The sun., 1895-05-29
DEPEW'S HARMONY JOKE.
HIS UESTS #oN,T EATE4CH OTHER
III THE DINNER IS GOOD.

Erhardt WIN Tonst Pintt, Maybe, Plntt.
kJtrongt lIiscoeL, Bciden, Harrison, Me-
Ki.ley-Everybody Wants to Know ir
Piatt Is Really Going to such u Dinner.
Tho Hon. William Mckinley. Governor of
Ohio. telegraphed to Chaunccy NJ. Dcpew yes
terday that he would be In town this evening at
O'Clock and that he would DO glad to attend
the Hon. Chauncey's dinner.
The Hon. Chauncey's dinner may be a har-
mony affair and II may not The Hon. .Chauncey s
great Joker, but the relations Of the men he has
invited to be his guests are of n worry peculiar
nature. They are all fighting Republicans. Asa
rule they fight among themselves. But the Hon.
Chauncey has undertaken, for tho second time
in his career, to bring men together who hate
each other personally and politically.
The great question last night was: VIII tho
Hon. Thomas c. Platt attend this iinncr? Mr..
Platt 10 personally friendly with Mr.. Depew. but
he doesn't like some of Mr.. Depews doings. Mr..
Plat Is invited to attend dinner party. the
invitations to which read "To meet the Hon.
BENJAMIN Harrison" Mr.. Platt and all OF his
associates in Republican national affairs worked
like beavers to defeat Harrison at Minneapolis.
but that quarrel is like tho water that has gone
over the milldam. Mr.. Platt has had the pleasant
est Of talks with Mr.. Harrison In the last one or
two years when Mr. Harrison has been at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel and has no objection to meeting
him at dinner Mr.. Patt It is said. has also no
objections to sitting at the board with Gov.
Mckinley, who was used at Minneapolis
to batter Harrison. But when It comes to
Mayor Strong, Cornelius \. Bliss. Elihu Root.
William Brookteld, Gen. Sam Thomas. Gen. C.
II. T. Collis Col. Joel b. Erhardt, and Con. Hor-
ace Porter? There are a number of other in-
vited guests including Thomas B. Reed and
Edward Lauterbach, ex-Representative James
J. Belden and State Committeeman Frank s.
Witherbce of Port Henry, and word came last
night that Mr. Belden is expected to sit beside
the Hon. Frank Hiscock of Syracuse Gov.
Morton has accepted Mr.. Depew's invitation.
and Mayor Strong said yesterday that he will
be there.
No one under tho sun in Republican circles
hereabouts understands just why Dr. Depew
got up this dinner. Amy one familiar with the
personal! relations of the Republicans invited
will tell you that Gen. Harrison doesn't like
self to So used st' Mianeapos 70 defssa h mar
rison's renomination on that occasion: Gov:
Mr.. Fiatt who was calling on him. TO wait and and
see Mayor Strong who was coming. MIR. Platt
refused: ut MsayinG that he had no inclination to
Joseph Pn,I;. H Ch9ate, Cornelius \: Bliss; Eihu
terms with Mr. Plat and Mr. stt e on his SIDE
or political relations with most OF them. So
Dr. nspew has perpetrated 2 vastly interesting
fully acquainted % Cd wit With his jolly hpmorp tpu0'eA'
Fancy. for instance, Mr.. Beden and Mr..
h m hsasn
ss saysSs aas g. 0 bsd a fss
glance at Warner Miller. facing the Hon. BEN
6i To III sss sin that
hs had fals5 outside the but even
Eihafat, with his brstl5e moustache. glance at
The Port Of New Sert; and % moreover re- viii not Of
ss%. b.:s ~ Eshssa Ssss
Repub blican National Chairman. whom Gen
Harrison turned out in 1902. will be at tho din
cIarkson accepts will it not be worth % bag got Of
peanuts to be on hand for the purpose OF noting
%
man who dethroned him from the Republican
National Committee a little over two years ago?
But Gen. Clarkson, II was added, could expect
no other treatment from President Harrison. on
the ground that Clarkson. Quay. Platt. Warner
streets Of Minneapolis to bring about Harrison's
defeat for denomination.
William Brookfed and Edward Lauterbach
and Gen Sam Thomas and Gen Coils. They
use the dinner Knives But there is a' great dn nm.
ger that this time DR.. Depews harmony racket
may be busted" 1t would take page of the
Sun to tell OF the personal and political acri-
mony that has existed for over ten years be-
tween the gentlemen DIR. Depew has invited to
DO his guests. Some may forget these features,
but il may turn out that Mr. Platt will not. lie
has his own graveyard. it was said. After all,
Dr. Depew's dinner promises to be a mighty
funny affair.
Mr.. Depew said yesterday that he had received
no response from Representative Thomas b.
feeu, VINO III to be the next Speaker of the HDn6e
of Representatives. But he added:
am always peacemaker. and carry the
and the banquet board is the place to bury ali
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