The Daily Critic

QUAY'S DILEMMA
HIS CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR
WILL BE OPPOSED,
FARMERS ARE RIPE FOR A TIDAL WAVE
Delamater the Candidate of the
Standard Oil Company.
HIS NOMINATION MAY LOSE THE STATE
And the Legislature and So Endanger
Cameron's Seat.—Afraid to
Shelve Him.
New York, June 23.—The Herald's
Pittsburg correspondent telegraphs his
paper concerning the political situation
in Pennsylvania.
It has been many a year since the
Republicans of Pennsylvania have been
in doubt a week before their State con-
vention as to who would be the nom-
inee for Governor. If Quay should at-
tempt to force the nomination of Sena-
tor George Wallace Delamater, who has
been masquerading as the Quay cham-
pion, the convention might show a ma-
Jority which would carry out the wishes
of the Beaver leaders. It would at the
same time, however, develop a minority
which would be more potent than the
majority so far as the occupancy of the
Executive Mansion goes.
There are dozens of men in the dele-
gations from the western and central
counties and from Philadelphia and
Pittsburg, who would promptly give
notice that they would not support the
candidate if his name should be Dela-
mater. Quay feels that to shelve him
looks like a defeat. On the other
hand, the loss of the State ticket is
something far more serious than a mere
sentimental mishap, and you can de-
pend upon it that this is Quay's view
just now. This is about
THE WAY THINGS STAND
three days before the convention, each
candidate being given the delegates he
can probably depend upon for his first
ballot:—General D. H. Hastings, 70;
George W. Delamater, 67; Major E. A.
Montooth, 50; Charles W. Stone, 16;
General E. N. Osborne, 9; Lieutenant
Governor William T. Davies, 3; Con-
gressman H. C. McCormack, 3. Total,
204. Necessary to nominate, 103.
It is probable that this attempt would
have been successful had it not been
for the stand taken by the Chronicle-
Telegraph, a Republican paper of this
city. Last March it began a systematic
exposure of the corrupt and astonishing
methods employed by Delamater
and Andrews to capture delegates.
Never in the recent history of political
campaigns have there been bolder as-
sertions, more serious charges and more
general corruption urged against a can-
didate than have been laid at the door
of Senator Delamater and Chairman
Andrews by the Chronicle-Telegraph.
A STANDARD OIL CANDIDATE.
It has been an open secret for months
that Delamater is the candidate of the
Standard Oil Company, whose legisla-
tive manipulator he has been. One of
the chief officers of the Standard said
within a month: "We must nominate
Delamater, and we will, without regard
to cost. We have spent too much al-
ready to retreat now."
It is said that
the Standard is desirous of passing im-
portant bills at the next session of the
Legislature, and it desires a Governor
who will do what he is told by them.
Montooth, Hastings and Stone have
led the field and thrown their strength
to each other in the counties where one
of them was in the lead. Since the
24th of May there have been eighty-
eight delegates elected, and Delamater
got only two in Dauphin (Harrisburg)
and five in Philadelphia, and these were
obtained under compromises entered
into before the real weakness of the
Senator from Crawford became ap-
parent. An avalanche of protests from
men of all degrees and representing
the most varied interests has poured
upon Senator Quay as to forcing the
nomination of Delamater. He has been
told by his own most trusted and level-
headed assistants that he would
LOSE THE WHOLE STATE TICKET
and the Legislature with Delamater as
a candidate. This meant the defeat of
Cameron's for the United States Senate
and the ruin of Quay as a national ad-
ministrator of Republican thunderbolts
and sugar plums. Half a dozen times
has he sent out prospecting parties to
all parts of the State to get at the real
feeling of the bulk of Republican
voters. From all these expeditions
came the same results. The farmers
were reported ripe for a tidal wave.
The coal miners and iron workers were
found to be dissatisfied and the mer-
chants, manufacturers and professional
men, who have been the backbone of
the tariff element, which has furnished
the cash for State, Congressional and
national campaigns, were reported as
averse to the suggestion of Delamater
for Governor and Andrews for State
chairman.
WHY QUAY NEEDS SUCCESS
There happens to be a strong reason
why Mr. Quay should have a big ma-
Jority for his gubernatorial nominee.
It lies within the charges brought
against his personal honor as a man, an
office holder and a political leader. A
vote of confidence is an absolute essen-
tial to the future influence of the man
who elected Harrison.
MONTOOTH A DANGER'S CANDIDATE
Delamater as a positive force is no
honest—dangerous.
but he can do much
damage in the china shop still. He has
concentrated his vengeance upon Gen-
eral Hastings who is Quay's second
choice, and at this moment it is a ques-
tion whether he will not be strong
enough to carry the General with him
in his fall. It certainly looks that way.
As a consequence Major Montooth, who
ranks next in point of delegate strength,
has in the opinion of many shrewd
politicians the best chance of any man
in the field. Montooth is District
Attorney of Allegheny County,
handsome, clever veteran of the late
war, a man popular throughout the
State with no political enemies and a
past to trouble him. I think you will
find
and
Montooth
strength
crossing
rapidly after the complimentary
ballot.
Secretary of the Commonwealth
Stone is a strong man but he is out
with Quay and is not likely to align the
lawyers' vote this year. Congressman Osborne
is an out-spoken opponent of Quay, but
Congressman McCormack of Lycoming,
is a very eligible man, and, next to
Montooth, the strongest man, after dis-
posing of Hastings and Delamater.
The defeat of Hastings he as with Del-
amater, if it lies anywhere, if the
Crawford County man is not strong
enough to drag down his leading rival,
it is doubtful if anybody else can do it.
There has been talk of Quay naming
Judge Isaac, Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court, or Frank Reeder of
Bethlehem but the sentiment is strong
against dark horses.
PATTISON WILL HEAD THE DEMOCRATIC
TICKET
There is now every probability that
ex-Governor Pattison will be nominated
by the Democrats, and this has been the
potent reason for the shelving of any
weak candidate. The ex-Governor is
from twenty to thirty thousand stronger
than any other man in his party. If there
is cause for dissatisfaction with the Re-
publican nominee, in any event it will
take the best timber at the disposal of
the Republicans to defeat Pattison. If
Pattison is nominated for Governor
ex-Senator Wallace will have his pres-
ent rival's support for the Senate in
spite of what is said about the ambition
of William H. Scott in that direction.
Of course, Senator Cameron will be
a candidate for re-election, and he will
probably be supported by Quay, but
there is trouble ahead for Cameron.
No less a personage than "Addition,
Division and Silence" Bill Kimble is
after Cameron's plumage. It is known
to but few and has been a well kept
secret up to this time that Kimble has
announced that he will give $100,000 to
defeat Cameron, and if that is not
enough he will make it $200,000. He
also said that he wanted it understood
that he himself had no candidate to
favor in Cameron's stead.
IT WILL BE AN EXCITING CONVENTION.
The convention of next Wednesday
will be a noisy one, for there will be
many clubs and delegations favoring
the various candidates. There will be
a red hot fight for Lieutenant Governor
between J. A. M. Passmore of Phila-
delphia, Senator Lewis A. Watres of
Lackawanna, and E. K. Martin of Lan-
Caster, with the chances in favor of
Watres. Colonel Thomas A. Stewart
of Montgomery County will have a
walkover for Secretary of Internal
Affairs, as he is the only candidate thus
far announced.