Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1887 — No Signs of Repentance. [ARTICLE]

No Signs of Repentance.

Probably no reasonable person will denv that the people of the United States turned the Republican party out of power because of its corrupt affiliation with coiporate jobbers, and because the fact that many of its most conspicuous leaders were men of known bad character. The transition from ■Chase, Seward, Summer, Stevens, Wade, Wilson, Fenton, and others, to Dorsey, Clayton, Chandler, Elkins, Blaine, and Mahone was gradual but marked. Under the first-named men the party was not beaten. It was the latter who led it to disaster. With them at its head it will be easier to beat it the next time than it was in 1884, and that they will be at its head, re-enforced, perhaps, by some spoilsmen and disreputables who have not hitherto •come conspicuously to the front, is, from present appearances, a certainty. Wherever the party has undisputed sway it clings to its discredited and disgraced leaders. The resurrection of the notorious Bill Chandler in New Hampshire and the formal indorsement of him for the United States Senate by the Republican caucus show that in that section, as in many ■others, the immorality of the party is its most conspicuous feature. William E. Chandler is reprobated not by Democrats alone, but by all honest men who can see a rascal beneath the guise of party. The body to which he now aspires rejected him six years ago when he was appointed Solicitor General, and more than one honest man in that assembly publicly stigmatized his nomination as the most shocking that a President ever made. The William E. Chandler who was for years a go-between in Washington for the* rings and the corrupt officials of the Navy Department is the same William E. Chandler now chosen for high honor by the Republicans of New Hampshire. The Bill Chandler who lobbied for Robeson and Roach is the Bill Chandler who is now to become a Senator of the United States. The Bill Chandler whom Senator Edmunds denounced es characterless and dangerous is the coming Republican Senator from a New England State. Not a job was engineered in Washington from the beginning to the end of the period of profligacy following the war in which this same Chandler did not figure. He was Roach’s private agent and Robeson’s most trusted friend, as familiar a figure in the lobby as that of any man who ever served in that capacity. A party morally so callous as not to perceive the degradation which the elevation of such a man as Chandler involves cannot appeal successfully to the American people in their present temper. Character counts for more now than it did at one time. The mere assumption by a party of superior morality, patriotism, and intelli-

gence cannot weigh long as against indubitable evidence of brazen immorality and certain unfitness. While the Chandlers are at the front of Republicanism the supremacy of the Democracy should be and doubtless will be as great as the most ardent partisan of that faith could wish. — Chicago Herald.