The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1906-03-06
.DOLEFUL
FOR DEPEW
DoORKEEPERS ON THE
FRAlLTIES OF
MANKIND
HOW SENATOR'S TALK
About the DOWNFALL of
Depew and Platt.

tBy Associated Prcss.)
Washington, March s-rho senate
doorsecpers. who have nothing to do the
livelong day except to moralize on the
frailties of mankind. as oxemplincd by
the lives Of the senator's: with now and
then an interruption OF these highly en-
tertainlng reflections while they wave
aside a bridal couple who are trying to
enter and assist IN the deliberations OF
the august assembly, the senate door
Keepers, then, are Just now casting
Senator Chaunccy Depew for the part
OF "the terrible example" in thc old o'd
human drama, Honesty is The best pol
icy.
Have not the senate doorkeepers. es-
peciany those who guard the rear en-
frances Of the chamber which lead into
She secluded lobby where few are allowed
TO penetrate. have not these wise phil
osophers observed the broken old man
mcrc than "A hundred times day as he
emergcs ncrvously from the senate into
this secluded nook as he casts "a furtlvc
eve about him. gnaws his finger nails
and then falls into restless pacing up
and down, hp aud down. through the cor
ridor until it would seem as though his
very bones would Wear out from fatigue?
Aye. this the senate doorkecpcrs have
seen--and more
For Chnuncey Dcpcw has reached that
mental state chat deprves man Of the
power To- SIT sul. or stand still. or lie
down. or think or smoke or smile such
plight ls his chat two men must ever
follow him about, one relieving the other
at intervals; he is never out Of sight of
ono on the other when he is outside of
the senate chamber.
youag woman, his neice. brings be-
pew TO the senate in Il carriage each
morninR She walks with him to his
committee room. wh rc he Is turned over
TO his two faithful attendants. II is all
together likely that Depew does not
know these men keer watch upon him.
for they ar ostcnsibly his committee
clerks, and neither approaches him with
out a paper. or q question or a book Of
some kind-qnythlng TO furnish an eX-
cuse for their presencc-and the old man
in HIS fronzied fancy doubtless swallows
the excuse Yet there is one ever wait
ing at the senate door to see him Us he
doorkeeperrs know. Dcpew has not walk
cd alone from the senate chamber to his
committee room.
Is his conscience driving him wild. or
is b. an honest man being driven TO dos-
pcration by the public's wrongfully ac-
cuslng hngerg
Whateve- the state OF his conscience.
the accusing finger is pointing at him
strongly enough. Yet IL he be innocent.
and thus perturbed by the multitude OF
charges which ne knows 20 be lies. then
he Is coward. An arrant, shrinking,
cringing coward. afraid 10 stand forth Ia
his innocence ana defy the mountain of
calurnny which is now slowly but surely
bearing him down
Slowly but surely bearing him down.
That is IT, He cannot bear the sight OF
the crowds IN the galleries. with guide
here and there pointing him out TO a
group Of womea cralning their necls--
some Of them using opera glasses-to see
him. He cannot bear to have his col
league come and sit with him for a talk.
II must leave the senate chamber the
minute he enters 1t. The lobby. the
quiet. deserted, cool green lobby where
ne can walk ana walk ana walk; where
no one WI look at aim with seorn and
contempt; the lobby ever rises before
his feverisl fancy and there he must go.
New Y,rker, entering that lobby,
might think The questions OF vital inter-
est TO his state arc All discussed in tine
lobby so frequent AZ. the visits OF this
New York senator 10 IL. Yet he would be
undeceived Of this fallaey when he OBJ
served that wide-open mouth, that rest
lass eve and that interminahie pacing
up and down of the junior senator from
New Nork-the once famous and feted
chauncey pepew
once in whsle DE meets IN that lobby
another senator possibly orc who IN
otaer times laughed with him over "a new
Joke cor AN old one) but there Is never a
loke, OLD or new. between them now
pepcw win now and then put out his