Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-19
DEPEW RIGHT IN IT.
Little Doubt That Blaine's Late Posi-.
tion Has Been rendered Him
AS A REWARD OF POLITICAL WORK
Il Is Even Said Il d Meant o Q Stepping
Stone to His Succeeding
TO HARRIs0N's SHOES IN FOUR YEARS

rrRon STAFF CORRESPONDENT
WASHINGTON, June lathe presence
here to-day of Mr.. Chauncey M. Depew, an
early call upon him by Mr.. Halford, the
Private Secretary Of President Harrison,
with IN invitation to luncheon at the White
! House, the acceptance, and the prolonged
visit of the glib-tongued New Yorker with
sons for the assumption that the place
vacated so unceremoniously BY Secretary
Blaine, is to be, or has been offered to Mr..
Depew.
This would certainly be in accord with
the policy" MI. Harrison has steadily
pursued in his personal associations and his
appointments to high Office. He has never
been known to refuse the most luxurious
transportation about the country in the
special cars of railroad magnates. and he has
never been known to offer pay for anything.
Presumably he thinks he gives an equiva.
lent in the tenderness with which he treats
all great associations of capital.
Not Kept Awake at Night.
Mr.. Harrison has never laid awake at
night brooding over the encroachment of
capital upon the rights of the general pub
lie. He has never sounded the serious note
of alarm on the subject of corporations or
trusts. Any utterance of his, in message or
speech, squirting in this direction. has
savored Of the really admirable criticisms
on the same subject which appear regularly
in the platforms of both of the old parties
delightful in their evasion, fascinating in
Al l. al La
to be enough, and yet which do not say
anything.
Mr. Harrison is not even as explicit as
the platforms His utter indifference to
the possibility Of harm arising from ''com-
bines" of capital has appeared in what he
has said as conspicuously as In what he has
not said.
After the nomination of Mr. Whitelaw
Reid for the Vice Presidency, the selection
of Mr.. Chauncey NJ Depew for the first po-
sition in the Cabinet would be entirely log
ical Both have been fighting labor organi-
cations for years. both are of the million
aire element which Mr.. Harrison so dearly
loves to mingle with. Both have succeeded
In cajoling and making up" with the labor
organizations just at Q time when to do SO
meant much more to them than to the or
ganizationa
One Way to Down Opposition.
ANY opposition manifested in labor cir
cles could probably be easily overcome by
compliment and wheedling and the appoint
ment, or promise of appointment, of the
leaders to good positions, as in the case of
the president of the printers union which
has been fighting Mr.. Reid for years, who
is now the foreman, and the one union man
in the "union" Office of the Tribune
The ease with which such troubles are ad-
justed when they effect the election of an
interested somebody, is instructive, if not
amusing. With the printers and the rail-
road employees satisfied, who else of their
lican laborers and mechanics all in line, the
millions that can be commanded by Reid
and Depew and their immediate friends,
ought to do the rest toward carrying New
York, even in the event of the nomination
of Cleveland, and that without the assist
ance of Tammany.
All this aside. Mr.. Depew would be a
welcome addition to the Cabinet He is
atfable and approachable. The social ther-
mometer of Cabinet circles would 60 up to
summer heat in the warmth OF his presence.
Depew to Succeed Harrison.
Moreover, the story goes, that if Mr..
Depew accepts q Cabinet position, it is
with the understanding that in the event of
Mr.. Harrison's reelection all the Office
holding machinery of the country. which
at Minneapolis, will be well oiled
Mr.. Depew to the White House as the sue
cessor of Mr.. Harrison in 1896 This may
sound like one of the lakes" which occa-
sionally originate here, but it is really such
q nice and comfortable arrangement all
around that there may be something in it.
The death of ex-Secretary Blaine could
hardly have given q greater shock to the
public of the district had it been announced
instead of that of his son Emmons. The
feeling was painful, especially because of
the thought that Immediately followed q
knowledge of the death in the minds of
everyone as to the effect on the ex-Secre-
tary. Every criticism heaped on Mr.. Blaine
a week ago is now changed to sympathy and
multiplied thousand-fold.
Emmons was the most popular Of the
three sons of Mr.. Blaine, all of them we'll
known in this city. He had neither the up
pishness and egotism Of Walker, nor the
giddiness and fractiousness of James. His
own personality is apparently wholly for
gotten, however, in thoughts of the terrible
shock the news will give to the ex-Secre-
tary.
The Superstitious ut It Again.
. Again the superstitious are quoting the
sinister character of the old Seward house,
and they predict that calamity will fall
thich and fast upon the remaining members
of the family if Mr.. Blaine does not at
once sell or give away the 'hoodooed"
place.
With 100 Democratic members of the
House and % of the Senate at Chicago, or
on their way there this evening, with 9TH
ers sick OF taking an outing, no work of i'm
portance may be expected until the begin
ming of the week after next. The House,
after doing nothing yesterday or to-day,
coolyl Gf anything can be cool in
this sitting weathcr) adjourned until
next Wednesday, as long as was possible
under the law. Next Wednesday an ad-
iournment will probably be taken until the
following Monday. Time is now of less con-
sideration than comfort, and it may be ex-
pected that things will 60 very leisurely
until the dav of final adjournment.
81 suppose the Democrats will dodge the
silver question, just as the Republicans
did," said the great and really good free
coinage Bland to me to-day. 'eThe necessi-
ties of party politicians are always par
amount to the necessities Of the people, and
so both parties fall into the arms
of the Wall street gold kings
Such conditions must inevitably pro-
duce, possibly in connection with
other things a new party With q free
coinage tax ticket, and a platform that
would take in the Alliance and Peoples
parties, the West and South could elect the
next President and Vice President. But
suppose it's too late now to begin this year"