The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-09-18
OUR PUBLIC MEN.

As Senator Chandler is about TO be
brought again before the people of
Michigan as a candidate for reelection
to the Senate of the United States, it
may be well to call to mind some of the
CO siderations which lead us to hone
that he will be sustained in the future
as in the past by those whom he has
served so well. His life, name, fortune,
private energy, and public enterprise
have long been known to the country.
A native of New Hampshire, he many
years ago settled in Michigan, where he
has won all his triumphs as private
citizen and public man. He was bred
a merchant, and has acquired large
fortune, which enables him to give his
time to public affairs, though very much
to the detriment of his personal con.
Germs. Had he refused the public ser.
vice of his country for the purpose of
augmenting his own estate there is prob.
ably no man of our times who could out.
strip him in those business qualities
which are necessary 10 the highest sue
cess But he has been willing to de.
vote to the interest of the Republic the
very best years of his life and to make
his private fortune matter of secondary
moment. He was made mayor Of De.
troit in 1851, and be succeeded General
Cass in the Senate of the United States
in the Thirty.fifth Congress- He was
reelected to the Senate in 1863, and
again in 1869. During this long and
eventful period he has borne a most
conspicuous and effective part, A mem
Der of several Of the most important
committeN he has long been at the
head of the { nmittee on Commerce,
and in peace and war his shown himself
fully adequate for every emergency.
The nor done him by the great ma.
tlonal party in power in placing him Oh
the National Executive Republican Com
mittee, as well as the powerful and un-
interrupted service he has rendered for
many years, is proof of the estimation
in which he is held throughout the
country by the strongest men of the Re.
publican pi ty. The Senator is not
much given to speech making, but when
he does speak it is always sensible and
directly to the purpose. He is generous
and chivalrous in all his bearing, and
bold and resolute 10 doing whatever
in his view of duty is required to be
done. He was, as is well known, every.
where one of the most advanced of the
Spartan band in the Senate of the
United States at the tin, when a fear.
full civil war was impending and when
threats of the destruction of the Union
were made on every hand. Then amid
the timid be was brave, amid the be-
wildered he was not conf sed. He saw
clearly through the obscurity of the
rising storm. and while deploring its
necessity he accepted the wager of bat.
tie without the trembling of muscle
or the shuddering of nerve. He knew
what it would cost, but he knew, too,
what grand results would be secured.
Senator Chandler is thorough and sue.
cessful statesman, and has done much
for the party and the country by his
powerful will and invipcible purpose.
Whatever he undertakes he is generally
able to accomplish. He embarks in
every enterprise all his soul and what.
ever means are demanded for its triumph.
When during he late war, and subse.
quently, the hearts of his countrymen
sank within them, and dependency
seemed the spirit which ruled the hour,
his voice has been heard always crying
out cheerily and rousing again to action
the tagging energy of the people Sen.
ator Chambers views are generally
sound and clear on all subjects touching
the national welfare, aud his Judgment
as practical business man and one who
has long studied and worked the fnan
,ial problem is worthy of the serious
Of the nation. His great
commercially and financially
S sorely needed in these times to aid in
framing wise and profitable laws for the
country. 1t would be great loss to
The councils of the nation if Senator
Chandler should not now be returned to
The seat he has held 50 honorably and
10 long.
Much has been said and written
about the private conduct aud personal
habits of this distinguished man. But
whenever specific charges have been
made against him he has invariably pur.
sued the accuser to his destruction. 1t
will not do for cunning malice or pri.
7ate pique to assail Senator Chandler
with no other foundation for the assault
than those base feelings and motives
which actuate the calumniator and black
mailer of the present day. He is not
.he man to be plucked by any kind of
'ascality like this, as several who have
5ried it on him have already found to
heir sorrow. He is doing immense
good in this direction by restraining the
of the press and bringing
he spirit Of political strife and party
emulation within the bounds of legit
nate and honorable controversy. The
State of Michigan can certainly DO no