St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-23
WHY HE QUIT.
Chauncy Depew Admits That the
WoOlly West Knocked Hin Out

WoOlly West Knocked Hin Out.
Special TO the Globe.
CHICAGO, June 23.-Chauneey M. De-
pew was asked after the convention to-
night his reasons for withdrawing. Be-
fore replying to this question, he said:
1.-The members of the New York dele
CATION were unanimously in favor of my
nomination, that is unanimous with one
exception. One man thought to distin-
guish himself and carry the world on his
shoulders. The delegations assured me
of their votes as long as ballots were to be
cast. New York is perhaps the greatest
state in the union. The greatest in its
manufactures, in the value of its agri-
cultural productions, in the extent of its
commerce and the capitalization of its
railroads. New York is commercial
state and its people have learned to
estimate man by his capacity and sue
cess in business. However it may be
considered in the West, in New York,
the railroad business requiring the COM
fort ard safety Of passengers, quick
delivery of goods and the care of tracks
is thought to take as great intelligence
and Integrity as the public requires i'm
the lawyer, the doctor. the broker or
the merchant. There is in New York
an undertOne of indignant
FEELING AGAINST CLEVELAND.
This feeling can be utilized only by
citizen of New York, one who has the
confidence of the business classes from
long connection with them and resi-
dence among them. 1t is a feeling
Which, with direction and candidate
in whom they have confidence and feel
sure would succeed and carry the state,
would strike, and strike to kill Twenty
or thirty thousand Democrats would
bolt. There are in the employ of the
railroad of which | am president $4,000
men, and 10000 of them are Democrats
and every man of them would vote for
me. Why? Because ever since my
presidency, the office door has been
open always to any employe of the road.
the yardman, the conductor, the brake
man or switchman. Ii the Wander
told that committee of work
ingmen had something. to say,
the Vanderbilts must wait and the
workmen are admitted. What they
want would be granted, denied or COM
promised. On the other roads the sub
ordinate complains of his next superior,
and his complaint is hung on nail and
that is the end of it. The charge is that,
as a railroad man, am
NOT TO BE TRUSTED.
That having worked for a salary for
railroad companies, for do not own the
one-thousandth part Of per cent of the
imbued with devotion for them that
when | quit their work and the salary
ceases | will continue to favor them in
every possible way to the detriment of
the public service. That is, when |
leave their service and enlist in the pub
lie service | will continue to render
them service for which | am not paiG to
the injury of the service for which | am
paid. That is the charge. 1t means
that the railroad men of the country are
to be disfranchised; that to be railroad
man is to be a
BAR TO'THE PUBLIC SERVICE
that railroad men are not to be trusted,
and that they are to be denied the right
belonging to the humbleSt citizen OF the
land. Isn't the brakeman on the road
engaged in as honorable a work as the
farmer in the field? Is not the machin-
ist in the railroad shop as worthy as the
machiniSt in any other shop? Is not the
railroad official as deserving and trust
worthy as the man in any other posi-
ton requiring equal honesty and equal
intelligence? Representatives of five of
tie Western states came to me this aft
RllC1 COllfCl1tltil. 1Hty
told me that my nomination would
be very serious thing to
the Republican party in Kansas, Iowa,
Nebraska and Wisconsin,. No, not Min
nesota; Minnesota repudiated it. They
told me it would permanently endanger
the Republican party in those states,
perhaps disrupt it, because was rail
road man; that it would identify the Re
publican party with railroad monopo-
lists. Some of them were sorry that it
was so. They thought it was survival
of the same prejudices that hung
witches, branded Baptists, and drowned
Quakers. They said it was a sentiment
to be stamped out, but that five months
of a campaign was not time enough to
do it in. said very well, l will not be
a candidate