Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-09
A CHANGE OF BASE.

Billy Chandler and the Ne,C York CAM
pGi0n.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 7.-Some indications
point to change in Secretary Chambers
method of influencing New York politics.
Heretofore he has taken an active part in
the campaigns of New York, but his bus
mess, like that of sly animal, has been
done mostly in the dark. Now, however,
it is believed that he is thinking
seriously of taking a public part in the
caucus. That is, he hopes to make
speech or two in favor of Judge Folger.
For some reason Mr.. Chandler is known to
desire Judge Folger's election as ardently
as he did his nomination. It is useless,
however, TO try to get hold of Chambers
motives and Interior purposes. His politi-
cal paths are like labyrinth, and he is
the only man who can follow them with
out getting lost. His ways are universally
ways of trickery and all his ways
are crooked. The only man he
was ever known to be true to is
Blaine, and Judge Folger must have learned
with some misgivings that Chandler was
the single officer in the cabinet who
thought it would be great thing for the
Republican party if the judge would re-
consider and allow his friends to use his
name in the late canvass for the nomina-
ton. The politicians here at once asked
what Chandler was up to. Did he want
Tolger out of the cabinet be-
cause the judge was the only
man there of whom he was afraid, or did
he want trouble raised in New York out of
the ruins of which a Blaine party would
arise? Whatever his motives, treasury of
fcials who knew Chandler when he was one
of them, believed them to be sinister, both
as regards Folger and the Administration.
When johnson was presidentit was learned
that there was traitor in the admins
tration, and the treachery was traced to
Chandler. McCulloch kicked him
out of the treasury, but
was obliged to give him a handsome re-
tainer. because he was afraid that Chandler
would sell the secrets of the treasury un-
less he bound him in some such way, and
Gov. Matt Head, of New Hampshire, says
that any man may look with concern on
Chambers friendship. The best friends
of the president and of Folger here, are
alarmed at Chambers intention of worm
ing himself into an active part in Folger's
canvass, and they believe that in so doing
he merely intends to clinch nail which
he has driven, for it is coming to be be-
lieved that it was largely through Chand-
ler's advice and suggestion that the admin
istration was induced to take hand in the
New York canvass. Chandler went into
the cabinet in the latter part of last winter.
His nomination was surpries to all, ex-
cept to the few who knew that the presi-
dent was disposed, to make it. How on
earth it happened that Arthur took
Blaine's chief of staff, the very man
who went to Albany and made the ar
rangements which resulted in the Grant
bolt, and probably the defeat of the third
term scheme, and which was consummated
when Garfield appointed Robertson col
lector, and put him in place to learn and
to make the secrets of the administration,
passes the comprehension of men. It is
only lately that it has been discovered that
Chandler owed his nomination to the
Endorsements of Secor Robson and of Jay
Gould. He had been the lobbyist of both,
and Robson was as anxious to have Chand-
Ter at the head of the navy as Chandler
was to have him. While it was well known
here that nobody else in Arthur's cabinet
took any special interest in the matter, it
is We'll kLcwn that Chandler did.