The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-11-12
"TWASN'r l." SAYS DEPEW.
ONLY JOKE OF PLfT7'S AMOUR
NEW IOhS COUN1r'S TO1E
Mr.. Fiat. Ran tho New York Cnmpnigss
snys the Doctor, hut II Wasn't n Year
ANY Republican Could be Elected.

my NcpubIchh Adtc'cU
Tho smlo with which Dr. Chauncey NJ De-
pew always grccts visitor hroadened and
broke into n laugh when SuN reporter asked
him yesterday whether he had prepared any
explanation Of his loss of 2O.3l2 good Repub-
licun votes in New York county. an explains
ton which Thomas c. Plntt Of TioEa county
said on Thursday night was due from the boo.
tor. because Now York was "Depew's county"
Ah.' said Dr. Derew. that is one Of
Brother riutt's delightful bits of humor. And
the situation ia SO lugubrous and dolcful that
L think hs deserves unbounded credit for
being able to extract any humor at all out OF
ii. Of course, no one thinks Brother platt
meant his ploasnntry to DO taken seriously.
1t was simply ono ct his characteristics feiic-
itous flashes oil humor emitted with the intunt
OF Frightening Ur tho general gloom.
why. had nothing whatever to do with
managing tho campaign in this or amy other
county. | had no hand whatever in the run
ming Of the machine. Brother llatt was at the
throttle. and he attended to the machine en-
tirely. think he was the most competent
man for tho place. too. and 10 ran tho cam-
naign as well as it could be run. But It was
through no fault in the machine or its running
that we came to grief. We simply ran into q
landslide. The very best engineers on rail.
road do that sometimes. 1t is something i'm.
possible to oio'oll aud guard against. Tho Re-
publican party rhn into a landslide. that's all.
But Brother patt did all the managing and
running and don't think there was any in-
t"rfcrencc with his management. nor do I
think no would have tolerated any INTERIOR
ence. 1t wac suggested to me-. rerhars un-
necessarily. that it would ho undesirable 10
approach alr. Fatt with anything having tho
appearance OF suggestion rs TO the way the
campaign should be managed. was not dis
DOSpu to do unythinU of tlp kind and I an
not make |. single suggestion. It was out of
my lin, a!'o.ether Managing machine is
eGGs a s"t Of al a Sin4 eG S 4nnns N
canlaiGn, appointing tho Various district
Ga s1 seeing the hs Il i
other directions. IN makin. speeches and
wr,,II& pieces pieces. nnh cndcayorlng in various
error Of their way. So was told 10 coniine
myself to talklRg' ind a., 90 strictly .,.
only tho counties in the southern tier We're
10y Loyal to ne E;spun;lcn,n party. But Now YORK
Patt eountes II ' rememter ' ri ss'ay' Only
two OF the delegates from New York county at
81 tho Of M In 6s
sf1unty seemed St to DO dominated by tho Platt
1t was pointed out to Mr. Depew that Mr..
nirht remarEed that tho DECEASED had been
have been fed on II "Tammany domination"
det instead Of mSsd diet , q national issues
Tammany, said Mr. Plat. tho C result t' Would
have been different,
snd ? mr. 1 Dspsw kneT ne eSus
the campaign was to b: run on national is.
run, Al any rate. i didn't max 70 any. but.
really. don't let us take this, matter seriously,
Brother i'att's clever ,plea9snntries and take
a s as such oh hn S n ess%
did better in the infringement Of tho state can
yass than am other man could have done. OF
found VIII The date nor With the u Conduct nd
he don G Snk WI who ss esns
have won with any candidate. The people
wanted change and they've goti It.
see great ma many causes That contributed
US; The condition OF the tariff laws did not
turcrs soopposed us. for instance. They were
Erotect.l, ~ their CARPETS: but they wante1
industries very largely went against u.s. They
tt tEo om we're eandg
allow sH%ro ss non by very
reasoning. they decided they would vote for
the al ABOLITION OF the he, protection 1 don't see
Homestead strike hurt Us very badly. too. 1t
came right at the opening oftho campaisp. and
seeking to control and cut down evesrrythin. in
ute u dollar to the Republican cause. He did
not help us in any way. He did not como home
to vote, and | understand Mr. Frck was very
much disturbed aud put out because he heard
the Republican managers were irving to get
Mr.. Carnegie to telegraph him to have the
Homestead difficulty settled.
But the result cannot DO attributed to any
one cause. or any ono person. or any one state.
1t was the whole country did It, suppose the
people. with the American love Of speculation
and Il change. wanted 10 try something else.
But don't take Brother Platt's little Joke seri.
ously."