The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-17

This man ig charter member fof the Republican party, and was at Pfttspurg when that organization was christened' moro than fifty years ago, and doubt heard the opening prayer offered py x.ovofoy. of Illinois, petitioning All mighty God either to open the eyes Of Franklin Pierce. then President. or take him hence. Born for journalism. Chand- Ter got into party politics. and pretty particu1ar, practical party politics at that. He is wiry man. restless as a coon. quick as cat. vigilant as yeas ei. patient as a spider, persistent as an 2 mt busy as a bee. and as full Of mis- chief as the devil himself--that Is the Democratic estimate of Bill Chandieu as he was when Senator in Congress X Many years ago tried to describe hfm to the readers of newspaper or which was then correspondent. in this fashion:
 He can talk with more men in given time than any other Senator. Now he is in his seat. writing leters now he Is on sofa, talking with Cabot Lodge: now he is on his legs, making speech that will throw somebody into confusion; now he is whispering to Ben Tiiiman, putting an extra wrinkle of deviiment in that devils head; now he is grappling with Lind say, or Turpie, or some other great lawyer in legal argument. and hold { ing his own, too; now he Is in the chair presiding with great ability, much par fiaIity and little dignity; now he is talking Cuba with Morgan: now he is bafieering Allen, and Allen is oblivious of the amusement he Is getting out Of Allen. now he is congratulatfng Bacon on his conversion to technical protec- tive principles, and you could light candle by the blush that comes over Ba- cons face: now he Is giving the Senate some downright common sense touch ing the navy and naval expenditure, for Chandler was too perverse. and too honest to be run by rings while he was Secretary of the Navy; now he is con ferring with Cockerell about something he wants the Appropriations Committee fo do. And so he pushes and shoulders himself day by day. He has as much vitality as a cat; the iron-gray of his hair and heard evidence labor not age; hts step is as quick as Joe Wheelers and he used the elevator less frequent { fv than any other Senator. He enjoys a mug of milk and q plate or crackers more than one eff Hale's elaborate din- uers or one of Gibsons bird suppers He prefers water to wine, and he never had the fun of a night of 1t, nor the misery of the following morning of It. K1a Is the man who got the Presidency for Hayes.
 Born in New Hampshire in 1885, Will 
 formation of a political complexion be- fore he left his nurses arms. He got 9 folarabIe education in the schools and studied law at Harvard. Of course, he practiced law In the State of Jeremiah Macon and Daniel Webster, but he soon abandoned the bar for journalism. though he was reporter of the Supreme Bench of the State. Later, he was In the IexislAture, of which he got to be npeakef one term, and chairman of the Republican State committee. At thirty v@Awa of age he first became national igure. and was an assistant secretary nf ane4 of the departments at the National Capital. Then he was promote kd to similar place In department mora important. He attained his zenith SIS an executive as Secretary of the Navy fn Arthur's Cabinet. Later. he was elected to the United States Senate, serving in that body twelve years fSss-1se1. He has been missed since he left it. This is the sort of man he is.
 Mir Chandler was the last of the 16 to iers. Mckinley was as much a silver man as Teller when he was nominated for President. Tn statecraft he was the disctpie of"Pig Iron" Kelley, who was as rank a greenbacker as JameB B. Weaver But political exigency made the grim demand of Mckinley in Octo- Der. 1ss6. to be gold bug. Yet. when he got to be President he was commit ted to the policy of sending high com mision to Europe to expound finance to the bankers over there and persuade them into an international agreement to revise the arithmetic until it could be demonstrated by mathematics that 47 is equal to 1oo
 The proposal went through the Sen ate after Chandler had made an ex- hausive speech on 1t. I had the fortune, and I will call it good fortune. to hear it. and tried to describe it to my paper as follows:
 Mir. Chandler resents the business revival because 1t is on the gold basis. FEe calls himself bimetallist and when Cfugress Is in session he takes his opinions in the Senate. and when Con- wrees is in vacation he writes his Views in the newspapers Not great while ago he made a most exsaustive spech in the Senate. Old Father Nor Till sat beside him, his face like tfundersloud. and old Father Stewart sat in front of him, his face like rainbow It was a silver speech from beginning to endingIt would have de- lighted young Ma. Bryan and did de- light yiung Mir. Bailey. He quoted all those absurd figures of Wharton Park CT, the only publfcist in the world who knows less about the silver question than, ,~.Coln" Harvey and "Coin" knows AG88 bQbu It. ihS tooH- ate would have been astonished if Chandler could astonish the Senate. He is the magpie of American politics, and nobody knows what he will do next though. whatever 1t is, 1t Is yer tain to be some mischief.
 The thing passed. and Wolcott, Adlai Stevenson, and Mir Payne were sent abroad to persuade. or convince. Europe that Is to 1 was the only wear. Europe tried to be polite. and listen with, seem ing attention. The Hon. Cabot Lodge proposed to stop all trade with Great Britain until Parliment enacted 6 to l. Chandler said the proper ratio. was IS 1-z to 1.
 By and bye out fellows got back with bugs in their ears. Then Congress en- acted our present imperfect gold stan dard.
 It was in 1876 that Chandler per formed his great labor-reveising the verdict of more than s,00o,o00 free