Year: 1878


ling, of vague threatening and ominous
lints Of destruction and wrath and demoli- |
ion, the Radicals have begun their


CAMPAIGN TO CRUSH HAYES,
~ confessing the crimes which they com nit
ed to make him President Appropriately
,nougb this remarkable campaign is opened
~ that one Of the Radical leaders who has
,he least character to lose, and who may
therefore be looked upon as q forlorn hope,
put forward to clear away the abattis prepar-
ltory to grand assault along the whole line.
Of course | refer to


THE LETTER OF BILL CHANDLER,
which is published this morning in the press
dispatches. This document purports to be
addressed to the New Hampshire Repub-
leans as q campaign document to fire the
Radical heart for the spring election in that
State. But in point Of fact it Is a menace ad
dressed to Mr.. Hayes himself, and means,
between the lines, "If you do not surrender
to US, in accordance with the programme
foreshadow8d by Blaine in q recent inter-
view and by


BEN BUTLER


In his Parker House speech the other day in
Boston, we will make a clean breast Of the
whole thing and leave you without even the
color of title by which you now hold your
officer'


Viewed simply as O confession Of fact, there
is nothing remarkable in the Chandler letter,
for it tells nothing that was not already noto-
rious. But when we look at it in the light of
a deliberate preface to % system of policy,
which the leaders of the Radical party have
decided to pursue, and when it is known that
the document is nothing but prelude to
other and more specific documents that are in
course of preparation this letter of Bill
Chandler becomes important 1t has par
ticular interest to the people Of Louisiana,
not only because it touches incidentally upon
matters Of local moment, but because it is to
be followed up by disclosures touching the
methods whereby the vote Of your State was
seized, and concerning the part which John
Sherman played in that nefariOus trans
action. All these are important features.
But the prime importance Of the letter lies
in the fact that it marks the end Of effort
to reconcile


THE ooNTENDING FACTIONS OF THE HEPUB-


LICAN PARTY


by diplomacy and is the first blow Of open
war. For several months negotiations have
been going on between the White House and
the Republicans in Congress. The " friends
OF Hayes to wit: Matthews, Foster,
Wheeler and Garfield, have been exhausting
their ingenuity in efforts to bring about some
concert OF action between the President and
the leaders OF the Republican party. At
times it was believed that these efforts were
about to be successful. Early in the extra
session, or about the time OF the celebrated
conference at John Sherman's house, / was
given to understand, by no less an authority
than Charles Foster, that the prospect for a
general love feast was good; that there were
strong indications Of an immediate armistice
between Hayes and his Cabinet on the one
hand, and Conkling, Blaine, Ben Butler and
their followers on the other But these hopes
of Foster were illusory, and his "indica-
tions" did not indicate.


BOTH PARTIES WERE ANXIOUS ENOUGH TIC


COMPROMISE,


but each wanted the other to yield. The
Radicals made the removal Of Schurz, Evarts
and Key and the abandonment of the Sc civil
service policy" their ultimatum, whereas
Hayes, with equal obstinacy, said If the Re



ministration they would have to take it as
they found it. The mountain would not come
to Mahomet and Mahomet refused to bulge
for the mountain. Persuasion was soon ex-
hausted and threats became the order OF the
day: but Hayes was as deaf to the latter as
he had been obstinate to the former. Finally
the climax was capped by


THE NEW YORK NOMINATIONS,
and after that there was no possibility OF
compromise. Hayes had crossed the Danube,
and when the smoke in his rear came to be
inspected it was discovered to proceed from
his bridges burning behind him. The Radi-
calls made yet


ONE MORE EFFORT AT PEACE.
Conkling assumed the title OF GhaZi and sent
word to Hayes that now was the time to pre-
sent him with the heads OF Evarts and
Schurz upon platter. Hayes answered by
taking Evarts over to New York and paying
an ostentatious visit to the man whom Conk-
ling had ughtered-Roosevelt. That was


THE LAST STRAW.
Ben Butler beloved in Boston and Bill
Chandler flung his confession to the wild
breeze


All these things have their significance as
parts OF programme The Radical leaders
have definitely made up their minds that
they must get along without Hayes. He
will not come to them, and they are going te
drive him as far in the other direction as they



Democratic party. Bill Chandler says he
may go to the devil. Between them they
mouth the rage Of that entire class OF Radi-
| Gals who when they had inaugurated Hayes
began to congratulate one another that there
were still four years OF good stealing In pros
pect, but who suddenly found themselves
kicked out by the man whom they had en-
dowed with stolen power: =,
| There is no doubt about the animus or the
purposes Of these men. But there Is serious
question as to their power! to accomplish .ls
Their DAYS are numbered in the Senate, and
it is in the power Of Hayes to To- throw the or
ganization Of that body into the hands OF the
Moreover the names of most OF them are {
stink in the nostrils Of the people, and tn.
only power they have left lies in the lingering
cohesion of the Likelihood Of the past, which
is rapidly crumbling.


They have no power to thwart any actor
which may have the combined support 0
Hayes and the. Democrats. They can only
destroy themselves. Thus they will become
the benefactors of mankind. It seems to b.
decreed that the Radical party is to die Of ;