Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-11-13

with such force that he paralyzed
the Democratic side, and there was
no man who cared to answer him.
The speech was an Impulse. Judge
Hoar bad made an attack upon
the Mexican pension bill and jeff
Davis 20 whom it gave peLsion.
and Lamar, Garland and others an
swered him by eulogizing Davis.
Chandler sat on his chair and heard
them, with Indignation. When Gar.
land sat down Chandler arose, white
with excitement. He addressed the
chair. spat large quid of tobacco in
to his hand and flung it unconscious-
ly across the chamber. He then
began that imprisoned speech that
ID cow so famous.
AT err the Senate adjourned in
March. 1875. and Chandler be.
came private citizen for the first
time in eighteen years, | met him at
the Safe Deposit company 10 WASH
ington, where he was superintend-
ing the unloading Of a wagon full of
chests. They contained the family
silverware and valuables of his
Washington house of which he had
duplicates at his Washington resi-
dence. In brief conversation he
told me what was in the boxes, and
remarked. with a broad grin:
| tell Mrs. Chandler we will need
these things in year or two, when /
come back to the Senate. Matt. Car
peDter," he continued, "has torn up
all his papers, and says he has got
done with politics. | haven't" said
he, emphatically, mot by a blank
sight"
And to regain his seat in the SEN
ate was the object of his life. When
it was accomplished ne enjoyed more
satisfaction than IS often allowed to
men.
Last year he was made a Doctor
of Laws by a Michigan college. He
didn't quite like it, because he was
afraid he would be made sport of, as
he appreciated the fact that the honor
was misapplied, but said very little,
and didn't like to have the matter al
luded to. One day fellow senator
called him doctor Chandler. -
While he showed annoyance, he
passed it over as joke, and remarked
that he supposed "them id literary
fellows" Quoting Senator CameronD
"were Jealous of him."
Although, at times, proiane to an
extent that would notify an army in
Flanders" Mr.. Chandler was man
of sincere religious convictions, of
profound reverence, and believer
in the Calvanistic faith. His wife
and daughter are members of the
Presbyterian church, and he attended
with them. He used to talk religion
frequently, and expressed himself
very freely as believing in the exist
ence of an all-wi and over ruling
Providence. His conviction upon
every subject was intense what he
believed was as much part of his
life as the pulsations of his blood
whether it was politics, business or
religion. l heard him apologize once,
for swearing.
81 am in the habit sometimes" he
said, "of expressing myself freely
It's a bad practice, know but the
English language is deficient in some
respects, and don't speak any
other"
He. was always very respectful to
clergymen, and treated everything of
religious bearing with careful rev.
erence. He was intolerant toward
those who differed from him in their
religious views, as toward those who
differed from him in politics. He
once said of Bob Ingersol:
81 like his politics, but damn his
religion"
Dom Piatt, the editor of the
Washington Capital, was his partic.
u'ar aversion. because Piatt never
lost an opportunity to ridicule him,
and he was more sensitive to ridicule
than abuse. One Sunday morning
the Capital contained several unjust
and outrageous attacks upon him.
He never read the paper, and did not
like to hear it alluded to; but that
evening at dinner party the articles
of the mornings issue were the SUBJ
ject of comment, and made him an.
cry. 1t was rainy night, and on
his way home he stopped into an
office on Newspaper Row"
"Do you know where / can find q
critter named Dion Pott ?" he ex-
claimed, glazing at correspondent
who was seated at his desk.
"Who ?''
'Dion Pott Ia dirty beast who
writes for the Capital"
"Don Piatt, you mean, Suggested
the correspondent.
"Well, Don Piatt, then; is he
around here ?"
mo, sir his place is down town"
"Well, when you see him you may
tell him l am looking for him, and
when find him I'm going to run this
umbrella INTO him and open it"
And he strobe out, much to the re-
lief of the terrified correspondent.
GET OUT DOORS.
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