The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-02
DEPEW TALKS ABOUT HIS FALL.
FIFTY YEARS or ADULATFON,
TWO YEARS or REPROACH.

Hut He Admits That the w Years Have
Reduced IN selr.Esseem Built Up In
h Fifty-Hls Comments on other
Questions Plat IN Washington. Too.
WASHINGTON, Dec. For hfty years.
said Senator Chauncey NJ. Depew tonight,
while his yes became reflective and he
slipped his after dinner coffee. 4 had nothing
but fiattery and praise from the press. l
entered politics as o as l left college,
az a stump speaker in the campaign of
1855. All the fifty year period of my
activity IN politics that followed called
out nothing but praise from the news
papers. During the last two years i have
had nothing but unlimited criticism.
Il am curious to know just how long it
will take for the criticism to reduce en-
tirely the feeling Of gratiHcation-the swell
ling OF my head-that was created by the
fifty years of fiattery. / realize that there
has been a reduction. a surprising reduction,
when 1 reflect that the opposing forces
operated in the ratio OF fifty to two"
And the Senate from New York laughed
with a laugh that seemed to have no bitter
ness in il.
Senator Depew reached Washington this
evening with Mrs. Depew and went at once
to he handsome residence at Eighteenth
and N streets which he leased about a year
ago.
Senator Thomas c. Plstt also got here
to-day. He was accompanied only by a
valet. Mr.. Plat went from the station
to the Arlington Hotel, where he had an
early dinner and retired Immediately there
after.
He has the apartments at the Arlington
which he has occupied for most OF his official
life in Washington. After his second mar
rage he gave them up and lived at the VIII
lard and at Stoneleigh Court, the big apart
ment house of the late John Hay.
Senate Depew's niece, Miss Paulding;
was with him at dinner to-day.
Mr.. Depew talked freely about things Of
interest, breaking the silence he has main-
tanned In the last two years. He answered
questions readily.
Il u il Congress would pass an IN
come tax law in the face OF the ruling of the
Supreme Court Of the United States" said
Mr.. Depew. 1T would be equivalent TO
Congress reversing the Supreme Court and
making a law which would be no law unless
the Supreme Court after ward reversed it.
self. OF course, as the former decision was
carried by a vote OF four to five, q case might
possibly be made in which that decision
would be overturned. Still, Congress
always hesitates long before lssislating
upon ines which the supreme Court of the
United States has declared unconstitu-
tional.
"An inheritance tax 10 a different matter.
The sentiment of the country seems to
favor that. When Sir William Harcourt
passed his famous and most unpopular
inheritance tax law in England his reply
to the criticisms that it was a tax that robbed
heirs and depleted estates was that any
body would be willing to take the inheri-
lance less the tar II he could get it.
The rate law is working out all right.
I have been a close student of railroad
legislation for forty years and it is my
experience that no matter what the legisla-
ton is it generally helps the railroads. The
railroads undoubtedly in their earlier man
agement were guilty OF gross injustice in
many ways and their correction by legisla-
ton benefited the roads by removing the
causes Of complaint and permitting or
forcing the railroads to 30 conduct their
business as to take them out of politics and
legislation. The consolidation OF the rail-
roads OF the country, which has brought
about economies of management, lower
rates, vast Improvements in the properties
and policies which are beneficial to the
public and larger revenues which are better
for the stockholders, have all been brought
about by hostile legislation"
What is your opinion Of the recent New
York election?" the Senator was asked.
MIR. Hughes Is the only man who could
nave won. II any one else had been NOM
mated and the canvass had assumed any
other complexion than it did on account Of
that nomination the spirit of unrest which
Mr.. Hearst represented would nave carried
the State as well for hin as it did for the rest
Of the ticket. That spirit Of unrest is by
no means quiet. 1t is acute, restless,
vigorous and growing. Mr.. Roosevelt il
the one statesman who is meeting it and
apparently the only statesman whom the
people would accept as being able TO solve
in their interest the problems created by
the spirit Of unrest.
Il know that Mr.. Roosevelt does not
desire a denomination and that he is alb
solutely honest when he says he will not
take il. There are conditions under which
no man could refuse to run for President,
and AZ the thing looks to me at present Mr..
Roosevelt is the only man who can Sue
cesefully meet and satisfy the spirit Of
unrest without frightening the conserva-
tive interests of the country"
Senator Depew looks the picture OF health
and has apparently gained all his old time
buoyancy OF spirits.
ROBS RUNNING EXPRESS can.