The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-04-04
and Reed.

The stories about Senator CHANDELIERS
disloyalty to the cause of the New England
candidate began last summer. AS early as
the middle OF July a report was in persist
ent circulation representing Mr.. CHANDLER
as an aspirant for the Republican nominal
ton for Weep President, and therefore Sc
cretly DESTROYS that a Western man
should head the ticket. Concealed hos
tility to Mr.. REED, arising from per-
sonal jealousy and similarly ignoble mo-
tives, was freely attributed to all of
the New England Senators, with the single
exception of Mr.. HENRY CABOT LODGE,
n including even FRYE and HALE Of
Maine; but the most specific charges were
those which concerned the attitude OF Sena-
tor CHANDLER. We called attention to these
reports in July last, and the immediate re-
suit was a chorus of indignant and, as we
believed then and believe now, honest de-
NAL from all over New England.
The singular occurrences at the New
Hampshire State Convention in Concord the
other day have revived the disposition in
some quarters to accuse Mr.. CHANDLER of
deliberate and cunningly devised treachery
to the Man from Maine. Some of the hotter
UtIlptTcu III Observation-Disclosures lTltHuS OF
the Speaker are said to be expressing the
opinion that CHANDLER has been plan
ming from the first to break down the
REED canvass in New England, and that
various recent performances of his, in
Washington, as well as in New Hampshire,
afford conclusive evidence Of his fixed pur-
pose and systematic methods. He waited
for the chance, found it at Concord. and
then drove the long-hidden knife up to the
hilt between the shoulder blades of his
neighbor from Maine.
Ask somebody else to believe that! Mr..
CHANDLER's own explanations and too free
statements since the New Hampshire Con-
~vention, il viewed in an unfriendly spirit,
may possibly LEND some color to this I'M
pleasant theory. Regarded impartially,
they seem to us to leave no ground for
doubling his entire good faith.
In the first place, to suppose Mr.. CHAND-
f capable OF forming and executing a
plot of malice and treachery, covering
nearly a years time, and eliminating in an
act Of unprecedented turpitude, is to mis-
understand his character thoroughly. He
is not Of the stuff of which such political
villains are made. His temperament is inn
pulsive rather h deliberate. and his i'm
pulses are generous rather than malicious,
where the personal interests of anybody are
concerned. His fault. II 1t is a fault, is
rather to manifest his private grudRes and
grievances too precipitately and emphatical-
ly, than to nurse them in silence and then
strike in the dark, He is not a schemer
whose schemes run long or far underground.
He may sometimes he a dangerous friend,
but he is ever an honorable enemy. He can
be ingenious and adroit enough in the in
terest of the cause he is openly serving, To
pretend TO serve a cause while hoping and
working for its destruction, is not within
the capabilities of the Hon. WILLIAM f..
CHAEDLER's genius.
In the second place, an attempt ON Mr..
CHANDLER's part To break down Tom REED
could proceed only from one of W political
motives, The first would be the ambition
to make himself the candidate for Vice