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Show SENATOR KEARNS PAYS TRIBUTE TO QUAY "Senator Matt Quay was one of the least understood men In public life," remarked re-marked Senator Thomas Koarns, on hearing hear-ing of tho death of the great Pennsyl-vanlan. Pennsyl-vanlan. "Few men had so many loyal friends or so many relentless foes. .His successes In politics and In business were won always at tho end of Htrugglos In which his true metal was always manifested. mani-fested. Ho never shirked a responsibility, no matter how groat It might be. Ho never hesitated to go Into a contest, whoro the Interests of his friends or his own wore Involved, even If ho know that to lose would bo his political death. Ho was forever ready. Ho was never unprepared to moot any possible movement his foe-men foe-men might make. And he seldom lost. "Senator Quay's greatest strongth was In his unswerving loyalty. No man served him and found him ungratofuL Ho woo loyal to the core. And that loyalty is tc3. lifted to by tho legions of friends that ho could always call to his old In any kind of a contest. Senator Quny was maligned most by ihoso who knew him less. Ho was a great Judge of men. He understood men and was frank with all who had business busi-ness with him. His frankness made soma of his severest critics. But his frlonds loved him as a fathor. "I havo heard it said that Senator Quay's control of Pennsylvania was an In-Jury In-Jury to that great Stale. Such a suggestion sugges-tion was always, to me, the sheerest non-senHv non-senHv No Stato has prospered moro than has Pennsylvania. No Stato has finer Institutions In-stitutions or better laws. And the Immense Im-mense majority that Is given to tho Republican Re-publican party In that Stato Is certainly a fine testimonial to the thoroughness of Senator Quay's Republicanism and to that of his friends. They never found It necessary neces-sary to elect Democrats to office. They were always loyal. "Ono thlwr especially striking In tho political po-litical life of the dead Senator la the man-nor man-nor In which ho has towered high above tho other men of tho State. Why, there Is not a reader of American history who does not know of Matthew Stanley Quay. But there are thousands and thousands who If called on could not name a half dozen other prominent men In that State. Yet there aro hundreds of them. So forceful force-ful has he been that ho has etood head and shoulders nbovo his people. There Is something In this, In Itself, to think about. "Senator Quay was a power In Congress. Ho was everlastingly doing something, And his work Ih In many Instances a port of tho Important history of his time," |
