The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-21
DEPEW TO STICK.
Platt Urges Him to Show Up in
Senate Monday.
And He Promises That He viii
Be on Hand.
TROUBLE is APHASIA.
Finds Himself Unable to Utter
What He Wants to Say.
He Is Afraid Everybody Is After
Him at Times.
TROUBLE is APHASIA.

Washington, Jan. 2O.-Discussing the
rumor that Senator Depew intends to
resign, Senator Plat, his colleague, said
today there was not word of truth ia
it.
"Of course, Depew is depressed BY
the wild charges affecting him that
have been made in the recent past he
said, and it is very possible this de-
preston has had some effect on his
health He win be in his seat Monday
morning to. greet his friends and face
his enemies and in the senate he has
lots of one and mighty few of the 9TH
er. There win be no doubt, either. Of
the warm cordially Of his reception
Senator Plat sent a telegram yester-
day to Senator Depew, urging him TO
be in his seat Monday, and received
reply that he would be. on hand.
Senator Depew, who is in his seventy
third year, is suffering from aphasia
and melancholia, his closest friends
here have been informed. The senator
was suddenly seized first with aphasia
while at dinner one night recently. He
knew perfectly what he wished to say.
and he tried to express his thoughts
but he could not for a moment.
Senator DepeWs first attack wSs
brief; it was followed by others longer.
Unexpectedly he came here Tuesday
him. He announced that he would go
to the senate the next day. Instead, he
was sent to New York at noon. He had
been seized with aphasia- Ills relatives
determined to Immediately consult his
physicians in New York. Besides they
wished to save him FRI m possible an
noyance, perhaps humiliation, in the
senate chamber.
Consultation of Doctors.
A consultation of the senator's ply
sicians was held yesterday.
Mr.. Depew's melancholia takes the
form of the belief that every one seeks
to attack him for alleged misdeeds. On
his way to the capitol he constantly
expressed the fear that the senators
would not receive him cordially. his
old associates have vainly tried TO prove
to him that such fears are groundless.
An intimate friend of Mr. Depew visit
ed him a day or two ago. At first Mr.
DepeW did not know his friend but IN
a very brief time he recognized his VIsI-
tor and talked to him for half an hour.
lucidly and animatedly. Another close
friend who saw Mr.. Depew recently
thus describes his condition:
1.-The senator viii talk nationally and
perhaps, with some of his old spirit
Suddenly his eyes viii become blank
and he viii be powerless to continue
the conversation. This condition VIII
last for different periods. but It recurs
more and more frequently.
Senator. Platt sent this telegram to-
day to Senator Depew at the Grand Cen
trail station. New York;
cit is very essential that you should
be here Monday morning in the SEN
ate. Answer, StOneleigh COURT. G.
Platt."
Senator Depew's answer promised
that he would appear in the senate
Monday morning. If he does he VIII
I be given a welcome by the senators,
which will go far toward showing
! Depew that he has many friends left
No Family Troubles.
Cannes, France, Jan. 20.-The re-
/ port in New York that Mrs Chaun-
! cey NJ Depew has left her husband
is false A correspondent. who called
today at the hotel where young Mrs
/ Depew and her mother are staying,
/ is authorized to deny it absolutely.
! Mrs. Depew's poor health is the sole
cause of her temporary absence from
/ her husband. Each winter, since her
marriage, four years ago, Mrs. De-
pew has suffered severely from influ-
enza. She was Frustrated by the heat
/ in the United States last summer and
was compelled to come to Cannes to
recuperate. She is still unable to
/ write letters. Mrs. DepeW insists she
will rejoin her husband in New York
! Just as soon as she is herself again