The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-05-29


The article copied in another column,
which refers TO the probable retire
ment of Statesman Bill Chandler, from
the Republican side Of the national
arena. is suggestive OF reflections.
Chandler was Secretary, or rather boss
Of the Navy, and the great exponent OF
that principle of Republicanism that re-
suited in an accepted idea that the party
represented the receivership Of all tie
public service for all they could make
out Of it in Jobs, junkets, Office broker
age. and general deadheadism. Then
Boss Chandler became Senator. de
took himself up to the Capital OF New
Uampshire. that is. as near as he could
get to it by water in the United
States steamer Tallspooss, freighted
with champagne and Pate de Jcie 0rd'
goose liver charged on to accounts OF
the shin az rations and mess-pork for
sailors. He junketted himself through
that automatic legislature of New
Hampshire, which is a mockery, if 1t
were not regular farce.
About eighteen hay-seed New Eng
landers sit in the Senate aud look wise
and never laugh, which is the rule OF
the knave and fool to impress the multi
tude without, and the lower House,
consisting Of about two hundred more
Ia, seed statesmen Of lower degree,
sit in another wing OF the Capitol
and make esSSS IS musical
as so many toukSss..t e ;Pgs ESssalight, when
love inspiringss3 ases an insp'-
ration to rivalry Sfd courtship. To
train such body of patriots to the will
OF Bill Chandler craftsmanship depend
ed only on the amount Of percussion
aud eloquence represented by the fipan-
cial sign of the dollar, and Bill knew
all about that. for he was Doodle man.
- t.....ff Iol coil IL
He was elected Senator and bounced
into that august body with an
arraignment of Secretary Whit
news administration, Of it which had
been the only honest chapter in the re-
cord of the Navy Department IN pc
Rod of twenty years. during which a
navy for repairs and jobs only had be-
came by word Of reproach that helped
the &. o. p. toits most ignominious and
well merited defeat ia 1884. The Oar
winian aud prehensile impudence OF
Bill Chandler is one Of the monumen-
tai curiosities of the country's politi-
cal history. and it illustrates the trite
idea that thief. to hide his identity,
will be the loudest to cry stop thief.
Mr.. Bill Chandler, as jobber and junket-
ter. is a perfectly fair exponent OF his
party, and if he is defeated for
Senator, as is likely, he ought
TO be put back in the Cabinet to
represent the harmony of Republican
principles. The Republican party Will
certainly take care of Chandler for ID
good sooth, and it cannot be denied
Chandler is "a true Republican. He
represents monopoly, high protection
for monopoly, high taxation for mo
nopolists, centralized power at Wash
ington to carry out these ideas, and
plenty of Doodle stolen from the Gov
eminent to carry elections for the Re
publicans.
Besldes all this Mr.. Bill Chandler
OK Secretary of the Navy and side
partner Of John Roach, receiver OF
Navy for repairs only, rs entitled to the
credit Of organizing that scheme which
is the reproach on the fair history of the
country with the pride of the G. o. p
for he il was who at midnight, when the
other copspirators convened before the
public verdict, had the nerve to tele-
graph all over the country the words
that will for centuries burn their damn
ing character into the history Of the
country-"Claims Everything"
Besides this, he represents the adj
vanced Republican idea OF making the
South an ireland and manufacturing
for her bad reputation with his own
outrage machine which his great pa
triotic Republican genius patented as
an annex to Sherman's outrage mill.
The true pride Of the american peo-
pie came from too pure a source OF
freedom aud was championed BY too
great men for 1t 10 stand the pollution