The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-02-24
CHANDLER AND HAYES.

lie has II in his power, no doubt 70
cause a good deal Of uneaslneSs ana
trouble near the throne lie 10 holding
the sword ahoge tho presidential head,
and thunders out his threats 10 lel u
descend, There il no enemy hall 40
hitter cruel and RELENTLESS as he who
comes from your own household Such
A fraud as tho one by which the result
ola national election Is sol aside, must
include many elements Of danger
many men who act with thieves bul
without theirhonor Perhaps Chandler
IA one Of these, or possibly Hayes dld
really treat him and his friends badly'
In distributing tho spells OF the lle'
mendous robbery, Its true, the charges
lose somewhat Of their force and plauH'
IbiIlty coming from such source hut
when they are supported by thousand
and one circumstances, disconnected
bat similar and their perssleney ~
rising up NJ all times, IN all places ana
under tho most eXasperallng oonluhe'
tlons. VIZ arc forced, unwillngly II may
be, To the conclusion that more people
than Hayes ara involved IN the matter
and that we have men here In the south
who tremblo when Chandler lhundew,
A. we'll m no who sits on our republican
throne up yondcr at Washington
II was a most glorious thing Tor the
south TO be finally quit of Packard aud
Chamberlain, but even that boon could
have been purchased At too great u
price. Aye was, ifany compromise OF
the plain result OF the election WAS
made TO secure IL, Tho south could bet
ter have borne with Packard and Cham
berlain for century 10 come, than she
could TO wink Mt the aubyerslon Of the
will Of the people M expressed on That
OCCASION. We nro among those who are
10th TO believe that such men ~ Foster,
Stanley Matthew'S and John sherman
would bargain and sell 10 ohcoply m
Chandler indicates, even IL Mr. Hayes
and Southern democrats" were willing
We cannot rilly accept the monslrouS
theory, and yet, the combinations OF
these over strong suspicious como TO IN
from 40 many directions and FROM
sources 40 infinitely moro respectable
than Mr. Chandler that we don't feel
nj liberty TO say that he has mOnuloc'
tured the situation ont of whole
cloth We had several men in cons
press from the south, who boldly
condemned that legal bargain on the
door of congress at the time Notably
the brave Mills, and but for the consid'
Grafton of the promised quiet, and inns
punity from bayonct interference in
the atate governments of the south the
spark would have lit n conllagration
which would have wrapped the conti-
nent in flames. Was it well or wisely
done, it were now too late to inquire
Victory is often organized from defeat,
good often comes from evil. Evil in~
tention sometimes produces good re
suits. Thus il is with this most stag
gering fraud. As il in defiance Of all
the reasonable probabilities, in defiance
of the simplest and best understood
laws of nature, from the deadly upas of
fraud has grown the fruits Of virtue to
noursh and strengthen the down.trod-
den states of the south.
Tho course pursued by Chandler
and Conkling may result finally in legal
action. The people may be wrought
up to the pitch of demanding the soru'
tiny of the supreme court, or even Q
high court Of impeachment, but the work
will be that of the mon who were to share
and sharealike with Mr., Hayes, and no
of the men of the south who would re-
deem their troubled states from thral
dom worse than death, even at the eX'
pense of little Of their accustomed
lrankness and aversion to bargain ant
sale, where principle is concerned.
Mr.. Hewitt is not the only man OF
our side who is disobliged by Chan,
d(ers persistency, any more than Mr.
Hayes is on theirs.
80, what tangled web we weave,
Whenihrst we practice to deceive"
And surely Mr. Hayes, if none othei
of the conspirators is now under tn,
cruel loshings of his pal realizes tn,
awful truth hidden in the apparently
innocent lines quoted above. What
would he not barter for the privilege oil
hurting an honest anathema ut the heaC
of the vile Chandler, but he dare not dc
it. lie must either suffer in silence
demand trial or resign. No other
honorable course is open. However
We do not think the day of a full ex'
animation into the facts of the Gaze, car
he dafernd much lnnunr