The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-25
ousv,s Policy of Silence.


If reports are trus, Senator Quay does not
/ find his policy Of silence with respect t.
| the charges that have been made against
| him a satisfactory one. 1t is alleged that
/ his brother senator's shun him, and that the
/ President has asked him to resign his posi-
/ tion as chairman Of the national republican
committee. IL these statements are true,
Mr. Quay must either make an effort to
show that the charges are false or retire
from politics.
1t is said that his friends. Col. Dudley, Of
blocks OF FIVE fame, and Mr.. Clarkson,
Assistant Postmaster General. have advised
him to say nothing for the reason that the
charges against him would soon be forgot
ton, This advise is not good. 1t might be
good, assuming, OF course, that the charges
are true, if Mr.. Quay was not a conspicu-
GUS political leader aud constantly coming
before the public in that capacity. As
long as he undertakes to control the politics
of his state, and as long as he remains at
the head of the national republican com
mittee, the charges will continue to make
their appearance in the public prints.
At the present tims he is Insisting that
State Senator Delamaser, friend OF his,
shall be the republican nominee for COVER
nor of Pennsylvania. Charges of a corrupt
nature have been made against Mr.. Del
amater. and thousands OF the better class of
republicans of Pennsylvania declare that
they will not support him under any cir
cumstances. Senator Quay, therefore, is con-
froated by a dilemma. II he insists upon
Mr.. Delamater's nomication the chances
are that his party will be defeated at the
polls. and if he withdraws Delamater, it
Will be assumed that he was forced to do SO
because Of the charges against him and his
candidate, aud his hold upon his party will
be broken.
Ex-senator Quay is innocent of the charges
against him, viz: that when he was treas
urer Of Pennsylvania he was on one ocoa-
sion defaulter in the amount of S250,OOO,
which sum Senator Cameron AID other
friends helped him to make up, and tina. on
another occasion he used the money of the
state in a speculative. venture, the proper
course for him to pursue is to bring
libel suits against the newspaper which
made the charges, and compel it to prove
OAouis IL Ac NOoo hOo huOpb luis IL
will be generally assumed thai the charges
are true.
1t is rather remarkable that the PhIla-
delphia Press, the leading republican news
paper of Pennsylvania, has had nothing to
say about the charges against Senator
Quay. If there were no foundation for
them that newspaper, in all probability,
would have promptly denied them. That
it has not done so is taken as an indication
that. in its opinion, they are true.
The President has had nothing to do with
Col Dudley since the publication of the
latter's blocks of five letter. 1t is under
stood that the reason he withdrew his friend
ship from him was the discovery of Col.
Dudley's alleged corrupt practices. If it be
true that he has asked for Senator Quay's
resignation as chairman of the national re-
publican committee, the conclusion is ire
sistible that he has examined the charges
against Senator Quay. and has found them
to be true. 1t may be, therefore, that the
reason Senator Quay has adopted the policy
Of silence is that it is the only policy he
ran a1ont