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...Cabinet post. He was one of the worst Secretaries of War who ever bought a carload of defective rifles, but his power in Pennsylvania was unbroken until his death (at 90) in 1889. He passed his Senate seat on to his son, but his real power fell to Matt Quay...
...Quay (a Congressional Medal of Honor winner in the Civil War) who brought the alliance between the Republican Party and business interests to its fullest flower. A colleague said that Quay had "a consummate skill in calculating political quantities." He also had a profound Pennsylvania contempt for political hypocrisy. Quay and the Pennsylvania Railroad sent carloads of men into doubtful Indiana to vote for Harrison against Cleveland. When Harrison said: "Providence has given us the victory," Quay snarled: "Think of the man. He ought to know Providence had nothing to do with...
...After Quay grew old and ill, the machine passed to the most remarkable of the Pennsylvania bosses, Boies Penrose, scion of an aristocratic Philadelphia family, a Harvard man who started out writing books like A History of Ground Rents in Philadelphia. He made his political debut at a citizens' protest meeting against Philadelphia's notoriously undependable streetcar lines. The 6 ft. 4 in., 200-lb. political genius went to the legislature, the state senate, the U.S. Senate; he would have run for mayor of Philadelphia if the opposition had not threatened to print a snapshot of Penrose leaving...
...carry quite the same meaning as they do today. Throughout his political career, Pinchot's strongest ally was Joe Grundy, owner of a Bristol, Pa., textile plant, who founded the Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association. Grundy was a new kind of political boss. To Cameron and Quay the money to be made in politics was an incidental increment of political power; to Penrose money was just a means to political ends. But Grundy & friends were primarily businessmen, interested in politics as an aid to business. To this day the Grundy "machine" is not a normal political organization with normal responses...
...lowering fog that shrouded the cliffs of Dover one morning last week, an unseen foghorn moaned. As if summoned by the echoes, 178 sallow-faced workmen, each carrying a brown paper parcel or a battered cardboard suitcase, trudged along the quay of Dover Marine Station and straggled up the gangplank of a trim Belgian steamer, the S.S. Koenig Albert. The men were Italian miners, recruited to dig coal in fuel-hungry Britain; they were being sent away because British miners refused to work with foreigners (TIME, May 26). Most will find jobs in Belgian pits...