Why He Talked Politics

A few days bef ore election Mr. Chauncy M. Depew visited Hajor McKinley, at Cantón, and, whit there, he explained, in au interview, why he delivered a political speech before tho Student's Lecture Association in University Hall. Here is what he says: "Some timo ago I spoke to a Western university, and I supposed I would have to make a political speech, but I was informed that politics must not be introduced, and that I was expected to deliver a literary oration. Now, when I am out on the stump and chock full and running at the mouth with political questions of the day, I do not care much about Greece and Eome. I do not carry any literatureor artor gothic architecture up my sleeve, and if I should start to describe the course of the river Jordán or the journey of the children of Israel across the Red Sea, before I got through I should have the Democratie party in Pharaoh's Chariot. "That is an intellectual failing of mine. So to be absolutely non-partiean I seleoted for my subject money and the standard of value. Now, if there is one subject in the world which 3hould be non-partisan and non-political it is the standard of value of a commerical people, and if there is a chair of political economy in any college of the United States that does not teach the boys in that college what a standard ot value means and what commercial honesty means, I say that it is no place in which the boys of the country should be educated."