. Old time notes of Pennsylvania; a connected & chronological record of the commercial, industrial & educational advancement of Pennsylvania, & the inner history of all political movements since the adoption of the constitution of 1838. y and Quay, as theywere friendly to Wallace, and they meant that if anyDemocrat was elected it must be Wallace. Buckalewhad several conferences with Mackey and Quay andthey held the matter under advisement, until the morn-ing of the day when the vote was to be taken for Senator,they surprised Buckalew by notifying him that theywould not take the responsibility
. Old time notes of Pennsylvania; a connected & chronological record of the commercial, industrial & educational advancement of Pennsylvania, & the inner history of all political movements since the adoption of the constitution of 1838. y and Quay, as theywere friendly to Wallace, and they meant that if anyDemocrat was elected it must be Wallace. Buckalewhad several conferences with Mackey and Quay andthey held the matter under advisement, until the morn-ing of the day when the vote was to be taken for Senator,they surprised Buckalew by notifying him that theywould not take the responsibility to choose betweenDemocrats for the position of Senator, but proposedthat they would cast the entire Republican vote forany Republican that Buckalew might name, if Bucka-lew would join to secure his election. Buckalew thensaw that he was really in the Wallace camp when con-ferring with Mackey and Quay, as between Democratsthe Republicans could readily excuse themselves forchoosing the man they preferred, and that man wouldcertainly have been Wallace, who had many personalfriends in both branches of the Legislature independentof his close relations with the Republican , of course, was fully advised from time to time. /{ e^^/f ^/ y > / c_J?^ /( ft^^<t<:^ THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY Astor, Lenox and TWdenFoMndations. of Pennsylvania 393 by messengers from Mackey and Quay of what trans-pired between them and Buckalew and was entirelyconfident that the Reptibhcan leaders would in someway end the contest in his favor. When Mackey the proposition to Buckalew toelect any Republican Senator that Buckalew mightname and gave that as his ultimatum, Buckalew sud-denly abandoned the fight, and sent word directly toWallace that the Buckalew Democrats would votefor him. I was in Wallaces room at the Bolton Housewhen the Buckalew message was received by fight was thus ended, as V/allace w^as elected in thejoint convention, practically without a struggle,
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