Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1891 — QUAY WILL QUIT. [ARTICLE]

QUAY WILL QUIT.

At Least Mr. Clarkson Says the Chairman Will Retire. Hon. John S. Clarkson has been shown the dispatch purporting to quote Senator Quay’s words, stating that he had decided to resign the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee immediately ifter the election. Mr. Clarkson said: “I im able to state that this is true. Immediately after the election Senator Quay informed hjs colleagues of the executive iommittee that he desired to resign as shairman; that he did not desire to do the detail work and have the detail correspondence of a political committee, and itill more that he felt that a United States Senator ought not to be the chairman of a national committee, or any political com mlttee. His colleagnes on the committee resisted this and persuaded him not to reilgn. He renewed the wish three or fonr months afterward, and about the time of (he Inauguration insisted upon it with a treat deal off determination. The judgment of the committee was opposed to it. and the members were unanimous in the Jeslre that the organisation which had tone through a great struggle, and which had uerformed a great work maintaining absolutely harmonious relations, and the members becoming endeared to each other thereby, should remain unbroken until replaced by the new national committee treated by the next national convention of the party.