The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-12-27
How Mr.. Hayes Was Counted Nm.

AN OPEN LETTER FROM WILLIAM E.. CHAND-
LER, OF THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN COM
MITTEE, TO THE REPUBLICANS OF NEW
HAMPSHIRE.
WASHINGTON, December 26.-William E.
Chandler, Of New Hampshire, Of the Re-
publican National Committee, has addressed
an open letter to the Republicans OF his
State, making mention Of the number oil
explicit statements concerning bargains
made during the electoral count and their
fulflment by the adoption and pursuance
of the Presidents southern policy. Mr..
Chandler asserts that the Republican party,
by the advice and procurement OF Governor
HAYES, made "tbe necessity OF keeping
Federal power in Republican hands and
using it for the protection Of the black and
white southern Republicans" the main
issue Of the presidential campaign. Chand-
Ter says the "bloody Shirt" as it is
called, was freely waved, and Cover
nor Hayes himself urged public men
to put forward as our best argument
the dangers of rebel rule and solid South.
Chandler quotes several expressions from
Hayes's letter Of November, 1876, when
Hayes thought himself defeated, and said {:
/" I do not care for myself, but I do care for
the poor colored men Of the South. +
Northern men cannot live there.
The southern people will treat the consti-
tutional amendments as utilities. and then
the colored mans fate will be worse than it
was when he was in slavery.
That is the only reason that I regret that
the news is rs it is"
Chandler proceeds: " Governor Hayes not
only pledged himself to protect to the full
extent OF Federal power life, suffrage, and
>nlJf - rh in hut
counted in as President only by reason
OF such special pledges given by Senator
Sherman and other Ohio emissaries. who
practically and emphatically promised that
he would recognize and maintain the law
full State governments of South Carolina and
Louisiana, and stand by Governors CHAM
berlain and Packard
Chandler ampliies these statements at
length, and proceeds to make elaborate
charges: "Almost the first act Of the new
Administration was to fulfil bargain that
had been made during the presidential
count, by which if Hayes should be the
President the lawful governments Of Loui-
siana and South Carolina were to be aban-
doned and the mob governments in those
States to be recognized and established.
Certain Democrats in the House Of Repre-
sentatives, seeing that by the recurring
decisions of the Electoral Commission
and the regular proceedings Of the two
houses under the electoral bill, which they
had warmly supported, Hayes would surely
become President, had conceived the idea
of saving something from the wreck. They
had therefore threatened by dilatory mo.
lions and riotous proceedings to break up
the count, and then opened negotiations
with such timid or too eXpectant Republi.
cans as they could find. One Henry Wat.
terson, member Of the House, and O
nephew OF Stanley Matthews, had acted as
go-betweeu Senator Sherman in the mean
time having visited Ohio and consult.
ed Governor Hayes), and on the one
side Matthews, Charles Foster, John
Sherman, James A. Garfield, and on The
other L. Q. c. Lamar, John B. Cor
don, T.. j.. Ellis, Randall Gibson, Z
A. Burke, aud John Young Brown
had agreed, first, that the count should MOI
be broken in the House. but that Haye!
should be declared and inaugurated Presi