Depew, once a candidate for nomination for the presidency, a United
States senator still by some grace of toleration, and at one time
referred to in European royal circles as a "representative American
citizen."
United States Senator Mitchell became a derelict, politically and
socially.
United States Senator Thomas C. Platt was wrecked in the wreckage.
United States Senator Burton became blackened in the charges of graft.
Depew is a name no longer to conjure with.
Then followed a long list of the commercially and financially
prominent civilians, blackened, and with such blackness as never to be
white again by any of the old processes which once sufficed.
Graft is still king. But, truer than of any other monarch, it may be
repeated: "Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown."