Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-23
What Defeated Harrison in Contest With Cleveland

The secret moves of noted Repub- Iiean leader. tho late Matthew Stan ley Quay, senator from Pennsylvania.
 mystified the nation in the campaign of 1892, when he led a bolt from his
 party and defeated Benjamin Harrison for a second term in the White House and made Grover Cleveland, president. James A. Campbell, newspaper writer long 6 eonfidant of Senator Quay, has set for the inside story of that remark l able campaign i'll an article reproduced | from the Philadelphia Public Lndgcs. On the Sunday night preceding tn. presidential election in 1882, 1 called at the headauarters of the Republican state committee in the Continental
 hotel in pursuance of my duty as po- l itical ceportcr fer the Philadelphia
 Record, to obtain from Frank Willing Leach, secretary of the state commit tee, the estimate by counties of the vote for president and on the state tic
 ket in Pennsylvania.
 Senator Quay Is coming over from
 New York and will be here about mid
 night on his way to his home at Bea- yer to vote,'' said Leach. If you stick
 around you may get 8 good interview froIl him on the wtnd-up of his cam paigp.'
 4 few minutes after midnight a cou- pc drove up to the Ninth street en- trance of the Continental and l saw Quay aiight and enter the hotel A few moments later I knocked at the door of his room and was invited to enter The senator was glad to see me, say
 ing he was not sleepy and wanted a companion for few hours. was quite willing to keep him company, but first HaYna n6ad
 All right" said Quay. I'll dictate
 it and you write it, send it over tc
 your office and stay here"
 The senator dictated a statement tc
 the effect that Harrison, the Repub.
 lican presidential nominee, would b.
 elected, and that he would carry tht , same states he did in 1888 and in ad dition to these probably North Caro- lima and Tennessee. Of the election O
 the man then in the White Hous, there was, according to the senator statement for publication, no possibil ity of doubt.
 .. A messenger boy was summoned an, sent my exclusive Quay interviev to the Record erriee, at the same tim informing the city editor that I wa through for the night. Senator Qua , ordered nineteenth century refresh ! ments and something to smoke. Whe ,, they arrived he locked the door an : put the key in his pocket. ''Now," he said, "fll tell you tn } truth. The villain in the White Hous ! lis beaten and I am mighty glad c
 It."
 |, I gasped in astonishment Let m 8 out of here :" I shouted. q can mak Q a thousand dollars tonight if you wi
 let me treat that as news" s You will stay where you are," h - said. What I have told you is unde : the rose. You must not reveal a wor a of it.
 0 Of course, I promised to obey hi q mandate, and there followed the con t plete revelation of the plot concocte k to bring about the defeat of Presidei - Harrison for second term. The chit t conspirators were Quay, Senator T. Il Platt of New York and John I. Clari Il son of Iowa. Before the senator plung > ed into his story I asked him the res + son for his aninosity toward Pres 3. dent Harrison.
 n My grievance is personal one IS Quay said.
 le Quay had been chairman of the R, u publican national committee in u 'f campaign of 1888, and 1t was unive B sally conceded that HarrIson's ele to tion over President Cleveland tn r. year was largely, if not entirely, dl l: to Quays masterly generalship in tn
 memorable contest. realized that