The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1881-12-16
Zach Chandler on Hayes.

uuucCtNSdig w IlIdkt any lUIlltG dlIUSlOn
to this questionable habit. except TO
say that when he is quoted the reader
may lard the conversation at his pleas
ure. The listener to whom Mr. Chand-
Ter made proclamation of his hopes and
intentions had brought message TO the
Senator from Mr.. Hayes. The message
was to the effect that Mr. Hayes desired
closer communion with the Stalwars.
He had announced to friend who had
given the message to him, who now de-
livered it to Mr.. Chandler, that he saw
no reason for any difference between the
Stalwarts and himself; while he rccog-
nized the fact that the same forces in the
Republican party which put them out
put him in, he had never used the power
of his administration against them.
Since he had been elected President. Lo-
gan and Carpenter and Chandler had all
come back into public life without any
opposition from him or his administra-
ten. lie hoped they could be friends.
The message was delivered. Then the
old man broke forth. lie was almost
white with rage, as he walked back and
forth in the little room. When he found
his voice he shouted OUT "ILayes is the
most wonderful liar ever saw. He lies
all the time and on every subject
Then, loosening his necktie, and gath
ering himself up for a disclosure that he
intended should go down to posterity,
he told the story of how Hayes once tried
to use HIM, on the pretence that he
wanted to be friends with the Stalwarts,
somewhat as follows: Don't tell me
anything more that comes from that liar.
know him as no oneelse knows him; |
know him through and through WHY
| made him President of the United
States, and every man, woman and child
in the United States, except Hayes, knows
that. He is an ungratefnl cowardly
liar" and the old mans wrath almost
choked him. He went on: "Why, when
his administration began | went 10 him
and told him that if he would send
Christiancy down to Peru, nothing in
Gods world could stop my coming back
to the Senate, and | wanted to be on at
least equal terms with Republican Pre-.
sidcnt as Confederate Senator would
be. oh, my dear Mr.. Chandler, said
Hayes, is that what you want. How ex-
cellent a thing it is that you have come
to me in this friendly-may | say broth
erly?-way. l love the Stalwarts as |
do my own people; and nothing
would so fill my heart with gladness as
to have in the Senate some such Stal-
wart as you are for friend You could
do so much toward making the factions
come together into a more fraternal
union Is that all you want? said |;
and the old man roared bufily after his
wont-"Well, I'll fix that right off.
"'lIow can you tiXit? said Mr.. Hayes.
I'll fix it-you leave it to me-
But how can you?' said he Give
a dinner party, said |. you invite
twenty and I'll invite twenty and wen
arrange it over glass of wine Oh, you
needn't be afraid. I'll pay all the bills.
1t won't cost you anything. You Just
invite your twenty, and I'll give you a
list of my twenty
"Well, | went away and Hayes never
had that dinner party. | was elected Sen
ator, and Confederate Senators had q
good deal more influence at the White
House than ever did. Once only
heard from that dinner One night
was sitting in my room and Evarts came
in. | didn't exactly know what business
he could have with me and | waited to
hear. We talked about the weather
aud passed the time Of day, and the
chat got rather dull,when Evarts cleared
his throat once or twice and finally STAN
mered out: 'We'-those fellows always
said we, as though they were afraid to
stand alonc-'We have come to the con
cluslon not to have that dinner as you
suggested, but III give one at my house.
'Well, | don't care how it's given, all
| care for is to do it. You can give
the dinner or | will, don't care so long
as it is given.
"Evarts went away,and never heard
of the dinner again. Hayes thought he
could keep us along and make us stand
by him by lying to us and pretending
that he wanted to be friends to us.
The old man told other stories on this
interesting occasion. Among other
things he told how Hayes came to veto
the Army bill. Chandler had taken Mr..
Christiancys place during the winter of
1879, and was present at the extra ses,
sion, during which what was known as
the political legislation was under con.
sideration. He was the loud-mouthed
champion of the retention of all extreme
measures that had been put on the stat
ute books during the war and during
the period of reconstruction. He wa,
then, as always, the incarnation of stal
wart Republicanism. And then, as al
ways, Hayes was very weak, and very
untrustworthy. 1t was generally believe,
up to the last moment that he wOulC
sign the bill restricting, as it did, tn,
use of troops at the polls. The Stalwart
were in Il frenzy. They looked upor
such a course as base surrender to tn
Democrats, They regarded it as givinJ
up some of the dear-bought fruits of tn
war The rumors that Mr., Hayes woul
sign the bill spread, until on the night O
the 2oth of April, Chandler made up hi
mind that he would compel the Pres
htll W NNNp IL All hayes was SUI
keeping up the pretence that he desire
the friendship of Mr. Chandler and tn
other Stalwarts, and so Mr., ChandlC
took advantage of his friendly status an
drove around to the White House
midnight There he made speech aftC
speech to the mild hammered man fJ
whose projected dinner party he W,
to pay. They were like the speech,
that he beloved out in the Senate, a,
mitting that he believed in the noces,
y ity of blood letting when the war bcga
lie proposed to sit up with Hayes unit
a veto message had been signed, Il W.
going to stay by him" he said, "and
he'd have gone to bed Id have got in
y the same bed. The end was that lay
signed the veto message, and the Arm
. bill failed to becomea law.
T. Hour after hour was consumed
the excited and angry Senator in layil
y bare Hayes duplicity as he called it,
denounced him for almost every erin
on the calendar. and amouu other thin,