The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-11-03

tainly did Michigan. At the time of the
last Presidential Convention he was men,
Der of the cabinet and did not openly
espOuse the cause of any of the candidates
He has been the chairman of the Republi-
can National Campaign Committee for the
past three Presidential campaigns, think,
and well it was that old Zach was at the
helm In '76 That famous telegram of his
"Hayes has 1856 votes, and is elected" and
to which he stuck through thick and thin,
saved the country to the Republican party.
II there had been man at the head Of the
Committee with one whit less Of nerve the
party would have been lost.
"Chandle- was the best organizer, BY all
odds, in the country. He was most adroit
and skillful in his management of men.
He was man of sound sense. l never
heard him make great speech in the Sem
ate, but he had larger influence and a
more. numerous personal following than
any other man in his party. How the party
will fill his place on the National Commit
tee do not know" -
1t is strange that his friends can not re.
call more of the details of their old friend;
but one and all, from Senator Logan to
Jessie Spalding, declare that for the life of
iem they can not recall anything of the
man that is exceptional or is not already
public property. There are, of course, a
thousand incidents in such q stormy ca
reer that are known only to private per-
sonai friends and intimates all or any of
which would be eagerly read or listened to
by the great crowds, who only know of the
bare outlines of the life of the great radical
All these interesting secrets are locked up
in the memory of near friends, who in their
grief and excitement can not for the life of
them recall single incident. Senator Lo-
gan was wondering that he could not know
ing Chandler so intimately and long as he
had, recall more of the interesting incl
dents in the Senator's life that had come
within his observation. But it was the
same way when Douglass died. 1t took
weeks and months for ALL or for even many
of the data of even that career to come to
light. We may expect for many days to
come to see constant additions made to the
personal history OF the dead Senator.
Ex-Governor Oglesby, who was associated
with the dead man in the Senate of the
United States, when asked OH last evening
to give some "reminiscences of his late fel-
low-Republican, said:
u would like very much to do 80. but.
in order to give them any interest, it would
be necessary for me to remember his words.
which | can't do. / don't even remember
what | say myself. remember him at the
great Union meeting at Springfield in 1868,
when letter from President Lincoln was
read by Senator Conkling Zach. and
spoke there, and / recall that he made
very strong, fine speech, but can't recol-
lect what he said. Then we spoke together
afterward at Battle Greek, Mich. /, being
the visitor, spoke first, and he followed in a
speech full of humor and fnn-an excellent
speech. We were together often but par
ticulariy remember these two occasions.
"He was strong man and great organ
izer, and as such his death is great loss to
our side. He had way, whenever any,
thing was wanted, of going to work and
rousting 1t out. Zach was fond of his
toddy, but he was never drunkard, as has
been charged in regard to him, any more
than old Thurman. / never saw old Thur
man drunk, and / never saw Chandler
drunk, though was intimately associated
with him. Perhaps he was hard drinker
at one time.
''He was apt to be very extreme in his
views. didn't quite agree with him about
hard money back in the hard times. He
was extremely hard He had the reputa-
ton of being bitter partisan; but he
wasn't. There was nothing bitter about
him. All that talk about rebels. delivered
with that eastern twang Of his, he didn't
mean: He just got to going that way, and
talked good deal stronger than he meant.
II rebel was to be hung he wouldn't have
done it. He would have wanted some one
else to do the business.
"He was not an educated man, but had
worked himself to the position he occupied
by good, hard Country sense What call
country sense is someteing even better
than horse sense
HE was not man of versatility. and
his speeches in any campaign were all
alike. He just got right hold of few
thoughts and drummed away with them.
He was what would call man with
strong American characteristics that is
what would call him-and he loved his
country. He not only had good country
sense but l think he had some city sense,
too, for he managed to get rich.
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