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Show OH ANDI.KR'S (jEIARCiES. Mo body Takes Any (ok la , Tbeiuor their Judus Author, Prompt Den lulu from the Implicated Im-plicated Chandler Universal lj De-nouueed De-nouueed by the Jfrcaa. THE WEST. Chicago, 29. Comments of papers iu weatern cities on Chandler's letter, attacking the president aud ctbiuet, are generally very unfavorable to CiKtudL-r. Tne Tribune attributes it to Cnand ler's not being recognized by the president, and declares that all the charges coutained in it have already been abundantly answered, some of them by Chandler himself, and that if hia statement of facta is correct he writes himself down as a villain. It ays denials of his principal state (ufots are already coming in from various sources. Tne Times, in its dispatches and editorially, regards it as a manifesto which is put forward by Conkling and other anti adminiatralion'sts, as the first ol a aeries which are expected to no nihil ale tho president and perhaps drive bim from hii seat in the while house by means of investigations into he methods by which h obtained it. It is dimply the old scheme ol unfurling unfurl-ing the bloody shirt, aud organising "nell" in the Bouth, its object being also to make Conkling president in 18S0. It considers both objects unattainable unat-tainable and disreputable. The Inter-Ocean regards the letter an a ulronz document tond carefully as a strung uut-uiueui. uuu umoiunj examines its charges, and sums up by raying that prima facie the document should make the American people bang their heads in shame. For tne hoiur and good name of this government govern-ment let an opportunity be given before a proper committee of investi gaiion to explain or disprove this apparent barter of justice and sale of sacred rights of the people. The Cincinnati Gaistte ia especially severe on Chandler for apostasy, inconsistency in-consistency and misrepresentation, and comes out squarely in support ol the president against such attacks. Lis chief point is that President Grant aud the Chandler regime had left bo alternative for President Hayes than to withdraw the troops Irom the south, and that in so doing he carried out the policy which the preceding administration inaugurated. THE EAST. The Independent Prss generally scouts Chandler's charges of p reside n tial bargaining, as foolish, frothy, uo substantial and unlikely to receive considerate attention. The Herald says Colonel Burke ol New Orleans states that whatever promises weremade before the Louisi ana count, cam from the radicals, in eluding Chandler, who pledged the Hayes administration to both Packard Pack-ard and the conservatives, iotending to break faith with tbo latter. The World oalls Chandler's letter odious and ridiculous. The Tribune's careful Washington correspondent says the southern dem ocrats who opposed fillibuatering and favored the completion of the electoral count, were actuated by a general feeling that as democrats supported the electoral bill it would be party dishonor dis-honor to defeat the commission's work; besides, they were satisfied that Hayes' utterances in his letter of acceptance were sincere, in regard to a friendly policy to the south and that his implied pledges in that direction would be redeemed. They also realised real-ised that revolutionary proceedings in congress then would provoke civil war, of which the south bad had enough. These considerations, to gether with considerable coolness towards to-wards Tilden, and not any bargain, controlled them in prompting the completion of the count aai Hayes' peaceful inauguration. The Times denies Chandler's righl to formulate the republican party') policy or prescribe its conditions o membership, and characterizes bii pretentions as ridiculous. It concun in the opinion that bis letter wai eimply a bold bid for the favor of thi coming Now Hampshire convention The Times concurs with Cbandler'i disapproval of the president's louthen policy, but objects to a revival of thi stale controversy over a dead iesui already irrevocably settled, and male ing that a pretext lor attacking th president with the view of givinj him into the arms of the 'democracy Notwithstanding the unfavorabl reception of Chandler s letter it doubtless doubt-less was the result of concerted action ac-tion and partly put forth either as the initial declaration of war against the administration by the radical wing of the republican party or else as a feeler to lest the temper in which such war would be received by the country. If it has any other motive it means an organized, active effort to force a dia solution of the cabinet and the retirement retire-ment of Evarts, Schuri and Key. Tnua far the experiment looks uu promising. |