Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1885 — The Depew Story. [ARTICLE]

The Depew Story.

Of all modes of writing history that of reporting it between speeches and drinks at a grand banquet is the most grotesque. Chauncey M. Depew is, moreover, a man well along in life, and was well in manhood twenty years ago. He must have known something of the history of the Johnson administration from his own knowledge of current events; he could easily have refreshed his information by going to proper sources if he desired. Instead of taking either course he gives a random report of General Grant's talk to him four years ago, about events fifteen or sixteen years before, and presents it to the public as gratuitous history. There is probably a grain of truth underlying this narration, but it is like a grain of sand under an eyelid, a body tremendously out of its true place and asssuming a degree of importance wholly disproportionate to its true merits. — Springfield Republican,