Show DEPEW DEPE RELATES I LINCOLN TALES Anecdote Used by Martyr President to Win Points NEW YORK Oct Chauncey 8 r Depew In former United St States State Statehood senat a the opening Instalment of Leaves From My AutObiography to In the forthcoming forthcoming forth forth- coming November Issue of Scribners Scribner's Magazine I. I a retrospection ion of hood his childhood childhood child- child youth and pUblic service covering covering cover- cover ing n a periOd Cr of eighty tells years some new anecdotes of Lincoln Grant Andor Andrew An- An I An-I drew rev T dor dore J Johnson S n Seward Chase Commodore Commodore Commo- Commo Vanderbilt and ana other notable men n of ot Civil Civil war daysI days I V view vie I had a J long ne an and memorable Interview inter- inter D Denew ew pew with President Lincoln Mr Ir w writes I of a visit he paid Pala to Washington ashington in 1863 when he was secretary secretary sec sec- I of state te f for r New York As stepped from the crowd in his reception reception re- re r room rom he said sald to me What do you l 1 want avant I answered Nothing Mr resident I only y came to pay my respects respects revin re- re and bid you K goodby dl y as I am leaving vin g. g Washington It II Is ls such a l luxury v he then remarked to find findT a man who does not want anything I T wish you would wait walt until I git get rid rM of this crowd When hen we were alone he threw himself himself him him- self rit fiT wearily on a lounge and was evidently evidently evi evi- dently greatly exhausted Then he in In- In rocking backward and forward in a reminiscent review of different crises in his I administration and how he had met them In nearly ever instance in in- in stance stanca he had carried his point and In-I In either captured or beaten his adv p pS r- r sarles saries by a story S so apt so on all fours and with such complete answers that the controversy was over I 1 remember remember ber eleven of these stories each of which was a victory Lincoln was always on n the lookout T for a good yarn yarn- arn although he told Depew he never Invented one One Onea night there was a re reception Pt on In the executive mansion Rufus C. C Andrews I I surveyor or of f the port of New lork cork and a confidential adviser of the president on New Y York affairs attended a the re reception reception re- re with Mr Depew As the procession procession pro pro- I cession of moved past Lincoln stopped Andrews and leaning over spoke very confidentially to him I dell delaying the ceremonies for some time I I CURIOSITY AROUSED i I Momentous Issues were Impending Lincoln was in the midst of the campaign cam cam- i for his cabinet was inharmonious the war was on and decisive decisive decisive de de- de- de I battles were about to be fought N Newspaper men and politicians button holed Andrews on his return to his hotel notel Mr Depew writes Andrews I made a great m mystery of his ital conversation with Lincoln and so did the press He lie explained to me I I when we were alone that during his visit to the president the tha night before before be be- fore he told Mr Lincoln a new story I The president delayed lIm Urn at the re reception reception reception re- re saying Andrews I the point of that story you fold told me last night It now I c I 1 am accused of telling a great many stories stories' Mr Ir Depew quotes Lin Lin- j coin coln They say that It lowers the I dignity U of the presidential office but butI I have found that plain people repeating re repeating re- re I with emphasis plain people ta take e them as you find them are more easily Influenced b by a broad and humorous humorous humorous hu hu- hu- hu I than in any other and what the hypercritical few I ma may think I dont care In II speaking Mr Lincoln had a pe peculiar peculiar peculiar pe- pe culiar cadence in his voice caused b by laying laIng e emphasis upon the keyword of of the sentence In answer to the question question question ques ques- tion how he knew so many anecdotes he answered I never invented a stor story but I r have havea a good memory and I think tell one fOl tolerably gl well aRfi My early a life ife was passed among pioneers who had the courage and enterprise to Dreal away from civilization and settle In the wil wU- The things which to these original people and among I themselves in their primitive conditions were far more dramatic than anything I invented by the professional story storytellers storytellers tellers STORIES SWAPPED For many years I travelled the circuit circuit circuit cir cir- as a law lawyer er and usually there was only one hotel in the county towns wh where re court was held The Judges the grand and petit juries the lawyers the clients and ami witnesses would nass Ie le night telling exciting or amusing s and these were of infinite variety and interest Referring to Lincoln's adroitness In handling men and his bis personal humility humilIty humility ity Mr Depew said No president ever had a a. cabinet of which the members were so independent independent independent dent had so large Individual followings followings followings follow- follow ings and were so Inharmonious The presidents president's sole ambition was to secure the abl ablest Rt men in the country for the department departments which he assigned to them without regard to their loyalty to himself him him- self One of Mr Ir Seward's Seward s 's secretaries would frequently report to me the he acs ac's of disloyalty or personal hostility n o othe the I part rt of Mr Chase with the lame lame- The Tho old man meaning man meaning Lincoln Lincoln knows knows all about it and will not do a thing Mr Depow tells how he started on a business career that finally finall brought him to the presidency of heir New s n Central railroad He had Just just been nominated and confirmed as united States State minister to Japan at a year and an outfit of offered At the same flame time he had been offered the at- at for the New York Harlem Harlem Harlem Har Har- lem railroad at less salary When he told Commodore Vanderbilt about abut It the commodore remarked Railroads arthe ar arA the career for a young young o man there If Is nothing in politics s Dont Don't Don Don't Dont t be a a damned fool That decided him and the result was that on January 1 I 1 1921 Mr Depew rounded out fifty five fifty years Year in the he railway service of this corporation and its allied lines The future senator was admitted to the bar in 1858 and immediately as tely opened an office e i in n Peekskill N. N Y 1 his his home homen to town n His first client was a farmer who wanted an opinion on a com 11 ed Question Young Dep Dew Depew w prepared he The farmer farm farm- the case with great reat care him what his fee was and he e asked s k d ers er erI said I 5 His client replied A dollar sa sad and d seventy-five seventy cents is Is enough for fora an lawyer like y you And nd Depew I accepted a ace y young it only to learn that alder the farmer farm farm- er had d' d later gone to an a older lawyer layer and dh paid for tor the same advice I |