The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-12-28
Chambers Revelations.


has been Assistant Secretary OF the Treas
ury, and is known az Il politician Of cxpc-
rience and resource. Having been promi-
nent and active in the management OF the
last Presidential campaign. he was selected
and sent down TO Florida to engineer the
counting Of the votes of that State so as to
procure q declaration that the HAYES
electors had been chosen by tho people.
No man understands more intimately than
he the intrigues, the corruption, and the
frauds by which declaration to this cffcct
was procured from the Republican majority
OF the Florida Returning Board; and If hc
should now turn States evidence and reveal
all that he knows about it. the Fraudulent
President could not remain in the White
House for twenty-four hours.
So far as this however. Mr. CHANDLER
does not seem prepared 10 go; but being
sincerely attached TO his party, and seeing
clearly that HAYES has turned his back
upon the Republican organization and Is
engaged in destroying it. he puts forth
some interesting statements concerning the
notorious bargain between Mr.. HAYES and
u number Of Southern Democrats, whereby
the latter agreed to allow tho Presidential
count to be completed in the House Of Rep
rescntatives and HAYES to be declared
elected according to the decision of the I'M
constitutional Electoral Commission, while
In return HAYES agreed that after his in
auguratlon he should rcpudiate CHAMBER
LAIN In South Carolina and PACKARD in
Louisiana, and allow Democratic Govern
mant TO be established in each of those
States. The immediate parties TO this bar
gain, according to Mr.. CHANDLER. were
JOHN SHERMAN, who visited Ohio TO con-
suit Mr.. HAYES himself. STANLEY MAT
THEws, CHARLES FosTKR. JAMES A. GAR
FIELD, l.. Q. c. LAMAR, john Is.
GORDON, Z. j. ELLIS, RANDALL GLIB
son, L. 4. BURKE. JOHN YouNG BRows,
and HENRY WArTERsoS, who is n nephew Of
STANLEY MATTHEWS, and was the go-be-
tween in the negotiations. The bargain
which they concluded was embodied :" In
secret writing now in the hands OF T.. A.
BURKE In executing his part Of this bar
gain, Mr. HAYES sent 70 New Orleans as
slbterfuge, an unconstitutional commits
zion consisting Of Mcssrs. john NJ. HAIR
Lam, JOSEPH Il. HAwLEy. c. Il. LAWRENCE.
WAYNE MAcVEAGH, and JOHN Y. Brown, in
structcd to destroy the PACKARD Lcgisla-
Gays Mr.. CHANDLER, have since been re-
warded, lone OF them. Gen. HARLAN, by
being appointed Supreme Court Judge:
another, Mr.. LAWRENCE by the release Of
JAKE REIN the great whiskey conspirator
and dcfrauder Of the revenue at Chicago;
while Gen lIAwLEY was offered the appoint
ment OF Chief Commissioner to the Paris
Exhibition but declined because the salary
was only $1,000; and three Offices were ten
dered to Mr.. MAcYEAGH, who declined on
the ground that his signal services demand
Ell more ample recognition. The English
mission was assigned TO him, but circum-
stances have made its delivery inexpedient
or impossible"
Most Of these facts were already known.
but they gain an additional emphasis when
they are stated by Mr.. CHANDLER; and his
appeal to Republicans to repudiate HAYES
md utterly spew him out, Is, no doubt from
party point OF view, timely and wise
appeal. II Republicanism is 10 be saved at
all. it can only be done by renouncing this
weak and silly Ohio politician, whose first
official act was to make up Cabinet COM
posed for the most part either Of lukewarm,
halfway friends, or avowed foes Of the Re-
publican party.
But this will not suffice to redeem party
In such desperate straits. The remedy is
not radical enough for the disease and, be-
sides, II is not quite just toward Mr.. HAYES.
We do not suppose that either he or JOHN
SHERMAN or STANLEY MATTHEWS really
desired to make the bargain with the
Southern Democrats which Mr. CHANDLER
complains sf. They would greatly have
preferred to stop with the original frauds
through which the Electoral Commission
falsely declared that the HAYES electors
had been chosen in Florida and Louisiana,
when the truth was that the TILDEN cleo
tors had been chosen. But this would not
answer. 1t was not enough for the enIer-
gency. They could not get HAYES declared
elected by the House Of Representatives
without something more. There was dan
ger, and very close and pressing danger,
that the final count would be defeated and
that all the vllainY in which they had all
waded SO deep together would be OF no use
whatever. The bargain with LAMAR Cor
DON. and BURKE was made under durcss 1t
was second step that they were compelled
10 take without Mr.. CHAEDLER's assent, be-
cause Of the first steps in which he had gone
along with them; and he Is wrong TO con-
denim HAYES and to condemn them 50 sud
denly for doing what they could not help
doing because of what he and they together
had done before.
Tho only thing that can now save the Re-
publican party is IL confession of its mis-
deeds anterior to those which Mr. CHAND-
IER now exposes and denounces. Let it
Tcpudiate the Electoral Conspiracy itself,
and let it bring forth fruits meet for repent
hnce by Joining in measures to remove this
weak and silly HAYES from the place to
which he has no good right and to put in
that place the nun whom the people really
elected.
RunLle and Draper.
These two cases Of restoration TO the
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