The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-25
DESIRES THAT HE BE SUCCEED
 ED BY HIS SON.
BIistow Cherishes an Ambition to be Named Senator in the Place of Joseph Ralph Burton
 of Kansas.
Advertiser Bureau,
 Colorado Building,

ApLh Go
 Senator Quay, Pennsylvania's para mount political factor, has not been a very active figure in Congress at this session. Much of the time of the ses- sion he has spent at his Florida preserve, coming to Washington or going home only when imperative emergency required his presence. He has not failed to keep in touch with all that was going on, but he has not been as strong to meet the exigencies of the pace he long ago set for himself as an omniscient boss in Penn sylvania.
 He Is in his seventy-first year and has been in the most active kind of politics for over thirty years. not merely in it for himself. but for his friends and for his party on the biggest possible scale, He was chairman of the Republican Ma ticnal Convention of 1888, when Grover Cleveland suffered his first and only de- feat.
 Quay's Great Mistake.
 Since that time Senator Quay has been a mighty factor in Republican affairs. His greatest offense. according to many who concede his extraordinary ability as a politician. was in aiding to make Theo- dcre Roosevelt the Republican candidate for Vice-President in 1900.
 Mir. Quay seems greatly to have felt the consequences of that mistake, for since that time he has taken much less interest in politics. He is more often of late seasons consulted rather than begged to lead.
 The great politicians days are said to have recently been set an approximate limit by his own choice. He wishes, 1t is said. to quit the Senate. If he can ar range 1t, he will resign with an under standing that he will be succeeded by his son. Richard Quay. The Quay machine il harmony with which the Junior Sena- tor. Boies Penrose. has always worked, is said to be we'll fixed for running that way.
 The Younger Quay.
 The younger Quay has enjoyed excep- tional opportunities to learn the finest kind of politics, and the fact that the senior is willing to let him have the toga when he puts off the senatorial garment, is in itself warrant for Pennsylvania folk.
 For more reasons that one has Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow occasion to feel a deep soreness of spirit All the while he has striven to make a record as an executive officer of unusual fidelity and industry MT Bristow has aspired to become a United States Sena- tor from Kansas. His enemies say that there has been no little method in his pursuit of persons guilty of infraction of law affecting the Post Office Department. They poirt to the fact that he is seeking to succeed one of the very men whom his sleuths have gotten into the tolls. one Joseph Ralph Burton, recently convicted and sentenced. but still having title as Senator of the United States.
 The Hope of Bristow.
 Bristow's present hope is said to be for Burton to be put out of the Senate and to receive his seat by appointment from Governor Bailey before the governors retirement from office Bailey being friendly to Bristow. But it happens that one Hoch. who is the Republican nomi- nee stands a fair chance to come into the governorship before Burton is out of the way. as the convicted Senator has determined to hold on to his office. if ncssible. until after the expiration of Bailey's term as governor.
 Another occasion of some mental tribu- lGtion for MT Bristow is reported from K" nsas. Among the Congressmen upon whom the Brlstow investigation report cast odium was J. D. Bowersock.
 The Case of Bowersock.
 Bowersock was a candidate for re-elec tion and had vigorous opposition His op- DC nent was the law partner Of Bristow. H J. Allen. Bowersock has just beaten Bristow's partner for the nomination and vii! come back to Congress in spite of the Bristow influence and the Bristow label of bad man." with which the post office report tagged him. The defeat of his law partner seems to have complete ly ruined the prospects of Mfr. Bristow to