Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-01-26

deal of interesting but almost forgot
ten history.
Mr.. Chandler, who was secretary OF
tht Republican National committee,
wrote an open letter, which was pub
llshed In the New York Sun of the
31st of December, 1877. 1t was ad
dressed to the people of New Hamp-
shire, and gave Mr.. Chandler's reasons
for opposing lie so-called Southern
policy of the Hayes Administration.
1t charged that as result Of the work |
done by n special commission in Louis |
lana before the seating Of Hayes, John
NJ. Harlan, of Kentucky, was appoint |
ed n member of the Supreme Court of |
the United States, and the Office OF
ommlssioner-G General of the Paris
exposition was offered to Joseph II.
Hawley, of Connecticut.
The reading Of this letter In execu-
tive session OF the Senate on Monday
produced n decided sensation, as al
ready reported in The Enquirer. Mr..
Hawley denounced the statement as n
lie. but Mr.. Chandler stood by his let
ter and excused the temper of the
Senator from Connecticut on the
ground OF physical and mental in
, firmities." Mr.. Pettigrew, having STIR
red up the muss, sat back serenely in
the attitude Of the impartial lady who
was watching n fight between her hus-
band and bear.
Doubtless the production of the let
ter was as much of surprise TO Mr..
Chandler as to Mr.. Hawley, and the
diabolicnl Pettlgrew may have been in
different as TO which hide the shaft
would go farthest into. Chandler,
however, was vitriol-tipped as usual.
He excused himself from resenting the
epithet liar on grounds which made
the situation still more embarrassing
for Mr., Hawley, and he added with
stiletto effect that 1t appeared to have
taken the Senator from Connecticut
twenty-three years to find out that this
was a lic.
What tood of recollections the re.
production Of this Chandler letter
5sings. How many men who after
ward enjoyed honor at the hands or
the Government and the people were
participants in the great political rob.
berry of 1867, ana how many of them
received political rewards. How
many Il man has carried ever since, OIL
has carried to his grave, the black
mark of having been party to the
, great fraud of our history. 1t is moi
/ wonderful that revival of so dis
= tlnct a mark In the history of tho
affair as the Chandler letter produces
profound sensation. There are still
. many men alive who would be glat
to have the whole incident forgotten.
And there Is the New York Sun, IL
which the Chandler letter was origin
ally published, which In those day
would scarcely print the name o
Rutherford II, Hayes In Its columns
without nlludlng to him us a fraudu
l.
y lent occupant of the Presidential chair
: Did 1t not print the picture of Hayes
with Fraud stamped upon his fore
head? Possibly the Sun, now that
- IL regular In Its Republcanisn, woul,
he glad to have these circumstance
elfaced from the public memory; bu
" they are indelible, 1Ley may be CON
" paratlvcly dormant for rather Ion
periods, but they will come out ofte
y enough TO keep ench passing generc
tion advised of the great fraud.
" There VIII be other Pettigrews, /
- other days, industrious enough to dig
!. and with facility In exposing to vie,
the discoveries they make.
- These resurrectlons smash a hal
occasionally, but what OF it? 1t
good for III ms a people. Shadow
sentlmentallties too often take iii
~ places OF cold facts, This Chandle
letter among other things, teaches u
that so able and eminent n jurist n
~ Mr.. Justice Harlan was not snatche
" bodily from the blue empyrean an
y placed upon the woolsack 10 judy
~ mankind; but that he was simply
man from Kentucky, as human, pc
" haps, in his attributes as citizens {
'" Kentucky generally are, who had
get an appointment to the bench frol
another human being, who WI
charged with accepting an office
which he had not been elected, M
" who had to he confirmed by a body
human beings In the north end OF Il
Capitol at Washington who We're n
" unanimous,
Ii It not worth remembering, as
matter of history that such profoul
Senators as Roscoe Conkllng, Geor
II. Edmunds and Mr. Howe yot
FOR aoainat a fovnraI,Ia rannrt In tho On