The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-11
DR.. Dencm sIandered.

Can it he true that the genial DIR. De-
pew, the famous after-dinner orator AMI
president Of the Vanderbilt system OF
railroads, doesn't know on which end of
a steer the horns belong? That is the
charge that Gov. Altgeld, the governor of
Illinois, brings against him.
The doctor and the governor are no
longer good friends. The rift in their
friendship was made in this way: DR. De-
pew delivered an address to the students of
the Chicago University. In the course of
his address he said that Debs raised a
revolution in Chicago that awed two gov
ernors, and which required United States
troops to queil. This, of course, was a
reflection on Gov. Altgeld. 1t made him
mad, and ne is a bad man when he Is
mad He wrote out an interview, in
which he hayed DR. Depew. and had it
printed. He said the doctor is the most
conspicuous product of the doctrine do
evil that good may come of It," and then
asserted that he is the originator of the
lobbying practice which was the begin
ming of that flood or corruption which is
to-day washing the foundations from un-
der our whole governmental fabric"
Further along in the interview he said:
"Dr. Depew wrapped the stars and stripes
about him. He became red, white and
blue orator. He changed the calendar
so as to make the Fourth of July en-
brace s65 days, leaving but six hours Tor
the remainder of the year, and then he
started for the white house. The
Union stock yards OF Chicago made Mr..
DepeW an official and gave him $4,000 q
year. 1t was alleged he had never seen
the stock yards and did not know on
which end of the steer the horns be-
longed. But all this was of no conse-
quence, as instead of slaughtering cat
tie he was expected to earn his salary
by slaughtering the innocents who talk
about protecting the public"
And what did DR. Depew say to all
this? 1t was not necessary for him to
say much. The whole country knows Alt
geld, and remembers the figure he cut
in connection with the Debs outbreak.
If the President had not interfered it Is
probable that Altgeld would have per-
mitted Debs to hold up all the railroads
until they came to his terms, This man
Altgeld," said DIR. Depew when shown
the interview, sis an iridescent humbug.
He flutters in the uncertain sunshine of
notoriety He is an odd mixture. He is
worth three or four million dollars-far
more than | am. The assertion of the
people with whom he associates is that
no man accumulates more than 1900 goo
in this world unless he steals 1t. l don I
need to work out the problem any fur
Their. AItgeld owns the biggest building
in Chicago. His cry is always for a di-
vision of property He knows very well
that the rest of the people will not allow
it, and he gets all the credit of being a
reformer without endangering his for
tune If he would practice his preaching
he would divide his property first and
then, after setting the example call on
the rest Of the country to follow his
lead"
We are inclined to think that even If the
DR.. Depew has a little good-natured hum
bug in his composition, and doesn't know
.he location of the horns of a steer. most
people would rather put their trust in
him than in the anarchistic tinctured OK
ecutlve of Illinois.