The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-06-03

on Tammany. y directory. which APP
parently had no connection with the re-
city of New York. This contained the
name of every voter in the city. 1t
was made out by election districts, and
every house was indicated in maps
which We're prepared. Shortly before
! election Quay had all these records
brought to national headquarters and
he sent for one of the responsible men
in Tammany and aid to him.:
There is the record of every man in
New York who is entitled to vote at
this election. We will have an honest
election his time or all the jails in
the state won't be big enough to hold
the men we will send to prison."
Quay asserts the bluff" worked.
He was powerfully aided by John L.
Davenport. the United States super
visor OF elections, who had back of him
q perfect army of deputy marshals. In
edition to that. While the democrats
had been looking after New York city,
they had overlooked Kings county, and
John Y. McNane, without the knowl-
his allegiance to Senator Quay.
That is how Harrison was elected
president in 1888, although Harrison at
tributed it to divine province" Quay
was fighting Harrison before the
new administration was fairly started.
and Wannmaker, whom Harrison made
postmaster general, was in turn fight
ing Quay. From hat time forward the
Harrison administration was doomed to
defeat. Quay aIrayed himself against
the administration on the force bill and
aided the democrats to accomplish it's
defeat. lie joined with n coterie of re-
publican senators to prevent the renom-
nation of Harrison, and with Platt and
others sought to nominate Blaine at
Minneapolis in 1899. The fractional fight
in the republican party was %unfavor-
Die to republican success. Platt and
his friends k Quay efuse to be
chairman of the republican national
committee. 1t is on record that he
did not visit national Headquarters once
during the campaign. Harrison went
down to defeat, but Quay a saved
his seat in the senate and was re-
elected in 1893.
His power by this time had become
SO great in the senat that he was able
10 dictate the textile and iron schedules
IN the so called Wilson tariff law which
the democrats passed in 1894. In this
memorable contest he took the floor
and threatened to talk until dcomsday
II the democrats would not give in. He
talked day after day. reading volume
after volume of dry reports to kill time.
FINALLY the democrats yielded, and
there was high protection in the Will
son bill for the manufacturers of car
pets, woolens n worsteds in Phila-
delphia and for the iron manufacturers
OF Harrisburg, Johnstown and Pitts
hurs. Quay was more than ever the
idol of lis native state.
Following up his hitherto unbroken
record of supporting a winner in
a national convention, Quay iointitthe
movement ir 1896 against Mckinley,
the leading candidate. He had told
Mckinley years before, when he made
RaaI C,,nnI.a,. an; NraYr:J1.
OF the committee on ways and means
that the tariff bill would surely make
him, Mckinley, president The scheme
to defeat Mckinley's nomination was
very Widespread. Quay himself be-
came a candidate in order to hold his
New York; Clarkson supported ALI
SON; Reed was the candidate of New
England; Cullom, who tried to hold
the votes of Illinois. was beaten by
Mckinley in his own state convention.
When Mckinley was elected Quay soon
the appointment of Charles Emory
Smith, because Mr.. Smith had been
n of his chief opponents in Pennsyl-
Vania.
Mr.. Wanamakcr's Fertile Field.
In the meantime thick storms had
been gathering around Quay at home.
His term in the senate was expiring.
a movement against him had extend
ed through every county in the state.
who proclaimed himself as a candi-
date for he senate. When the legis-
lature met at Harrisburg In 1896 a
deadlock was brought about and there
was a vacancy in the senate when the
legislature adjourned. In the mean
time a new state treasury scnnaaiN Nd
broken out. Quay was ever a specu-
lator in stocks. and he had made and
won large fortunes by the rise and fall
of securities in Wall street. After the
failure Of the Keystone bank, the Peo-
Pies bank, of Philadelphia, had be-
come the political bank of the state.
Here We're deposited enormous sums of
tie states money, from which various
men borrowed.
The bank failed In the early DAYS OF
Quay's fight to succeed himself and tho
cashier committed suicide. of the states
funds $4,000 had been lost. James Me-
Names, an old time politician, whom
Quay had fought through many a year
and whom he had finally driven out of tho
leadership, wrote his own check for $780,
COO to make good the deficit. When the
authorities took charge of the banks at
fairs they found In the desk of the dead
cashier letters and kilograms which indi-
Gated that Quay and others had iuau-
enced the deposit of large sums of tho
states money in the bank and in return
ilau DOETOWeO IlOiey from the Dank Tor
speculative purposes. One of these teie-
grams read:
Buy me one thousand Met and l will
shake the plum tree"
Met meant Metropolitan Traction
company stock and the plum tree was a
shower Of state money to be deposited in
the bank. Quay was indicted and tried.
He was acquitted. He showed the utmost
GOODNESS at his trial, and even read for
the court the originals of certain letters
in his handwriting which were difficult
to d%ecipher. But he was acquitted and
shat very day he got his second %''vindica-
tion." for Governor William "A. Stone APP
pointed him to the vacancy in the sem
ate. for which he had failed to receive
an election by the legislature.
Mas of Literary Mind.
H.r. Quay has literature as his hobby.
Politics is only his trade. He Is one of
the best informed men on English litera-
ture in the country outside of a univer-
sity. He has a splendid library, and is a
great reader. He Will discuss some point
about a famous writer for hours while an
important question Is waiting his decision.
He has been known to keep a committee
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