New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-02-17
CH4T ABOUT PUBLIC HEN.

oo % tho guests who attended the dinner given
by Genera, Howard Carroll. of the Governor S'""'
TO his fellow officers at Delmonico's Saturday even
ing told excellent anecdote about the most ihe'e
are few men In the guard who are better known or
better liked than Howard Carroll 1t is part OF the
Constitution that nobody holding state Once sha"
receive or use a railroad pass. some time ago zen
eral Carroll called upon Chauncey NJ Depew at the
Grand Central Station Mr.. Depew. when Geherai
Carroll entered the room. said cordially: how are
vou Howard? Perhaps had better call you zen,
see here. Mr. Depew." was the reply, Il gave uo
a pass on your railroad for the privilege OF wearing
the uniform ana being called General Now want
one or the other II cannot make use of the pass,
then want TO be called General.
Cx-Senato, Spoonc- of Wisconsin. narrowly es-
caped becoming "A Presidential possibility recently
He was in the East on political business ana was
III the Waldorf While ne absent plan was
quietly Matched up 10 present his name at the -
Louis Convention with the solid Wisconsin deieHa-
ton behind IT, and 10 try and get votes outside Mr.
spooner was in bssful ignorance OF the scheme;
The news reached MIN and he suddenly started
West. Now it is said that ne eiiectuaiy quasihsa
seemed bent on dragging him forth as faVoriie
son and Mr.. Spooner said that he had no desire TO
be a stool-p!geOn docoy-d for some other can
didate He explained simply to hls friends mat ms
only ambition was to succeed Villas In the senate
He was assured OF hearty support III TINS a'"''-
ton and his boom has been sietracked
Presidential boom as a joke and to watch the wary
statesman from Pennsylvania to see what move ne
makes next There Il one. however. who says he
takes the boom with all seriousness and that Is
lanes j. GARRISON. In a recent conversation with
politicians at the Fifth Avenue Hotel ne SAID mat
any one who GA not take Mr.. quay at his worn
would be deceived. lie added that he had been ac-
uuatnted with Mr.. Quay long enough 10 know thdt
When he declared his candidacy for an oilce ne was
ONT To win. He said further that Mr.. quay would
be- the last man In the word 70 use himself as a
substitute for somebody else This impressed the
politicians deeply until the fact was suddenly re,
rtliei that senator quay and Mr. Clarhson hai
been I'm conference frequently Of late. ana tnat
there was just possibility that their interests
might lie In the sam" direction
There WAS at the Wahlor. Saturday a man whom
Senator Tlllman would Ike to handle on the end
~ his pi,chfork but with whom h. has never COPIED
succo,sfuliv lie is judge Gon, OF Nest Virginia
Judge Cons district embraces n part OF south caro-
: I'm, and ne and the Senator from South Carohna
locked horns over the dspensary question: Judge
Con bo,ng on the bench. cannot talk politics., put
NJ - l..p.v Interested IN H. just the same SOM
lin. ago Senator IknS In putting fortn pea ior
thr nomination a second man on the Nitlohal X
publican Ticket from the South, named Judge Ion
fotclars though; that all along the senator from
/ Nest virginia wanted to run Tor Nlce-freslcelt
| himself II Is limited that Judge Goif mas aspra
lions 10 wear Tie Senatorial tosa, ana tntt NJ IS
looking after the nomination when MI. fau4khe'
term expires.