The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1875-11-04
ZACHARIAH CHANDLER.
THE NEW SECRETARY OF THE INTERIo


When man has served eighteen years
in the Senate and at the head of It's i'm
portant committees, and proved his re-
sources and stability in the darkest
hours of the countrys fortunes, it is not
| to be expected that momentary reverse,
such as the miss of a vote in the Legisla
ture, is to deprive the State of his servic-
es. Senator Chandler returns to public
life, where he has been conspicuous ever
since 1850, after only six months absence.
In fact, he has not been absent from it
at all, as the legislative bodies adjourned
soon after his successor was sworn in, and
Mr.. Chandler has never ceased to be the
head of the Republican party in Michi-
gan and one of its leaders in the nation.
He has been all along the expectant can
didate for the United States Senate on
| the expiration of Senator Ferry's term,
and he WIS never in better md ton O.
health, strength, and intelligenee than
at the present moment. Last December
ne was sixty years of age. His large
and imposing presence gives stranger
the port and portent of a public man
His temperament indulgent to his
friends and manly to his enemies. is sup
ported by an indomitable will and forti-
| tude in his convictions. He has never
been wrong on any leading question in
the course of his long career. He has
never been accused of any act of corrup-
ton, nor ever suspected, even by the ba-
sest mind, of a want of integrity in any
particular He has never used money to
accomplish his election to the Senate,
though money has repeatedly been used
on the opposite side While strict par
ty disciplinarian, he has always kept tine
| friendships.of the best class of Democrats
| both in Michigan and Washington. He
has fervid feelings when his patriotism
or Indignation is aroused, and came to
his political maturity in a period of civil
war with british enemy just over the
river from his home, and the intestinal
hostility of the Bourbons of his own
State, who had lived in office and affiu-
ence under the patronage of Lewis Cass
for a generation. Michigan had always
been q Democratic stronghold until
| Zachariah Chandler Infused his agrees
iveness and boldness into the Republican
party. since which time it has ceased to
be Democratic altogether; nor could a
personal rebellion led by Austin Blair in
1872 reverse the purpose of the people
of the State to see the physical victory
of the war carried out in all its moral re
suits.
When the rebellion was at its hight a
very few persons were recognized as the
backbone of the Senate. Some of these
were unpopular with the people on ac-
count of mannerisms and evil traditions,
| and Chandler was one of them. Neither
he nor Senator Cameron was ever elect
ed to any general office by the vote Of the
State. Mr.. Chandler became Mayor Of
Detroit, but he ran for Governor the
year Pierce was elcted President without
success Notwithstanding these we'll
known facts, it will be matter of hsto-
ry that Chandler, and Cameron also, were
conspicuous members OF that great gal
axy which numbered Sumner, Collamer,
Wade, Ramsey, Morgan, and Trumbull.
These were the back bone of the Senate,
strict partisans and strict radicals who
supported Stevens and Davis OF the House
and kept the party up to the nerve req
uisite for national legislature in time
of war. Mr.. Chandler succeeded Lewis
Cass in the Senate by fairly defeating