Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-06-03

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OF his will. many loved him and many
hated him. One Of the secrets OF
his power was the unwayering frieni.
ship of his friends, while no man ev-
er had TO fight more ~implacable enc,
mics.
To the people Of this Territory who
regarded Senator Quay as uuf friend
because he undertook to fight our bat
tie for us, the estimate Of Ills char
acter and his personality byfthose who
knew him best will be OF gfeatinter-
est. The following Is a portion OF the
editorial which appeared In the Pitts
burg Press the day following the SEN
atOr's death: 4
strength Is what We will Judge.
We will praise and mourn only, after
the Intervention of the Presence in
whose solemn shadow every human
Judgment appears impious. To belt,
lie, to criticise, to disparaga, to accuse
now, would offend the grief Of friends,
and OF these the singular man known
III Quay had myriads. Where has
orr political history recorded more
wealth of personal devotion than that
which followed Matthew Stanley Quay
through all the storms Of his eventual
career? No man In all this vast com.
monwealth, teeming. ~ y loes, with
ain almost infinite variety Of interests,
could have excited BY his ?assing away
a more widespread sense Of personal
bereavement. Do men love without
cause and admire without reasong
There were f~ascinatins;. engaging hi.
If IN qualities beneath this impassivo
exterior. Even In this day of won.
derful party fealty ana N Regnablc
political organizations. II Is not with
out great powers Of mind, and ieart
faculties as well, that a nai becomes
the uncrowned ruler Of Pennsylvania.
To suppose that sheer. impndent ,unre-
fined assumption can attain this dizzy
eminence. that the boss, IL such he
be called, carries abpsss with him
RI ne of the virtues or Tho sraccs i,
i:ss nothing but the ~ dilately sci
fish and brutal caitiif, would be III in
suit to seven millions Of people from
borders rang the first cry for
national liberty and independence and
from whose loins sprang hundreds OF
thousands of sturdy defenders when
our national integrity was menaced
by slavery and rebellion.
Matthew Stanley Quay was one Of
these sturdy defenders. Let his err
rors OF office holding and office dis
have been what they may. he
was one of The brave men who did not
III the hour when the supreme
sacrifice wal demanded OF them By
their country. Later be called a sim
liar richness OF courage into play in
The service, not OF country but of par.
". To his genius for organization
was owed the election Of at least one
republican president. He was no
statesman, they tell us In other com
monwealths. Yet he went to the SEN
ate, AMI. without any display Of ora
tary, dominated the greatest states
men of the country.
IT is not possible that this extra.
ordinary man-like another American,
saying little and doing much
was a faithful mirror OF the Pennsyl,
gania with which ne was So ~conspicu.
identified Bold and unapolo-
disturbed By Few academic mix.
lures, yet intensely loyal To certain
party traditions. the very
qualities that made him potent within
pennsylvania we're also sources Of his
weakness, Those who spurn.
Quay also spnrn Pennsylvania. I'll
hey regard as tariff.machine made.
In him they saw only the machine
politician. in both cases they over.
ook the deus ex machina, the genius
Without which il is Idle to attempt
understand The result. Behind and
Quay the offieeholder stood
quay the gallant soldier ana patriot,
he recipient of n special medal Of hon
lr from congress. Behind and beyond
quay the manipulation stood Quay the
thinker and Quay the philosopher, es-
ieemed by Vests and Roosevelts for
bis marvellous knowledge OF affairs
md Of men. Behind and beyond Quay