Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-01-29
QUAY TO BREAK SILENCE.

Promised Speech in the Senete in Which
He VIII Answer All Accusations.
The New York Herald today in its Washing
ton correspondence says:
At last Senator Matthew Stanley Quay is
going to speak.
For many months he has been under charges
from many sources of corrupt and criminal
acts in office, and he has steadily refused to say
a syllable as to whether the accusations were
true or false. The long silence he has kept
which has been accepted by many persons as
conclusive evidence of guilt, he is about to
break.
He has prepared to every charge that has
been publicly made against him a specific and
In some cases an elaborate reply, the whole of
which Is pronounced by friend of Mr.. Quay's
who has seen it to be one of the most remark
able documents in recent political history. 1t
is now compiled. copied and ready to be pub
lished whenever Mr.. Quay sees fit.
The medium through which Mr.. Quay will
give his version to the world is the United
Sttes Senate and within q day or two, perhaps
tomorrow, il the occasion is favorable. Mr..
Quay will rise in the Senate to a question of
personal privilege and startle the Senators with
a full statement Of the facts as he views them.
as well as with the only attempt at speech he
has made since he has been in Congress
Although Mr.. Quay has never publicly re-
ferred in any way to the charges that have been
made against him. it is said by his personal and
political friends, who gave me this information,
that he has carefully noted and preserved ali
these charges as they have appeared and
always intended, at the proper time and place,
to reply to them.
He has declined to discuss them through the
newspapers, because he couldn't reach all the
public through any one or a dozen papers. and
for other reasons which, the friend says. are
good and sufficient.
1t was for time his intention to resign from
the Senate seek a reelection from the present
Pennsylvania legislature as a vindication and
when he got it to appear personally at Harris
burg and make his defense there. The prema-
ture publication of this intention robbed it of
good deal its dramatic effect and then there
were other reasons. am told, including posi-
bly, the fact that it was not dead sure he could
get reelected which drove him from the idea
SO he decided to give his whole case to the
Senate and to that end he has been working il
up for several days with unusual thoroughness
As to the allegation that as state treasurer of
Pennsylvania he distracted sums for his own
use from the public funds the Herald states:
Mr.. Quay will say that SO far as the charge re-
lates to him it is entirely false. There was, he
admits, a shortage in the treasury, of which he
was In charge but he was not the cause of il.
The funds we're distracted by the cashier, q
gentleman. by the way, who is now deal.
Far be 1t from me, says Mr.. Quay, ito i'm
pugn the motives Of the dead" The motives,
he says, were all right undoubtedly but the
funds were taken and had to be replaced, al
though he had nothing to do with it in any
way or manner.
He took no money himself, and none was
taken for his use nor returned on his account
by his friends. The other charges are then
takon up in order, one after the other, and each
Is followed by an emphatic denial.