St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-01-14
AUDACITY.

familiar parIance cheek, nerve, gall,
etc., Is more pronounced i'm our time
than ever before. 1t has bloSsomed and
fructified into formidable productive
ness by opportunities and conditions
undeveloped in the conservative. slow
and more contracted human ways of
former times. With present eXpan-
siveness aud enterprise we find audac-
ity interviewer with all the straws. big
and little, OF daily intercourse in every
relation.
Audaclty in its various phases owes
its Success not to itself, whatever its
energy or aggreSslveneSs, so much as to
the c0wardlce and the careleSsnesS and
Indifference Of people. Those of con-
siderate or kindly disposition SHRINK
from self-asserting, exultaht audacity
IN society, in business, In the profess
sions and in the churches. Therefore
their cowardice makes possible the
career of the audacious. On the other
hand, the Indifference and careleSsDeSS
of superiority give the amplest vantage
for cheek to flourish i'll politics and in
| the social functions where man meets
man in good fellowship. Audacity must
exploit itself on some human constit-
uency. and, as there is no resistance
except the limp and passive, audacity
wins where greatness arrives with slow
gait.
We smile and we sheer at the varied
play of successful audacitY: we analyZe
its methods. and We deSpise its gains,
| yet our very supineDesS has contributed
more to its conquest than we are will
ing to admit. For example, the first
after-dinner speech of Chauncsy NJ.
Depew was probably very thin mental
effort, but the mellowed brains of his
auditors gave it that encouragement
which has nourished his audacity ever
since, until he rushes Ill everywhere as
the complement of all achievement.
If Leo XIII. has any perception of
American humor. the recent visit of DR..
Depew would have amused MIN. even
without the descriptive letter-press our
dear, obliging Depew had all ready pre-
pared for the newspapers before and
after his return. There is so much De-
pew to so little pontiff. as was the in
tention of audaclty in going to Rome.
SAtoo hO oLC 4ultO III QulIiI dllOli OtCI
the nice adjustment of chances, and
Chauncey, TO the main issue-self- glori-
tication. Think alone of the we'll calcu-
lated forethought of providing those
religious articles" for the papal bless
ing. that our dear Depew might have
the triple sensational benefit, first of
buying, second of blessing, and third of
distributing, whereof mention would be
made in the interview for publication,
and all the reading world know what q
favored man DR.. nec pew can De when he
GETS himself ready for neatly forced
opportunity.
The modest man whose life motto is
not audacity, always audacity, has
queer thrill of amaZement at the extra
ordinary vault of DR.. Depew into the
Vatican with pocket full of things
ready to spring on his holiness for bless
ing.
With what dexterous conversational
ease does the learned doctor touch some
of the momentous problems agitating
the mind of the civilized world nova
days, and with what edifying exact.
ness he keeps every thread of material
In hand for the most remarkable inter-
view on record, which was, considering
his intellectual interlocuter, to put the
copestone on the cumulative audacty of
career charged with it.
Lord Erskine was judicial and coasid-
crate enough to speak of the devil as
great celestial statesman out of place."
Now our demonstrative Depew was
fairly devout in Rome, city of the
SOUL" as even Byron was moved to de-
scribe it, with the added line: 1.-THE
orphans Of the heart must turn to
thee"
Orphans indeed! When DR.. Chauncey
NJ. Depew can walk right into the holy
fathers presence, all the formalities
falling to pieces before him-all reserve
and awe melted into touching specta-
Gle of equality and paternity. and
special blessing invoked on his know
ing railway head.
Aye, and there's the rub which sug-
gested the temperate estimate of Aud
Clootie by Lord Erskine. When this
much-diScussed character is indisposed,
he is described as having pious spells
and disposition for religious habit.
But change comes with recovery, and
natural rebound to former ways. So
1T is with touch of sadness at the i'll
eradicable infrmities of human nature
and shock over the waste of eXcep-
tlonal papal graciousness and benignity
that we learn from the newspapers he
so much loves that DR.. DepeW is still
unregenerate enough to lapse into his
old ways so soon. Just now he is much.
more at home in the Windsor hotel.
New York, having secret conference
with e. Il. Malby. speaker of the as
sembly, T. G. Plat and James Belden,
directing the speaker how to revise his
committees, especially the one on rail-
roads, and hindering w. FL. Denniston,
of all men. from being the head of it.
One can only guess what DR.. DepeW
has in his pocket on occasions like these,
for not alone has he no matter ready to
give the reporters, but he shuns them,
and the conferences are shrouded in
mystery. In the political field, where
he occasionally strays, DR.. Depew is
hardly success. The Western mind,
having been penetrated with New York
ideas of his fame for many years, NUS
tered at the Minneapolis convention to
hear the renowned speaker. The
kindly Western heart was sorry for him.
and said nothing inhospitable about the
f1abby speech. nor the sickly wit which
was worse than the royal Danes funeral
baked meats, because it was too dead
cold for any warming over, even in
Minneapolis.
OF course. nowDr. Depew with s'fixed
inveteracy" must keep OH in the audac-
ity of his ways. until death ends it all.
Nor is it to he supposed that he will ever
suspect there are any limitations to the
audacity which has railroaded him to
the conspicuousness he loves and pur-
sues with such ardor. For a while he
may continue to spread himself from
the Vatican to the Windsor hntal ond