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Words of farewell to a man who departs finally from the public scene, are often concluded with a salute to his successor in name and potential fame. Such a salute might have speeded the rhythm of many an editorial last week, had not Ganson Goodyear Depew died just four years and four days before his Granduncle Chauncey. The fame of the grandnephew when he died at the age of 29, was universal only in his home city, Buffalo. But that he would become a U. S. Senator, at least, was the expectation of many discerning older men, including no doubt his optimistic granduncle. Tall, handsome, polished, enthusiastic, he too had the gift of oratory. Among those who had reason to remember a Depew that might have been, was Herbert Hoover. Ganson Depew, in his most memorable speech, nominated Mr. Hoover for the U. S. Presidency in a "Republican Convention" which he had himself organized with unparalleled success at Yale University in 1920.