Bisbee daily review., 1904-05-31
THE DEATH OF
 MATTHEW STANLEY QUAY

The death or MattneW Slahe'
 Quay, United States Senator iron
 Pennsylvania, removes one of th'
 most conspicuous members of the Re
 publican party from life. In poll
 tics. MT. Quay had no equal in either
 party. He stood alone in the unique
 manner of his campaigns. He held
 the Republican party in his native
 state with an iron grasp. which all
 the enemies within and without his
 party were absolutely unable to break.
 Probably no man who ever held pub lie office, had such bitter fights waged
 against him as the Cead senator.
 These were not only the strong an- tagonisms that were put up against him by the party of opposite political faith, but within his own party, with oissensicns strong and venomous at
 times, the results always came out
 the same, with Mir. Quay still in pow
 CT. Twenty years ago the New
 York World opened up a campaign against Mir. Quay which is believed to have been the most bitter attack ever made by a newspaper on a man, public or private in character. IL solicited him to take the paper into the courts of Pennsylvania or New York upon the charge Of criminal or civil libel, offered to pay all expen- ses of the suits, and to guarantee a cash settlement of any amount the jury might return against il, but with the silence of a sphynx the deceased Senator passed the terrific lombard ment of charges of both a public and private character, as though he were receiving commendation rather than 
 His wonderful campaign. when as the Chairman of the Republican Com mittee, he carried th Sugh the fight for President Harrison will also be as well as his telegram to that gentleman, Don't Talk"
 He was resourcefll when others would fail for want of them. He W 1o NNtP anu IN NG5 AOC overscrupulous as o his methods of winning campaign. His main ob- ject in all his fights in which he en- gagged politically was to win them. and he did.
 One of the things for which MT. Quay will always be remembered, and especially by Arizonans, was the gal lant fight made in behalf of single statehood for this territory. In fact it is entirely dre to Mir Quay that it was made possible to pass the ne- farious and notorious bill whose ev- cry line wrote the Republican party and whose national platform was writ ten and branded as a hypocritical gold brick meaningless in its worthless in its promises and the work in that particular, that of demagogue.
 Though he was a Republican, Mr. Quay will be missed by Arizona in the highest branch of the National Ilt was POnC4 OA ganization, of immense personal :n- fluence, of strong magnetism ani fo: that reason Arizona's prospec.s lo )k less promising than they have for some time.
 NIT. Quay has always been in pub lie life. He was born in Dlllsburg, York county, Pennsylvania, graduat- ed from Jefferson College and later ad- mitted to the bar. During the civil war he served Pennsylvania as Commissary General o, the State. Col mel of the 18th Pennsylvania resi- ment, State Military Agent at Wash ington and Military Secretary to the Governor. He was a member of the legislature from 1865 to 1867, Seereta- " of State for Pennsylvania from 1872 to 1878; Recorder of PhiIadelph. Ia from 1878 to 1879; was again Secreta- " of State from 1878 to 1882; Sta.eI Treasurer in 1885, and was chosen United States Senator in 1887. KeI failed of reelection to the Sena.e be- cause of a deadlock until in 1901. ke was nominated by the sta-e convention and elected. Since then he has been quite III, and absent fr5r1 his seat ia the Senate a greater part cf he t.me. but attracted Teit attention by his advocacy of the sips's admission to statehood of the iour territories. He was also strongly opposed to the Pan- ana Canal treaty.
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