The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1890-07-30

Even His Silence Counted as
Significant

From the PAilasIciplia Rece1i
QuAy Is nothing II Eot signiEcant. 1ou
or can smile. Iangh. walk. ri.le. drive o.
even talk without attracting much Atten-
ton. Bat QUAY cah DO nothing without
attracting 3 great deal of attention Eseo
his silence IS more significant than other
mems eloqrence-Blair's for example,
or TeIlers or Calls As Chairman ofthe
RepubEcan National COMMITTEES, then -
4 member q the senate, as b0ss of Penn
sylvani- QuAy's every movement or
Iaek q movement. IS significant Take
interstss xifh him pubiishesi IN the
newsDAf-rs--I mean the political inter
xie.sr-ssr admit that when talking
shssa fsh. and Eshing and fishermen,
h;s remarks, however, interesting, seem
nos 70 be significant Bot in hls political
interviews how much more IS said than
meets the eyeg We read that being ask
sd this question or that senator Quay
smiled significantly Or Senator elsy
significantly said--nothing at all II Is
few words zs possibie--or senator Quay
maintained q significant silence II
would be almost safe TO say that there
never was genuine Quay interviE pub
lished, except those informal PIonuncia-
neutos which he furnishes himself,
where the word significant in some Of its
forms was not used. This Is the marx Of
greatness, real or unreal-the vote PoEer-
The Jokes Of kings are proverbially SIDE
splitting. no matter how ancient and ven
erable. and the nod, the smile, the word
OF that fsudal leader, the modern
Boss. i no less significant Il Is inn
possible not 70 use il.
AsHE AFFEAEs N rHE SESATE-
( You see Quay quietly resting in his
seat in the front row on the Republican
side OF the senate, decorousIy dressed,
sfudiously attentive. sloEly welding
palm-leaffan. This : significant You
see him an hour later through the open
door Of his committee room. which i
really his public Office for It has ID
/ privacy hard AZ work al his desk in the
/ corner By the wind0w looking oct 10 the
White House. his coat OF, and his spec
taeles on-his only sign Of age This,
too. Is significant Presently he turns
o~er his desk 70 Dick takes OF bis
specsacles. puts on his coat and hat takes
his goid-headei cane and walks out %
The elevator. which he takes for down
stairs and down street This : signih-
can't. too. In the evening he does not at
tend the c@ncns, although The caucus
actually waits fifteen minutes for him,
/ but remains in his handsome library
talking with Lieutenant -D2ve7 Martin,
and later on reading the life Of Machia-
velli until he overcomes his sleeplessness.
Tbs. too, i significant Every call he
makes At the White Hause. Is. OF course,
significant 50 Is every call he makes AZ
any Of the departments-oE anywhere
else for that matter; for example, a.
i Speaker Reeds reOns, in the Vice Presi-
/ dents MOTEL or at the residence Of Post
master General Wanamaker. He Is one
Of the men Of whose visits you can very
truthfully say, at had 10 political sig-
significance Even when he gets away
from all the work and worry Of Washing
ton. and goes out 70 Beaver for a few
days rest, We al see sigui6cance in Il.
I am told that he : going 70 Beaver this
week, largely 70 give sitting FOR por-
trait to Ms Dzrrzgh, Of Philadelphia, 10
whom Mr. George W. Childs gave the
commission TO paint the portraits Of
/ Grant, Sherman and Sheridan Tor the
Military Academy at West Point Yet I
myself see conferences with Dslamafer
and Andrews in II, and ali manner Of
other significant things
Is BIZ TIKED OF FrBasc LrFE2
At times ] have no doubt this sense Of
significance grztifes Quay, for If rejects
his poxsr. But oflensr I think il Eearies
him As a matter Of faet, I believe he Is
/ tired Of public life, and I look to see him
leave the senate before his term expires
in 1896. At al eTents be vii turn the
Craftsmanship Of the NLtiOnal Committee
over 10 Clarkson- He would have done
this before nov If il had not been for the
charges Il was nonsense ever to sup
/ pose that he would resign under ire
for Harrison OF anybody else had dared
to suggest such thing TO him. which
neither Harrison nor anybody else did