The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-01-26
WHY CHANDLER WAS NOT RE-
 ELECTED.

i GlAECLED.
 l In 1876 the republican party was de- feated. The leaders knew it, the rank and file knew it, anybody who will dig up the story now and read it with all impartial mind will know it. But be- ing in control of the government and all of it's powers and offices, it was pos sible to seat Hayes by fraud. No one l had the courage-the conscienceless will lainy-for the task but Chandler of New Hampshire He did it and was applauded by many in his party for 1 what he did, but by more, he was ei- l lently condemned. When the wave of l populism began to roll eastward from Kansas in 1889 to 1S90 Chandler felt that it would prevail here as 1t had there-at any rate to some extent-and so determined to ally himself with it. Bimetallsm was the rallying cry and he became a bimetallist. But when the wave began to recede he did not per ceive it and was still bothering away about free silver and bimetalltsm when his party had outgrown such notions.
 He could not change front in time Many of his colleagues in the senate were as much smirched as he by daily ing with free silver, but they gave up very promptly when they saw that sil- yer was a losing issue. He did not.
 On the contrary he has gone on from bad to worse until people here were all out of patience with his vagaries and pecullarities and determined to put an end to his public career He had no record of high and honorable service to his country to appeal to; he could only point to interruptions trickery per- formed in his party's interest, and that being now no longer necessary, his life long party associates (and enemies) de- termined to have done with him.
 In other states in New England it is not at all uncommon for senators once elected to retain their places for the balance of their lives. The long expe- rience MT. Chandler had had, the ex- tended acquaintance with great men and things which he had would natu- rally have entitled him to favura ble consideration at this time. But his record, his methods, his hosts of enc mics accumulated during forty years of politics and his obstlnacy in the wrong on the issues of the past four years nave DGen tue cause Ol HIS uHuOlilS now.
 For ourselves we are glad of it-and in a sense, sorry also. Glad that our politics are to be changed-we had al- most said purlfied-by the removal from influence of a man who first of all could never be trusted, under any circumstances, and second, who was radically behind the times and wrong on the money question. Still is is rath- CT saddening sight to see discarded and defeated champion, whether In pol itics or anything else, undergoing the humiliation ard discredit involved in his overthrow, And that overthrow also administered by the very men and the very party organization who nave most profited by his efforts in the past Perhaps it is part of the inevitable. Perhaps it would have been otherwise had the man and his record been other wise; but either way there is a lesson In it which his successor and any other man in public life ought to think over very carefully. Refuse unalterably to sacrifice your convictions for the sake of party success.-Mancheste Union.