The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1899-01-28
How Mr.. Dcpew Won the United
States SenatOrship,
From the Chlcago Times Herald1

| From the CHICAGO Times -Herald.)
! Every boy born in the United States
| is heir to a presidential possibil!ty-how
remote the TACT that there have been
only twentvthree since the inaugura
| ton of Washington 10 years ago test
fes. In 1890 there were 1000. 80 ma
tive born males in the United States.
Chauncey Mitchell Depew early re-
cognlzed that the chances of becoming
president were SO infnitismal as to be
beyond the ambition of a small Pe Ks
kill schoolboY. But New York had
senator in those days VINO came within
the small boys horizon, above which
he doomed like the Washington monu
ment above the Potomac flats.
William II. Seward in intellectual
gifts and high political character was
worthy 20 be young Depew's idol and
I eXemplar. He was a great lawyer, and
Depew resolved 10 be a LAWYER. He
was a splendid United States senator,
and Depcw : ambition WAS fired to be
senator.
Mr.. Dcpew's father WAS Democrat.
Seward s speeches and the associations
o Yale maie young Dcpew an Adolf
t;onl5t and a Republican.
HIS ambition to become a senator al
most proved Depew's ruin. He went
into politics and was successful up TO
the point where he saw ''pauper poll
t!ciau" written in the offer of a mission
to Japan. Then he resigned as secre-
tary Of state in New York and went
back to practice of the law.
Bat he never let the resolve 10 be 4
/ United States senator fade from the
tablets of his viii. Commodore VAN
/ derbit offered him the attorneyship of
the Harlem Railroad Company when
It's tracns only measured Us miles. For
a time the senatorship was eclipsed by
the ambition to succeed Commodore
Vanderbilt.
In 1850 there came test of Mr.. De-
pew's manhood waicn marked him
worthy OF the school Of high personal
honor iii which he had been regard, lie
4 W 40 EJltN!rcd ~ W iIiIstlIl VI. LNdI 10 Nlitil
the senatorship from New York was
! rendered to himself on platter. Here
Tas the cOnsumma,Ion of his dreams
within his grasp. But Mr.. Evarts had
done him the honor to say that Depew
would refuse it aud he PIT it by. Think
of that, We of little faith who say that
honor III politics is dead
After fourteen years the same high
office was again offered him last week,
and this time, with conscience clear,
with the approval of his fellow citizens
in every section OF the nation, he is
able to realize the dream of his boy
hood, the ambition of his youth and
manhood, the goal Of his life's best e.!
fort.
The following coloquy between Mr..
| Depew and New York Journal re
! porter the other day is worthy the at
uention of every you'll: who aspifes to a
senatorshiD or any other success in this
world:
did YOU ever despair of becoming
! senator some day?
Never. | am sure Of what | am GO
| ing to tell you. Fix 4 point that YOU
want to reach, concentrate all your ia
! culties to the task of reaching it, and
| yov'll get there. Nothing viii stop you.
! 1t is more than consollng, It is an abSo-
! lutte statement. 1t Is 4 act.
! That IS it. High aim, concentration,
| fixedness of purpose, unfaltering faith
and persevcrug work. The time has
not gone by when these can remove
mountains and attain senatorships.
And don't " orry. Mr.. Depcw's father
and mother died of worry. But he
hasn't. He once lost all the money he
had ever saved by indorsing for friends.
Things looked dark. His health was
poor and his nerves were gone. But
he said to himself :" Stop worrying
Sleep came back. His health i'm proved.
The cares that in ested the day vanished
as he lay his hand upon his pillow.
| Cheer illness triump hed over all bis Ills.
| Listen 10 his testimony:
:" In the day my enemy did his best
to throw me down. He worked with
/ his might in the dark and III the open.
| went TO bed having forgotten him,
and when | woke up in the morning |
| could lick him
There are dozen sermons in Mr..
Depew's account OF how he won the
senatorship. 1t inculcates the wisdom
of high ideals, steadtastness, cheerful
ness and industry and casts out envy
/ and jealousy. He never sought to rise
by pulling anyone down. He fought
/ fairly and honUrablv, as every man
must to win the full enjoyment OF sue