Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-12-01
ZACH CaANDLEk ON HAYES.
Alleged Views Of the Michigan Stalwart Re-
sPecting the Man he Put In tho
White House.

Henry L. Nelson. in the Boston Post
Zach " Chandler was a profanc man,
and in his own forceful phrase, "thc
Hays crowd was pizen" to him. 1t is un.
necessary to make any further allusion to
this questionable habit, except to say
that when he is quoted the reader may
lard the conversation at his pleasure. The
listener to whom Mr.. Chandler made proc.
lamation of his hopes and intentions had
brought 4 message to the senator from Mr..
Hayes. The message was to the effect
that Mr.. Hayes desired closer communion
with the Stalwarts. lie had announced to
friend who had given the message to
him, who now delivered it to Mr.. Chand-
ler, that lie saw no reason for any differ
ence between the Stalwarts and himself,
| that, while he recognized the fact that the
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 presi-
dent, Logan and Carpenter and Chandler
had all come back into public life without
| any opposition from him or his admins
tration. lie hoped they could be friends.
The message was delivered. Then the
old man broke forth. He was almost
| white with rage, as lie walked back and
forth in the little room. When he found
his voice he shouted out: "Hayes is the
most wonderful liar l ever saw. Ho lies
all the time and ON every subject"
Then, loOscning his necktic and gather
ing himself up for a discourse that he in
tended 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 any.
thing more that comes from that
liar. know him as no one else
knows him; l 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 ungrateful,
cowardly liar ~ and the old mans wrath
almost chOked him. He went on "Why
when his administration began went to
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, aud I wanted to be on at
least equal terms with Republican pres
dent us 4 Confederate senator would be-.
Oh, my dear Mr. Chandlcr,' said Hayes,
sis that what you want % How excel
lent thing it is that you have come to
me in this friendly-may l say brotherly
way. love the Stalwarts as do my
own people and nothing would SO fill my
heart with gladness rs to have in the Sen
| ate some such Stalwart as you arc for Il
friend. You could do so much toward
making the factions come together into a
more friendly union" els that all you
want" said :; and the old man roSred
bluffiy after his won't" Well, I'll fix
that right off,
How can you fix it ? said Mr.. Hayes
I'll fix it-you leave it to me-
"'But how can you?' said lie. Give a
dinner party said l. You invite twenty
and I'll invite twenty, and we'll arrange
it over glass of wine. Oh, you needn't
be afraid. I'll pay all the bills. 1t won't
cost you anything. Yon Just invite your
| twenty, and I'll give you d list of my
| twenty
"Well, went away and Mr.. Hayes
never had that dinner party. was elected
| senator, and Confederate senators had a
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 Evalt is came in. didn't
exactly know what business he could have
with me and waited to hear. We talked
| about the weather and passed the time of
! day, and the chat got rather dull, when
Evarts cleared his throat once or twice
and finally stammercd out 'We'-those
| fellows always said VIC, as though they
| were afraid to stand alOne-'We have
come to the conclusion not to have the
dinner rs you suggested, but I'll give one
at my house, We'll. l don't care how
it's given said l, all care for is to do it..
| You can give the dinner Or will, don't t
| care. SO long us it's given
Evarts went away aud 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 u.s.
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.. Christiancy's
place during the winter of 1879, and was
present at the extra session, during which
! what was known as the political lcgisla-
tiOn was under consideration. He was
the lOud-vOiced champion of the retention
| Of all extreme measures that had been put
! on the statute books during the war and
during the period of reconstruction. lie
was then, as always, the incarnation of
stalwart Republicanism. And then, as
always, Hayes was very weak, and very
untrustworthy. 1t is generally believed
| mp to the last moment that he would sign
the bill restricting, as it did,. the use of
troops at the polls, The Stalwarts were
in frenzy. They looked upon such a
course as base surrender to tho Demo-
Gratis. They regarded it as giving
up some Of the dear-bought fruits
of the war. The rumor that Mr.
Hayes would sign the bill spread, until on
the night of the Goth of April, Chandler
made up his mind that he would compel
the president to veto it. Mr.. Hayes was
still keeping up the pretcnce that he desired
the friendship of Mr.. Chandler and the
other Stalwarts, and so Mr. Chandler took
advantage of his friendly status and drove
around to the White House at midnight.
There he made speech to the mild man
nered man for whose projected dinner
party he was to pay. They were like the
speeches he beloved out in the Senate,
admitting that he believed in the necessity
of blood letting when the war began. He
proposed to sit up with Hayes until veto
message had been signed. 81 was going
to stay by him. he said, land if he had
gone to bed I'd have got into the same
bed" The end was that Hayes signed the
veto message and the army bill failed to
become law.
Hour after hour was consumed by the
excited and angry senator in laying bare
Hayes duplicity, as he called it. He de-
nounced him for almost every political
crime on the calendar, and, among other
things, for his hypocrisy about spending
money for campaign PURPOSES.