Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-01-03
CHANDELIERS ATTACK ON HAYES.

Convention might have been seen a busy,
rather self-important, and very otfclous little
man with a thin face upon which was thin
outcropping of oakum colored beard and upon
whose narrow back and attenuated legs was a
suit of very thin summer clother. This peert
little man was none other than the Honorable
William Chandler, the then Secretary OF the
National Republican Committee. This per-
.sonage having been COMPOUNDED by ill-inform-
ed writer's with Hon. Zachary Chandler, Sec
retary of the Interior under President Grant,
and President of the Committee aforesaid, we
are thus minute in describing him. Moreover,
Zach Chandler is probably seventy years of
age; Billy Chandler is not more than forty;
the former lives in michigan, the latter in
New Hampshire So much for the separate
character of the two men. 1t is said that the
younger man is the nephew of the older one.
We doubt if there is any closer relationship
between the two than the mere fact of their
having the same surname. 1t is the Honorable
William, and not the Honorable Zach who
has recently assailed the validity of Mr.
Hayess title to the Presidency. How thor
oughly fortified Mr. Chandler may be with
facts to support his charge of corrupt bar
gain between the parties named We are not in
formed We merely know that his accusation
lodges squarely upon some suspicious clrcum-
stances whose existence is of great conse
quence in lending force to the theory Of the
prosecution-ifw we may be permitted the use
of so Iitigious phrase. Nobody denies the
averment that Mr. Charles Foster, Mr.. Stan
ley Matthews and Mr.. John Sherman did
meet as Wormley's Hotel in Washington City
with Senator Gordon and other representative
Southerners: and it is not denied that those
three personal friends of Mr. Hayes did give
those Southern gentlemen such assurances as
reconciled them with the proposition to in
augurate Hayes in place of IIlden. This much
is known; this much, not even Mr.. Hayes
friends have ever denied; this much is the
groundwork upon which rests the foundation
Of the conclusions which has found lodgment |
= suspicious minds that Hayes, through his
agents, did enter into a compact with the |
Southern gentlemen aforesaid to do and per-
form Just what was done and performed by !
the President and his friends in South Caro-
Ina and Louisiana Chandler repeats, cir
cumstantially and with much of authoritative
emphasis, that the count in the House, where
by Hayes was proclaimed the duly elected
President was the result of the bargain, sale
and corruption and III SO doing, he lends no
little weight to the bold assertion made by
Hon. Tom. Ewing of Ohio during the late
campaign in that State. Moreover, Chandler
asserts that a request made to President
Grant to withhold any Executive recognition
of the Packard and Chamberlain government
was made in order that Hayes, in carrying
out his bargain might not be embarrassed
with the necessity of undoing what his pre-
decessOr had done. Also Mr.. Chandler sa,
that a certain Mr.. Burke has in his possession
the minutes or the text of written agreement
entered into by the high contracting parties in
the Wormley Restaurant or Hotel, aforemen-
toned. These are most serious charges. 1t is
hardly probable they will be proved, conclu-.
sively, in this generation. 1t is impossible j
they can be disproved. They can (and prob l
ably willy, be emphatically denied; but denial
is not proof to the contrary of charges made =
and preferred. S
Here, then, stands the case: The two '
Houses of Congress were in the midst of a 1 1
most bitter, earnest and almost deadly con-
ference over the most uncertain S
election ever held in this Republic; a
party was arrayed against party in line of bat L
tle the matter of one electoral vote was the "
turning point of the momentous issue. 1t u
looked as if war were imminent. People who
had cursed Grant and flung the vile epithets
of malevolence and hate upon him, began to II
look toward his position, his courage and his
infallible ability and patriotism as toward the "
point of ultimate hope and safety. The very G.
air was full of the explosive materials of civil
war. If the truth were known it is most pro- L
bable that Pennsylvania was under arms. In IL
this juncture, what purpose could call to- IT
gether for mutual confidence a half dozen sur n
vivors of the Lost Cause and three of Mr.. r. o
B. Hayess personal friends and advisers! u
What did these men meet one another for! !"
We have heretofore described Southern diplo- u
macy and craftsmanship something very Il
near of kin to Jesuitry. is motto and course u
Of procedure is all means to the end - or,
moro nroparlv ADy mans n the fruitiOD of |