The daily gazette., 1879-11-04
Death of Senator Chandler.

The two Republican politicians who
took the most prominent part ia count
ing in Mr.. Hayes in 1876, two OF the
cleverest party managers OF the time,
have not lived to take part in another
Pres dental campaign. Zschariah
Chandler has followed Oliver L. Morton
to the grave. Each took different part
in the contest OF three years ago; Mr..
Norton saw an opportunity 10 steal
march on the over-confdent Democra $
I'm San FRANCISCO, and his visit to the Pa
cific coast after the October election "to
study the Chinese question" ended in
the carrying of California for Hayes.
Early on the morning after election,
when the first reports that Wisconsin
had gone Democratic were ctntradicted,
Mr.. Chandler saw that If he could Sc
cure the votes OF Florida, Louisiana
aud South Carolina the prize OF the
Presidency was within his grasp, so pass
ing the word to claim everything, be set
himself to the task OF making the claim
good. As in the case of Andrew Jack
sons attack of cholera there was Zone
chance in ten thousand left" and he
''wOrked away on that chance"
Morton and Chandler, 1t needs hardly
be said, were men OF very diff,ient
sort. The Indianisn was intellectual,
deliberate and far seeing, and admirable
counsellor in party conclaves, nnques-
tionably a man of executive ability,
shrewd Judge of men and policies. Mr..
Chandler, on the contrary, was man
OF but ordinary ability, uproarious and
hasty, an indifferent judge OF men and
measures, since in ali circumstances he
used but one line of tactics-money
and frenzied wavings of the bloody shirt.
He vas a born chairman of campaign
committee as Morton was born ad,is-
er in a Senatorial caucus. II may be
doubted whether Mr.. Chandler ever
would have attained any prominence In
| a minority party, precisely as II may DE
doubted whether the Republican organi-
zation once out of power could survive
| a single campaign such as the Demo
| Gratis went through i'll 1864, le6o and
| 1872.
But with party intronched in power,
an ample campaign fund, aud numerous
and willing agents, he made a successful
manager. He "did not pause to parlry
| or dissemble" with doubling and dis
| gustcd Republicans. Either they were
sure to return, however sullenly, to their
a llegiance on election day, or else they
had left the party for good and all. In
either case from his practical point of
view there was nothing to be gained by
conciliathg them. What he did was TO
throw plenty of money into dist lets
here the floating vote could be secured
with money and TO wake the old school
Republicans in the back districts with
the loudest possible bang ofthe war tom
tom. In his generation he was wise and
TO his part useful. lie was successful
| and shrewd business man and as such a
believer in hard money. lie would not
have played fast and loose with the cur
rency question like the cunning SecIe
tary OF the Trea ury or the Senator from
4 Maine, partly because he was not enam
ored OF the greenback idea and knew il
to be unsouud, partly because he saw
that the Lest cha ce OF success lay II
sticking TO sound business principles
Still it is characteristic Of the mau that
: i'll Michigan tpis year, having talked o
. nothing but the tuauces in the platform
he talked OF nothing but rebel brigadier
i'll the canvass. On the Southern aues
r ton he was rabid. The chances are tina
IL he really believed himself TO be th
9 Chandler of his party legends. 1t doe
not appear from the published record
that during the four ear $ preceding sec
b. sion through which Dir. Chandler sat ii
s the United States Senate, he observe
u many 'srebel plots against the nation
life" or if he was aware of their eXis
ence he never denounced them with pi
:, triotic fervor. The recent publication
in the North american Rertet1 haN
lie shown that the average American state
n man and pol tican alb jut that time W;
!, remarkable for anything but the clea
sigh edness he las since claimed as
e particular characteristic.
~ There is another legend in existen
~ which represents Mr.. Chandler As u
terror OF the South ia anIe-bellum day
ST and a famOu- passagr r-ai-tong Ies WI
ks Mr.. w lgfall, Iu which Mr.. Chandler
hemently abused AN ab-ent man "a
ls tainely took IA merteh scoring when q
IL object of his attack returned, Is embal
90 cd in the traditions of the Lake regio
a. a triumph OF the Wolverine ora'
be | which for the reso utiOn and strate ~
MI the assault aui the nagniiude OF
victory rather eclipsed Moltkes expo
,se at Sadowa and Sedan. When the "
ed had begun, and had become popular,
-, Chandler, naturally, was among
Gle most furious Radicals. He advo:a
"a little blood-lettng" 1t was constI
tlonal in him to he extreme, and IN
IN htical argumeD, a. in political mana
. Inent, his line was simple. He shou
the Treasoul and If he got no answer
tic. shouted again more Justify. A man
ING | his sort was valuable TO his party.
long or short notice he was prepared
rug twist the tail of the British lion or KIN
ced the sawdust out of "a wilderness of r,
ing Having no amb' ton beyond
ace applause and affection OF the extr
sIaiwarts he would say, anl conld an
are 10 say things that the warriors Conkl
attic Blaine OF Garfield did not venture u
on their own account for fear OF mai
a record which would injure them
moderate aud rational men. When
campaign. the key note Of which he
,ital, been select ed to sound, bad been o
uas- ed, he was never sent where there
lpon converts to make or Liberals to
she back, but only where prejudices {
For be scontirmed and passions infia
elve There he went aud worked.
only With all this he was "A man of per'
ount integrity. For every dollar that he
YES out of politics he probably contribut
their hundred to the Republican, CAM
lost fund Morton died poor. Chandle
who rich when he entered the political
ct of Neither of them sought to make
ecks, tune out of the opportunities so ea
resist embraced by other Republican
ID BY clans, yet both were prepared to
died, their lives on a game with loaded
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