Telegram-herald., 1888-02-23
WHAT DEPtW THINKS
TAX wiTH nav YoRFeS CANDIDATE.

Bisias VIII BE seDss~ssd sy ths Bspas-
leses @na Clssel&ss az the Dsass-
er@ts-Ths fssas VIII 80 Shs
1~na-fhs 100" Rsate.
Chsuuosy u. Deps~ arrived si Chicago
Tuesday ssensss came 10 deliver al
address uuder The auspices OF tie Union
Lesgue Club. he said 70 . Hsreld reporter,
aud have Just com pletsd the speech"
But James Russell Lowell departed
badly from ais notes year sgo." vas sag-
gestsd.
Yes. bat l am not ~ familiar with
Shakespeare As is Lowell" vss the an
sser
Speaking Of clubs. the Union League of
Ne" York Is said 10 hsve prepared . letter
asking you to os a candidate for the RepuD-
l.e4n Presidential u0mlnsti0n2a
THAI is all nonsense" said AT. Depew.
Il am president of the club. and IL would
BE- funny II it did nor have confidence IN its
president. IL has elected me three times,
aud could not well AFFORD 10 dispose OF me
were / aniidate for any office Bot Ms
matter Of fact. the Union League has not
bsen ia the ha0it OF having candidates. and
crnnot now well start the precedent
Then who are the candidates.
Theirs are any number of shem- Almost
everg state has favorite son. Ohio has
ssermsn, iowa, Allison, and SO on through
the list.
And Msineg"
Wei. Blaine has declined. What is the
effect of that decinatiOn7"
Just THIS. Had ihe Florence letter not
hova haao ~wrftfar Rlatua xault hnvs h.4sT
nominated on the first or SECOND ballot
wish great burrah. State after State Won i
have gone for him. As it Is there will be
any number of names preserved. ERch
candidate will have y sond delegation be-
hind him sDd after they have cast Ifty
ballots or so, and every body is getting tired.
some will nominate Blaine, there will be a
whoop and yell, and he will be nominated
by acciamation.'
And accept
"One cannot very well decline Presi-
Dental nomination"
What OF tue Dem ocrats?'
"Of them there can be no doubt. Cleve-
land will be their candidate, and his mes
SAGE their platform. The one they desire.
the other they cannot escape. When Cleve-
land wrote that message he departed from
all pTecedents. de left to his heads OF
departments the duty OF informing Congress
as 10 our foreign relations, our nsca! con-
ditlons and other matters of outside import
He laid down policy. limited, il is true,
but radical in the extreme. On il the Demo
cratic party will have 10 stand or fall. lie
told Congress that under our present revenue
system the great majority was being taxed
for the beneiiI of a small minority, that IA
vors were being extended TO the lew ~
the expense of the many. That was thf
argument he made, and the party will
stand by IT, When the Democrats meet IN
convention they are going 10 DO two things.
They are going to nominate Cleveland FOR
President and pnt compromise tariff plank
In the platform. They will declare Tor re-
duction in the tariff with view of protect
ing the laborlng man, or some such non
sense But il will be useless. Principles
are represented by men Ia this country.
and II makes no difference what the plat
forms says; the real platform will be Cleve
lands message. he will be the candidate,
aud II he is elected every one knows that he
will sign free trade bill. 1t will be notice
10 Congress that the people want such bill
Ii, on the other hand, anv Republican Is
elected the country will know that he will
veto such oill, and then the issue will be
made
rs there no Republican named who
would not veto tariff reduction bill"
None
"Bni may not Hill be nominated by the
Democrats
''There IS no chance of it. lie Is not q
candidate. lie wants TO be Governor, ana
the only reason why the convention is
asked for New York is to help the STATE
ticket tell you that Cleveland will be the
nominee
80 come to railroad business, Mr. De-
pew, What about the Sault Ste. Marie
Railroad"
That is. OF course probiemstical. But
| think its influence will be very small.
Everv tin,e new route is started there is
always a great deal of speculation, most OF
| IL idle. a. to the amount OF business IL il
going 70 draw from the old sud established
! lines IN every instance so far il has been
very little The 500 is especially unfor-
tunate. Ii il an attempt 10 carry grain by
means OF the Canadian routes around Chi
csgo, and hence has to fight against the
| influence of Chicago capital and Chicago
| influences and this city is the grain mar
| ket of the world
Was the route given dferentials in
| order 20 avert war;
a railroad war is OF the greatest injury
| 10 all concerned. IL not only hurts the
railroads. bat also the community. What
! business men want most aud what the
| Inter State Commerce law was especially
/ framed 10 give them - stable rates, OtbeT-
wise there are ten rates quoted q oay. aBa
the result is the worst kind Of discrimiba-
ton. The Chicago roads certainly want no
war with the 500 route. but IL can slso be
/ trathfuily said that they have no fear Of it'
/ taking their trade. The same rule is true in
railroad business as IN all others. IL II
I grows enough to support a new road it will
/ live: II it does not IL will die; the old roads
I keep on Just the same"
But 20 return 20 politics. Mr.. Depes,
Who is going to be the candidate for Wee
( President"
"On the Republican side"
"Tes"
'sThere is 10 candidate for the place. .
I said the soD-in-lsv Of Vanderbilt. as thf
corners Of bis mouth drew up in o smile
"Every oiw nom have heard ofyet wants
t. be pre- Gdent, no one that | know Q.
would sccs,N such . small affair ss Vic.
President
| III the Democrats bold their convention
I OF the Pacific slope viii IL influence the
I California and Nevada vofs7f
We'll don't know. AT impression y
4 that after they have once had 8 Dsmgorzfie
c3nvsnfion on, there they vii al want n
+ s.ops
Libby Prison Coming 20 Chicago.