The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-09-02

within week after hy lad been unseated
lac was 'iickeriug with the administration
for its support in his new determination
Of Mahoneizng his state. lie went away
fcom Washington to wages mcrcIess war
on Mississippi bond-holdcrs, and carried
with him the God speed" of the admins.
tration. For while everything moved on
serenely, and CHALMERS was happy in his
new role aud with his new prospects. lie
has been no doubt dreaming Of the sweet
revenge that would be his when, again in
congress he could unbosom himself of his
pent-up wrath against the "rebel briga-
diers,' But life is no, summer day, there
iSa skeleton in every closet, and the one in
CHALMERS seems to be negro. lie was
beaten before by negro, and now,
just AS he imagined, good, easy
man, that his greatness was ripcning,"
another colored brother rises up to disturb
him in the person of HANNIBAL G. CARTER,
who is straight-out republican candidate
Tor congress from the same district in which
GENERAL CHALMERS is running. CARTER
was y GRANT delegate to the Chicago con.
vcnlion, has all the advantages that a col.
ored complexion gives man in that dig.
trict, and is out to stay. The negro vote
upon which the new administration con.
vert was depending for success will un.
donbtedly 90 to CARTER, and democrat
will be returned from the second Mis-.
si'sippi district. So ends the first
chapter in Matchmaking Mississip-
pl. But the most striking and
noteworthy feature about the coalition be-
tween CHALMERS and the administration
is the wonderful change Of front in both the
republican party on the one hand and of
CHALMERS on the other. 1t shows how
little professions and devotion to principle
amount to when office and power are in the
other scale The man to whom the admin.
istration has sgnilicd its well-wishes and
assistance has been one of the most promi.
nent southern targets for the abuse of the
republican press. In Washington tclc.
gram TO the New York Sun of recent issue
is found the following with reference
to the attitude past and present of the re.
publican party toward .GENrEAL CHN.
MERs; "For sixteen years he has been de.
nouncod as the author of the massacre of
the Union soldiers at Fort Pillow. lie was
held up rs the incarnation of iniamy and
all that was horrible in the rebellion. lie
was charged with poluting the ballot.boy
at three congressional elections, and with
cheating negro majority of ten thousand
out Of its rights. lie was elected from his
seat ut The last session and now, by bar
gain made through WILLIAM Il. CHANDLER.
he is suddenly pnrgcd of all these crimes.
and is the chosen candidate of the adNiinis
tration for congress in the second district of
Mississippi There is 40 disputing the
proposition that politics makes STRANGE
bcd.telloWs,' and the Efforts cf the
administration to bolster no the indcpen-
dcnt-re republican coalitions show how com
pletely the republican party has surren-
dered principles and traditions in its strur-
gle to maintain its hold upon the govern
mont. 1t looks more aud more as if the
possession OF office and patronage has only
the effect of causing men and parties to for.
get all else, and intoxicatcs them to such
nm extent that past preferences, prcjudices,
articles Of faith old friends, and everything
but the public tcat, are put on or oil, lust
as the oNigency OF the hour may demand
Under such circumstances, therefore, It is
positively refreshing to see n HANNIBAL G.
CARTER come to the front occasionally and
unntentionaIly operate as means for
indicating the right and rcbubiug mere
thirst for office and patronage.