Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-12-27
A LETTER
In Defence OF Chairman Jones and q
sharp Reply to Secretary Chand.
ler-Men Who would
Rule or Ruin.

NEW YoRK, Dec. 20.
The New York Tribune prints this morn
ing column letter, signed ''Pennsylvsnis
Republican" in defence of Chairman Jones
and in reply TO Secretary Chandler. 1t says
The head and front OF Mr.. Jones' offending
which has draw down upon him the wrath
Of Mr.. Chandler, is that in reply TO aquestion
from q representative of the Tribune as to the
real attitude of the national administration in
the late canvass, Mr.. Jones stated what had
long been an open secret, that President Ar
thur and the majority of the cabinet did not
give the loyal support to the ticket that was
TO have been expected from Republicans
and he added, that had President Arthur
supported Mr.. Blaine as cordially as Mr..
Blaine would have supported hip, had their
position been reversed, Mr.. Blaine would
now be President-elect. Secretary Cha ndler
conscious of and stung by the truth of this
answer, wraps himself in his fsnciful mantle
OF notoriety, rushes into print, calls Mr.. Jones
an unknown man, lays the blame of Republi-
can defeat largely upon the chairman of the
national committee and tells him that he has
no right to come from another State into New
York and saw aught, even if it be the truth
that may defeat President Arthur in his SEN
atorial aspirations.
of the chairman of the national committee
to place the blame of the republican defeat
where it belongs. and in so doing he will be
supported by all true members of the party,
not only in Pennsylvania and New York, but
throughout the country. There were thous-
ands of republicans who would willingly
have supported MIR. Arthur for the pres
idency had he been nominated at Chicago,
who now deplore his selection of man
of Mr.. McCulloch's free trade views
as secretary of the treasury and who cannot
help feeling that since the Chicago nomina-
tion, he has placed himself very much in the
attitude of Gel Fitz John Porter toward
General Pope. In fact, Mr.. Arthur rather
suffers in the comparison, for the former was
lukewarm in his support of Gen. Pope be-
cause of his loyalty to Mcclellan, while Mr..
Arthur withheld his aid from Mr.. Blaine,
because he, himself, was not continued in
command. Neither meant to be a traitor to
his country or his party, but the result in both
cases was practically the same.
While all sincere republicans should depre-
cate personal quarrels as tending to widen the
breach in the party, the friends of Mr.. Jones
and Mr.. Chandler will find, if he continues
his attacks that there are hosts of them, who,
knowing well the cold comfort the national
committee got from Wasting gton during the
recent campaign, cannot and ought not to re-
main silent in the face of such abuse of a
gentleman, to whom, as well as TO the active
co-workers on the national committee, the
party owes debt it can never paw.
Mr.. Jones crime in the eyes of Mr.. Chand-
ler as well as Of the secretsry's few political
conferees in Pennsylvania, is that he is not
an adventurer playing the game of politics
with everything to gain and nothing to lose.
What presumption for AN amateur to attempt
to rank with us who are professionals say
the men. who would rule or ruin the republi-
can party; the men who were twice defeated
at Chicago and have at last revenged them
selves by sinking the ship.