Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-07-05

Suggestive Correspondence. = s
The correspondence between ex-Con-
gresham Dezendorf, of Virginia, and
Secretary Chandler, of the Navy De-
partment, recalls to mind the electoral
fraud of 1876. It was William E.
Chandler who planned the conspiracy
which resulted in the fraudulent count
ing-in of Hayes, the defeated candidate
for President. Itwas he who managed
the vi1lainy of the Florida Returning,
Board and arranged with the scoundrels
who perpetrated it for their reward in
appointments to Federal ofices by the
fraudulent President. So offensive! to
common decency were his methods IN
that atrocious political .crime sand so
generally disreputabIe was his character
as a, politician that when exlPresident
I Garfield appointed him Solicitor of the
Department Of Justice the United States
Senate rejected the appointment with
the votes of the most prominent Re-
{ publican Senators recorded IN the mega
tive. And this is the man who has be-
come the head Of a great department
and who sits at the council board of a
president who pretends to execute the
law for reform of the Civil Service.
- Small wonder is it that the Republic
an ex-Congressman from Virginia
should find occasion to complain Of the
abuse Of the Federal power in an inter-
ference in local elections by the N aVy
Department., and still less surprising
that his complaint to the subscriptions
Secretary met with contempt and de-
rision.- What else could have been ex-
pected@of William E. Chandler We
sdo not gather grapes from thorns nor
figs from thistles. Nor is Mr.. Chandler
at all concerned about public opinion
He is a statesman Of the pachyderma-
tous order, whose sensibilities could not
be touched with a whip of scorpions.
He triumphs in iniquity and gloriesi in,
shame. For, what is political honesty
to him since he attained his present sta
ton in spite of the opposition of, THOSE
who believe in public as well as private
integrity. sr ..,t 49, ainl
But while Mr.. Chandler, not having
any character to lose, may. despise crit
icism and defy his. critics, the case lis
somewhat different with President AT
thur. 1t is true that the latter was elu-, |
Gated in the political school which holds I
the end to justify the means, and that |
ON a notable occasion he expressed his I
admiration of the sovereign qualities of /
''soapu asa proselyting 1agent, but he
has lately affected amueh higher stand:
ard and has even manifested a purpose !,
to make what his fatterers style "a /
clean Administration. ''a'iT The retention
of Chandler in his Cabinet, after the
Dezendorf exposure, cannot, however,
be made to consist with the high pur- /
poses attributed to the President. Mr.,
department has confessedly
the very fundamental princi-
pies of Civil-service Reform by corrupt
ly interfering in the local elections in
iq Nay, it 90, is, charged, by
Mr.. Dezendorf that both the. SEQ
rotary of the Navy and, the 9 Pres
ident are committed to the support
of Senator Malone by arrangement, ~
and that ''arrangement," in the Ian
guage Of that, pronounced Republican,
journal, the New York 9snaes,l I" has
been accompanied by practices on Mr.. III
part which # Persisted in aft
er the 10th of last January entitled that
gentleman to q Conspicuous and reason
ably permanent position in the peniten!'
tiary.'a Doubtless the criminal prac-iE
Ices of Malone are entirely agreeable
to Mr.. Chandler, who is quite proud Of
his own political crimes, but the sensi- |
i've and high minded Arthur, who has
out recently discarded ''soap'' as po-
itical agent and like Falstaff resolved
% ''eschew sack and live cleanly,'' can
hardly afford to be longer associated in
IN Infringement with criminal
whom the principal organ of the Re
condemns to a felon's
ell In fact it is plain that the Presi- ]
lent must speedily choose between his 4
'eforrn principles and William E. Chan
Her One or the other must go.-Har-
'is6urg (Pa.) Patriot. IS 81. =. |