The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-11-27
THE GREAT GRIM &.
ZACH CHANDELIERS GREAT PART
IN DEFEATING THE WILL OF
THE PEOPLE.
And How He Bulldczrd Hayes into the White
House.

Il When the October elections
gave Indiana to the Democrats, and pre-
saged Republican defeat in November
Senator Morton was hurried off to the
Pacific coast All that he did there has
never been known. Possibly it is bu'
red with him and with the only other
man that shared its knowledge lca.
riah Chandler. 1t was only after Octo'
ber tnat the fnai plan of campaign was
formed. 1t was a complete change in the
1 ;aCe of the enemy, but desperate siu
tion demanded desperate measures. The
visit of Morton to California and Oregon
was part of it These States must be
carried, for New York, New Jersey and
Connecticut were certain to 60 with In.
diana. There was forlorn hope. Three
Southern State governments were in the
hands of Republicans. These might be
carried and Hayes elected by bare ma,
jortty of one. II was thin margin ol
hope, but on this thread Chandler hung
after October, and all his Efforts were
concentrated to hold the country by it
At midnight after the day of election the
game was up. Republicans had sat up
to hear the news from New York, and
they went home with their last hope
gone. The next morning only strength.
ened their despair, The day wore on,
and the disastrous news was confirmed.
New York, Connecticut, New Jersey,
Indiana had united with a solid South
to give the Republican party its coup de
grace Mr. Hayes, who was called upon
by some sympathzlnp friends at Coium
bus, said that the defeat did little harm
TO him, but he did sympathize with the
! poor negroes in the South who were en-.
Ilrely given over to he mercies of the
Democracy. All was despair black as
night and unpenetrated by single ray
OF hope In the midst of this gloom it
was from the National Chairman's off 3e
at New York that the first sound of life
came. When Chandler's teIec~,, n
ished over the ,--'-%n, '.DL h',nr'
ice country declaring Repub
r,.~ victory, aud claiming L uisiana'
Florida and South Caroina Democrats
Iangh""1. derisively, and Republicans
.mled a hopeless smile Both thought
| it was madness in the man,
But he stuck to il; he repeated it over
and over again for a week, and gradually
galvanized into partial hfa the dead par
~ and is hopes.
He was alone in nation of fifty mil.
lions in his conviction. 0 hers began to
veakly hope. He determined, The
project of Ohober would b. accom-
piished. Under his advice President
Grant acted promptly Men of nerve
were sent to the three Southern Safes,
with orders from Chandler to hold them
at all hazards. The returning Board
themselves had conceded their defeat,
until they we're ordered to hope by the
man of the iron will in the Interior De.
Iartment.
The Secretary neglected nothing. From
his room in The Patent Office he bulhed
the Southern Republicans into courage
he ms -red limld sta esmen with audac
ily; he conceived paus instantaneousIy,
and carried them ont like Iighui g he
told The President what to do aud it was
done; he was only Secretary of the In.
terror, but for the time he was dictator
in all departments and evenin the White
House, and governed all deparimen's to
one end-the tightening Of his grip on
! those three 5 SJuthern States.
T.. 4 - /, mod IN O.
them counted. Who shall count them ?
Was he question which sprang to every
lip, and wno shall have he last say on
al questions that arise? The House y
said few audacous Democrats. The
wo houses said others. The Prtsl.
dent pro tenn Of the Senate!' shouted
| Chandler, and the shout was taken up
by reunited party from ocean to ocean,
II was tbe elimination of the October
plans, and it was essential to its certain
success.
Tlmid Republicans, at the head OF
whom was selfish Republican VINO
would have gladly seen Hayes lett IN
| Ohio Roscoe COnkliDg; devised ano her
methud, which Chandler resisted with
tue energy of despair. Il gave away the
whole Republican case. final success
depended upon an unforeseen event
the election of David Davis to the SEN
ate by The Illinois Legislature. Had he
not been thus elected, and COpkling, Ell.
munds and the others never dreamed
that he was to be, he wonld have been
the Odd man on the comm ssioD, and ne
would have given the odd vote and the
Presidency to TlIden.
II was this certainty, which Chandler
foresaW and which made him resist the
electoral commission bill. Its passage
vas hailed in Washington as the death
kneI of Republication, and 1t CLOSED
Mr.. Chandler's work in the campaign
Up to that moment he had advanced
steadily and infalhbly toward certain
ty, by means which could not be tolled
by chance or accident. He furnished
his party with all the strong cards in The
deck and Co1kling and Edmulds lalc
them down aud dealt over. A happy
accident gave them the odd trick, hu
even with that trick they eould not have
won but for his previous work.
! And yet it was this change OF pro
Oramme at the last moment which
almost lost him the Presidency. Tha
made Hayes at first aseribe his victor,
, not to Chandler, who alone won IT, 0u
to the hair splitting lawyers, Evarti
Stoughton, McCrary, Ka5son, whose al
gumenls did not have feathers weig1
with the members Of the commission
who would have voted Just as they al
e though they never had been word b'
. fore them. The case was won when
e was made up and Chandler made 1t
r himself.
= AN ISSUE THAT WILL NOT DOWl
n Tp.1Q7R fhe DamoCraCy won VlCt0l