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Show several years ago, Chauncey M. Depew, jester at large,' was elected to the United States Seriate. lie did nothing there but make a few innocuous speeches and parcel out the appointments as he was told.. According to custom, he was entitled to another an-other terra. But Piatt now has Odell with whom to leckon. Odell cares nothing for Depew one way ot mother, but he wants one of his own henchmen in the Senate, so he has declared that Depew must retire, re-tire, to be succeeded by former Gov. Black. ' It does not matter a particle except to the bosses whether Depew or Black. is United States Senator. Neither will do anything worth noticing in the Senate, and neither can do much harm. They are negative quantities. The point is that New York might iave real men in the Senate were her affairs af-fairs taken out of the hands of the bosses. Conditions in Pennsylvania are parallel. The bosses control everything there and the people might as well omit the formality of voting. These two great States ought to be ashamed of themselves. Their representative men leave the government of the States to ignorant and corrupt tricksters. They have no excuse for being so negligent; The Shams of Great State!. It 'is a peculiar condition of our political life that two of the greatest and richest States in the Union are completely at the mercy of a few bosses. The people who live in New York and Petinsylva-" Petinsylva-" pia have no more to say about local government than a Russian serf has to do with his country's policy. They are merely allowed to vote for the candidates named by the. bosses. ;Tlie peculiar condition is emphasized by a fight that has broken out anew between the two Repub- -.. lican political bosses of New York Senator Piatt . and Gov. Odell. Piatt was for many j-ears the sole boss. lie made a politician'out of Odell, but that worthy, lacking in gratitude and having boundless ambition, resolved to be boss himself. lie has about :u Uieyed his desire. Piatt's star is no longer in the nsi yiiilancy. while Odell has the political machinery iof ilie Kmpire State under his control. Through Piatt's manipulation of the Legislature 1 ..:.- . :-: .-' V ' i .. |