The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-01-30
QUAY 10 BREAK SILENCE.
a Promised speech in the senate in Nhlch
lie VIII Answer All Accusation

lie VIII Answer All Accusations.
The New York Herald, in It's Washington
correspondence, says:
At last Senator Matthew stanley quay 10
going 10 speak.
For many months he has been under
charges from many sources Ot corrupt anu
criminal acts in office. and he has steadily
refused 10. say a syllable as to whether the
accusations were true or false. Inc long
silence he has kept, which has been ac-
cepted by many persons as conclusive EVIL
dence Of guilt, he is about to break.
lie has prepared TO every charge that nae
been publicly made against him speclhc
and in some cases an elaborate reply lne
whole Of which is pronounced Oy a lriehu
OF Mr.. Quay's who has seen It to be one ol
the most remarkable documents IN recent
political history. 1t is now compiled
copied and ready to be publsl ed whenever
Mr.. Quay sees iit.
The medium through which Dir. quay
will give his version TO the world Is the
United States Senate, and within day ol
two, perhaps tomorrow, If the occasion ~
favorable, Mr.. Quay will rise in the senate
to a question Of personal privilege ana
startle the Senators with a full statement 0l
the facts as he views them, as well as WIN
since he has been In Congress.
Although Mr.. Quay has never puDllcly re-
ferred in any way 10 the cnarges that nave
been made against him. II is said by MS
personal and political friends, who gave me
this inform alton, that he has carefully oleu
and preserved all these charges as tney
have appeared, and always intended. az the
proper time and place, TO reply TO them.
He has declined 10 discuss them through
the newspapers, because he couldn't Ieacu
all the public through any one or dozen
papers, and for other reasons wLlcn, the
| friend SAYS, are good and sufficient.
1t was tor time his intention TO reslgr
| from the Senate, seek reelection from th'
present Pennsylvania Legislature as a Vim
dicatiOn, and when he got IL ~ appear p T
sOnally at Harris0nburg and make MS dc
tense there. The premature publication y
this intention robbed It Of a good deal oI 20
dramatic effect, and then there "e!'
other reasons, am told, including possioil
the fact that II was not dead sure ne coui'
get reelected, which drove him from th'
idea.
so he decided 10 give his whole case to IN
Sci ate, and TO that end he has been worN
ing 1t up for several days with unusua
thOroughness.
As 10 the allegation that as state Treas
urer OF Pennsylvania he abstracted sun
for his own use from the public iunus 'h
Herald states
Mr.. Quay will say that so far as 70
charge relates 10 him IL is entirely Ials'
There was, he admits, shortage IN tii
treasury, of which he was in charge, but
was not the cause OF il.
The funds were distracted by the cashier
u gentleman, by the way, who Is now deau
"Far be II from me-" says Mr.. quay, =
impugn the motives OF the dead" Tue ~.
tiyes, he says, were all right undouotedl,
but the funds were taken and had 10 oe e
placed, although he had nothing 70 do VII
IL in any way or manner.
lie took no money himself, and none wa
taken for his use nor returneu on his a.
count by lis friends. The other charges al
then taken UP In order, one after the oInel
aud each 10 followed by an emphatic denia