr.. McKinley's name had
been attached to the tariff measure
which bore it almost by accident
made no difference. Voters from
ocean to ocean knew who he was and
what he stood for. Well-informed men
knew about Reed, Foraker, Morton ct
al, but the untutored masses didn't,
land that settled it,"
But, as the stump speaker says, this
is a depression.
Quigg's most promising literary pro-
duction was a series of papers, pub
lished in the Tribune on Sundays un-
der the running head of Tin Types"
and afterward issued in book form.
Through no real names were mention
ed in them, a set of characters ran
through them which were easily recog-
nized as Richard Croker and his lieu
tenants. The book had a generous sale
which might easily have been made
larger had the art of the skillful ad-
vertiser been brought into requisition
and for some time he was in demand
With the book publishers, one of whom
felt sure that if he would make a
careful study of New York life, leav-
ing politics entirely out of the ques-
ton, he would be able to do for this
town something approaching what
Charles Dickens did for London.
But the destinations of practical pol
itics had taken TOO firm a hold upon
the young journalist and he foreswore
literature forthwith and probably for
all time.
Quigg is still a young man, being I'M
der forty. but he has been gray as a
rat for seven or eight years, and the
last time l saw him the gray had be-
come almost pure white. He was in
tended by his father-a Methodist min
lister, by the way--for the pulpit, but he
never took any stock in that notion
at all.
One of Quiggs best friends in the
campaign of 1892 was Johnny Milhol-
land, also at that time an attache OF
the Tribune. MilhoIland has dropped
almost completely out of the public eye
now, but then he was very much in evil
dence, his chief function seeming TO be
the harmonizing of certain newspapers
with the printers union. Later ne got
into state politics with both feet, so 10
speak, and for two or three years there