The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-05-23

The following very forcible article We CLIP
from an Evening News editorial. 1t will be
read with much interest by large class Of the
readers OF this paper:
"There is a man who is even more truly
than Davis is OF contemporary democracy, for
he was present at tho lying-in, when the mar
riagc OF northern whiggery to western aholi-
tionism found fruit IN the birth OF the great
republican party, which has since cut so mighty
4 figure in the affairs Of tho republic and the
world. He was principal and active figure at
the parturtion, and he has since been as faith
full TO the party whose birth he witnessed and
aided as the needle to the pole. He has ever
been leader OF it's Masses always ahead OF
them, yet not so far ahead like Wendell Phillips
that he could not be seen by them. His white
plume, like that OF Navarro, was ever a little
/ in advance OF the front rank, and was the mark
4 through all tue battle toward which the repub-
] lican forces pressed. He never made mis-
take. He never led republicanlsm into quag-
mlre or an ambuscade. Repubicanism was
always victorious he was directing the plan OF
battle. Where numbers lacked he eked them
ont with strategy. Where there Was good
generalship on the other side he overwhelmed
| it with the force and impetuosity OF his charge
:" This man has been trusted in the highest
position the republican party had in it's gift
and developed ability to I'LL them all with
credit. lie sever sought to make Brilliant
display, but he always did what came to his
hand as well as the best. He has never been
found wanting when republicanism called
upon him.
His name is not u. S. Grant Grant was
democrat until he was nominated for the
presidency by the republicans. Nor Is it John
Sherman. Sherman has no place IN the popular
heart, and has been more watchtul OF the main
chance than Of the partys interest. 1t is not
James g. Blame. Mulhgan spoiled him as
presidential material. Nor Roscoe Conkling,
the self worshiper, the Narclssus of the senate,
so lost IN the contemplation OF his own physi-
cal beauty and intellectual greatness that he
has an eye for nothing else
1T Is PLAIN Zach Chandler, of Michigan, TO
whom the republican party is more indebted
for its birth, growth, triumph aud continued
success than apy dozen Of these self -assertlng
so-caled leaders.
Z" lie doesn't want it? OF course not, and
that Is the best reason in the world why he
should have it. He never had the White House
maggot in the brain AID he never will, not even
after he gets there. He always had, has now
aud always will have, the republican party on
the brain to the exclusion Of everything else.
He has been it's Moses and it's Joshua, rolled
INTO one dozen times. He saved it from
ruin two years ago-he alone did 1t, and when
the administration he had made turned Its
back upon HIM he come home to Michigan, to
re-create here the party Hayes's senility had
demoralzed.
Where was the republican party three
ago? Keeling and staggering under
the blows Of the Potter committee, and ready
to surrender at discretion when the democrats
presented the repeal measures OF this and the
last congress.
when did the change take place? At
exactly the time that Zach Chandler reached
Washington as the successor OF the superan
nuated Chrstancy. At that moment a new
life, new blood appeared in republicamsm at
Washington; for at that time appeared upon
the scene . The Man Who Dares,"
"The jubIlant and victorious democrats mlngl
ing the repeal measures with the budget, offer
ed it to an administrator who opened it's
mouth and saw no escape from swallowing the
whole dose. Chandler rushed to the rescue,
dashed the goblet to the ground, budget and
ALL and left the affrightened democracy to
wipe up their spilled medicine at their leisure.
It was the same man whose courage and reso
ution did the business in 1876.
. he is the republican OF republicans