Arizona republican., 1903-03-10
The Good Faith of Senator Quay.

 We are sorry to see that some of the papers in this territory are following the lead of Senator Tillman in charging Senator Quay with bad faith in his advocacy of the statehood bill. Many democratic papers in the east at once accepted the Tillman view that Sena- tor Quay ''buncoed the democratic sen- ators,'' and was using the omnibus bill merely as stalking horse to cover his fight against other measures to which he was opposed. but it is a poor sort of gratitude as we'll as bad judgment for Arizona people to accept these charges and insinuat ations against the distin- guished Pennsylvania senator.
 Senator Tillman himself was opposed to the omnibus bill, as he admitted in the very speech which he made in criti- cism of Senator Quay. It is somewhat important that the public should know the facts, for it is advisable that there should be no disposition anywhere to displace Senator Quay as the leader of the statehood forces next winter. The Congressional Record of March 2 con- tains Tillman's remarks and MT. Quay's dignif1ed reply to Tillman's coarse charges, and this is what MT. Quay said:
 ."I am deeply indebted to my friend the Senator from South Carolina for his tribute to my astuteness as a politician, but if the senator from South Carolina will take the trouble to recur to what happened here last June before ever the trust question became a question of paramount importance, before, I might say. the trust campaign was opened, he will remember that then a unanimous consent agreement was made putting the statehood bill forward at the be- ginning of the present session.
 'As to the senator's implication that on account of my state or on account of any trust in it, although I am in- terested very much in my state, and also, as I mentioned the other day, somewhat in trusts, I had any inten- ton whatever of interposing the state hood bill as a protection to the trusts, in behalf of the trusts, the senator has said what is not true. If he will reflect a moment about what has transpired in relation to the bill he will know that is not true.
 s..I did think that some of my col leagues might have more resolutely an tagenized what transpired in a certain conference which is said to have oc- cured somewhere, but otherwise it is my belief that all those on this side of the chamber who favored the statehood bill and who stood resolutely against the advice and the influence of their in- tiuential colleagues on this side and against the abuse of the newspapers of the north and of this city were faithful to the last, except I say in that one instance I thought they might have stood more directly and stoutly.
 NOW, do not think it is necessary to. say anything more in reply to the senator. except that during the prog ress of the discussion and the voting never understood that the senator from South Carolina for one was following very persistently under my leadership until he mentioned it tonight"
 Senator Quay's own word is sufh cient. for as it happens. he is mar whose mere word is unquestionable by all who know him. But for the benefi of our democratic friends we subjoir the manly speech made by Senator fatterson of Colorado immediately fol lowing the eolioquy between Senate Quay and Senator Tillman:
 MT. President, as a member of tn committee on territories, I am quit unwilling to let the record stand tha the democratic members of that com rnittee are accused of being dupes eithe of the senator from Pennsylvania (Mr Quay) or those upon the republican sid who follow him, and I am quite unwill ing either to allow the senator iron South Carolina (Mr. Tillman) to talk the ground unchallenged of I told yo so, when he, during the entire state hood struggle, with another democrati member was found. whenever vote were taken, in close alliance with tn republican majority that opposed state hood.
 ''Mr. President, the truth is, so far a every democratic member of the com mittee on territories is concerned, tha we have now and we have had the mos implicit faith in the good faith of tn senator from Pennsylvania in thi statehood fight. The only fault tha we have to find with him is that he di not keep up the fight to the last an either secure a vote upon the statehoo bill or force an extra session.