Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-11-12
About Chase, Wade and the Presi.
dency-The Secret Programme
which Wade did mot Tell. ~

About Chase, Wade and the Presi.
dency-The Secret Programme
which Wade did mot Tell.
We find the following "cut direct'
both CHASE and WADE in the Ne,o YORK
Times of Saturday:
''Chief Justice Chase must be infinitely
obliged to his friend Mr.. Wade for making
public, just at this moment, his little remi
niseenses of Presidential wire-pulling IN
1860. MACK" went tor was sent for) to Sc.
the latter gentleman, and found him ''hea'
and tail erectn and .'snorting.o With re-
gard to Mr.. Chase, he snorted to the effec,
that sin 1860, Chase wrote me a letter ask
ing me to sound the members of the tw'
Houses, and see what his prospects were
did sO." Mr.. Wade then tells us that b.
found only one Chase man in the Senat'
and only a few in the House, and that h.
wrote to Chase that ''tbe thing looked
little blue" but that he had "bettei
come on" Instead. however, "Dick Par
sons, of Cleveland" came on, and did.
s'little prospecting" and Chase "wantet
me to decline'' in his favor, and so forth
We would suggest that If anybody
doing little prospecting" for MIR. Chas'
now, it would be well for him to see a.
once that Mr.. Wade does not snort an
more about those little secrets of eight year
NOb Lldb LtcTS Is At1N th uhS<''
little bids and manGuvres, but people hav'
fancy tor the sort of man who, having
achieved greatness, waits to have Presi
DENTAL greatness thrust upon him. Ano
Mr.. Wade paints the Chief Justice as any Z
thing but coy candi.ate-a Cincinnatia,
| reluctantly answering the summons OF M
countrymen TO take the helm OF state. w
fear there was tinge of mallce In TIT
frankness OF - Old Ben."
There is portion of the Presidential
wire pulling of 1850, which Mr.. WADE ha'
| not told.
While protesting friendship for Gov
CHASE, and an anxiety for his selection al
the candidate for President, Senator WADl
was his bitter opponent and rival A com
bination was formed. in Cleveland to maxi
WADE the nominee. in which D. Il. CART
TER, at present Chief Justice of the Su
preme Court in Washington, and r. F
PAYNE, made, by the influence of WADE
United States Attorney for the Northern
District of Ohio, were the two conspirator
selected as delegates to the Chicago Con
vention. The first programme was to de
| feat CHASE, and the second-frst will
WADE, PAYNE and CARTIER, but seconC
with the other conspirators-to MAKE
WADE the nominee. In this combination
Mr.. GREELEY took secondary part-not 81
much to defeat CHASE as TO annihilate thu
prospects of SEWARD, and lending himsel
to any scheme that promised success. Hat
it not been for Mr.. GREELEY. the friends o
WADE claimed that the conspiracy woult
have been a success. GREELEY, represent
ing Oregon in the Convention, got scared
at the prospect of SEwABD's nomination
and threw off on Mr.. LINCOLN. and thus
while he banked the WADE game, defeatet
SEWARD. These are facts which Mr.. WADl
will not dare gainsay. 55ES
As pertinent to- this erpose Judge CART
TER had a promise, from the lips of Mr.
LINCOLN, soon after the election, through
friend, that he should have seat in th
Cabinet as Secretary of the Interior
| This was subsequently, thwarted by tn
exertions of Mr.. GREELEY, who, as soon a
he ascertained that Gov. SEWARD was to b,
fpremier member of the Cabinet, undertook
journey to Illinois and there prevailed
upon Mr.. LINCOLN to so change the pro
gramme as to appoint Gov. CHASE Secre
tary of the Treasury, in order, as he pro
claimed to his friends, that, by his known
talent for intrigue, CHASE might check
mate Mr.. SEWARD in his Presidential as
pirations, and control of LINCOLN and hi
Cabinet. In this he was successful. Judg'
CARTIER was rewarded with the smalles
of second class missions to South America
and resigning, subsequently got bette
pay as Chief Justice of the Supreme Cour
of the District of Columbia, which offic.
he still retains and uses it in his wal
against Judge CHASE. nff7-' 9e