Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-01-04
q Political Explosion.

a Political Explosion.
Mr.. William L. Chandler. the New Hump-
shire member of the National Republican
Committee. has addressed an open leetter to
the Republican party of that State. in which
he manifests his wel-known hostility TO Pres
ident Hayes by lengthy review of his course
since his Inauguration. and by a series Of spe-
cific charges. the substance Of which Is that
Mr. Hayes was counted il President only by
reason of special pledges made i'll his behalf
between Senator Sherman. Henry Nattersou,
Charles Foster and Gen Garfield on the one
side. and l. O. C. Lamar. John Il. Gordon,
L. j. Ellis Randall Gibson, /. A. Burke and
John Young Brown on the other. that the
count should not be broken up IL the House
that he should be declared elected, and that
upon his accession the troops should be with
drawn from protecting Governors Chamber
lain and Packard and that the new admins
tration should recognize the governments Of
Wade Hampton in South Carolina and /. H
Nichols in Louisiana MIR. Chandler charges
that by certain general and indefinite letters.
since given to the public, 10y secret writing
now in the hands of T. A Burke, and III 9th
err ways, the agreement was consumnated.
Referring 10 the commission that was sent by
the President after the Inauguration to New
Orleans to inquire into the state of affairs and
report to him or. as Chandler states it. TO
gradually destroy the Packard government,
the charge is made that its members returned
triumphantly to Washington to be 'recog-
nized" for their subserviency 10 ms wishes
Gen Harlan, by an appointment as Supreme
Court Judge C. Is. Lawrence, by the release
of the noted whiskey ring embezzler, Jake
Rehm from Chicago; Gen. Hawley by the Of
fer of the post of Chief Commissioner to the
Paris Exhibition; and Wayne MacVeagh, by
tie tender of three separate offices, which
were declined rs not being ample recognition
for his services.
An additional cause for denunciation and
arraignment of the President on Mr.. Chand-
ler's part is the fact of his selection of Judge
KEY as a Cabinet officer and his appointment
to office of such men democrats as Northrop
to be district attorney in South Carolina, Wal
dron for marshal in Tennessee, and Fitzsin-
mons for marshal il Georgia. The result of
| the Presidents course. Mr.. Chandler says Is
seenin the enforced dissolution of the Repub-
| lican party at the South and its demOraliza-
| ton, division and defeat at the North In
view of these lamentable facts" he thinks it Is
1.-THE duty of true Republicans to take prompt
and courageous action Silence Is II crime !;
acquiesence and inaction are political death, "
What course of action should be taken, now
| ever. Mr. Chandler negects to say.
The first question which the uninitiated
reader will naturally ask when he notes this
| Illumination whose substance We have thus
briefly sketched, will be as to who Nj vii
liam L. Chandler may be II reply it must
be said that he is New Hampshire lawyer
who held one or two government offices I'M
der President Lincoln, and who since that
time has been occupied with his profession,
chiefly in Washington. if We mistake not. but
who has all the time held his residence il
| New Hampshire and has been well-known a
machine worker and manager in partisan
politics, of the most approved type. He has
for years been a member Of the National Re
publican Committee and it is generally un.
derstood that in recognition Of his services
pected and asked for a foreign mission. He
was not the kind of man, however, whom Mr.
Hayes was sending abroad and his request
was not granted What his precise motive
may be in nditing his letter to the New Hump
shire Republicans at this time cannot be detn
itely surmised. He undoubtedly hopes to in
fuence the party in the Granite State, at theiI
State Convention which meets next week, Il
either denounce the President in their plat
form, or 10 quietly ignore him. and he eyi
IDENTIFY prefers if the party cannot be run ac
cordng TO his standard, to ste it 90 to pieces
Possibly he has an eye on the senatorial sea
now occupied by cambridge Wadleigh. who's
term expires March 3, 1879.
As regards the charges which Mr.. Chandle
makes against President Hayes, and the man
ner in which he secured and holds the Prasi
dency, it must be said that they rest entirel.
on Mr. Chambers say-so, and, Furthermore
that the props upon which be had relie
TO sustain them have already fallen out
and the central part of his fabrication ha
been effectually demolished In respect t
the charge that the bargains for the abandon
ment of Cows Chamberlain and Packard wer
reduced TO "a secret writing, now in tn
hands of I. A. Burke" Mr. Burke explicit
says: Ii any bargains We're made wit
Hayes l never heard of them :" and sti
more important witness evoked by Chandler
letter is Secretary Sherman, who was charge
, with the chief agency in carrying out thos
, mysterious bargains. He promptly says
and his word will at least stand by the side
/ | Mr. Chandler There is no truth whatevt
= in the story that made any such bargain
+ is alleged, and I don't believe that any othe
p did He, too, knows nothing of Burkes s.
d, cret writing and he shows that he was, in fac
7 fighting the very men with whom he is a
' cused Of having bargained,
p Were 1t not that the matter forms a part
s the current political history of the times v
t should hardly be justified in giving it II
n space already accorded 10 it. However me
Is of Chambers stripe may rave because Il
S power has departed from their hands und
Z, the present Administration, the fact remain
Is that the better and more substantial eleme
d in the Republican party is convinced of Il
J. perfect integrity of purpose which has mark