New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-01
THE DEVICES OF DESPAIR.
TACTICS OF LAMARs FRIENDS.
LAM ,R's IrY-CONsERvATIvE AT THE NoE1h'
BITTER AT The SOUTH.
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W.sHINGroN Dec. 3l.-Mr Lamars anxious
friends are resorting all sorts OF devices 10 DresH
the substantial solidity of the Republican vote
sure TO be Gust against him. and are making all
sorts of absurd claims concerning Repuohcdn
senator's The most absurd OF these is that senator
Chandler will vote for Lamar because the lau@f
labored and voted for his confirmation as Secretary
Of the Navy. Mr.. Chandeliers vote is as certain 70
be against Lamar AS would he that OF his namesaKe
Xachariah Chandler, if he were still alive anu IN
lis seat in the Senate. Mr. Chandler was confirmed
rs Secretary OF the Navy by clear majority OF
Republican votes and Senator Lamar did not
vote for him. lie sees use of Republican ma
,op,v in tbe Senate if it will not defeat such a
nom nee for the Supreme Court as Lamar
The style OF maneufIng now adopted by La
mar fri nds is characteristic If the man whom
they adv, cate. Ills methods are always pecurar,
and some curious stories are told OF his duphcty III
politics Here is which lIh IBiBINr cor
respondent has from good authority. When Mr.
Lamar was in the Senate Dr. Dunn, OF Mlsss-
sippi was o candidate for ap, ointment as men,
Der of the National Board OF Health. Mr. Lamar
not only pretended to favor his appointment put
Informed him that he had written letter for him,
and delivered it in person to the Secretary OF te
treasury. When the appointment was MADE ana
Dr. Dunn was left out he asked PERMISSION on OF SEC
rotary Sherman to withdraw his letters OF reconl-
mendation some of which were very fattering, be-
cause he desired to take them home TO exhibit 10
his friends. Secretary Sherman granted inc re-
uuest but when the letters were returned to Dr.
dunn, the letter of Mr. Lamar was not among
them. lie asked for it, and when delivered 10 MN
It proved to be recommendantSn OIL ano'ne r
Dunn was extremely angry. and wrote TO Mr.. La
mar informing him that he had been unable 10 oo-
tain that par ocular letter and asking nm 10 get III
for him. To this request he received no reilly.
According to the same authority, when MIR. Lamar
was first a candidate for the United States Senate
he promised a number Of leading and infuennai
i.ecsce .x,,.s that hn yuOnl
one appointed attorney for the Texas Pacific Rail
road Company Of which Thomas A. Scott was
president, and stated that he was Chairman OF the
Pacific Railroad Committee in the House, ana
could get the appointment for any friend but
that or less than other candidates
for Office had done. .
files Of the Congressional Record" and select
sentences and paragraphs here and there from his
speeches. in order to show that his vote against
Che fdmunds resou' ons should he taken IN
picl<wickian sense, and that really. as matter
of fact. he had always been quite as
anxious as ANYBODY to uphold the validity Of
This much ought 10 he said probably. that,
aside from three four outbursts Of pas
sion, and his attempt in the Senate
which, according to Article III Section 8, of the
Constitution. consists in "levying war against
hs United states or in adhc,ns to their fnemss
utterances in Washington have been, In the main,
moderate, II not patriotic but then there remains
sr he v' he was in the House o. Senat. that Mr.
Lamar sang q different tune in the Capitol from
the one with which he entrsaoed the White-Line
Democrats Of his adopted State. Here is an ex-
tract from O recent letter written by prominent
Mississippian. who was In fun political accord
with M lamar ut the time when the Mississippi
plan was placed In operation:
II the confirmation of Lamar be defeated,
hope il Will done lie has been posing before tho
North as q conservative man. while at horne he he's
made the bittercst white Line speeches This can be
proved by Democrats from Yazoo CITY. but the best
evidence you can have would be the two reports
made OF his speech Holly Springs IN 1884 onc re-
port very coserv alive prepared by himself was pub
Gshed m /" Tho Memphs ApDcal' The other. sfsno-
graphic report published In Tho st. Louis Globe
Democrat" He had boon playing thc trick OF making
ono speech 10 BE- listened 10 in Mississippi. and then
hsvfpg II reported differently 10 no scnt North snd
the Republic Of Holly springs sent for short hand
reporter to expose him, and II was done. hope You
VIII ret up tho proof and venfflate II. had copy
Of hs speech a. published In Tho St Louis Globe
Democrat. but fsar that have lost IT,
There 10 no truth whatever In the story that
Congressman william Walter Phelps has been
oG1n6 his influence in any way TO favor the con-