Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-11
DEPEW AT HOME.
He is Escorted Down the Bay by a Group
of Admiring Friends.
He Makes an Of Hand Before-Breakfast Talk
Tells of His Trip, who He Saw
and Why He Went.

special to the Gazette.
New YORK, Sept. 1O.-In the course of a
speech to a party of friends who welcomed De-
pew down the bay this morning, Depew said:
'At this hour in the morning nobody cares to
be serious, and profound questions are never dis
cussed before breakfast. This trip has had the
usual incidents; some old, some new. which it
has been my habit to describe to you upon my
return. 1 take you always into my confidence.
You travel with me wherever go, and you see
what see. On my letter OF credit my trip this
time was not distinguished by meeting many
more new and famous men, because have been
over there often that I have fully exhausted
the list. l noticed that one of the newspapers
that came to me seemed to be discus
sing my presidential chances. It said
that my hobnobbing with aristocracy and noble
men on the other side would hurt me in the eyes
Of the Democracy of the United States. 1 want
TO state Just here that in no moment of my life,
and in no utterance that l make is the presi-
dency of the United States in nv mind When
l act as president OF the Central road. l act for
the interests Of that corporation, without regard
whatever to my political chances or opportuni-
ties. When travel abroad travel for the pur-
pose OF seeing what can and learning what 1
can, and OF meeting distinguished people; all of
them can possibly meet, no matter about pre-
sumed presidential honors. met a gentleman
once in Europe who thought he had a chance to
travelling with that end in view. Every time he
saw distinguished individual com
ing ne ran around the corner to
get oIt of his way. Laughter.
When persons come here with letters of intro
duction to me they mean to see the vice-presi-
dent of the United States, then see Blaine and
next Senator Sherman. They want to see the
great men of both parties-men who govern
the country. 1 want when go to Europe to see
Lord Salisbury, who is virtually king of Eng
land, and the prince OF Wales, who may be king
of Great Britain and Ireland any day, Presi-
dent Carnot of the French republic and the
great Bismarck. The man who would avoid
seeing these people because it might injure his
political chances is a fool, and ii such man
should be elected president of the United
States he would continue to be fool. - [Laugh-
ter and cheers.
DeDew described his journeyings through Eu-
the Passion Play at oberam-
mergau, and never was deeply
impressed With ianything before. The intense
religious feeling of the people who took
part in it almost over-awed him, and he never
appreciated the characters OF Pontius PLATE and
Judas Iscariot till he saw this play. PLATE, he
said, was Roman governor of generous judg-
ment and keen judicial wisdom. and he knew
that the crucifying of Christ was unjust, yet he
was afraid to let him go lest he should dispIease
the Roman emperor and lose his job. So he did
nothing but wash his hands. There are 5,OOO,-
600 Pontius Pilates in the United States' said
Depew. What also impressed Mr.. Depew was
the sudden fall of Bismarck. The people of
Germany, he said, have found they can get
along without him, and consequently have for
gotten him,