New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-11-01
HE rs NOT A PLAGIARIST.
MR.. DEPEW SAYS HE is NOT THE AUTHOR
OF A SYNDICATE ARTICLE.
OTHER PUBLISHED NATTER FOR Which, lie i
NOT RESPONSIBLE HAS BEEN CREDI-
TED TO HIN.


TED TO HIN.
In the wear 1916 n Speaker of the United states
House Of Representatives committed suciue pe
cause he was for a brief period popularity oehe'eu
n he guilty of plagiarism In the instance re-
ferred to the man, in the pressure OF pusineS9 az
tending the closing of a session OF congress VI"
not have time to prepare valedictcry aduresS'
and asked a friend to do 1t for him Inc l'ie"u
undertook the task, but either owing to a lack vi
brains or a lack of time lack OF prihcipie' ne
submitted to the outgoing Speaker in manuscript
a copv of the valedctory address OF Aaron Burr
as Vice-President OF the United States AS soon
rs the ex-Speaker learned of the treachery OF which
he was a victim he went out and shot himsel'
Chauncey NJ Depew never Speaker or the
House of Representatives but the charge OF PA
garism has never been confined exclusively 10 the
membership OF that body 1t has shifted IN 'he
direction of Mr. Depew heretofore but 1t has al
WAYS dissolved when ii came within the hsht Oh
his sunny countenance Now the charge conles J."
a peculiar and decidedly mixed way against MT
Depew How Mr.. Depew ever got mixed up III
such a mess is probably the secret of the scouhdrei
who prepared it. 1t is what is called ~ "uiea'c
production" The word Syndicate is dehned as
a council just who took part in the couhcn vi
syndicate which published the article Is not YET
clear This is what Mr.. Depew has 10 say lo'
himself on the subject:
81 received a few days ago editorial from
some Western paper. charging me with plagiarism
i'm having used a magazine syndicate articie VIII
ten by Mr. =. r. Jeffery. president OF the
and Rio Grande Railroad AS had 10. mia, ~
any syndicate article. or signed any l "hS Pui,t
curious TO know what 1t meant received n Ter
egram at Newport saying that the artlcle W's d
cony of an address delivered by Mr.. JeferN priore
tho Railroad Mems Association at Mr.. NanderhlIt :
railroad building at Madison-ave. ana fortE-lut +,
ST. at the anniversary last December presi1e'
at that meeting. in the absence ol NJ. air.
and the three addresses were by MI. JeNerN, MI;
'Tuttle of the New-York and New-HaVen roaI, ah1
myself These speeches were aft"rwaid Iuhlshtu
in pamphlet form by the association, ana wldely
both MIR Jeffrey and Mr.. futile were reinarkaply
able and interesting. The Synicatc as uhurf-
stand IT, extracted literally from the three speeches.
and then sold the article as mine:
Il have several times been the victim OF sIch
business" continued Mr.. Depew, but never be
fore in exactly this form. Something Ike year
ago the Western and Southwestern press broke OUT
on me with "A good deal Of Vgor, because OF an al
legged article mine on the labor question ~ !
had made no deverances on that subject, causei
a search to be made to see what haI peeh put III
nv mouth 1t led the discovery of a syndicate
article with nv name at tn" bottom. SiNlnS views
very different from those which entertained anu
had frequently expressed III, -
about a month one Of the N"w-l ork syn
dicates which is usually careful in It's Work, sent
lions | might wish TO make after the matter was
put in printed form. told the parties that neither
of the articles mine, and that theN Eah beeh
imposed upon. / believe that both OF me artlcI"s
have since been sold and are now travelling over
the country. -, ..,-, l., 49,
excuse for this business. because any one couli
ascertain IN a few hours. from any part OF IN"
country. whether not the article alleged TO DE
mine genuine.