Show trying to dethrone quay pa aug 28 special the third of the greatest triumvir ale of political boshea of the present time cornea before a state convention of bia party today for vindication and in maryland recently where the revolt against senator german threatened to assume dangerous proportions that astute manipulator succeeded in stemming the tide and in bending the state convention to his on n sweet will so also in the ister state of ohio last senator calvin S ariee against whom all manner of things had been threatened within the ranks of his own party not only honored by his selection as temporary and permanent chairman of the state convention but had the action of being commended in the platform for his support of the national administration today it is the turn of mathew stanley quay greatest of all living political manipulators who haa forgotten or cast aside aa antiquated and unless more points nhsin brica and combined ever knew who has ruled mercilessly with a rod of iron and eschewed entirely the oily diplomacy that both of his compeers com peers in the senate are able to with telling effect when other means to their ends have failed the overthrow of senator quay today would prove the humbling of the greatest of them all and would mark an epoch in the history of the national republican party the stages of the fight against the senator have become an everyday story of late supreme master of the republican organization in this state for more than two decades he suddenly discovered lees than three months ago that a formidable combination had been formed to him of power and authority and to bring down with him in the ruins the house of cameron which through ono or other of its bembera for half a century has ruled absolute as did the kings and princea of principalities before german unity then it was that the senator put on hia fighting cloi hea and announced his candidacy for the chairmanship of the state central committee from which point of vantage he would have control of the pennsylvania delegation to the next national convention this was the signal for the concentration against him not only of the real and professional reformers but of most of the ablest republican leaders of the state all of whom had been ranged under his own banner in the past among these were ex postmaster general wannamaker gov hastings david martin the national committeemen and the undisputed republican leader in philadelphia 0 L mcgee of pittsburg the leader in western pennsylvania attorney general mccormick stata gilkeson Gilk eaon and mayor warwick of philadelphia behind these were hundreds of lesser political luminaries so that to the quay borcea it looked like a losing battle and overwhelming slaughter from alie first but alie opposition had under estimated quays genius as a general into the battle he went fighting in city and in county in the valleys and through the mountains fighting to hold his own in favorable districts and to the enemy from their own fastness for six weeks the battle raged and when the smoke had cleared away and the gains and losses had been counted th republican man of iron was the victor and with votes to spare there are but delegates in alie convention that assembled in the state housa at noon today and of these it ia claimed that quay has pledged or a majority of 16 it is talked this morning that the opposition may bolt and hold a convention of its own but this is regarded as doubtful the convention will nominate a candidate for state treasurer and six candidates for superior court judges this court was created by the legislature just before its adjournment journ ment these seven candidates with the permanent chairman of the convention will elect a new chairman of the state committee should quay be defeated chairman gilkeson would be reelected in that event two thirds of the delegates to the next national convention would support gov hastings for president if quay is victorious the delegation will be nearly for mckinley Mo Kinley |