Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1877-01-19
MIZZER CHANDLER ON THE
RACK.

MIZZER CHANDLER ON THE
RACK.
The bottom is about to drop out of the
conspirators pot in Washington, and the
temperate ZACH CHANDLER seems about
to ruin ssthe President and all of us" who
have been engaged in engineering the
frauds in Florida and Louisiana from
Washington.
Events have followed each other so rap
idly and so thickly that it may be well
enough to look at the thread on which they
are strung as it stretches back to the Presi-
DENTAL election. It will be remembered
that the day after this event it was gener.
ally accepted in the country that TILDEN
and HENDRICKS had been elected, and the
press that had advocated HAYES, from the
metropolitan "Tri bune" down to the vii
]age organs had written and printed edito'
rails accepting that situation. 1t was gen.
orally conceded that a solid South had
done the work and that Louisiana, Flori-
ola and South Carolina had all cast there
votes for him. With those States MI.
TILDEN had 2O3 votes and without them
Returning Boards of all three OF those
states, particularly that of Louisiana,
were VIGOROUSLY corrupt. The board in
that State had OH two former occasions
swindled the Democracy out of the cleo.
ton. and on the last one had been con-
demned by the press of the country gener<
ally, Republican and Democratic, and
their action had been explicitly %repudiated
by a Congressional investigating commit
tee of which a majority of the members
were Republicans, The Board was COM
posed of four Republicans who declined to
elect the fifth member. a Democrat, as the
law provides for. The master spirit was
Ex-Gov. WELLS, who had been officially
denounced by Gen. SHERIDAN as a dis
honest man. He was interested as he him
self testified before a congressional com
mlttee in Southern claims to the amount
of $500 900, such as TILDEN is pledged to
veto. The Board of Florida had at IL pre-
vious election attempted to reverse the
true decision of the people at the polls and
were themselves reversed by the Supreme
Court Of that State. In South Carolina
the Board was composed chiefly of persons
themselves, Republican candidates for Of
flee.
With such a state of affairs in these
states it was quite natural that if fraud
and force could be used at all then those
were the points, and SO it struck Mizzer
CHANDLER, who is Chairman of the Re
publican National Committee, as well as d
member of GRANTS Cabinet. What he
did is now being earthed by a congress
sional investigating committee. ZACH
was before it last Saturday and here are
some of his
Q. In your communications with Governor Stems
did.you in any way say or intimate anything about
money ? A. think not: I have no recollection of
it.
@. Did you say or intimate anything about troops !?
A. I should think 1 did.
@. What did you intimate or say ? A. That troops
would be sent to keep the peace, or words to that eff
feet; sent to Tallahassee.
@. Had you any authority to say the troops would
be sent ? a. That I decline to answer.
@. On what ground ? A. On the ground that l
have no right to diyulge anything between the Exc
cutive and a member of his Cabinet.
@. Have you had an interview with the President
On the subject of troops ? Collected to by MIR. Lau-
renee and the question withdrawn.
@. Did you make the communication about troops
OF your own motion OF at the suggestion of some one
else not in the Executive Department? A. l decline
to answer the question.
@. In any of your communications with Governor
Sserns, either to him or from him, was anything said
about money? A. l should think not; L have no
recolIectian of it.
1t will be observed that ZACH's memory
is bad. He has no clear recollection Of any
telegram he sent. The committee saved
him a good deal Of trouble by producing
copies of his kilograms. Some of them
were dictated by w. E. CHANDLER,
ZAcH's right hand man who had ZAcH's
anne signed to them. Here are two that
were sent on the day after the election to
Gov. STERNs Of Florida:
''Grave Importance attaches to the vote of your
State, and we invite the most ample supervision over
the officers counting and returning the vote"
The second telegram was:
I'VE are now a absolutely certain of 1S5 votes for
Hayes if your State is safe. and Tilden is sure of the
rest. Can you surely defeat all Democratic attempts
at fraud by bribery OF false counting to capture it
ZACH CHANDLER"
It is not surprising that in reply
CHANDLER should have received this tel
egram from STERNs:
"We cannot carry Florida for Hayes unless we
have the army to back us and money Immediately.
Train wrecked. Ku-Klux."
When asked if he had read this telegram
Secretary CHANDLER responded. showing
palIor, that he had read the telegram about
the wrecking of Che train, but that he
couldn't say whether the words "Ku-
say that the other words were not included
in the dispatch. Indeed, he didn't re-
member, but he said that he might have
received the telegram as cited. He said he
had telegraphed to Governor Stearns about
sending troops to Florida to keep the
peace.H
Being asked on whose authority he en-
gagged to have troops sent to Florida, Secs
rotary CHANDLER refused to answer until
he could consult other members of the
cabinet. and asked to have his further exo
animation postponed until after the next
cabinet meeting. This request WAS ac>
ceded to-. The examination was deferred
till Wednesday.
The following telegram was sent by w.
e. CHANDLER from New York to Rals
eigh, N. c., on the day after the election:
Don't give up your State until the remotest re-
turns come in Hayes g lected by one majority. if
we have carried Florida, Oregon, Louisiana, and
South Carolina. Meet your friends at depot
A letter was then lead written by
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