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Show DKl'EW'S SPEECH. Whatever may be one's opinion of Chaunoey M. Depcwasa possible candidate can-didate for president, there can be no diversity of opinion on one point he is one of America's most gifted, brilliant and versatile men. It Is astounding what multiplicity of duties he is called upon to perform and still more astounding astound-ing how well he performs each. One would suppose that his. labors as president presi-dent of a great railroad company would monopolize all his time, but although be performs those labors conscientiously he seems to have no lack of time to do-vote do-vote to politics, society, home and to economlo questions, filling each sphere with rare facility and grace. Yesterday Mr. Depew delivered a speech before the International Brother hood of Locomotive Engineers, which Is remarkable for Its plain English. There is no grandiloquence, uo straining strain-ing for effect, no spread eagle oratory In it, aud yet it fills the readers, as it doubtless did the hearers, with the conviction con-viction that hero is a man who says something every time he talks. More thau that, Mr. Depew, among a horde of timeservers and demagogues, re mains ever true to himself. His political polit-ical ambition does not make a hypocrite of him and when he meets workmen as he always does as man with man it is not to deceive and flatter them to tho end that he might subserve his own seltish interests. . It is a relief to hear, sometimes among the din of the small politicians the voice of this gifted and courageous American. |