The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-10-06
THE CAMPAIGN
The Leaders of the Grant
Hayes Party Panic
Stricken at the Pros
poet Of Defeat.
Preparations to Withdraw
Hayes and Nominate
Grant if Ohio
Goes Demo-
cratic.
Special Correspondence of Boston Post.
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Special Correspondence of Boston Post.
WASHINGTON, October /.
A most startling rumOr has been prl-
vately circulated in strictly confidential
administration circles here during the
last twenty-f -four hours, and to-day has
come to the knowledge of few outsiders
through the indiscrset and incautlous ut
terances of some of the members of the
ring controlled by Babcock, Sheppard IL
Co. They are so elated and rejolced at the
thought of such scheme rs has been
proposed that they have illustrated the
truth of the adage, S"When wine is in
wit is out"
1t has been no secret here during the
past week that Zach Chandler and his
satellites, who are managing the cam
paign, have not only become seriously
alarmed, but absolutely panic-sLricken,
by their private advices from Indiana
and Ohio. They are assured that lndl-
ana Is surely lost, and that there Is
scarce hope of ONO, and that the Ge'-
msn-American votes have nearly all de-
serted the Hayes ticket. If this prove
true, the Republican party is doomed
and ruin stairs them in the face.
In this dire extremity preparations
have been made TO resort TO the most
desperate measures. Grant WAS sud
denly recalled from his wanderings, and
long and anxious conferences have been
held during the closing days of Septem-
Der. The plot proposed and the scheme
that is so pleasing to the White House
ring is this: In case Ohio is carried by
the Democrats at the approaching state
election, Hayes name is to be with
drawn. 1t beng demonstrated that he
cannot carry his own state change must
be made in the head of the ticket
or all is lost. This being done, who can
rally all the elements OF strength
in the party and win a victory in the
face of defeat2 Who but Ulysses 5.
Grant, Chandler exutingly points to
the fact that every Republican convep
ton ofthe year has warmly and cordially
endorsed Grants Administration. Near
" one hundred thousand ottice-holders
would rejoice al the change. Butler and
Blame pledge every New England State
for him except Connecticut, and with the
remnant of the army now in the Indian
country judiciously placed in the South,
enough Southern States could be con
trolled to insure the success of the plot.
How many of the Republican leaders
Chandler has taken INTO his confidence
is not known, but it is certain that
Grants immediate friends and fattererS,
includiRg seUerdi tchO mere .tormertyln the
Confederate army, are highly eated over
the prospect, and one ex-rebel, but not u
fighting one. has expressed the hope that
the Democrats would carry Ohio and
thus compel the adoption OF this scheme,
which he is certain could be made a sue
cess. As preliminary movement IN this
bold and desperate move on the political
chess board, Chandler is to arrange with
several prominent Republican organs in
different parts of the country to lmmedl-
ately demand the substitution of Grant
for Hayes should the Ohio and Indiana
elections prove disastrous.