Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-10-19

Chamberlain As a Mu2Wump'
There are strong reasons TOR believing
that Daniel h. Chamberlain, Ex-Governor
Of south Carolina, and now Massachu-
sets lawyer, is a Mugwump. The other
day no wrote a letter 20 the Boston Aduer-
ttSsr condemning the Republican leaders,
especially Senator Hoar, for trying to
arouse sectional feeling. Tho hide-bound
| Republican organs at once began TO abuse
| him.
The Philadelphia Press, ordinarily an
excellent paper, but one which sometimes
Affects dense and perverse ignorance Of
all facts concerning the South, was
particularly severe on him. 1t said :
"Daniel II. Chamberlain. whom the
Republicans elected Governor Of South
Carolina, but who permitted the Demo
Gratis to bulldcze him out of the Office, is
endeavoring, through the Boston AdUer-
ttSer, to convince the Republican party it
hasn't any rights in the South which the
bulldozer is bound to respect. So far as
his own case Is concerned Mr.. Chamber
lain may be entirely right, but
when he attempts TO speak for the Re-
publican party he assumes considerably
more authority than has ever been con-
coded to him. His course OF reasoning
seems to be this He tried to give South
Carolina an honest government, and
would have been reelected had not the
exigencies Of the Democratic party de-
manded that he should be defeated. The
Hamburg massacre and other Mississippi
tactics were called in to accomplish the
Democratic purpose, and Mr.. Chamber
lain was obliged to emigrate North;
therefore the Democracy must be left in un-
disputed control of State which has a
large Republican majority"
The Advertiser administers a mild re-
buke to the Press by alleging that the
Hamburg riots occurred before the cam
paign Of 1876 opened and before Chamber
lain was elected; that he was elected and
inaugurated, although he was elected by
negro votes, and that he held his office
until after the Inauguration of Hayes;
that he was not driven from Office by
Democratic bulldozers, but by Hayes,
Evarts. John Sherman, and other emf
nent Republicans. This seems 10 be
pretty severe on the Press, although the
Advertiser appears to assume that Hayes
and Chamberlain were fairly elected, but
it gives the coup de grace by sum-
ming up as follows ''For a Republican
party organ, in defiance of the record, to
accuse GOV. Chamberlain Of permitting
Democrats to bulldoze him out of his
Office is meanness almost unparalleled. 1t
would be quite as just and true to say
Gen. Grant permitted Democrats to bull
doze him out OF the san Domingo scheme.
1t would be juster and truer to say that
the Philadelphia Press is bulldozed by the
Republican bosses of Pennsylvania to
support a candidate for office whom ithas
declared unfit" fRf
Chamberlain's views on the bloody
shirt issue are the same as those of the
Mugwumps. He is treated like a Mug
wump by the Press, and he finds
an able champion in our es-
teemed Mugwump contemporary. the
Advertiser. IL must, therefore, be
that he is Mugwump. If he is not a
Mugwump, he has given the grand old
party stab under the fifth RIB that viii
in measure revenge him for having
been refused passage on the same boat
that carried away the stolen presidency.
Whether he is a Mugwump or not the Re-
publican organs, doubtless, have reasons
for believing that he is soured because he
found out to his sorrow that there was no
such thing as honor among high Republi-
can thieves.