The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-03-15
THE PATRIOTIC DEPEw.
D. Entire Career Suggestive % worship
Of the Golden Calf

To learn patriotism at the feet OF
chauncey NJ Depsw was refreshing |
novelty Afforded some portion Of the
town the other day.
And who is Chauncey NJ Depew, the
teacher thus selected upon Washing
toms birthday to stir the hearts OF
Americans and inform their minds
about their oOuntryp Chauncey M.
Dspew was the familiar and the oouu-
selor Of the Vanderbilts during the era
of stock watering and stock iobbing
which made the VRnderbilts almost un-
prsoedeDtly rich, and, the seniors be-
ing now gathered TO their fathers, De-
pew properly succeeds to the Presi-
dency of the New York Central road.
Were Jay Gould as smooth and finished
. talker as Mr.. Depew With equal pro-
priety he might have been invited to
Chicago to stimulate wild Western SEN
timent in favor of George Washington.
E pluri6us sssm and high protective
tariff
During the war Mr.. Depew's patriot
ism was of that not uncommon order
which contented itself with urging
pretty much every body else to shoulder
a musket. Artemus Ward fourished
at the beginning of the war and sacri-
feed all his wife's relatives on the altar
of his country with quite as much
unctuous satisfaction as Mr.. Depew.
then stslwart young fellow, patted
Peekskill youth upon the back and
bade them go forth at their country's
call II the rebellion could have been
suppressed by speeches Depew would
have done his full share in the glorious
work, but to shoot and be shot at was
not according to his ideal of patriot
ism, and he continued during some
years of strife to wish the Union well
in very pretty phrases. However, If
Mr.. Depew never served his country
with his sword he was quite willing to
take seat in its millionaire Senate,
and, when Messrs Conkling and Platt
resigned, the patriot Depew, we'll
known In the lobby at Albany. ap-
peared as an applicant for one OF the
vacancies. Depew is a man tit to stand
by Stanford, of the Pacitics, and would
neatly have paved the way for that
plutocrat of the coast Mr.. Depew
candidacy was looked on with favor in
certain quarters, but there were many
candidates, and the balloting was long
continued. Mr.. Depew did not remain
until the finish. On the 9th Of July he
withdrew his name. forty-one unavail-
ing ballots having been taken, but re-
PEELED various charges and accusa-
tions that had been made in re-
gard to his position and conduct.
Whom Mr.. Depew rolls into Chicago in
his private car to instruct us upon
Washington's birthday concerning our
duty to our country, it may interest us
to inquire what these charges were.
Happily the report of the committee OF
the Assembly, charged with investiga-
tien into allegations of bribery and
corruption, is available. The Repub-
lican majority of the committee said;
Tho test mony OF Mr.. Bradley was direct ant
positive, and he uneQuivOcally charged that OF
the sth day OF June last he was approacn ned b!
Hon. Loren B. Sessions, member Of the pres
ent Senate OF this State, who st the same tlm'
offered and paid to him the sum OF s9,OOO for th'
purpose of influencing and inducing him
change his vote for United States Senator anC
to cast his vote for Chsuncey NJ Depew for tina
ofnoe. The denial OF Mr.. Sessions was q
definite IS the charge Of Mr.. Bradley, and hi
testimony In support thereof was equally pos
tive. The remaining evidence in the case l
circumstantial. Evidence was adduoed upo
the invesEg alton tending to prove that actiV
IL. .k,.3I Ia,V zab
by one Charles A. Edwards with corrupt Pre-
posals and offers of money for the purpose @
influencing their votes for Chauncey M Depew
As the District Attorney OF Alban,
had procured the indictment of boil
Sessions and Edwards, the majorit
report recommended that the matte
be left to the courts. 1t was not tn
funeral of the Democratic minority
They were at more liberty to speak
and yet they were fair throughout:
The testimony does not show one dollar n
ceived by any member of the Legislature or
rectly offered IN the form OF money for vot
for any can 1idate for Senator IN Congress e.
cept in the one case of Mr.. Bradley, who swear
that Mr.. Sessions sad: Il can get you q thol
sand dollars to put in your vest POCKET to vot
for Mr.. Depew;" who then listened to the Ell
ticemenL tslke d about it, SAID II would be ju
as bad to vote for Chauncey NJ. Depew wlthoT
getting any money as to get It listened agal
| TO the temptation aud statement, " will go
stairs and see what 10 the best / can do, !" an
from this temptation, by appointment with M
Sessions, he tirst went To the room OF Mr. Sc
| sions and then to his own, where, the door b.
| ing locked by Mr.. Bradley both men seate
themselves, the money was paid to him
| three bills OF $500 each and n ten bills of 1
| zach In the report of this interview there was Il
dispute, while Mr.. Sessions, in regard to II
| money swears: There was hot one word sa
: in relation TO money at all, and that thel
never was any alluson made TO money by hil
| nor by me." What may also be called my
terry is the use of nearly soo.OuO in currency b
| men of established credit and with accounts
, banks at Albany, New York. Utica and Bunal
and the carrying OF large sums OF money abor
the persons of their owners instead OF usln
| either express companies for the transmlsslo
Of money as between New York, Albany an
! Buffalo, or the use OF bank checks, which bus
| ness men are accustomed 10 use in the tran
= mission Of money and in all ordinary trans a
tons.
Mr. Bradley paid the 81. 600 either
, the Secretary of the House or to tt
State Comptroller. Neither he n(
,, Mr.. Sessions. least of all Mr.. Depev
has ever asked it back. Sessions WI
, q notorious lobbyist He admitted h
| venality. and made light of the use (
4 money as a means of influencing vote
1t is possible. of course, that MIR. ID
i. pew, long the attorney of the Ne
> York Central railroad, never employs
9 him in this or any other matter. Thi
0 | howaver ia the record and when lie